Saturday, April 18, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 104

Number of Answers: 30

Points Needed for Genius: 73

Genius requires between 11 and 27 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 82% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 104 was in the 14th 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 30 possible answers rank it in the 24th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on April 13, 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on April 06, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.8.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 238
  • loll 217
  • toot 214
  • nana 197
  • naan 197
  • nene 156
  • tilt 154
  • till 154
  • lilt 154
  • mamma 150
  • mama 150
  • tint 149
  • toon 144
  • onto 144
  • onion 144
  • acai 141
  • acacia 141
  • anon 133
  • anal 132
  • olio 128
  • papa 125
  • baba 125
  • tact 124
  • lulu 124
  • lull 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
  • aria 109
  • roar 108


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 116,570 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,962 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
  • ackee
  • acock
  • bacca
  • baccae
  • bemock
  • boocoo
  • cabob
  • cabomba
  • caca
  • caeca
  • caeoma
  • ceca
  • cobb
  • coco
  • comae
  • comake
  • combe
  • comm
  • commo
  • coocoo
  • cooee
  • coomb
  • coombe
  • kebbock
  • keck
  • macaco
  • mack
  • mammock

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

aback

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. Towards the back or rear; backwards.
  2. In the rear; a distance behind.
  3. By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)
  4. Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An abacus.

acme

noun
  1. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
  2. The crisis or height of a disease.
  3. Mature age; full bloom of life.

back

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
  2. That which is farthest away from the front.
  3. Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
  4. A support or resource in reserve.
  5. The keel and keelson of a ship.
  6. The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
  7. Effort, usually physical.
  8. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
  9. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
verb
  1. To go in the reverse direction.
  2. To support.
  3. (of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
  4. (of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
  5. (of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
  6. (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
  7. To push or force backwards.
  8. To get upon the back of; to mount.
  9. To place or seat upon the back.
  10. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
  11. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
  12. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
  13. (of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
  14. To row backward with (oars).
adjective
  1. Near the rear.
  2. Not current.
  3. Far from the main area.
  4. In arrear; overdue.
  5. Moving or operating backward.
  6. Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
adverb
  1. To or in a previous condition or place.
  2. Away from the front or from an edge.
  3. In a manner that impedes.
  4. In a reciprocal manner; in return.
  5. Earlier, ago.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
  2. A ferryboat.

backcomb

noun
  1. The hairstyle produced by backcombing.
  2. A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
verb
  1. To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look; tease.

became

verb
  1. To arrive, come (to a place).
  2. To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
  3. Begin to be; turn into.
  4. To be proper for; to beseem.
  5. Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

beck

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A stream or small river.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
verb
  1. To nod or motion with the head.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A vat.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Anatomical uses.
  2. Figurative uses.
  3. Colloquial uses.

become

verb
  1. To arrive, come (to a place).
  2. To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
  3. Begin to be; turn into.
  4. To be proper for; to beseem.
  5. Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

bocce

noun
  1. A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court
  2. One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce.

bock

noun
  1. A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.

cacao

noun
  1. A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
  2. This tree's seed, the cocoa bean.

cake

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
  2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
  3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
  4. A block of any of various dense materials.
  5. A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
  6. Money.
  7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
  8. A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
verb
  1. Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
  2. To form into a cake, or mass.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cackle like a goose.

came

Etymology 1

preposition
  1. Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
verb
  1. To move from further away to nearer to.
  2. To arrive.
  3. To appear, to manifest itself.
  4. (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
  5. (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
  6. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
  7. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  8. (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
  9. (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  10. (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
  11. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  12. To carry through; to succeed in.
  13. Happen.
  14. (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
  15. (of grain) To germinate.
  16. To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
verb
  1. To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
  2. To ejaculate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.

cameo

noun
  1. A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
  2. A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.
verb
  1. To appear in a cameo role.

camo

noun
  1. A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
  2. Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
verb
  1. To camouflage.
  2. To put on camouflage clothing.

coca

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
  2. The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Spanish Mediterranean coast.

cock

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A male bird, especially:
  2. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
  3. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
  4. The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
  5. The penis.
  6. The circle at the end of the rink.
  7. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
  8. A stupid person.
  9. Nonsense; rubbish.
  10. (Tasmania) Term of address.
  11. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
  12. Shuttlecock
  13. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
  14. A chief man; a leader or master.
  15. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
  16. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
  17. The style or gnomon of a sundial.
  18. The indicator of a balance.
  19. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
verb
  1. To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
  2. To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
  3. To erect; to turn up.
  4. To copulate with.
  5. To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
  6. To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
  7. To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
  8. To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (of children)
interjection
  1. Expression of annoyance.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small conical pile of hay.
verb
  1. To form into piles.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.

