Saturday, October 24, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 210

Number of Answers: 50

Points Needed for Genius: 147

Genius requires between 20 and 43 words. You need at least a 7-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 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

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 210 was in the 66th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 22, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 50 possible answers rank it in the 74th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on October 22, 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 October 23, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
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 230
  • toot 224
  • nana 214
  • naan 214
  • tilt 165
  • till 165
  • lilt 165
  • nene 164
  • tint 163
  • mamma 163
  • mama 163
  • onion 156
  • acai 156
  • acacia 156
  • toon 152
  • onto 152
  • anal 142
  • olio 141
  • anon 141
  • tact 132
  • papa 132
  • baba 132
  • mitt 131
  • dodo 131
  • lulu 127
  • lull 127
  • booboo 126
  • boob 126
  • poop 124
  • loon 124
  • cocci 123
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • tattoo 120
  • tartar 120
  • tart 120
  • ratatat 120
  • moon 120
  • mono 120
  • cancan 119
  • attar 119
  • natant 118
  • tutu 117
  • aria 116
  • ally 116
  • allay 116
  • momma 115
  • meme 115
  • ammo 115


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 125,020 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,171 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*:

  • apical
  • aplitic
  • appal
  • apractic
  • atap
  • atrip
  • calpac
  • caltrap
  • capita
  • capric
  • capricci
  • carpalia
  • clapt
  • clipt
  • crip
  • lapilli
  • lipa
  • paca
  • pali
  • pallia
  • pallial
  • palpal
  • palpi
  • papillar
  • pappi
  • paprica
  • para
  • parallactic
  • paratactic
  • paratactical
  • parr
  • parral
  • participial
  • pataca
  • pial
  • pical
  • picara
  • piccalilli
  • picric
  • picritic
  • pilar
  • pili
  • pipa
  • pipal
  • piratical
  • pitta
  • plica
  • plical
  • practic
  • priapi
  • prill
  • riprap
  • tipcart
  • tipcat
  • trapt
  • tripart

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

alpaca

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apart

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appall

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apparat

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capital

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capri

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carp

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carpal

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carpi

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catalpa

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clap

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claptrap

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clip

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crap

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pact

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pail

noun
  1. A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
  2. (In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.

pair

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palapa

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palatal

No Definition Found.

palatial

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pall

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palp

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papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

papal

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papilla

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part

noun
  1. A portion; a component.
  2. Duty; responsibility.
  3. The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
  4. In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
  5. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
verb
  1. To leave the company of.
  2. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
  3. To divide in two.
  4. To be divided in two or separated; shed.
  5. To divide up; to share.
  6. To have a part or share; to partake.
  7. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
  8. To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
  9. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
  10. To leave; to quit.
  11. To leave (an IRC channel).
adjective
  1. Fractional; partial.
adverb
  1. Partly; partially; fractionally.

partial

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partita

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pica

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piccata

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pill

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pillar

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pipit

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piratic

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pita

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pitapat

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plait

No Definition Found.

plat

No Definition Found.

practical

No Definition Found.

prat

No Definition Found.

priapic

No Definition Found.

rapt

No Definition Found.

rattrap

No Definition Found.

tapa

No Definition Found.

tapir

No Definition Found.

tarp

No Definition Found.

tilapia

No Definition Found.

tipi

No Definition Found.

trap

No Definition Found.

trip

No Definition Found.