Monday, August 19, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 172

Number of Answers: 40

Points Needed for Genius: 120

Genius requires between 19 and 34 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 76% 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 172 was in the 54th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on August 17, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 40 possible answers rank it in the 54th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on August 16, 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on August 18, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
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 177
  • loll 172
  • toot 163
  • naan 158
  • nana 158
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 119
  • mama 114
  • mamma 114
  • nene 109
  • acacia 108
  • acai 108
  • anal 105
  • onto 105
  • toon 105
  • boob 102
  • booboo 102
  • anon 101
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • onion 101
  • olio 100
  • papa 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • baba 95
  • poop 95
  • dodo 94
  • mitt 94
  • tatty 94
  • allay 93
  • ally 93
  • ratatat 92
  • tart 92
  • tartar 92
  • attar 91
  • tact 91
  • nanny 90
  • cocci 89
  • loon 89
  • mono 89
  • moon 89
  • radar 89
  • tattoo 89
  • tutu 89
  • array 87
  • epee 87
  • peep 87


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 89,390 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,198 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*:

  • aphtha
  • arthropathy
  • ayah
  • haar
  • haha
  • haphtara
  • haphtarah
  • haphtarot
  • haphtaroth
  • hoopoo
  • hooty
  • horah
  • horary
  • hotty
  • hoya
  • hypha
  • opah
  • ortho
  • paraph
  • phot
  • phpht
  • phratry
  • porphyry
  • prototroph
  • prototrophy
  • pyrohy
  • rath
  • rayah
  • rhyta
  • tahr
  • tathata
  • thoro
  • thorp
  • thro
  • toph
  • toroth

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

ahoy

noun
  1. An utterance of this interjection.
verb
  1. To hail with a cry of "ahoy".
interjection
  1. Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
  2. Warning of something approaching or impending.

apathy

noun
  1. Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).

arhat

noun
  1. One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.
  2. One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta.

atrophy

noun
  1. A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.
verb
  1. To wither or waste away.
  2. To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

happy

noun
  1. A happy event, thing, person, etc.
noun
  1. Preceded by the: happy people as a group.
verb
  1. Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
  2. Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
adjective
  1. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
  2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
  3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
  4. (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
  5. (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
  6. (of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.

harp

noun
  1. A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
  2. A harmonica.
  3. A grain sieve.
verb
  1. (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject.
  2. To play on (a harp or similar instrument)
  3. To play (a tune) on the harp.
  4. To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

harpy

noun
  1. A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture.
  2. A shrewish woman.
  3. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
  4. The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
  5. A large and powerful double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Harpia harpyja).

harry

verb
  1. To plunder, pillage, assault.
  2. To make repeated attacks on an enemy.
  3. To strip, lay waste, ravage.
  4. To harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.

hart

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
  2. A red deer or one of related species.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
  2. Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
  3. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
  4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
  5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
  6. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
  7. Personality, disposition.
  8. A wight or being.
  9. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.
  10. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
  11. The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
  12. The centre, essence, or core.

hath

verb
  1. To possess, own.
  2. To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
  3. Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
  4. To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
  5. To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
  6. To experience, go through, undergo.
  7. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
  8. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
  9. Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
  10. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
  11. To give birth to.
  12. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
  13. To accept as a romantic partner.
  14. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
  15. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
  16. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
  17. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
  18. To defeat in a fight; take.
  19. (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
  20. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
  21. To trick, to deceive.
  22. (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
  23. (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
  24. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
  25. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
  26. (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
  27. To make an observation of (a bird species).

hoar

noun
  1. A white or greyish-white colour.
  2. Hoariness; antiquity.
verb
  1. To become mouldy or musty.
adjective
  1. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
  2. Hoarily bearded.
  3. Musty; mouldy; stale.

hoary

adjective
  1. White, whitish, or greyish-white.
  2. White or grey with age.
  3. Of a pale silvery grey.
  4. Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.
  5. Remote in time past.
  6. Moldy; mossy; musty.
  7. Old or old-fashioned.

hoop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
  2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
  3. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
  4. A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
  5. A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
  6. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
  7. The rim part of a basketball net.
  8. (in plural, metonym) The game of basketball.
  9. A hoop earring.
  10. (metonym) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.
  11. (usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey
  12. (usually in the plural) A requirement that must be met in order to proceed.
verb
  1. To bind or fasten using a hoop.
  2. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  2. The hoopoe.
verb
  1. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
  2. To whoop, as in whooping cough.

hoorah

No Definition Found.

