Wednesday, March 04, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 246

Number of Answers: 37

Points Needed for Genius: 172

Genius requires between 22 and 30 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 80% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 246 was in the 80th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on March 03, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 37 possible answers rank it in the 43rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on March 03, 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 an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on March 03, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.5.
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 233
  • loll 215
  • toot 211
  • nana 192
  • naan 192
  • tilt 152
  • till 152
  • lilt 152
  • nene 150
  • tint 147
  • mamma 147
  • mama 147
  • toon 140
  • onto 140
  • onion 140
  • acai 138
  • acacia 138
  • anon 131
  • anal 130
  • olio 126
  • papa 124
  • dodo 123
  • tact 122
  • baba 122
  • lulu 121
  • lull 121
  • poop 119
  • booboo 118
  • boob 118
  • mitt 117
  • moon 115
  • mono 115
  • cocci 115
  • calla 114
  • call 114
  • tartar 113
  • tart 113
  • ratatat 113
  • loon 113
  • tutu 112
  • tattoo 112
  • attar 112
  • ally 110
  • allay 110
  • tatty 109
  • momma 109
  • ammo 109
  • meme 108
  • roar 106
  • peep 106


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 114,443 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,927 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*:

  • ciggie
  • effing
  • engining
  • feeing
  • fening
  • fenning
  • fetting
  • figging
  • finning
  • geeing
  • genet
  • genette
  • genic
  • genning
  • gieing
  • gien
  • giftee
  • gite
  • gittin
  • gitting
  • igging
  • incenting
  • niffing
  • tegg
  • tenge
  • ticcing
  • tieing
  • tiffing
  • tiffining
  • tincting
  • ting
  • tining

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

citing

verb
  1. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
  2. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
  3. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
noun
  1. Citation.

effecting

verb
  1. To make or bring about; to implement.
adjective
  1. Causative, effective.

egging

verb
  1. To throw eggs at.
  2. To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
  3. To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
verb
  1. To encourage, incite.
noun
  1. The act of pelting with eggs.

engine

noun
  1. A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
  2. A tool; a utensil or implement.
  3. A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
  4. A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
  5. The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
  6. A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.
  7. A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
  8. Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
  9. The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
  10. Natural talent; genius.
  11. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
verb
  1. To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
  2. To assault with an engine.
  3. To contrive; to put into action.
  4. To rack; to torture.

enticing

verb
  1. To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
noun
  1. Enticement; temptation
adjective
  1. That entices; alluring; attractive; charming

feign

verb
  1. To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
  2. To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
  3. To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
  4. To hide or conceal.

feigning

verb
  1. To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
  2. To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
  3. To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
  4. To hide or conceal.
noun
  1. Act of one who feigns; fakery; deceit.

feinting

verb
  1. To make a feint, or mock attack.

fencing

verb
  1. To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
  2. To defend or guard.
  3. To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
  4. To engage in the sport of fencing.
  5. To jump over a fence.
  6. To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
noun
  1. The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing)
  2. Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.

feting

verb
  1. (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person).

fifing

verb
  1. To play this instrument.

fining

verb
  1. To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
  2. To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
  3. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
  4. To change by fine gradations.
  5. To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
  6. To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
verb
  1. To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
  2. To pay a fine.
verb
  1. To finish; to cease.
  2. To cause to cease; to stop.

fitting

verb
  1. To be suitable for.
  2. To conform to in size and shape.
  3. To be of the right size and shape
  4. (with to) To make conform in size and shape.
  5. To be in agreement with.
  6. To adjust.
  7. To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
  8. To equip or supply.
  9. To make ready.
  10. To be seemly.
  11. To be proper or becoming.
  12. To be in harmony.
verb
  1. To suffer a fit.
noun
  1. A small part, especially a standardized or detachable part of a device or machine.
  2. A tube connector; a standardized connecting part of a piping system to attach sections of pipe together, such as a coupling
  3. The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.
  4. The process of fitting up; especially of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.
  5. (often plural) A removable item in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when one moves out, such as a moveable piece of furniture, a carpet, picture, etc.; US furnishing; compare fixture.
  6. The action or condition of having fits in the sense of seizures or convulsions.
adjective
  1. Ready, appropriate, suitable, or in keeping

gene

noun
  1. A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
  2. A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus.

