Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 101

Number of Answers: 27

Points Needed for Genius: 71

Genius requires between 9 and 25 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 85% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 64% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 101 was in the 13th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on January 30, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 27 possible answers rank it in the 16th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on February 10, 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 an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on February 01, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
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 229
  • loll 213
  • toot 210
  • nana 190
  • naan 190
  • tilt 152
  • till 152
  • lilt 152
  • nene 150
  • tint 145
  • mamma 142
  • mama 142
  • onion 138
  • toon 137
  • onto 137
  • acai 137
  • acacia 137
  • anal 130
  • anon 129
  • olio 124
  • dodo 123
  • tact 122
  • papa 122
  • baba 120
  • poop 118
  • lulu 118
  • lull 118
  • booboo 118
  • boob 118
  • mitt 114
  • cocci 114
  • moon 113
  • mono 113
  • calla 113
  • call 113
  • tutu 112
  • tattoo 112
  • tartar 112
  • tart 112
  • ratatat 112
  • loon 111
  • attar 111
  • ally 110
  • allay 110
  • tatty 109
  • momma 107
  • ammo 107
  • meme 106
  • roar 105
  • peep 105


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 113,440 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,909 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*:

  • emetin
  • emetine
  • emmet
  • emmy
  • feme
  • feminie
  • feminity
  • fitment
  • imine
  • immy
  • intime
  • meinie
  • meiny
  • miffy
  • mimetite
  • minify
  • minny
  • mity
  • neem
  • nimiety
  • tinmen
  • titmen

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

eminent

adjective
  1. High, lofty.
  2. Noteworthy, remarkable, great.
  3. (of a person) distinguished, important, noteworthy.

emit

verb
  1. To send out or give off

enemy

noun
  1. Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
  2. A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
  3. Something harmful or threatening to another
verb
  1. To make an enemy of.
adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy

enmity

noun
  1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
  2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

feminine

noun
  1. That which is feminine.
  2. (possibly obsolete) A woman.
  3. (grammar) The feminine gender.
  4. (grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
  2. Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
  3. Belonging to females; typically used by females.
  4. Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
  5. (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

femininity

noun
  1. The sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.

femme

noun
  1. A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl.
  2. A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.
  3. A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.
adjective
  1. (entertainment) Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.
  2. Effeminate (of a man).
  3. Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman.

imminent

adjective
  1. About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.

item

noun
  1. A distinct physical object.
  2. (by extension) An object that can be picked up for later use.
  3. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.
  4. (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.
  5. A matter for discussion in an agenda.
  6. Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
  7. A short article in a newspaper.
  8. A hint; an innuendo.
verb
  1. To make a note of.
adverb
  1. Likewise

meet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).
  2. A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
  3. A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
  4. A meeting.
  5. The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
  6. An act of French kissing someone.
verb
  1. To make contact (with) while in proximity.
  2. (Of groups) To come together.
  3. To make physical or perceptual contact.
  4. To satisfy; to comply with.
  5. To balance or come out correct.
  6. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
  7. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Suitable; right; proper.

meme

noun
  1. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
  2. Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.
  3. A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.
verb
  1. To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.
  2. To create and use humorous memes.
  3. To joke around.

mentee

noun
  1. A person who is being mentored

mete

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To measure.
  2. (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Suitable; right; proper.

mien

noun
  1. Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
  2. A specific facial expression.

miff

noun
  1. A small argument; a quarrel.
  2. A state of being offended.
verb
  1. (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly.
  2. To become slightly offended.

mime

noun
  1. A form of acting without words; pantomime.
  2. A pantomime actor.
  3. A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
  4. A performer of such a farce.
  5. A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
  6. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.
verb
  1. To mimic.
  2. To act without words.
  3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

mine

Etymology 1

pronoun
  1. My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
  2. Any source of wealth or resources.
  3. A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
  4. A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
  5. A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
  6. The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
  7. A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
verb
  1. To remove (ore) from the ground.
  2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
  3. To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
  4. To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
  5. To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
  6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
  7. (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
  8. To pick one's nose.
  9. To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
  2. A specific facial expression.

mini

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Miniature, tiny, small.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A miniskirt.
  2. A minicomputer.

minim

noun
  1. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
  3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
  5. The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
  7. A small fish; a minnow.
  8. A short poetical encomium.

mint

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
  2. A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
  3. Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
verb
  1. To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
  2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
adjective
  1. (with condition) Like new.
  2. In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
  3. Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
  4. Very good.
  5. Attractive; beautiful; handsome.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
  2. The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
  3. Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
  4. A green colour, like that of mint.
  5. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
adjective
  1. Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (provincial) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
verb
  1. (provincial) To try, attempt; take aim.
  2. (provincial) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
  3. To hint; suggest; insinuate.

minty

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mite

noun
  1. Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).
  2. A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
  3. A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
  4. A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
  5. (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle
  6. (often used affectionately) A small or naughty person, or one you take pity on; rascal

mitt

noun
  1. A mitten
  2. An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
  3. (especially in plural) A hand.

mitten

noun
  1. A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered.
  2. A cat's or dog's paw that is a different colour from the main body.
  3. (as "the mitten") A romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover.
verb
  1. To dress in mittens; to put a mitten on.

teem

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To be stocked to overflowing.
  2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
  3. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To empty.
  2. To pour (especially with rain)
  3. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To think fit.

tenement

noun
  1. A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
  2. Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
  3. Dwelling; abode; habitation.

time

noun
  1. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
  2. A duration of time.
  3. An instant of time.
  4. The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
  5. Ratio of comparison.
  6. (grammar) Tense.
  7. The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
verb
  1. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
  2. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
  3. To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
  4. To pass time; to delay.
  5. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
  6. To measure, as in music or harmony.
interjection
  1. Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
  2. The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
  3. A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.