Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 150

Number of Answers: 34

Points Needed for Genius: 105

Genius requires between 14 and 30 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 88% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 62% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

The button below will reveal a chart with the number of words by each letter. Red bars indicate that there is a pangram(s) starting with that letter.


How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 150 was in the 38th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 21, 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 August 21, 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 August 25, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 249
  • loll 228
  • toot 221
  • nana 208
  • naan 208
  • tilt 160
  • till 160
  • nene 160
  • mamma 160
  • mama 160
  • lilt 160
  • tint 158
  • onion 153
  • acai 151
  • acacia 151
  • toon 149
  • onto 149
  • olio 140
  • anon 140
  • anal 139
  • tact 130
  • dodo 130
  • papa 129
  • mitt 129
  • baba 129
  • lulu 126
  • lull 126
  • loon 124
  • booboo 123
  • boob 123
  • poop 122
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • cocci 121
  • moon 120
  • mono 120
  • tartar 119
  • tart 119
  • ratatat 119
  • tattoo 118
  • attar 118
  • tutu 116
  • cancan 115
  • aria 115
  • momma 114
  • meme 114
  • ammo 114
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • natant 113


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 122,305 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,127 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*:

  • cheeked
  • huck
  • keck
  • kecked
  • keek
  • keeked
  • kench
  • kenned
  • kuchen
  • kune
  • neuk
  • undecked
  • unkend
  • unkenned

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

check

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checked

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cheek

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chuck

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chucked

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chunk

noun
  1. A part of something that has been separated.
  2. A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
  3. A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
  4. A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
  5. A segment of a comedian's performance
verb
  1. To break into large pieces or chunks.
  2. To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
  3. To throw.

chunked

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cuke

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deck

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decked

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deke

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deked

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duck

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ducked

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duke

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duked

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dunk

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dunked

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eked

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heck

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Hell.
interjection
  1. Hell.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The bolt or latch of a door.
  2. A rack for cattle to feed at.
  3. A door, especially one partly of latticework.
  4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  5. An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
  6. A bend or winding of a stream.

hunk

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A large or dense piece of something.
  2. A sexually attractive boy or man, especially one who is muscular.
  3. A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
  4. A honyock.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A goal or base in children's games.

keen

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keened

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knee

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kneed

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kudu

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neck

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necked

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nuke

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nuked

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nunchuk

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unchecked

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nunchuck

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uncheck

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