genetic

adjective
  1. Relating to genetics or genes.
  2. Caused by genes.
  3. Of or relating to origin (genesis).
  4. Based on shared membership in a linguistic family.
  5. Based on a shared membership in a religious family.

genie

noun
  1. A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
  2. A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.

genii

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
  2. Extraordinary mental capacity.
  3. Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
  4. The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
  2. A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.

gent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A gentleman.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
  2. Neat; pretty; elegant

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Short for gentamicin.

getting

verb
  1. (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  2. To receive.
  3. (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  4. To fetch, bring, take.
  5. To become, or cause oneself to become.
  6. To cause to become; to bring about.
  7. To cause to do.
  8. To cause to come or go or move.
  9. To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  10. (with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
  11. To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  12. To begin (doing something or to do something).
  13. To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  14. To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  15. (followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
  16. To understand. (compare get it)
  17. To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
  18. To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  19. To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  20. To catch out, trick successfully.
  21. To perplex, stump.
  22. To find as an answer.
  23. To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  24. To hear completely; catch.
  25. To getter.
  26. To beget (of a father).
  27. To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  28. Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  29. To go, to leave; to scram.
  30. To kill.
  31. To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  32. To measure.
noun
  1. The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
  2. That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.

gift

noun
  1. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
  2. A talent or natural ability.
  3. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
  4. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.
verb
  1. To give as a gift or donation.
  2. To give away, to concede easily.

gifting

verb
  1. To give as a gift or donation.
  2. To give away, to concede easily.
noun
  1. A divine gift.

gigging

verb
  1. To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
  2. To engage in musical performances.
  3. To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
  4. To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
verb
  1. To engender.

ginning

verb
  1. To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
  2. To trap something in a gin.
verb
  1. To begin.
noun
  1. The act of removing seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.

icing

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.
  2. A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
  3. The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cool with ice, as a beverage.
  2. To become ice; to freeze.
  3. To make icy; to freeze.
  4. To murder.
  5. To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
  6. To put out a team for a match.
  7. To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

ignite

verb
  1. To set fire to (something), to light (something)
  2. To spark off (something), to trigger
  3. To commence burning.
  4. To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible or infusible substances.

igniting

verb
  1. To set fire to (something), to light (something)
  2. To spark off (something), to trigger
  3. To commence burning.
  4. To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible or infusible substances.

inciting

verb
  1. To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

infecting

verb
  1. To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
  2. To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion.

inning

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
  2. A similar period of play.
  3. A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
  4. A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
  5. The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
  6. Lands recovered from the sea.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To house; to lodge.
  2. To take lodging; to lodge.

netting

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Urine

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To catch by means of a net.
  2. To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
  3. To enclose or cover with a net.
  4. To score (a goal).
  5. To hit the ball into the net.
  6. To form network or netting; to knit.
verb
  1. To receive as profit.
  2. To yield as profit for.
  3. To fully hedge a position.

teeing

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

tenting

verb
  1. To go camping.
  2. To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
  3. To form into a tent-like shape.
verb
  1. To attend to; to heed
  2. To guard; to hinder.
verb
  1. (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
noun
  1. Material used for making tents.

tinge

noun
  1. A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.
  2. The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint.
verb
  1. To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.
  2. To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
  3. To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing.

tingeing

verb
  1. To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.
  2. To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
  3. To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing.

tinging

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.
  2. To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
  3. To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make a high sharp sound like a small bell being struck.

tinning

verb
  1. To place into a tin in order to preserve.
  2. To cover with tin.
  3. To coat with solder in preparation for soldering.
noun
  1. A covering or lining of tin.

tinting

verb
  1. To shade, to color.
noun
  1. The application of a tint or shade of color.