Thursday, August 13, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 182

Number of Answers: 39

Points Needed for Genius: 127

Genius requires between 20 and 32 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 76% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 182 was in the 54th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on August 11, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 39 possible answers rank it in the 48th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 11, 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 12, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.3.
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 248
  • loll 228
  • toot 220
  • nana 207
  • naan 207
  • tilt 160
  • till 160
  • nene 160
  • lilt 160
  • mamma 159
  • mama 159
  • tint 156
  • onion 153
  • acai 150
  • acacia 150
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • olio 140
  • anon 139
  • anal 139
  • tact 130
  • papa 129
  • dodo 128
  • baba 128
  • mitt 127
  • lulu 126
  • lull 126
  • loon 124
  • 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
  • cancan 115
  • momma 114
  • aria 114
  • ammo 114
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • meme 113
  • natant 112


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 121,724 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,081 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*:

  • alan
  • alanyl
  • ancon
  • anconal
  • anna
  • annona
  • anoa
  • anyon
  • callan
  • cancha
  • chana
  • choana
  • chon
  • clachan
  • clon
  • clonally
  • concha
  • conchal
  • concho
  • conchy
  • conn
  • cony
  • coon
  • cooncan
  • cyano
  • cyclonal
  • halon
  • honan
  • lallan
  • lanch
  • lochan
  • lynch
  • nala
  • nancy
  • nanna
  • nano
  • nolo
  • nona
  • noncola
  • nonloyal
  • nonyl
  • nyah
  • nyala
  • oolachan

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

anal

noun
  1. Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
  2. Anal sex.
adjective
  1. Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
  2. Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region.
  3. Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy, supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage.
  4. (of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

anally

No Definition Found.

ancho

noun
  1. A broad, flat, dried poblano pepper, often ground into a powder.

annal

noun
  1. The record of a single event or item.

annoy

noun
  1. A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
  2. That which causes such a feeling.
verb
  1. To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
  2. To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
  3. To molest; to harm; to injure.

anon

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. Straight away; at once.
  2. Soon; in a little while.
  3. At another time; then; again.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An anonymous person, especially an author.
  2. A work with an unknown author.
  3. A work without a title.
adjective
  1. Anonymous

canal

noun
  1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
  2. A tubular channel within the body.
  3. One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.
verb
  1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
  2. To travel along a canal by boat

cancan

No Definition Found.

canna

No Definition Found.

cannon

noun
  1. A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
  2. Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
  3. A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
  4. A cannon bit.
  5. A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
  6. A carom.
  7. The arm of a player that can throw well.
  8. A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
  9. (Chinese chess) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
verb
  1. To bombard with cannons.
  2. To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
  3. To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
  4. To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
noun
  1. A generally accepted principle; a rule.
  2. A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
  3. The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
  4. A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
  5. A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
  6. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
  7. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
  8. A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
  9. A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
  10. (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
  11. Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
  12. A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.
  13. A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
  14. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
  15. A carom.
noun
  1. A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
  2. A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
noun
  1. A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.

canny

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Careful, prudent, cautious.
  2. Knowing, shrewd, astute.
  3. Frugal, thrifty.
  4. Pleasant, fair, favorable or agreeable to deal with.
  5. Gentle, quiet, steady.
adverb
  1. Very, considerably; quite, rather.
  2. Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. (especially of sound) Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can.

canola

noun
  1. Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and closely related field mustard (Brassica rapa), which have a lower erucic acid and glucosinolate content than traditional rapeseed.

canon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A generally accepted principle; a rule.
  2. A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
  3. The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
  4. A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
  5. A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
  6. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
  7. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
  8. A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
  9. A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
  10. (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
  11. Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
  12. A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.
  13. A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
  14. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
  15. A carom.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
  2. A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.

canyon

noun
  1. A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.

chancy

adjective
  1. Uncertain, risky, hazardous
  2. Subject to chance; random
  3. Lucky; bringing good luck

clan

No Definition Found.

clonal

adjective
  1. Relating to, or created by asexual reproduction (cloning)
  2. That lives with others of the same kind

cocoon

noun
  1. The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
  2. Any similar protective case, whether real or metaphorical.
verb
  1. To envelop in a protective case
  2. To withdraw into such a case.

colcannon

noun
  1. A traditional Irish dish made from mashed potatoes and cabbage or kale, with scallions, butter, salt and pepper added.

colon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ":".
  2. The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
  3. A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
  4. A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the anus.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A husbandman.
  2. A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.

colony

noun
  1. A governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country.
  2. A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their place of origin
  3. Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.
  4. An apartment complex or neighborhood.
  5. A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area
  6. A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
  7. A local group of Beaver Scouts.

conch

No Definition Found.

cyan

noun
  1. A vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.
adjective
  1. Of the colour cyan.

halcyon

noun
  1. A kingfisher said in classical mythology to nest on the sea, thereby calming the waters.
  2. A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.
  2. Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.

honcho

noun
  1. Boss, leader
verb
  1. To lead or manage.

llano

noun
  1. A plain or steppe in parts of Latin America.

loan

No Definition Found.

loon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An idler, a lout.
  2. A boy, a lad.
  3. A harlot; mistress.
  4. A simpleton.
  5. A crazy or deranged person.
  6. An English soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.

loony

noun
  1. An insane or very foolish person.
adjective
  1. (of a person) Insane.
  2. (of a thing) Very silly, absurd.

naan

No Definition Found.

nacho

No Definition Found.

nana

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A banana
  2. A fool

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (term of endearment) one's grandmother
  2. A nanny

nanny

noun
  1. A child's nurse.
  2. A grandmother.
  3. A godmother.
  4. A female goat.
verb
  1. To serve as a nanny.
  2. To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.

nonlocal

No Definition Found.

noon

No Definition Found.

nylon

noun
  1. Originally, the DuPont company trade name for polyamide, a copolymer whose molecules consist of alternating diamine and dicarboxylic acid monomers bonded together; now generically used for this type of polymer.
  2. (in the plural) A stocking originally fabricated from nylon; also used generically for any long, sheer stocking worn on a woman's legs.

onlay

No Definition Found.

only

noun
  1. An only child.
adjective
  1. Alone in a category.
  2. Singularly superior; the best.
  3. Without sibling; without a sibling of the same gender.
  4. Mere.
adverb
  1. Without others or anything further; exclusively.
  2. No more than; just.
  3. As recently as.
  4. Used to express surprise or consternation at an action.
  5. Introduces a disappointing or surprising outcome that renders futile something previously mentioned. See also only to, only for.
  6. Above all others; particularly.
conjunction
  1. Under the condition that; but.
  2. But; except.

anyhoo

adverb
  1. Anyhow