Sunday, March 10, 2024

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • defied
  • defile
  • defiled
  • deified
  • duff
  • duffel
  • duffle
  • edified
  • feed
  • feel
  • felid
  • fell
  • felled
  • feud
  • feuded
  • fiddle
  • fiddled
  • fief
  • field
  • fielded
  • fife
  • fifed
  • file
  • filed
  • fill
  • filled
  • fillip
  • fled
  • flee
  • flied
  • flip
  • flipped
  • flue
  • fluff
  • fluffed
  • fluid
  • fuddle
  • fuddled
  • fuel
  • fueled
  • fulfill
  • fulfilled
  • full
  • life
  • pelf
  • piffle
  • puff
  • puffed
  • upfield


Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 217

Number of Answers: 49

Points Needed for Genius: 152

Genius requires between 22 and 41 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.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 217 was in the 74th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on March 8, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 49 possible answers rank it in the 76th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on March 8, 2024.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 7-letter word for genius. This is pretty common.



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 166
  • loll 164
  • toot 151
  • naan 145
  • nana 145
  • lilt 124
  • till 124
  • tilt 124
  • tint 110
  • mama 106
  • mamma 106
  • nene 104
  • acacia 101
  • acai 101
  • onto 99
  • toon 99
  • anal 94
  • lull 94
  • lulu 94
  • olio 94
  • onion 94
  • poop 93
  • anon 92
  • boob 92
  • booboo 92
  • dodo 92
  • call 91
  • calla 91
  • papa 91
  • tatty 90
  • allay 89
  • ally 89
  • mitt 88
  • baba 87
  • radar 86
  • array 85
  • loon 85
  • nanny 85
  • ratatat 85
  • tart 85
  • tartar 85
  • attar 84
  • cocci 84
  • tact 84
  • epee 83
  • peep 83
  • nada 82
  • coot 81
  • mono 81
  • moon 81


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • defi
  • defuel
  • defueled
  • defuelled
  • delf
  • diff
  • duffed
  • feued
  • fille
  • filliped
  • fipple
  • flued
  • fuelled
  • fulfil
  • fulled
  • lief
  • lifeful
  • luff
  • luffed
  • pfui
  • piffled
  • pipeful

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