Thursday, August 06, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 140

Number of Answers: 32

Points Needed for Genius: 98

Genius requires between 14 and 28 words. You need at least a 7-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 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 140 was in the 34th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 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 32 possible answers rank it in the 29th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 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 August 02, 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 247
  • loll 228
  • toot 220
  • nana 205
  • naan 205
  • tilt 160
  • till 160
  • lilt 160
  • nene 159
  • mamma 159
  • mama 159
  • tint 156
  • onion 153
  • acai 150
  • acacia 150
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • olio 140
  • anon 138
  • anal 137
  • tact 130
  • papa 129
  • dodo 128
  • baba 128
  • mitt 126
  • lulu 126
  • lull 126
  • loon 123
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • booboo 122
  • boob 122
  • poop 121
  • cocci 120
  • tartar 119
  • tart 119
  • ratatat 119
  • moon 119
  • mono 119
  • tattoo 118
  • attar 118
  • tutu 115
  • momma 114
  • cancan 114
  • aria 114
  • ammo 114
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • meme 112
  • tatty 111


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 121,391 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,076 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*:

  • acarid
  • accidia
  • adiabatic
  • adit
  • baidar
  • bardic
  • batard
  • bidi
  • briard
  • cadi
  • caid
  • caird
  • carabid
  • cardia
  • carditic
  • dada
  • darb
  • darbar
  • daric
  • diacid
  • diacidic
  • dita
  • irid
  • iridic
  • ritard
  • tabid
  • trad
  • triacid
  • triadic
  • tribadic

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

abracadabra

No Definition Found.

acid

noun
  1. A sour substance.
  2. Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:
  3. Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
adjective
  1. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
  2. Sour-tempered.
  3. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
  4. Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.

acidic

adjective
  1. Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
  2. Containing a high percentage of silica; opposed to basic.
  3. Of or relating to acid; having the character of an acid.

acrid

adjective
  1. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste.
  2. Causing heat and irritation.
  3. Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.

addict

noun
  1. A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug
  2. An adherent or fan (of something)
verb
  1. To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision.
  2. To devote (oneself) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.
  3. To bind (a person or thing) to the service of something.
  4. To devote or pledge (oneself) to a given person, cause etc.
  5. To devote (one's mind, talent etc.) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.
  6. To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity; to cause to be addicted.

arcadia

No Definition Found.

arid

adjective
  1. Very dry.
  2. Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
  3. Devoid of value.

bard

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
  2. (by extension) A poet.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
  2. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
  3. A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
  4. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
  5. Specifically, Peruvian bark.
verb
  1. To cover a horse in defensive armor.
  2. To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

bird

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs.
  2. A man, fellow.
  3. A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
  4. Girlfriend.
  5. An airplane.
  6. A satellite.
  7. A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
verb
  1. To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
  2. To catch or shoot birds.
  3. To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A prison sentence.
  2. A yardbird
verb
  1. To bring into prison, to roof.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.

brad

noun
  1. A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
  2. (elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
verb
  1. To attach using a brad.
  2. To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.

braid

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
  2. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
  3. A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together
  4. A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
  5. A fancy; freak; caprice.
verb
  1. To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
  2. To start into motion.
  3. To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
  4. To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
  5. To reproach; to upbraid.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Deceitful.

card

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A playing card.
  2. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
  3. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
  4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
  5. A map or chart.
  6. An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
  7. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
  8. A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
  9. A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
  10. A greeting card.
  11. A business card.
  12. Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
  13. A test card.
  14. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
  15. A printed programme.
  16. (by extension) An attraction or inducement.
  17. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
  18. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
  19. An indicator card.
verb
  1. To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
  2. To play cards.
  3. To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Material with embedded short wire bristles.
  2. A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
  3. A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
  4. A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  5. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
verb
  1. To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  2. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
  3. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
  4. To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
  5. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)
  2. Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
  3. Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
  4. (color) A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)
  5. Short for cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., zero, one, two, three). (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal number.)
  6. (grammar) Short for cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
  7. Short for cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
  8. Short for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
  9. (bow) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
  10. Mulled red wine.

cardiac

noun
  1. A person with heart disease.
  2. Heart disease.
  3. A medicine that excites action in the stomach.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to the heart.
  2. Pertaining to the cardia.
  3. Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.

catbird

noun
  1. Either of two species of American mockingbird relatives, the grey catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, and the black catbird, Melanoptila glabrirostris.
  2. Any of four species of Australasian bowerbirds of the genera Ailuroedus and Scenopoeetes.
  3. A babbler-like bird from eastern Africa, Parophasma galinieri.

cicada

noun
  1. Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.

dart

data

noun
  1. (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc.
  2. (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation.
  3. (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn.
  4. (plural: datums) A fixed reference point, or a coordinate system.

diacritic

noun
  1. A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
adjective
  1. Distinguishing
  2. Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.

dicta

noun
  1. An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
  2. A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
  3. The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
  4. An arbitrament or award.

didact

No Definition Found.

didactic

noun
  1. A treatise on teaching or education.
adjective
  1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
  2. Excessively moralizing.
  3. Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

dirt

noun
  1. Soil or earth.
  2. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
  3. Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.
  4. Meanness; sordidness.
  5. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
  6. Freckles
verb
  1. To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

drab

No Definition Found.

drat

verb
  1. To damn or curse.
interjection
  1. Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration.

drib

No Definition Found.

rabid

noun
  1. A human or animal infected with rabies.
  2. Someone who is fanatical in opinion.
adjective
  1. Affected with rabies.
  2. Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.
  3. Furious; raging; extremely violent.
  4. Very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous.

radar

noun
  1. A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces
  2. A type of system using such method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.
  3. An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus.
  4. A superior ability to detect something.
verb
  1. To scan with radar, or as if with radar.

radii

noun
  1. The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
  2. The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
  3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
  4. A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
  5. The length of this line segment.
  6. Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.

raid

No Definition Found.

tabard

noun
  1. A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet.
  2. A woman's or girl's sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment.
  3. A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people.
  4. A cape or tunic worn by a knight, emblazoned with the coat of arms of his king or queen on the front.
  5. A similar garment officially worn by a herald and emblazoned with his sovereign's coat of arms.

tidbit

noun
  1. A tasty morsel (of food).
  2. A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits).
  3. A short mention of news or gossip.

triad

noun
  1. A grouping of three.
  2. A word of three syllables.
  3. A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.
  4. On a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
  5. A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.