Monday, May 11, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 237

Number of Answers: 52

Points Needed for Genius: 166

Genius requires between 25 and 44 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 75% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 237 was in the 77th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on May 10, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 52 possible answers rank it in the 79th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on May 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 a 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on May 09, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.3.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 239
  • loll 219
  • toot 214
  • nana 198
  • naan 198
  • nene 158
  • tilt 156
  • till 156
  • lilt 156
  • mamma 151
  • mama 151
  • tint 149
  • onion 145
  • toon 144
  • onto 144
  • acai 142
  • acacia 142
  • anal 134
  • anon 133
  • olio 130
  • tact 125
  • papa 125
  • baba 125
  • lulu 124
  • lull 124
  • dodo 124
  • poop 120
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • mitt 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • cocci 118
  • loon 117
  • calla 117
  • call 117
  • tartar 116
  • tart 116
  • ratatat 116
  • attar 115
  • tattoo 114
  • tutu 113
  • ally 113
  • allay 113
  • momma 111
  • aria 111
  • ammo 111
  • tatty 110
  • meme 109
  • roar 108


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 117,654 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,982 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*:

  • cete
  • cheddite
  • chedite
  • cheth
  • citied
  • deet
  • deictic
  • dite
  • echt
  • etic
  • etwee
  • heth
  • ictic
  • teched
  • tectite
  • tedded
  • teiid
  • tetched
  • teth
  • tewed
  • thetic
  • thew
  • ticced
  • titch
  • titchie
  • titi
  • tittie
  • twitted
  • wecht
  • weet
  • weeted
  • whited
  • witched
  • witchweed
  • wite
  • wited
  • withe
  • withed
  • witted

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

chit

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
  2. A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The embryonic growing bud of a plant
  2. An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.
verb
  1. To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
  2. To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
  3. To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
  2. A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system; scrip.
  3. A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
  4. A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
  5. A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
  6. A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Shit.
interjection
  1. Shit.

cite

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
  2. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
  3. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A citation

cited

verb
  1. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
  2. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
  3. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

deceit

noun
  1. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
  2. An act of deceiving someone.
  3. The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
  4. The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.

detect

verb
  1. To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
adjective
  1. Detected.

detected

verb
  1. To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
adjective
  1. Having been noticed.

diet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
  2. A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  3. (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
adjective
  1. (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
  2. Having certain traits subtracted.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  2. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  3. To eat; to take one's meals.
  4. To cause to take food; to feed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
  2. A session of exams
  3. The proceedings under a criminal libel.
  4. A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.

dieted

verb
  1. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  2. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  3. To eat; to take one's meals.
  4. To cause to take food; to feed.

dietetic

adjective
  1. Relating to diet.
  2. Relating to preparation for those on a restricted diet.

ditch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
verb
  1. To discard or abandon.
  2. To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
  3. To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
  4. To dig ditches.
  5. To dig ditches around.
  6. To throw into a ditch.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Dirt ingrained on the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc.
verb
  1. To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained.

ditched

verb
  1. To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained.
verb
  1. To discard or abandon.
  2. To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
  3. To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
  4. To dig ditches.
  5. To dig ditches around.
  6. To throw into a ditch.

edict

noun
  1. A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.

edit

noun
  1. A change to the text of a document.
  2. A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
  3. An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
  4. An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
verb
  1. To change a text, or a document.
  2. To be the editor of a publication.
  3. To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
  4. To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
  5. To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.
  6. To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
  7. To lend itself to editing in a certain way.

edited

verb
  1. To change a text, or a document.
  2. To be the editor of a publication.
  3. To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
  4. To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
  5. To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.
  6. To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
  7. To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
adjective
  1. Having been altered from the original version.

eidetic

adjective
  1. Marked by or resulting from extraordinary ability to recall detailed and vivid mental images of visual images.

etch

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
  2. To engrave a surface.
  3. To make a lasting impression.
  4. To sketch; to delineate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been been mowed; also, a field of such growth.

etched

verb
  1. To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
  2. To engrave a surface.
  3. To make a lasting impression.
  4. To sketch; to delineate.
adjective
  1. Cut or dug into the surface as by etching.
  2. (of a muscle, body part or person) Toned and with a well-defined musculature.

ethic

noun
  1. A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.
  2. The morality of an action.
adjective
  1. Moral, relating to morals.

hectic

noun
  1. A hectic fever.
  2. A flush like one produced by such a fever.
adjective
  1. Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin.
  2. Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever.
  3. Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.

hitch

noun
  1. A sudden pull.
  2. Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
  3. A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
  4. A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
  5. A hidden or unfavorable condition or element; a catch.
  6. A period of time spent in the military.
verb
  1. To pull with a jerk.
  2. To attach, tie or fasten.
  3. To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
  4. Contraction of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
  5. To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
  6. To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
  7. To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

hitched

verb
  1. To pull with a jerk.
  2. To attach, tie or fasten.
  3. To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
  4. Contraction of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
  5. To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
  6. To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
  7. To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

itch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
  2. A constant teasing desire or want.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
  2. To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something.
  3. To cause to feel an itch.
  4. To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.

itched

verb
  1. To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
  2. To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something.
  3. To cause to feel an itch.
  4. To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.

