Thursday, November 05, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 249

Number of Answers: 42

Points Needed for Genius: 174

Genius requires between 23 and 34 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 74% 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 249 was in the 80th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 04, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 42 possible answers rank it in the 55th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 04, 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 November 04, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.3.
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 251
  • loll 230
  • toot 225
  • nana 216
  • naan 216
  • tilt 166
  • till 166
  • lilt 166
  • nene 164
  • mamma 164
  • mama 164
  • tint 163
  • acai 157
  • acacia 157
  • onion 156
  • toon 152
  • onto 152
  • olio 142
  • anon 142
  • anal 142
  • tact 133
  • papa 133
  • baba 132
  • mitt 131
  • dodo 131
  • lulu 127
  • lull 127
  • poop 126
  • booboo 126
  • boob 126
  • loon 124
  • calla 124
  • call 124
  • cocci 123
  • tattoo 121
  • moon 121
  • mono 121
  • tartar 120
  • tart 120
  • ratatat 120
  • cancan 120
  • natant 119
  • attar 119
  • tutu 117
  • momma 116
  • aria 116
  • ammo 116
  • ally 116
  • allay 116
  • roar 115


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 125,628 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,175 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*:

  • gipon
  • gipping
  • nonpoint
  • oping
  • piggin
  • piing
  • pingo
  • pinon
  • pion
  • pipping
  • pitot
  • pogonip
  • ponging
  • pongo
  • ponton
  • pontooning
  • pooing
  • poon
  • potto
  • tinpot
  • topi
  • topo
  • topoi

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

goop

noun
  1. (usually uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo.
  2. A silly, stupid, or boorish person.

nipping

verb
  1. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
  2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
  3. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  4. To annoy, as by nipping.
  5. To taunt.
  6. To squeeze or pinch.
  7. To steal; especially to cut a purse.
verb
  1. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
noun
  1. The act or sensation of giving a nip.

opining

verb
  1. To have or express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).
  2. To give one's formal opinion (on or upon something).
noun
  1. The act of giving one's opinion.

opinion

noun
  1. A subjective belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed about a topic, issue, person or thing.
  2. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
  3. Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
  4. Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
  5. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
  6. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible
verb
  1. To have or express as an opinion.

opting

verb
  1. To choose; select.

option

noun
  1. One of a set of choices that can be made.
  2. The freedom or right to choose.
  3. A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
verb
  1. To purchase an option on something.
  2. To configure, by setting an option.

optioning

No Definition Found.

pigging

No Definition Found.

ping

noun
  1. A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  2. (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
  3. A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
  4. An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
  5. Latency.
  6. A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
  7. (WMF jargon) A notification.
verb
  1. To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  2. (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
  3. To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
  4. (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
  5. To flick.
  6. To bounce.
  7. To cause something to bounce.
  8. To call out audibly.
  9. To penalize.

pinging

No Definition Found.

pining

verb
  1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
  2. To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
  3. To grieve or mourn for.
  4. To inflict pain upon; to torment.
noun
  1. The act of one who pines.

pinion

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A wing.
  2. The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
  3. Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
  4. A moth of the genus Lithophane.
  5. A fetter for the arm.
verb
  1. To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
  2. To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
  3. (transferred sense) To restrain; to limit.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The smallest gear in a gear train.

pinioning

No Definition Found.

pinning

No Definition Found.

pinot

No Definition Found.

pinpoint

No Definition Found.

pinpointing

verb
  1. To identify or locate precisely or with great accuracy.

pint

noun
  1. A unit of volume, equivalent to:
  2. (metonym) A pint of milk.
  3. (metonymy) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.

pinto

noun
  1. A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.
adjective
  1. Pied, mottled.

piping

verb
  1. To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
  2. To shout loudly and at high pitch.
  3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  4. Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
  5. To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
  6. To install or configure with pipes.
  7. To dab moisture away from.
  8. To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
  9. To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (pipe) at the command line.
  10. To create or decorate with piping (icing).
  11. To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
  12. (of a male) To have sexual intercourse with a female.
  13. To see.
noun
  1. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
  2. The sound of musical pipes.
  3. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
  4. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
  5. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
  6. Icing extruded from a piping bag.
  7. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
  8. Propagation by cuttings
adjective
  1. High-pitched.

pipit

No Definition Found.

pippin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A seed

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red
  2. Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties
  3. An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted)

piton

noun
  1. A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber).
verb
  1. To put pitons into a rock/ice to facilitate climbing.

pitting

verb
  1. To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
  2. To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
  3. To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
  4. To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
verb
  1. To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
noun
  1. The formation of pits on a surface because of corrosion.
  2. The digging of a pit.

pivot

noun
  1. A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
  2. (by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
  3. Act of turning on one foot.
  4. The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
  5. A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
  6. An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
  7. A pivot table.
  8. Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
  9. An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
  10. A quarterback.
  11. A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
verb
  1. To turn on an exact spot.
  2. To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.

pivoting

verb
  1. To turn on an exact spot.
  2. To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.
noun
  1. A motion by which something pivots.
  2. The pivot-work in a machine.

