Saturday, September 26, 2026

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The official answers for today's puzzle are:

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 140

Number of Answers: 30

Points Needed for Genius: 98

Genius requires between 16 and 25 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 78% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% 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 140 was in the 33rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 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 30 possible answers rank it in the 24th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on September 24, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
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 223
  • nana 212
  • naan 212
  • tilt 163
  • till 163
  • nene 163
  • lilt 163
  • mamma 162
  • mama 162
  • tint 161
  • onion 155
  • acai 154
  • acacia 154
  • toon 151
  • onto 151
  • anon 141
  • anal 141
  • olio 140
  • tact 131
  • papa 130
  • mitt 130
  • dodo 130
  • baba 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 117
  • cancan 117
  • tutu 116
  • aria 116
  • momma 115
  • ammo 115
  • ally 115
  • allay 115
  • meme 114


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 123,691 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,145 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*:

  • chico
  • chiro
  • choc
  • choric
  • chromic
  • chromo
  • coccic
  • coco
  • comm
  • commo
  • cooch
  • coocoo
  • corium
  • corm
  • cruor
  • homo
  • houri
  • humour
  • micrococci
  • microhm
  • micromho
  • moho
  • mohur
  • momi
  • morro
  • mouch
  • mouchoir
  • mucor
  • mucro
  • ohmic
  • rumour

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

choir

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chromium

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churro

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cocci

No Definition Found.

coho

No Definition Found.

coir

No Definition Found.

comic

No Definition Found.

couch

No Definition Found.

croc

No Definition Found.

croci

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crouch

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curio

No Definition Found.

hooch

No Definition Found.

horror

No Definition Found.

hour

No Definition Found.

humor

No Definition Found.

ichor

No Definition Found.

micro

No Definition Found.

mirror

No Definition Found.

mochi

No Definition Found.

mooch

No Definition Found.

moor

No Definition Found.

morocco

No Definition Found.

mucho

No Definition Found.

occur

No Definition Found.

ouch

No Definition Found.

rococo

No Definition Found.

room

No Definition Found.

rumor

No Definition Found.

romcom

No Definition Found.