Wednesday, August 05, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 82

Number of Answers: 17

Points Needed for Genius: 57

Genius requires between 9 and 15 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 84% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 63% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

The button below will reveal a chart with the number of words by each letter. Red bars indicate that there is a pangram(s) starting with that letter.


How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 82 was in the 4th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on July 08, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 17 possible answers rank it in the 0th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on May 18, 2026.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 08, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on August 04, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 247
  • loll 228
  • toot 220
  • nana 205
  • naan 205
  • tilt 160
  • till 160
  • lilt 160
  • nene 159
  • mamma 159
  • mama 159
  • tint 156
  • onion 153
  • acai 150
  • acacia 150
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • olio 140
  • anon 138
  • anal 137
  • tact 130
  • papa 129
  • dodo 128
  • baba 128
  • mitt 126
  • lulu 126
  • lull 126
  • loon 123
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • booboo 122
  • boob 122
  • poop 121
  • cocci 120
  • tartar 119
  • tart 119
  • ratatat 119
  • moon 119
  • mono 119
  • tattoo 118
  • attar 118
  • tutu 115
  • momma 114
  • cancan 114
  • aria 114
  • ammo 114
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • meme 112
  • tatty 111


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 121,359 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,076 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.



Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • ayah
  • ayaya
  • forky
  • horary
  • hoya
  • kayo
  • kray
  • kyak
  • kyar
  • ofay
  • orfray
  • raya
  • rayah
  • rooky
  • yaff
  • yarak
  • yoof

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.

affray

No Definition Found.

ahoy

No Definition Found.

array

noun
  1. Clothing and ornamentation.
  2. A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
  3. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
  4. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
  5. A large collection.
  6. Common name for matrix.
  7. Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
  8. A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  9. A militia.
  10. A group of hedgehogs.
  11. A microarray.
verb
  1. To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
  2. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
  3. To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.

arroyo

noun
  1. A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
  2. Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).

foray

No Definition Found.

fray

No Definition Found.

harry

verb
  1. To plunder, pillage, assault.
  2. To make repeated attacks on an enemy.
  3. To strip, lay waste, ravage.
  4. To harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.

hayfork

noun
  1. A tool used for moving hay; a pitchfork.

hoary

adjective
  1. White, whitish, or greyish-white.
  2. White or grey with age.
  3. Of a pale silvery grey.
  4. Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.
  5. Remote in time past.
  6. Moldy; mossy; musty.
  7. Old or old-fashioned.

hooky

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Absence from school or work.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Full of hooks.
  2. Shaped like a hook.

hooray

noun
  1. A shout to signify victory.
  2. An expression of excitement.
verb
  1. To shout an expression of excitement.
interjection
  1. Used to express approval, joy or victory.

kayak

noun
  1. A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck
verb
  1. To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.
  2. To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.

kooky

adjective
  1. Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.
  2. Behaving like a kook (a person with poor style or skill); kook-like.

oaky

No Definition Found.

okay

noun
  1. Endorsement; approval.
verb
  1. To approve.
  2. To confirm by activating a button marked OK.
adjective
  1. All right, permitted.
  2. Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
  3. In good health or a good emotional state.
adverb
  1. Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.
interjection
  1. Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
  2. Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
  3. Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.

yahoo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
  2. A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To give a cry of "yahoo".
  2. To search using the Yahoo! search engine.
interjection
  1. An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
  2. A battle cry.

yoohoo

No Definition Found.