Etymology 5

proper noun
  1. A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

cocoa

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
  2. An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
  3. A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
  4. A serving of this drink.
  5. A light to medium brown colour.
adjective
  1. Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Coconut palm.
  2. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.

coke

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
verb
  1. To produce coke from coal.
  2. To turn into coke.
  3. To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Cocaine.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Cola-based soft drink.
  2. A bottle, glass or can of a cola-based soft drink.
  3. Any soft drink, regardless of type.

coma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
  2. A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
  3. A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

comb

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
  2. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
  3. A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
  4. A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
  5. An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
  6. The top part of a gun’s stock.
  7. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
  8. The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
  9. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
  10. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
  11. The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
  12. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
  13. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
  14. The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
  15. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
  16. A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
  17. A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
verb
  1. (especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb.
  2. To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
  3. To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
  4. To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (abbreviation) Combination.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A valley, often wooded and often with no river
  2. A cirque.

combo

noun
  1. A small musical group.
  2. A combination.
  3. An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game.
  4. A Caucasian man who marries or has a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman; a Caucasian man who lives among Aboriginal people and adopts Aboriginal culture
  5. A combo box.

come

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Coming, arrival; approach.
  2. Semen
  3. Female ejaculatory discharge.
verb
  1. To move from further away to nearer to.
  2. To arrive.
  3. To appear, to manifest itself.
  4. (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
  5. (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
  6. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
  7. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  8. (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
  9. (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  10. (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
  11. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  12. To carry through; to succeed in.
  13. Happen.
  14. (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
  15. (of grain) To germinate.
  16. To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
preposition
  1. Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
interjection
  1. An exclamation to express annoyance.
  2. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.

comeback

noun
  1. A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity.
  2. A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
  3. An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points to win or draw.

comma

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.
verb
  1. To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

cook

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person who prepares food.
  2. The head cook of a manor house
  3. The degree or quality of cookedness of food
  4. One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  5. A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  6. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  2. To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  3. To be cooked.
  4. To be uncomfortably hot.
  5. To execute by electric chair.
  6. To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
  7. To concoct or prepare.
  8. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
  9. To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
  10. To play music vigorously.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To throw.

cookbook

noun
  1. A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
  2. (by extension) Any book of strategies.

emcee

noun
  1. A rapper.
  2. Initialism of main colour.
  3. Initialism of matching colour.
  4. Initialism of movie clip.
  5. Initialism of mail code.
  6. Initialism of main character.
  7. Initialism of military cross.
  8. Initialism of Member of Congress.
  9. Initialism of medical college.
  10. Initialism of Mars-crosser.
  11. Initialism of medium coeli, the midheaven or highest point in the sky. Contrasted to Imum Coeli.
noun
  1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  2. (by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
  3. A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
  4. A group practice of several physicians.
  5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  7. A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  8. One confined to bed by sickness.
  9. One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
verb
  1. To act as the master of ceremonies (for).
  2. To rap as part of a hip-hop performance.
noun
  1. A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.
  2. A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
  3. A place of lodging.
noun
  1. Someone who acts as a host at a formal event.
  2. Someone who conducts a programme of varied entertainment, for example by introducing performers to the audience.
  3. A rapper.
noun
  1. Dichloromethane
noun
  1. A viral infection of the skin or (occasionally) mucous membranes, caused by Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), a DNA poxvirus.
noun
  1. A group of individuals whose primary interests and activities involve motorcycles.
noun
  1. A place used as a hospital on board a ship, on a spaceship (in science fiction).
  2. A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured in a school.

mace

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A heavy fighting club.
  2. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
  3. A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
  4. An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
  5. A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
  6. A billiard cue.
verb
  1. To hit someone or something with a mace.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
  2. An old weight of 57.98 grains.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
verb
  1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
  2. To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

mecca

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mock

noun
  1. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
  2. Mockery, the act of mocking.
  3. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
  4. A mockup or prototype.
verb
  1. To mimic, to simulate.
  2. To create an artistic representation of.
  3. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
  4. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
  5. To create a mockup or prototype of.
adjective
  1. Imitation, not genuine; fake.