Tuesday, May 05, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 180

Number of Answers: 34

Points Needed for Genius: 126

Genius requires between 18 and 28 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% 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 180 was in the 54th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on May 03, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 34 possible answers rank it in the 35th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on May 03, 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 May 04, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.7.
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 156
  • till 156
  • lilt 156
  • mamma 151
  • mama 151
  • tint 149
  • onion 145
  • toon 144
  • onto 144
  • acai 141
  • acacia 141
  • anal 134
  • anon 133
  • olio 129
  • tact 125
  • papa 125
  • baba 125
  • 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 117,334 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,979 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*:

  • abaca
  • abduce
  • abduced
  • accedence
  • acned
  • adunc
  • aucuba
  • babacu
  • bacca
  • baccae
  • bedunce
  • bedunced
  • caca
  • cade
  • cadenced
  • caducean
  • caeca
  • caudad
  • ceca
  • cubbed
  • cubeb
  • dace
  • decan
  • decane
  • deuced
  • duce
  • nance
  • uncanned
  • unnuanced

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

abundance

noun
  1. A large quantity; many.
  2. An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
  3. Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
  4. Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
  5. A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.

accede

verb
  1. To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
  2. To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
  3. To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
  4. To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
  5. To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

acceded

verb
  1. To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
  2. To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
  3. To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
  4. To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
  5. To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

aced

verb
  1. (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
  2. To win a point by an ace.
  3. To make an ace (hole in one).

acne

noun
  1. A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection.
  2. A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition.

adduce

verb
  1. To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

adduced

verb
  1. To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

banc

No Definition Found.

cabana

noun
  1. A cabin or hut for relaxing.
  2. A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool.

cabbed

verb
  1. To travel by taxicab.

cadence

noun
  1. The act or state of declining or sinking.
  2. Balanced, rhythmic flow.
  3. The measure or beat of movement.
  4. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
  5. A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
  6. A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
  7. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
  8. A dance move which ends a phrase.
  9. The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
  10. (running) The number of steps per minute.
  11. The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
  12. A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
  13. Cadency
  14. (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
verb
  1. To give a cadence to.
  2. To give structure to.

cancan

noun
  1. A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
  2. (motocross) A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.
verb
  1. To dance the cancan.

cane

noun
  1. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
  2. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
  3. A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane
  4. Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
  5. A local European measure of length; the canna.
verb
  1. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
  2. To destroy; to comprehensively defeat
  3. To do something well, in a competent fashion
  4. To produce extreme pain
  5. To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

caned

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
  2. To destroy; to comprehensively defeat
  3. To do something well, in a competent fashion
  4. To produce extreme pain
  5. To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
adjective
  1. Intoxicated by alcohol or drugs

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Filled with white flakes; mothery; said of vinegar when containing mother.

canna

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet.

canned

verb
  1. To seal in a can.
  2. To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
  3. To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
  4. To shut up.
  5. To fire or dismiss an employee.
  6. To hole the ball.
adjective
  1. Preserved in cans.
  2. (by extension) Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass produced, or lacking originality or customization.
  3. Drunk.
  4. Terminated, fired from a job.

cede

verb
  1. To give up; yield to another.
  2. To give way.

ceded

verb
  1. To give up; yield to another.
  2. To give way.

cube

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
  2. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
  3. The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
  4. A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
  5. A Rubick's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube
verb
  1. To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
  2. To form into the shape of a cube.
  3. To cut into cubes.
  4. To use a Rubik's cube.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

cubed

verb
  1. To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
  2. To form into the shape of a cube.
  3. To cut into cubes.
  4. To use a Rubik's cube.
adjective
  1. Raised to the third power.

cued

No Definition Found.

dance

noun
  1. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
  2. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
  3. A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
  4. A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
  5. The art, profession, and study of dancing.
  6. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
  7. A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
verb
  1. To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
  2. To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
  3. To perform the steps to.
  4. To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
  5. To make love or have sex.

danced

verb
  1. To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
  2. To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
  3. To perform the steps to.
  4. To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
  5. To make love or have sex.

decade

noun
  1. A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:
  2. A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
  3. The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.

decadence

noun
  1. A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay

deduce

verb
  1. To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
  2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
  3. (Latinism) To lead forth.

deduced

verb
  1. To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
  2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
  3. (Latinism) To lead forth.

deuce

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
  2. A side of a die with two spots.
  3. A cast of dice totalling two.
  4. The number two.
  5. A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
  6. A curveball.
  7. A '32 Ford.
  8. (in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
  9. (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
  10. A piece of excrement.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

dunce

noun
  1. An unintelligent person.

educe

noun
  1. An inference.
verb
  1. To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
  2. To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises.
  3. To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
  4. To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.
  5. To cause or generate; to bring about.

educed

verb
  1. To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
  2. To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises.
  3. To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
  4. To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.
  5. To cause or generate; to bring about.
adjective
  1. Evoked
  2. Deduced

nuance

noun
  1. A minor distinction.
  2. Subtlety or fine detail.
verb
  1. To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way.

nuanced

verb
  1. To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way.
adjective
  1. Having nuances; possessed of multiple layers of detail, pattern, or meaning

unceded

No Definition Found.