Thursday, April 30, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 164

Number of Answers: 29

Points Needed for Genius: 115

Genius requires between 15 and 25 words. You need at least an 8-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 164 was in the 46th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on April 29, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 29 possible answers rank it in the 21st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on April 27, 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 April 27, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.0.
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 239
  • loll 218
  • toot 214
  • nana 198
  • naan 198
  • nene 157
  • tilt 155
  • till 155
  • lilt 155
  • mamma 151
  • mama 151
  • tint 149
  • onion 145
  • toon 144
  • onto 144
  • acai 141
  • acacia 141
  • anal 134
  • anon 133
  • olio 129
  • papa 125
  • baba 125
  • tact 124
  • lulu 124
  • lull 124
  • dodo 124
  • poop 120
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • mitt 118
  • cocci 117
  • loon 116
  • calla 116
  • call 116
  • tartar 115
  • tart 115
  • ratatat 115
  • tattoo 114
  • attar 114
  • tutu 113
  • ally 113
  • allay 113
  • momma 111
  • ammo 111
  • tatty 110
  • aria 110
  • meme 109
  • roar 108


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 117,089 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,974 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*:

  • comminution
  • conium
  • continuo
  • cummin
  • cunit
  • cunt
  • cutin
  • inconnu
  • inunction
  • ionium
  • minium
  • mouton
  • mucin
  • mumm
  • mumu
  • muni
  • munnion
  • muntin
  • muon
  • muonic
  • muonium
  • muton
  • noncount
  • notum
  • onium
  • outcount
  • touton
  • unci
  • uncini
  • unco
  • uncomic
  • unicom
  • unicum
  • unununium

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

coconut

noun
  1. A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
  2. A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
  3. The edible white flesh of this fruit.
  4. The coconut palm.
  5. A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside.
  6. A black person who thinks or acts "white" (European).
  7. A Pacific islander.
  8. A female breast.
  9. The human head (often used in cricket broadcasts when a ball hits or nearly hits a batsman on the head).

communion

noun
  1. A joining together of minds or spirits.
  2. Holy Communion
  3. A form of ecclesiastical unity between the Roman Church and another, so that the latter is considered part of the former.

continuum

noun
  1. A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other.
  2. A continuous extent.
  3. The set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
  4. A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are 1/100 of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.

count

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
  2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
  3. A countdown.
  4. A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
  5. The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
  6. An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
verb
  1. To recite numbers in sequence.
  2. To determine the number (of objects in a group).
  3. To be of significance; to matter.
  4. To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
  5. To consider something an example of something.
  6. To take account or note (of).
  7. To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
adjective
  1. (grammar) Countable.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The male ruler of a county.
  2. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

cumin

noun
  1. The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae.
  2. Its aromatic long seed, used as a spice, notably in Indian, Middle Eastern, and Mexican cookery.

cutout

noun
  1. A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting.
  2. A piece cut out of something.
  3. A trusted middleman or intermediary, especially in espionage.
  4. Clip art.
  5. Any of several devices that halts the flow of a current, especially an electric current; a trip-switch or trip.
  6. A switch that changes the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.
  7. A railway cutting.
  8. The separation of a group of cattle from a herd; the place where they are collected.

intuit

verb
  1. To know intuitively or by immediate perception.

intuition

noun
  1. Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
  2. A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

minimum

noun
  1. The lowest limit.
  2. The smallest amount.
  3. A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
  4. A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
  5. The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
adjective
  1. To the lowest degree.

mount

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A hill or mountain.
  2. Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
  3. A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
  4. A bank; a fund.
  5. A green hillock in the base of a shield.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse
  2. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
  3. A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
  4. A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
  5. A signal for mounting a horse.
verb
  1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
  2. To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
  3. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
  4. To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
  5. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
  6. To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
  7. To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
  8. (sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
  9. To attain in value; to amount (to).
  10. To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
  11. To have sexual intercourse with someone.
  12. To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
  13. To deploy (cannon) for use.
  14. To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
  15. To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).

munition

noun
  1. (chiefly in the plural) Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
  2. (chiefly in the plural, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
  3. A tower or fortification.
verb
  1. To supply with munitions.

mutt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
  2. (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry.
  3. An idiot, a stupid person.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram.

mutton

noun
  1. The flesh of sheep used as food.
  2. The flesh of goat used as food.
  3. A sheep.
  4. Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
  5. A prostitute.
  6. An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.
adjective
  1. Deaf.

muumuu

noun
  1. A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches).

nonunion

noun
  1. Lack of union; failure to become united.
  2. The failure of a broken bone to heal
adjective
  1. Not part of a labor union; not unionized.

noun

noun
  1. (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
  2. (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
verb
  1. To convert a word to a noun.

nuncio

noun
  1. The ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps.
  2. (by extension) One who bears a message; a messenger.
  3. Any member of any Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Galicia (of the Austrian Partition), Duchy of Warsaw, Congress Poland, or Grand Duchy of Posen.

tout

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
  2. A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
  3. A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
  4. An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
verb
  1. To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
  2. To look upon or watch.
  3. To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
  4. To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
  5. To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
  6. To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
  7. To look for, try to obtain; used with for.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

tuition

noun
  1. A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).
  2. The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
  3. Care, guardianship.

tunic

noun
  1. A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.
  2. Any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane.

tutti

noun
  1. A passage in which all members of an orchestra are playing
adjective
  1. All together; with all playing at once.
adverb
  1. All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices.

tutu

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of the genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand.

uncommon

adjective
  1. Rare; not readily found; unusual.
  2. Remarkable; exceptional.
adverb
  1. Exceedingly, exceptionally.

unction

noun
  1. A salve or ointment.
  2. A religious or ceremonial anointing.
  3. A balm or something that soothes.
  4. A quality in language, address or delivery which expresses sober and fervent emotion.
  5. A smug, exaggerated use of language; smarminess.
  6. Divine or sanctifying grace.

uncut

adjective
  1. Not cut.
  2. (of a gemstone) Not cut or ground to the desired shape.
  3. (of a book) Not having the page edges trimmed.
  4. (of a play, film etc) Not edited or abridged by a censor.
  5. Not circumcised.

union

noun
  1. The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
  2. The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
  3. That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
  4. A trade union; a workers' union.
  5. An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
  6. A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
  7. The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
  8. The act or state of marriage.
  9. Sexual intercourse.
  10. A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
  11. A large, high-quality pearl.
  12. An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
verb
  1. To combine sets using the union operation.

unit

noun
  1. A particular, minute unit of mass, defined differently for different substances, but so that varying substances of the same general type have the property that one international unit of the one has the same effect on the human body as one international unit of the other.
noun
  1. Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
  2. A standard measure of a quantity.
  3. The number one.
  4. An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
  5. A member of a military organization.
  6. Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
  7. An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
  8. A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
  9. With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
  10. The identity element, neutral element.
  11. An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
  12. In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.
  13. A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
  14. An item which may be sold singly.
  15. A unit of alcohol.
  16. One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
  17. A measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
  18. A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
  19. A work unit.
  20. A physically large person.
adjective
  1. For each unit.
  2. Having a size or magnitude of one.

unto

preposition
  1. Up to, indicating a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.
  2. To, indicating an indirect object.
conjunction
  1. Up to the time or degree that; until.

unmount

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