hooray

noun
  1. A shout to signify victory.
  2. An expression of excitement.
verb
  1. To shout an expression of excitement.
interjection
  1. Used to express approval, joy or victory.

hoot

noun
  1. A derisive cry or shout.
  2. The cry of an owl.
  3. A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
  4. A small particle.
verb
  1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
  2. To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.
  3. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
  4. To sound the horn of a vehicle

hoppy

No Definition Found.

hora

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods.

horror

noun
  1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
  2. Something horrible; that which excites horror.
  3. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  4. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
  5. An individual work in this genre.
  6. A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
  7. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
  8. (plural) Delirium tremens.

hortatory

noun
  1. Exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement.
  2. That which exhorts, incites, or encourages.
adjective
  1. Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging.

hotpot

noun
  1. A stew of beef or lamb and potatoes.
  2. A communal meal, popular in China, where diners share a bowl of hot broth or stock into which uncooked foods such as mushrooms, vegetables, and cuts of meat are dipped until they are cooked enough to be eaten.
  3. A jacuzzi or hot tub.

hypo

noun
  1. Melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression.
  2. A hypochondriac.
  3. Sodium thiosulphate, a photographic fixing agent.
  4. A hypoglycaemia attack in a person with diabetes.
  5. The substance sodium hyposulfite.
  6. A hypodermic syringe.
  7. Hypothecation.
  8. (in the study of law) A hypothetical case.
  9. A hypomelanistic snake.

oath

noun
  1. A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
  2. A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
  3. A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
  4. A curse, a curse word.
verb
  1. To pledge.

paratha

noun
  1. An Indian bread with a texture somewhat resembling puff pastry; sometimes stuffed with vegetables etc.

path

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
  2. A course taken.
  3. A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
  4. A metaphorical course.
  5. A method or direction of proceeding.
  6. A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
  7. A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
  8. A continuous map f from the unit interval I = [0,1] to a topological space X.
  9. A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
verb
  1. To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (abbreviation) Pathology.

pharaoh

noun
  1. The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the 'king' in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
  2. The card game faro.

phat

adjective
  1. (originally African American Vernacular English) Excellent; cool; very good.
  2. Sexy.
  3. Rich in texture; prominent.

photo

noun
  1. A photograph.
  2. A photo finish.
verb
  1. To take a photograph of.

pooh

noun
  1. Feces.
  2. A piece of feces or an act of defecation.
  3. Cannabis resin.
  4. Champagne.
verb
  1. To defecate.
  2. To dirty something with feces.
interjection
  1. Expressing annoyance, frustration, etc.: a minced oath for 'shit'.
noun
  1. Short for shampoo.
noun
  1. An instance of saying "pooh".
verb
  1. To say "pooh".
  2. To say "pooh" to.
interjection
  1. Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.
  2. Expressing disgust at an unpleasant smell.

that

noun
  1. Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
adverb
  1. (degree) To a given extent or degree.
  2. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
  3. To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
pronoun
  1. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
  2. The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
  3. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
  4. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
  5. Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
conjunction
  1. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
  2. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
  3. Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
  4. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
  5. Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
  6. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
  7. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
  8. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.

throat

noun
  1. The front part of the neck.
  2. The gullet or windpipe.
  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
  4. Station throat.
  5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
  6. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  7. That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
  8. The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
  9. The inside of a timber knee.
  10. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
verb
  1. To utter in or with the throat.
  2. To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
  3. To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

throaty

adjective
  1. (of a sound) Produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.
  2. (of livestock or dogs) Having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck.

tooth

noun
  1. A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  2. A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  3. A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
  4. A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
  5. A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  6. The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
  7. Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
  8. An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
verb
  1. To provide or furnish with teeth.
  2. To indent; to jag.
  3. To lock into each other, like gear wheels.

toothy

adjective
  1. Having prominent teeth

torah

No Definition Found.

trophy

noun
  1. Tropæum.
  2. An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement.
  3. An object taken as a prize by a hunter or conqueror, especially one that is displayed.
  4. Any emblem of success; a status symbol.
  5. (by extension) An object taken by a serial killer or rapist as a memento of the crime.
  6. A display of weaponry and other militaria, often captured from a defeated enemy, as an ornament designed for the purpose of triumphalist display by a victor or as a show of military prowess by a monarch.

troth

noun
  1. An oath, pledge, or promise.
  2. Truth; something true.
verb
  1. To pledge to marry somebody.

yahoo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
  2. A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To give a cry of "yahoo".
  2. To search using the Yahoo! search engine.
interjection
  1. An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
  2. A battle cry.

yoohoo

No Definition Found.

hatha

No Definition Found.