pogo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A dance associated with the 1970s punk rock movement in which participants jump up and down on the spot in the manner of someone riding a pogo stick.
  2. The act of lifting the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jumping up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
verb
  1. To use a pogo stick.
  2. To dance the pogo.
  3. To lift the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jump up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
  4. To move rapidly up and down like a pogo stick.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A corndog on a stick.

pogoing

verb
  1. To use a pogo stick.
  2. To dance the pogo.
  3. To lift the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jump up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
  4. To move rapidly up and down like a pogo stick.

point

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A discrete division of something.
  2. A sharp extremity.
  3. One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
  4. A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
  5. A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
  6. Lace worked by the needle.
  7. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
  8. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
  9. The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
  10. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
  11. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
  12. A vaccine point.
  13. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
  2. To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
  3. To face in a particular direction.
  4. (sometimes figurative) To direct toward an object; to aim.
  5. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
  6. To indicate a probability of something.
  7. To repair mortar.
  8. To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
  9. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
  10. To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
  11. To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
  12. To mark with diacritics.
  13. To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
  14. To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
  15. To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
  16. To sail close to the wind.
  17. To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
  18. (of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
  19. To give point to (something said or done); to give particular prominence or force to.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To appoint.

pointing

verb
  1. To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
  2. To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
  3. To face in a particular direction.
  4. (sometimes figurative) To direct toward an object; to aim.
  5. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
  6. To indicate a probability of something.
  7. To repair mortar.
  8. To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
  9. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
  10. To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
  11. To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
  12. To mark with diacritics.
  13. To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
  14. To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
  15. To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
  16. To sail close to the wind.
  17. To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
  18. (of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
  19. To give point to (something said or done); to give particular prominence or force to.
verb
  1. To appoint.
noun
  1. The action of the verb to point.
  2. (usually singular or collective, sometimes proscribed) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to hold them together.
  3. The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
  4. The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
  5. The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.

pong

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A stench, a bad smell.
verb
  1. To stink, to smell bad.
  2. To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A set of three identical tiles.

pontoon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge.
  2. A floating structure supporting a bridge or dock.
  3. A box used to raise a sunken vessel.
  4. A float of a seaplane.
  5. A lighter or barge used for loading or unloading ships.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.

poop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Fecal matter, feces.
  2. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch.
verb
  1. To make a short blast on a horn
  2. To break wind.
  3. To defecate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stern of a ship.
  2. The poop deck.
verb
  1. To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
  2. To embark a ship over the stern.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A slothful person.

pooping

verb
  1. To make a short blast on a horn
  2. To break wind.
  3. To defecate.
verb
  1. To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.
verb
  1. To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
  2. To embark a ship over the stern.
noun
  1. The act of a wave (or other vessel) striking the stern of a vessel.

popping

verb
  1. To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
  2. To burst (something) with a popping sound.
  3. (with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart.
  4. To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.
  5. (often with over, round, along, etc.) To make a short trip or visit.
  6. To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.
  7. To hit (something or someone).
  8. To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
  9. To ejaculate.
  10. To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
  11. To remove a data item from the top of (a stack).
  12. To pawn (something) (to raise money).
  13. To swallow or consume (especially a tablet of a drug, sometimes extended to other small items such as sweets or candy).
  14. To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
  15. (of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
noun
  1. The act or sound of something that pops.
  2. A funk dance.

potion

noun
  1. A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.
verb
  1. To drug.

potting

verb
  1. To put (something) into a pot.
  2. To preserve by bottling or canning.
  3. To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  4. To be capable of being potted.
  5. To shoot with a firearm.
  6. To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
  7. To secure; gain; win; bag.
  8. To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
  9. To tipple; to drink.
  10. To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
  11. To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
  12. To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
noun
  1. The placing of something in a pot.

tipi

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee

tipping

verb
  1. To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
verb
  1. (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
  2. (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
  3. To drink.
  4. To dump (refuse).
  5. To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
  6. To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
verb
  1. To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
verb
  1. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
  2. To give, pass.
verb
  1. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
noun
  1. The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
  2. The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
  3. The dumping of rubbish.
  4. A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.

tiptop

noun
  1. The very topmost point.
  2. The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.
adverb
  1. Excellently; in a first-rate manner.

toping

verb
  1. To drink excessively; to get drunk.

topping

verb
  1. To cover on the top or with a top.
  2. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
  3. To excel, to surpass, to beat.
  4. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
  5. To commit suicide.
  6. To murder.
  7. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
  8. (gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
  9. (gay sexuality) To anally penetrate.
  10. To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
  11. To predominate.
  12. To excel; to rise above others.
  13. To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
  14. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
  15. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
  16. To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
  17. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
  18. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
  19. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
  20. To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
noun
  1. Any food item added on top of another, such as sprinkles on ice cream or pepperoni on pizza.
  2. The act of cutting off the top of something.
  3. The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.
  4. Either of the cables that support the ends of a spar or boom.
  5. The tail of an artificial fly.
adjective
  1. Wonderful
  2. Assuming superiority; proud.