Monday, April 13, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 140

Number of Answers: 24

Points Needed for Genius: 98

Genius requires between 12 and 21 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 89% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 62% 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 April 06, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 24 possible answers rank it in the 9th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on April 06, 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 05, 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 238
  • loll 217
  • toot 214
  • nana 196
  • naan 196
  • nene 156
  • tilt 154
  • till 154
  • lilt 154
  • tint 149
  • mamma 149
  • mama 149
  • toon 144
  • onto 144
  • onion 144
  • acai 141
  • acacia 141
  • anon 133
  • anal 132
  • olio 128
  • tact 124
  • papa 124
  • lulu 124
  • lull 124
  • baba 124
  • dodo 123
  • poop 119
  • booboo 119
  • boob 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • mitt 117
  • cocci 117
  • calla 116
  • call 116
  • loon 115
  • tattoo 114
  • tartar 114
  • tart 114
  • ratatat 114
  • 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 116,330 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,957 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*:

  • gogo
  • grot
  • grugru
  • hogg
  • outwrought
  • roughout
  • thoroughwort
  • trog
  • trug
  • turgor

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

goth

noun
  1. A punk-derived subculture of people who predominantly dress in black, associated with mournful music and attitudes.
  2. A style of punk rock influenced by glam rock; gothic rock.
  3. A person who is part of the goth subculture.
adjective
  1. Relating to this music or these people.

gout

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
  2. (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch.
  3. A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
verb
  1. To spurt.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Taste; relish

grog

noun
  1. (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
  2. (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage.
  3. A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
  4. An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
  5. A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

grotto

noun
  1. A small cave.
  2. An artificial cavern-like retreat.
  3. A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
  4. A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
  5. (Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.

grout

noun
  1. A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
  2. Coarse meal; groats.
  3. (typically used in the plural) Dregs, sediment.
  4. A kind of beer or ale.
verb
  1. To insert mortar between tiles.

grow

verb
  1. To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
  2. To appear or sprout.
  3. To develop, to mature.
  4. To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
  5. To assume a condition or quality over time.
  6. To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

growth

noun
  1. An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
  2. The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
  3. Something that grows or has grown.
  4. An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

guru

noun
  1. A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher.
  2. (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor.

ought

noun
  1. Property; possession
  2. Duty; place; office

outgo

noun
  1. The act or process of going out.
  2. A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
  3. An expenditure, cost or outlay.
verb
  1. To go out, to set forth.
  2. To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond.
  3. To overtake; to travel faster than.
  4. To outdo; exceed; surpass.
  5. To come to an end.

outgrow

verb
  1. To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc.
  2. To grow faster or larger than.

outgrowth

noun
  1. Anything that grows out of something else.
  2. Excessive growth.

outthought

verb
  1. To best an opponent by thinking.

rotgut

noun
  1. Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor

rough

noun
  1. The unmowed part of a golf course.
  2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
  3. A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
  4. The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
  5. A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
  6. Boisterous weather.
  7. A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
verb
  1. To create in an approximate form.
  2. To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
  3. To render rough; to roughen.
  4. To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
  5. To endure primitive conditions.
  6. To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
adjective
  1. Not smooth; uneven.
  2. Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
  3. Turbulent.
  4. Difficult; trying.
  5. Crude; unrefined
  6. Violent; not careful or subtle
  7. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
  8. Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.
  9. Harsh-tasting.
  10. Somewhat ill; sick
  11. Unwell due to alcohol; hungover
adverb
  1. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

thorough

noun
  1. A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
adjective
  1. Painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail.
  2. Utter; complete; absolute.
preposition
  1. Through.

though

adverb
  1. Despite that; however.
  2. (degree) Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed.
conjunction
  1. Despite the fact that; although.
  2. If, that, even if.

thought

verb
  1. To ponder, to go over in one's head.
  2. To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
  3. To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
  4. To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
  5. To guess; to reckon.
  6. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
  7. To presume; to venture.
verb
  1. To seem, to appear.
noun
  1. Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
  2. The operation by which such forms arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
  3. A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).

through

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A large slab of stone laid in a dry-stone wall from one side to the other; a perpend.
adjective
  1. Passing from one side of something to the other.
  2. Finished; complete.
  3. Without a future; done for.
  4. No longer interested; wearied or turned off by experience.
  5. Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.
  6. In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal.
adverb
  1. From one side to the other by way of the interior.
  2. From one end to the other.
  3. To the end.
  4. Completely.
  5. Out into the open.
preposition
  1. From one side of an opening to the other.
  2. Entering, then later leaving.
  3. Surrounded by (while moving).
  4. By means of.
  5. In consequence of; as a result of.
  6. To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A coffin, sarcophagus or tomb of stone; a large slab of stone laid on a tomb.

throughout

adverb
  1. Completely through, right the way through.
  2. In every part; everywhere.
  3. During an entire period of time, the whole time.
preposition
  1. In every part of; all through.

thug

noun
  1. Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire.
  2. One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her.
  3. In gardening, an over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.
  4. A punk; a hoodlum; a hooligan.
verb
  1. To commit acts of thuggery, to live the life of a thug, or to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of someone who does.

tough

noun
  1. A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
verb
  1. To endure.
  2. To toughen.
adjective
  1. Strong and resilient; sturdy.
  2. (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
  3. Rugged or physically hardy.
  4. Stubborn.
  5. (of weather etc) Harsh or severe.
  6. Rowdy or rough.
  7. (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
  8. Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
interjection
  1. Used to indicate lack of sympathy

trough

noun
  1. A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
  2. Any similarly shaped container.
  3. A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
  4. A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
  5. A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
  6. A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
  7. A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
verb
  1. To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.

wrought

verb
  1. To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  2. To effect by gradual degrees.
  3. To embroider with thread.
  4. To set into action.
  5. To cause to ferment.
  6. To ferment.
  7. To exhaust, by working.
  8. To shape, form, or improve a material.
  9. To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  10. To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  11. To provoke or excite; to influence.
  12. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  13. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  14. To cause to work.
  15. To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  16. To influence.
  17. To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  18. To move in an agitated manner.
  19. To behave in a certain way when handled
  20. (with two objects) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
  21. To hurt; to ache.
verb
  1. To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; .
  2. To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite.
  3. To inflict or take vengeance on.
  4. To take vengeance for.
adjective
  1. Having been worked or prepared somehow.