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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 143

Number of Answers: 26

Points Needed for Genius: 100

Genius requires between 13 and 22 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 78% 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 143 was in the 35th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on March 27, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 26 possible answers rank it in the 14th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on March 24, 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 March 29, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.0.
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 235
  • loll 217
  • toot 212
  • nana 195
  • naan 195
  • nene 155
  • tilt 153
  • till 153
  • lilt 153
  • mamma 149
  • mama 149
  • tint 148
  • toon 142
  • onto 142
  • onion 142
  • acai 140
  • acacia 140
  • anon 131
  • anal 131
  • olio 128
  • papa 124
  • lulu 124
  • lull 124
  • baba 124
  • dodo 123
  • tact 122
  • poop 119
  • booboo 119
  • boob 119
  • moon 117
  • mono 117
  • mitt 117
  • cocci 117
  • calla 115
  • call 115
  • tartar 114
  • tart 114
  • ratatat 114
  • loon 114
  • attar 113
  • tutu 112
  • tattoo 112
  • ally 111
  • allay 111
  • momma 110
  • ammo 110
  • tatty 109
  • meme 109
  • roar 108
  • aria 108


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 115,781 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,954 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*:

  • bimini
  • gimping
  • gummi
  • impi
  • imping
  • migg
  • minium
  • mugg
  • mumm
  • mumming
  • mump
  • mumping
  • mumu
  • muni
  • nimming
  • umming
  • ununbium
  • unununium

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

bumming

verb
  1. To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
verb
  1. To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
  2. To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
  3. To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
verb
  1. To depress; to make unhappy.
verb
  1. To make a murmuring or humming sound.

bump

noun
  1. A light blow or jolting collision.
  2. The sound of such a collision.
  3. A protuberance on a level surface.
  4. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
  5. One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (metonymically) the faculty itself
  6. The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
  7. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
  8. A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
  9. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
  10. A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
  11. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
  12. (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
  13. In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
  14. A coarse cotton fabric.
  15. A training match for a fighting dog.
  16. The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
  17. Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
verb
  1. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
  2. To move up or down by a step; displace.
  3. To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
  4. (of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
  5. To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
  6. To move the time of (a scheduled event).
  7. To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
  8. To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
  9. To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.

bumping

verb
  1. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
  2. To move up or down by a step; displace.
  3. To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
  4. (of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
  5. To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
  6. To move the time of (a scheduled event).
  7. To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
  8. To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
  9. To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
noun
  1. The sound or action of a bump.

gimp

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
  2. Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
  3. The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
  4. (chiefly North Eastern US) Gumption
verb
  1. (of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
  2. To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
  2. A crippled leg.
  3. A limp or a limping gait.
  4. A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar
  5. (BDSM) A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See Gimp (sadomasochism) in Wikipedia.
  6. A character or ability that is underpowered.
verb
  1. To limp; to hobble.
  2. To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. (Scotland and N England) Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.

gumming

verb
  1. To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
  2. To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
verb
  1. (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
  2. To stiffen with glue or gum.
  3. (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
  4. (with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
noun
  1. The act of chewing without teeth.
  2. The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal.
  3. The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone.
  4. A disease marked by a discharge of gum, affecting stone fruit.

imbibing

verb
  1. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
  2. To take in; absorb.
noun
  1. The act by which something is imbibed.

imbuing

verb
  1. To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
  2. In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.

impinging

verb
  1. To make a physical impact on.
  2. To interfere with.
  3. To have an effect upon, especially a negative one.

impugn

verb
  1. To assault, attack.
  2. To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of.

impugning

verb
  1. To assault, attack.
  2. To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of.

miming

verb
  1. To mimic.
  2. To act without words.
  3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.
noun
  1. A performance in mime.

mini

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Miniature, tiny, small.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A miniskirt.
  2. A minicomputer.

minim

noun
  1. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
  3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
  5. The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
  7. A small fish; a minnow.
  8. A short poetical encomium.

minimum

noun
  1. The lowest limit.
  2. The smallest amount.
  3. A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
  4. A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
  5. The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
adjective
  1. To the lowest degree.

mining

verb
  1. To remove (ore) from the ground.
  2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
  3. To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
  4. To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
  5. To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
  6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
  7. (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
  8. To pick one's nose.
  9. To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
noun
  1. The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
  2. Any activity that extracts or undermines.
  3. The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode
  4. Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof-of-work

mugging

verb
  1. To strike in the face.
  2. To assault for the purpose of robbery.
  3. To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.
  4. To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.
  5. To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
noun
  1. A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place.

mung

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A type of small bean.
  2. The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or Phaseolus aureus.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
  2. (by extension) To harm, to damage; to destroy.

muumuu

noun
  1. A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches).

nimbi

noun
  1. A circle of light; a halo.
  2. A gray rain cloud.

numb

verb
  1. To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally).
  2. To cause (a feeling) to be less intense.
  3. To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute.
  4. To become numb (especially physically).
adjective
  1. Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation.
  2. Emotionally unable to feel or respond in a normal way.
  3. Causing numbness.

numbing

verb
  1. To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally).
  2. To cause (a feeling) to be less intense.
  3. To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute.
  4. To become numb (especially physically).
noun
  1. An act by which something is numbed.

pimp

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
  2. A man who can easily attract women.
verb
  1. To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  2. To prostitute someone.
  3. To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).
  4. To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
  5. To promote, to tout.
  6. To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
adjective
  1. Excellent, fashionable, stylish

Etymology 2

numeral
  1. Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

pimping

verb
  1. To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  2. To prostitute someone.
  3. To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).
  4. To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
  5. To promote, to tout.
  6. To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
noun
  1. The practise of procuring prostitutes.
  2. The process of modifying a vehicle (usually a car), predominantly focusing on its appearance and audiovisual system as opposed to performance.
adjective
  1. Little or petty.
  2. Puny; sickly
  3. Consisting of or having the qualities of a pimp.

pump

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
  2. An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
  3. A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
  4. A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
  5. A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
  6. The heart.
  7. (British slang) The vagina.
verb
  1. To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
  2. (often followed by up) To fill with air.
  3. To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
  4. To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
  5. To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
  6. To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
  7. To be going very well.
  8. To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.
  9. To pass gas; to fart.
  10. To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
  11. (British slang) To copulate.
  12. To weightlift.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker.
  2. A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)
  3. A dancing shoe.
  4. A type of shoe without a heel.

pumping

verb
  1. To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
  2. (often followed by up) To fill with air.
  3. To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
  4. To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
  5. To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
  6. To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
  7. To be going very well.
  8. To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.
  9. To pass gas; to fart.
  10. To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
  11. (British slang) To copulate.
  12. To weightlift.
noun
  1. The act by which something is pumped.

umping

verb
  1. To act as an umpire.