Thursday, July 30, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 122

Number of Answers: 28

Points Needed for Genius: 85

Genius requires between 12 and 25 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 122 was in the 23rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on July 24, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 28 possible answers rank it in the 19th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on July 24, 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 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on July 28, 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 246
  • loll 228
  • toot 220
  • nana 204
  • naan 204
  • tilt 160
  • till 160
  • lilt 160
  • nene 158
  • mamma 158
  • mama 158
  • tint 156
  • onion 153
  • acai 150
  • acacia 150
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • olio 140
  • anon 138
  • anal 136
  • tact 130
  • papa 129
  • baba 128
  • lulu 126
  • lull 126
  • dodo 126
  • mitt 125
  • loon 123
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • booboo 122
  • boob 122
  • poop 121
  • cocci 120
  • moon 119
  • mono 119
  • tattoo 118
  • tartar 118
  • tart 118
  • ratatat 118
  • attar 117
  • tutu 115
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • momma 113
  • cancan 113
  • aria 113
  • ammo 113
  • meme 112
  • tatty 111


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 121,094 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,073 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*:

  • ethene
  • goeth
  • hent
  • heth
  • heugh
  • hogg
  • hogget
  • hognut
  • hong
  • hunh
  • nonghetto
  • outhunt
  • teth
  • teugh
  • thegn
  • thuggee

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

enough

adverb
  1. Sufficiently.
  2. Fully; quite; used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.
pronoun
  1. A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
interjection
  1. Stop! Don't do that any more!

ghee

noun
  1. A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee.
  2. Vegetable oil for cooking.

ghetto

noun
  1. An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
  2. An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
  3. An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
  4. (sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
verb
  1. To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
  2. Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
  3. Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
  4. Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

goth

noun
  1. A punk-derived subculture of people who predominantly dress in black, associated with mournful music and attitudes.
  2. A style of punk rock influenced by glam rock; gothic rock.
  3. A person who is part of the goth subculture.
adjective
  1. Relating to this music or these people.

henge

noun
  1. A prehistoric enclosure in the form of a circle or circular arc defined by a raised circular bank and a circular ditch usually running inside the bank, with one or more entrances leading into the enclosed open space.

hone

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
  2. A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
verb
  1. To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
  2. To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  3. To refine or master (a skill).
  4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A kind of swelling in the cheek.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To grumble.
  2. To pine, lament, or long.

hoot

noun
  1. A derisive cry or shout.
  2. The cry of an owl.
  3. A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
  4. A small particle.
verb
  1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
  2. To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.
  3. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
  4. To sound the horn of a vehicle

huge

adjective
  1. Very large.
  2. Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.

hung

verb
  1. To be or remain suspended.
  2. To float, as if suspended.
  3. (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
  4. To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
  5. To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges or the like.
  6. To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
  7. To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
  8. (used in maledictions) To damn.
  9. To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.
  10. To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
  11. To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
  12. To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
  13. To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
  14. To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
  15. To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse.
  16. To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
  17. To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
  18. To be vulnerable to capture.
  19. Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
adjective
  1. Suspended by hanging.
  2. Having hanging additions or appendages.
  3. Of a jury, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial.
  4. Of a legislature, lacking a majority political party.
  5. Of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by rebooting the computer.
  6. (of a person, slightly vulgar) Having a large penis (often preceded by an adverb, e.g. well hung).

hunt

noun
  1. The act of hunting.
  2. A hunting expedition.
  3. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
  4. A pack of hunting dogs.
verb
  1. To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
  2. To try to find something; search (for).
  3. To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
  4. To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
  5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
  6. (bell-ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
  7. (bell-ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
  8. To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

nought

noun
  1. Nothing; something which does not exist.
  2. A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.
  3. Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.
  4. The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.
verb
  1. To abase, to set at nought.
adjective
  1. Good for nothing; worthless.
  2. Wicked, immoral.
adverb
  1. To no extent; in no way; not at all.
  2. Not.
pronoun
  1. Nothing; zero.

ought

noun
  1. Property; possession
  2. Duty; place; office

outthought

verb
  1. To best an opponent by thinking.

teeth

noun
  1. The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.
verb
  1. To grow teeth.
  2. To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.
noun
  1. A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  2. A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  3. A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
  4. A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
  5. A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  6. The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
  7. Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
  8. An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.

teethe

verb
  1. To grow teeth.
  2. To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.

tenth

noun
  1. The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
  2. One of ten equal parts of a whole.
  3. The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
  4. (in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
verb
  1. To divide by ten, into tenths.
adjective
  1. The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
  2. Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.

thee

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
  2. To use the word thee.
pronoun
  1. Objective and reflexive case of thou.
  2. Thou.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To thrive; prosper.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.

then

conjunction
  1. Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
  2. (obsolete outside dialectal, usually used with for) Because; for.
noun
  1. That time
adjective
  1. Being so at that time.
adverb
  1. (temporal location) At that time.
  2. (temporal location) Soon afterward.
  3. (sequence) Next in order; in addition.
  4. In that case.
  5. (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand.
  6. (affirmation) Used to contradict an assertion.

thong

noun
  1. A strip of leather.
  2. (usually in the plural) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.
  3. An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.
  4. The largest section of a bullwhip constructed of many straps of braided leather.

thou

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though

adverb
  1. Despite that; however.
  2. (degree) Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed.
conjunction
  1. Despite the fact that; although.
  2. If, that, even if.

thought

verb
  1. To ponder, to go over in one's head.
  2. To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
  3. To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
  4. To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
  5. To guess; to reckon.
  6. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
  7. To presume; to venture.
verb
  1. To seem, to appear.
noun
  1. Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
  2. The operation by which such forms arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
  3. A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).

thug

noun
  1. Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire.
  2. One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her.
  3. In gardening, an over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.
  4. A punk; a hoodlum; a hooligan.
verb
  1. To commit acts of thuggery, to live the life of a thug, or to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of someone who does.

tooth

noun
  1. A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  2. A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  3. A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
  4. A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
  5. A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  6. The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
  7. Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
  8. An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
verb
  1. To provide or furnish with teeth.
  2. To indent; to jag.
  3. To lock into each other, like gear wheels.

tough

noun
  1. A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
verb
  1. To endure.
  2. To toughen.
adjective
  1. Strong and resilient; sturdy.
  2. (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
  3. Rugged or physically hardy.
  4. Stubborn.
  5. (of weather etc) Harsh or severe.
  6. Rowdy or rough.
  7. (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
  8. Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
interjection
  1. Used to indicate lack of sympathy

toughen

verb
  1. To make tough.
  2. To become tough.

unhung

adjective
  1. (of a person) Not (yet) executed by hanging; unhanged.
  2. (of a painting) Not selected for exhibition.
  3. (of game) Cooked without being hung to mature.

unthought

verb
  1. To undo the process of thinking.
noun
  1. That which has not been (yet) thought; that which has yet to enter into the mind; a non-existent thought.
adjective
  1. Not having been thought.