Tuesday, April 07, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 232

Number of Answers: 48

Points Needed for Genius: 162

Genius requires between 23 and 41 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 81% 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 232 was in the 76th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on April 05, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 48 possible answers rank it in the 71st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on April 05, 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 April 04, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
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 236
  • loll 217
  • toot 213
  • nana 195
  • naan 195
  • nene 155
  • tilt 153
  • till 153
  • lilt 153
  • mamma 149
  • mama 149
  • tint 148
  • toon 143
  • onto 143
  • onion 143
  • acai 141
  • acacia 141
  • anon 132
  • anal 131
  • olio 128
  • papa 124
  • lulu 124
  • lull 124
  • baba 124
  • tact 123
  • dodo 123
  • poop 119
  • booboo 119
  • boob 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • mitt 117
  • cocci 117
  • calla 116
  • call 116
  • tartar 114
  • tart 114
  • ratatat 114
  • loon 114
  • tattoo 113
  • attar 113
  • tutu 112
  • ally 112
  • allay 112
  • momma 111
  • ammo 111
  • tatty 110
  • meme 109
  • roar 108
  • aria 108


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 116,050 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,954 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*:

  • dunged
  • effulge
  • effulged
  • fugged
  • fugle
  • fugled
  • fugued
  • geed
  • genned
  • genu
  • gled
  • glede
  • gleed
  • gleg
  • gude
  • guggle
  • guggled
  • gulden
  • gulfed
  • gunge
  • gunged
  • gunnel
  • gunnen
  • ledged
  • lungee
  • ungelded
  • unguled

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

deluge

noun
  1. A great flood or rain.
  2. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
  3. (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
verb
  1. To flood with water.
  2. To overwhelm.

deluged

verb
  1. To flood with water.
  2. To overwhelm.

dengue

noun
  1. An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.

dung

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Manure; animal excrement.
  2. A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
verb
  1. To fertilize with dung.
  2. (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
  3. To release dung: to defecate.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To hit or strike.
  2. To dash; to throw violently.
  3. To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
  4. To fire or reject.
  5. To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
  6. To mishit (a golf ball).

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

edge

noun
  1. The boundary line of a surface.
  2. A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
  3. An advantage.
  4. The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
  5. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
  6. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  7. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
  8. A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
  9. A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
  10. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
verb
  1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  8. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  9. To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

edged

verb
  1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  8. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  9. To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
adjective
  1. That has a sharp planar surface.
  2. Followed by with: Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.

egged

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.

engulf

verb
  1. To overwhelm.
  2. To surround; to cover.
  3. To cast into a gulf.

engulfed

verb
  1. To overwhelm.
  2. To surround; to cover.
  3. To cast into a gulf.

fledge

verb
  1. To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
  2. To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
  3. To decorate with feathers.
  4. To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.
adjective
  1. Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

fledged

verb
  1. To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
  2. To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
  3. To decorate with feathers.
  4. To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.
adjective
  1. Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

flung

verb
  1. To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.
  2. To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
  3. To throw; to wince; to flounce.
  4. To utter abusive language; to sneer.

fudge

noun
  1. A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge.
  2. Light or frothy nonsense.
  3. A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
  4. A made-up story.
  5. A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
verb
  1. To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
  2. To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral.
  3. To botch or bungle something.
  4. To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
interjection
  1. (minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
  2. Nonsense; tommyrot.

fudged

verb
  1. To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
  2. To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral.
  3. To botch or bungle something.
  4. To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.

fugu

noun
  1. Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins.

fugue

noun
  1. A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
  2. Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
  3. A fugue state.
verb
  1. To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.

geld

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Money.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant.
verb
  1. To castrate a male (usually an animal).
  2. To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.

gelded

verb
  1. To castrate a male (usually an animal).
  2. To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.
adjective
  1. Castrated.

gelee

No Definition Found.

gelled

verb
  1. To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
  2. To become a gel.
  3. To develop a rapport.
adjective
  1. Enclosed in a gel

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.

glee

noun
  1. Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
  2. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
  3. An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
verb
  1. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

gleeful

adjective
  1. Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful.

glen

noun
  1. A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.

glue

noun
  1. A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
  2. Anything that binds two things or people together.
  3. Birdlime.
verb
  1. To join or attach something using glue.
  2. To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.

glued

verb
  1. To join or attach something using glue.
  2. To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.

glug

noun
  1. The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle.
  2. The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard.
verb
  1. To flow in noisy bursts.
  2. To quickly swallow liquid.

glugged

verb
  1. To flow in noisy bursts.
  2. To quickly swallow liquid.

guff

noun
  1. Nonsensical talk or thinking.
  2. Superfluous information.
  3. Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
  4. A fart; act of breaking wind.
verb
  1. To fart.
  2. To mislead.

gulf

noun
  1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
  2. That which swallows; the gullet.
  3. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
  4. A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
  5. A large deposit of ore in a lode.
  6. A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
  7. (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
verb
  1. (Oxbridge slang) To award a degree to somebody who has only just passed sufficiently.

gull

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
  2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cheating trick; a fraud.
  2. One easily cheated; a dupe.
  3. (Oxford University slang) A swindler or trickster.
verb
  1. To deceive or cheat.
  2. To mislead.
  3. To trick and defraud.

gulled

verb
  1. To deceive or cheat.
  2. To mislead.
  3. To trick and defraud.

gunned

verb
  1. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
  2. To speed something up.
  3. To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
  4. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.
  5. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
  6. To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer.
adjective
  1. Equipped or bedecked with guns.

ledge

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
  2. A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
  3. A layer or stratum.
  4. A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
  5. A (door or window) lintel.
  6. A cornice.
  7. A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
verb
  1. To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A lege; a legend.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A provincial or territorial legislature building.
  2. A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.

legend

noun
  1. An unrealistic story depicting past events.
  2. A person related to a legend or legends.
  3. A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.
  4. An inscription, motto, or title, especially one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon a heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
  5. A musical composition set to a poetical story.
verb
  1. To tell or narrate; to recount.

legged

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (in combinations) Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs
adjective
  1. Having legs, or a certain type or number of legs

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
  2. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
  3. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
  4. To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').

luge

noun
  1. A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.
  2. The sport of racing on luges.
  3. A piece of ice, bone or other material with a channel down which a (usually alcoholic) drink can be poured into someone's mouth.
verb
  1. To travel by luge; to ride a luge.

luged

verb
  1. To travel by luge; to ride a luge.

lugged

verb
  1. (sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
  2. To run at too slow a speed.
  3. To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
  4. To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
adjective
  1. Having ears.

lung

noun
  1. A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
  2. (plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
  3. That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.

lunge

noun
  1. A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
  2. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
  3. An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
  4. A fish, the namaycush.
verb
  1. To (cause to make) a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
  2. To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

lunged

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To (cause to make) a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
  2. To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Having lungs (breathing organs).

lungful

No Definition Found.

nudge

noun
  1. A gentle push.
  2. A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound.
  3. The rotation by one step of a fruit machine reel of the player's choice.
  4. The use of positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions as ways to influence.
verb
  1. To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.
  2. To near or come close to something.

nudged

verb
  1. To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.
  2. To near or come close to something.

unfledged

adjective
  1. Not having feathers; (of a bird) not yet having developed its wings and feathers and become able to fly.
  2. Not yet fully grown or developed; not yet mature.
  3. Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.

unglue

No Definition Found.

unglued

verb
  1. To separate that which was held by glue
  2. To cease to adhere to or follow attentively
adjective
  1. Not secured with glue.
  2. Insane, upset.