tech

noun
  1. Technology
  2. Technician
  3. Technique
  4. (used in titles) technical college

techie

noun
  1. One who works with, or has an interest in, technology or computers.
  2. A person who works on the technical side of events.

teed

verb
  1. To draw; lead.
  2. To draw away; go; proceed.
verb
  1. To place a ball on a tee

teeth

noun
  1. The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.
verb
  1. To grow teeth.
  2. To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.
noun
  1. A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  2. A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  3. A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
  4. A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
  5. A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  6. The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
  7. Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
  8. An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.

teethe

verb
  1. To grow teeth.
  2. To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.

teethed

verb
  1. To grow teeth.
  2. To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.

thee

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
  2. To use the word thee.
pronoun
  1. Objective and reflexive case of thou.
  2. Thou.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To thrive; prosper.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.

tide

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
  2. A stream, current or flood.
  3. (chronology, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
  4. A time.
  5. A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
  6. The period of twelve hours.
  7. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
  8. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
  9. Violent confluence
verb
  1. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  2. To pour a tide or flood.
  3. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To happen, occur.

tided

verb
  1. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  2. To pour a tide or flood.
  3. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
verb
  1. To happen, occur.
adjective
  1. Affected by the tide; having a tide.

tidied

verb
  1. To make tidy; to neaten.

tied

verb
  1. To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
  2. To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
  3. To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
  4. To secure (something) by string or the like.
  5. To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
  6. To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
  7. To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
  8. To believe; to credit.
  9. In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
adjective
  1. Closely connected or associated.
  2. Restricted.
  3. Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
  4. That resulted in a tie.
  5. Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
  6. Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.

tithe

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tenth.
  2. The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses.
  3. A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church)
  4. A small part or proportion.
verb
  1. To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
  2. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
  3. To compose the tenth part of something.
adjective
  1. Tenth.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A boon (a grant or concession).
verb
  1. To grant, concede.
adjective
  1. Receiving a concession or grant; successful in prayer or request.

tithed

verb
  1. To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
  2. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
  3. To compose the tenth part of something.
verb
  1. To grant, concede.
adjective
  1. (of items) Subject to tithe.
  2. (of persons) Liable for tithe.
  3. (of items) Taken as or paid for tithe.

twee

adjective
  1. Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.

tweed

noun
  1. A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.

tweet

noun
  1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
  2. An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
verb
  1. To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
  2. To post an update to Twitter.
interjection
  1. An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

tweeted

verb
  1. To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
  2. To post an update to Twitter.

twice

adverb
  1. Two times.
  2. (usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.

twit

noun
  1. A reproach, gibe or taunt.
  2. A foolish or annoying person.
  3. A euphemism for "twat", a contemptible or stupid person.
  4. A person who twitters, i.e. chatters inanely (see usage notes).
verb
  1. To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
  2. To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).

twitch

noun
  1. Couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)

twitched

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wetted

verb
  1. To cover or impregnate with liquid.
  2. To accidentally urinate in or on.
  3. To make or become wet.
  4. (soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
  5. To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
  6. To kill or seriously injure.

whet

noun
  1. The act of whetting something.
  2. That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer.
verb
  1. To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.
  2. To stimulate or make more keen.
  3. To preen.

whetted

verb
  1. To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.
  2. To stimulate or make more keen.
  3. To preen.
adjective
  1. (of a surface) exposed to a working fluid

whit

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.

Etymology 2

preposition
  1. Against.
  2. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
  3. In addition to; as an accessory to.
  4. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
  5. In support of.
  6. In regard to.
  7. To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
  8. Using as an instrument; by means of.
  9. Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
  10. Having, owning.
  11. Affected by (a certain emotion or condition).
  12. Prompted by (a certain emotion).

white

noun
  1. The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
  2. A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
  3. Any butterfly of the family Pieridae.
  4. White wine.
  5. Any object or substance that is of the color white.
  6. The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
  7. The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
verb
  1. To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
adjective
  1. Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
  2. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin.
  3. Designated for use by Caucasians.
  4. Relatively light or pale in colour.
  5. Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
  6. (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
  7. (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
  8. The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
  9. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
  10. Honourable, fair; decent.
  11. Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  12. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
  13. Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
  14. Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
  15. (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
  16. Not containing characters; see white space.
  17. Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black.
  18. Characterised by the presence of snow.

width

noun
  1. The state of being wide.
  2. The measurement of the extent of something from side to side.
  3. A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric.
  4. The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him.
  5. The use of all the width of the pitch, from one side to the other.

witch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person who practices witchcraft; a woman or man who practices witchcraft.
  2. An ugly or unpleasant woman.
  3. One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
  4. One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
  5. A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
  6. The stormy petrel.
  7. Any of a number of flatfish:
  8. The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.
verb
  1. To practise witchcraft.
  2. To bewitch.
  3. To dowse for water.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.

with

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
preposition
  1. Against.
  2. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
  3. In addition to; as an accessory to.
  4. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
  5. In support of.
  6. In regard to.
  7. To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
  8. Using as an instrument; by means of.
  9. Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
  10. Having, owning.
  11. Affected by (a certain emotion or condition).
  12. Prompted by (a certain emotion).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
  2. A band of twisted twigs.
  3. An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.
  4. An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
  5. A partition between flues in a chimney.