Monday, November 02, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 176

Number of Answers: 35

Points Needed for Genius: 123

Genius requires between 18 and 29 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 176 was in the 51st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 31, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 35 possible answers rank it in the 37th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on October 31, 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 November 01, 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 251
  • loll 230
  • toot 224
  • nana 216
  • naan 216
  • tilt 166
  • till 166
  • lilt 166
  • nene 164
  • mamma 164
  • mama 164
  • tint 163
  • onion 156
  • acai 156
  • acacia 156
  • toon 152
  • onto 152
  • olio 142
  • anon 142
  • anal 142
  • papa 133
  • tact 132
  • baba 132
  • mitt 131
  • dodo 131
  • lulu 127
  • lull 127
  • booboo 126
  • boob 126
  • poop 124
  • loon 124
  • cocci 123
  • calla 123
  • call 123
  • moon 121
  • mono 121
  • tattoo 120
  • tartar 120
  • tart 120
  • ratatat 120
  • cancan 120
  • natant 119
  • attar 119
  • tutu 117
  • momma 116
  • aria 116
  • ammo 116
  • ally 116
  • allay 116
  • meme 115


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 125,469 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,175 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*:

  • acetated
  • addax
  • advect
  • advected
  • avadavat
  • cade
  • catted
  • caveated
  • dace
  • dada
  • deave
  • deaved
  • deet
  • deva
  • exed
  • teated
  • tedded
  • vatted
  • vedette

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

accede

verb
  1. To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
  2. To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
  3. To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
  4. To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
  5. To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

acceded

verb
  1. To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
  2. To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
  3. To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
  4. To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
  5. To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

aced

verb
  1. (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
  2. To win a point by an ace.
  3. To make an ace (hole in one).

acted

No Definition Found.

added

verb
  1. To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.
  2. To sum up; to put together mentally.
  3. To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
  4. To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).
  5. To append (e,g, a statement); to say further information.
  6. To make an addition; to augment; to increase.
  7. To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
  8. To summon minions or reinforcements.

axed

verb
  1. To request (information, or an answer to a question).
  2. To put forward (a question) to be answered.
  3. To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
  4. To request or petition; usually with for.
  5. To request permission to do something.
  6. To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
  7. To invite.
  8. To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
  9. To take (a person's situation) as an example.
verb
  1. To fell or chop with an axe.
  2. To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
verb
  1. To furnish with an axle.
adjective
  1. Having a specified number of type of axis.

cadet

noun
  1. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
  2. A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
  3. (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
  4. A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
  5. A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.

caved

verb
  1. To surrender.
  2. To collapse.
  3. To hollow out or undermine.
  4. To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
  5. In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
  6. To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
  7. To dwell in a cave.

cede

verb
  1. To give up; yield to another.
  2. To give way.

ceded

verb
  1. To give up; yield to another.
  2. To give way.

data

noun
  1. (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc.
  2. (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation.
  3. (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn.
  4. (plural: datums) A fixed reference point, or a coordinate system.

date

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
  2. The date palm.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
  2. A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
  3. A point in time.
  4. Assigned end; conclusion.
  5. Given or assigned length of life; duration.
  6. A pre-arranged meeting.
  7. One's companion for social activities or occasions.
  8. A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
verb
  1. To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
  2. To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
  3. To determine the age of something.
  4. To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
  5. (by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
  6. (by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
  7. To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
  8. (with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.

dated

No Definition Found.

dead

noun
  1. (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.
noun
  1. (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
noun
  1. (usually plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
verb
  1. To prevent by disabling; stop.
  2. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
  3. To kill.
adjective
  1. No longer living.
  2. Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
  3. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
  4. Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
  5. Without emotion.
  6. Stationary; static.
  7. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
  8. Unproductive.
  9. (of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
  10. (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
  11. Broken or inoperable.
  12. No longer used or required.
  13. Not imparting motion or power by design.
  14. Not in play.
  15. (of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
  16. (1800s) Tagged out.
  17. Full and complete.
  18. Exact.
  19. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
  20. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
  21. Bringing death; deadly.
  22. Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
  23. (often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
adverb
  1. (degree) Exactly.
  2. (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely.
  3. Suddenly and completely.
  4. As if dead.

decade

noun
  1. A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:
  2. A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
  3. The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.

deed

noun
  1. An action or act; something that is done.
  2. A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
  3. Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
  4. A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before witnesses.
verb
  1. To transfer real property by deed.

deeded

verb
  1. To transfer real property by deed.

detect

verb
  1. To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
adjective
  1. Detected.

detected

verb
  1. To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
adjective
  1. Having been noticed.

eaved

No Definition Found.

evade

verb
  1. To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from
  2. To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
  3. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

evaded

verb
  1. To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from
  2. To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
  3. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

exacted

verb
  1. To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
  2. To make desirable or necessary.
  3. To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

excavated

verb
  1. To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
  2. To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
  3. To uncover (something) by digging.

exceed

verb
  1. To be larger, greater than (something).
  2. To be better than (something).
  3. To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
  4. To predominate.
  5. To go too far; to be excessive.

exceeded

verb
  1. To be larger, greater than (something).
  2. To be better than (something).
  3. To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
  4. To predominate.
  5. To go too far; to be excessive.

tatted

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To make (something by) tatting.
verb
  1. To apply a tattoo.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tattooed.

taxed

verb
  1. To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
  2. To impose and collect a tax on (something).
  3. To make excessive demands on.
  4. To accuse.
  5. To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
adjective
  1. Subject to taxation.

teed

verb
  1. To draw; lead.
  2. To draw away; go; proceed.
verb
  1. To place a ball on a tee

texted

No Definition Found.

vacated

verb
  1. To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction.
  2. To leave an office or position.
  3. To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
  4. To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural disaster.

vetted

verb
  1. To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval.
adjective
  1. Having undergone an investigation and been approved.

vexed

verb
  1. To trouble aggressively, to harass.
  2. To annoy, irritate.
  3. To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
  4. To twist, to weave.
  5. To be irritated; to fret.
  6. To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
adjective
  1. Annoyed, irritated or distressed
  2. Much debated, discussed or disputed

vaxed

No Definition Found.

vaxxed

No Definition Found.