Tuesday, April 21, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 85

Number of Answers: 18

Points Needed for Genius: 59

Genius requires between 8 and 16 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 86% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 62% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 85 was in the 5th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on April 06, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 18 possible answers rank it in the 0th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 05, 2025.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 08, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on April 19, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.5.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 238
  • loll 217
  • toot 214
  • nana 197
  • naan 197
  • nene 156
  • tilt 155
  • till 155
  • lilt 155
  • mamma 151
  • mama 151
  • tint 149
  • toon 144
  • onto 144
  • onion 144
  • acai 141
  • acacia 141
  • anon 133
  • anal 133
  • olio 128
  • papa 125
  • baba 125
  • tact 124
  • lulu 124
  • lull 124
  • dodo 123
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • poop 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • mitt 118
  • cocci 117
  • calla 116
  • call 116
  • loon 115
  • tattoo 114
  • tartar 114
  • tart 114
  • ratatat 114
  • attar 113
  • ally 113
  • allay 113
  • tutu 112
  • momma 111
  • ammo 111
  • tatty 110
  • meme 109
  • aria 109
  • roar 108


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 116,711 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,970 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*:

  • bibb
  • bibcock
  • birk
  • biro
  • birr
  • bobo
  • boocoo
  • bookoo
  • bork
  • brock
  • broo
  • brrr
  • cobb
  • cribwork
  • kibbi
  • kobo
  • oribi

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

bocci

noun
  1. A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court
  2. One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce.

bock

noun
  1. A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.

boob

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Idiot, fool.
verb
  1. To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
  2. To make a mistake
adjective
  1. Idiotic, foolish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A prison; jail.

booboo

noun
  1. A mistake or error.
  2. (by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
  3. (by or to young children) Feces.

book

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
  2. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
  3. A major division of a long work.
  4. A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
  5. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
  6. The script of a musical or opera.
  7. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
  8. A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
  9. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
  10. Four of a kind
  11. A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
  12. (by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
  13. The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
  14. Any source of instruction.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To reserve (something) for future use.
  2. To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
  3. (law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
  4. To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
  5. To travel very fast.
  6. To record bets as bookmaker.
  7. (law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
  8. To leave.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.
  2. (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
  3. To be warmed to drying and hardening.
  4. To dry by heat.
  5. To be hot.
  6. To cause to be hot.
  7. To smoke marijuana.
  8. To harden by cold.
  9. To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
  10. (with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.

bookwork

noun
  1. Accounting work; book keeping.
  2. The art and science of formatting books.
  3. Work done with the aid of textbooks.
  4. (chiefly University of Cambridge) The act of memorising information; used attributively to describe or denote questions that test information learned rather than requiring additional thought.

boor

noun
  1. A peasant.
  2. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
  3. A yokel, country bumpkin.
  4. An uncultured person.

boric

adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron.

borrow

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
  2. A borrow pit.
  3. In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
verb
  1. To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
  2. To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
  3. To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
  4. To adopt a word from another language.
  5. In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
  6. (Upper Midwestern United States) To lend.
  7. To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
  8. To feign or counterfeit.
  9. (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
  10. To receive (something) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
  2. A surety; someone standing bail.

bowwow

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brick

noun
  1. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
  2. Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
  3. Something shaped like a brick.
  4. A helpful and reliable person.
  5. A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
  6. A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
  7. An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
  8. A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
  9. A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
  10. The colour brick red.
  11. One kilo of cocaine.
verb
  1. To build with bricks.
  2. To make into bricks.
  3. To hit someone or something with a brick.
  4. To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
adjective
  1. (of weather) Extremely cold.

brickwork

noun
  1. Those parts of items that are made of brick.
  2. The quality of the construction of brick built items.

brio

noun
  1. Vigour or vivacity.

brook

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
  2. To earn; deserve.
  3. To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
  2. A water meadow.
  3. (in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

brow

noun
  1. The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
  2. The first tine of an antler's beam.
  3. The forehead.
  4. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
  5. A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
  6. Aspect; appearance.
  7. The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
  8. The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
verb
  1. To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

cookbook

noun
  1. A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
  2. (by extension) Any book of strategies.

crib

noun
  1. A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
  2. A bed for a child older than a baby.
  3. A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
  4. A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
  5. A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
  6. The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
  7. A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
  8. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
  9. A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
  10. A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
  11. A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
  12. One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out. A house or dwelling place.
  13. A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
  14. (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
  15. A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
  16. The card game cribbage.
  17. The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
  18. A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
  19. A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
  20. A packed lunch taken to work.
  21. A small raft made of timber.
  22. (thieves' cant) The stomach.
  23. A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
verb
  1. To place or confine in a crib.
  2. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
  3. To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
  4. To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
  5. To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
  6. To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
  7. (Indian English) To complain, to grumble
  8. To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
  9. (of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

workbook

noun
  1. A book, used by a student, in which answers and workings may be entered besides questions and exercises.
  2. A book, used by a business, containing a record of work to be done, or work completed.
  3. A collection of spreadsheets stored in the same file.