Friday, October 09, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 4

Maximum Puzzle Score: 224

Number of Answers: 37

Points Needed for Genius: 157

Genius requires between 18 and 34 words. You need at least a 9-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 102% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 56% of the remaining points to reach genius.

The button below will reveal a chart with the number of words by each letter. Red bars indicate that there is a pangram(s) starting with that letter.


How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 224 was in the 72nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 08, 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 October 08, 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 9-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on September 13, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.9.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 251
  • loll 229
  • toot 224
  • nana 213
  • naan 213
  • tilt 164
  • till 164
  • nene 164
  • lilt 164
  • tint 162
  • mamma 162
  • mama 162
  • onion 155
  • acai 155
  • acacia 155
  • toon 152
  • onto 152
  • anon 141
  • anal 141
  • olio 140
  • tact 131
  • papa 131
  • mitt 131
  • baba 131
  • dodo 130
  • lulu 127
  • lull 127
  • booboo 125
  • boob 125
  • poop 124
  • loon 124
  • cocci 122
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • tattoo 120
  • tartar 120
  • tart 120
  • ratatat 120
  • moon 120
  • mono 120
  • attar 119
  • natant 118
  • cancan 118
  • tutu 117
  • aria 116
  • momma 115
  • ammo 115
  • ally 115
  • allay 115
  • meme 114


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 124,320 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,162 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*:

  • eyeleting
  • eyeletting
  • eyen
  • eyne
  • gelly
  • genteelly
  • gigglingly
  • gilly
  • gillying
  • gingeley
  • gingelly
  • gingely
  • ginny
  • gleety
  • glegly
  • gley
  • gleying
  • glinty
  • gynie
  • inly
  • inlying
  • liltingly
  • lineny
  • liney
  • lingy
  • linney
  • linny
  • liny
  • lyingly
  • nelly
  • nettly
  • nigglingly
  • nitty
  • telly
  • tenny
  • tenty
  • tinglingly
  • tinnily
  • titty
  • tiyin
  • tiyn
  • tyee
  • tyin
  • tyiyn
  • tyne
  • tyning
  • yeelin
  • yegg
  • yett
  • yill

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

eely

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eggy

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elegy

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entity

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eyeing

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eyelet

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eying

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gentility

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gently

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giggly

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illy

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intelligently

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intently

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leggy

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leniently

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lenity

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lily

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linty

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lying

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negligently

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netty

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niggly

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ninety

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ninny

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teeny

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tellingly

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tingly

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tinily

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tinny

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tiny

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tying

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yell

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yelling

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yenning

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yente

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yeti

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itty

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