Thursday, August 22, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 213

Number of Answers: 42

Points Needed for Genius: 149

Genius requires between 20 and 36 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 81% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 213 was in the 72nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on August 21, 2024.
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 59th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on August 21, 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.
The last time this happened was on August 21, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.6.
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
  • baba 96
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • poop 96
  • 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
  • epee 88
  • peep 88
  • array 87


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 89,506 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,205 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*:

  • deuced
  • duce
  • duded
  • dudeen
  • duende
  • dunch
  • heuch
  • huck
  • hunh
  • kuchen
  • kune
  • neuk
  • unde
  • undecked
  • undee
  • unended
  • unkend
  • unkenned

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

chuck

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
  2. Food.
  3. A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
verb
  1. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
  2. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A chicken, a hen.
  2. A clucking sound.
  3. A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
verb
  1. To make a clucking sound.
  2. To call, as a hen her chickens.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A gentle touch or tap.
  2. A casual throw.
  3. A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
  4. An act or instance of vomiting.
  5. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
verb
  1. To touch or tap gently.
  2. To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
  3. To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
  4. To discard, to throw away.
  5. To jilt; to dump.
  6. To vomit.
  7. To leave; to depart; to bounce.
  8. To chuckle; to laugh.
  9. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A small pebble.
  2. (in the plural) Money.

chucked

verb
  1. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
  2. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
verb
  1. To make a clucking sound.
  2. To call, as a hen her chickens.
verb
  1. To touch or tap gently.
  2. To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
  3. To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
  4. To discard, to throw away.
  5. To jilt; to dump.
  6. To vomit.
  7. To leave; to depart; to bounce.
  8. To chuckle; to laugh.
  9. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

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

verb
  1. To break into large pieces or chunks.
  2. To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
  3. To throw.

cued

No Definition Found.

cuke

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A cucumber.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cucoloris.

deduce

verb
  1. To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
  2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
  3. (Latinism) To lead forth.

deduced

verb
  1. To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
  2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
  3. (Latinism) To lead forth.

denude

verb
  1. To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.

denuded

verb
  1. To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.
adjective
  1. Exposed by erosion

deuce

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
  2. A side of a die with two spots.
  3. A cast of dice totalling two.
  4. The number two.
  5. A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
  6. A curveball.
  7. A '32 Ford.
  8. (in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
  9. (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
  10. A piece of excrement.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

duck

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
  2. To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
  3. To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
  4. To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
  5. To bow.
  6. To evade doing something.
  7. To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
  8. To enter a place for a short moment.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
  2. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
  3. The flesh of a duck used as food.
  4. A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
  5. A playing card with the rank of two.
  6. A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
  7. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
  8. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
  9. A cairn used to mark a trail.
  10. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
  11. A long-necked medical urinal for men.
noun
  1. A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient or disabled.
  2. An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office.
  3. A person who cannot fulfill their contracts.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
  2. (in plural) Trousers made of such material.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
  2. Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

ducked

verb
  1. To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
  2. To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
  3. To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
  4. To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
  5. To bow.
  6. To evade doing something.
  7. To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
  8. To enter a place for a short moment.

dude

noun
  1. A man, generally a younger man.
  2. (used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning him or offering him advice.
  3. An inexperienced cowboy.
  4. A tourist.
  5. A man who is very concerned about his dress and appearance; a dandy, a fop.
verb
  1. To address someone as dude.
  2. To take a vacation in a dude ranch.
  3. Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes.
interjection
  1. A term of address, usually for a man, conveying awe, excitement, surprise, etc.

duke

noun
  1. The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
  2. The sovereign of a small state.
  3. A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
  4. A grand duke.
  5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
  6. (usually in the plural) A fist.
verb
  1. To hit or beat with the fists.
  2. To give cash to; to give a tip to.

duked

No Definition Found.

dunce

noun
  1. An unintelligent person.

dune

noun
  1. A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind.

dunk

No Definition Found.

dunked

No Definition Found.

dunned

verb
  1. To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
  2. To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
verb
  1. To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.

educe

noun
  1. An inference.
verb
  1. To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
  2. To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises.
  3. To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
  4. To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.
  5. To cause or generate; to bring about.

educed

verb
  1. To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
  2. To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises.
  3. To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
  4. To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.
  5. To cause or generate; to bring about.
adjective
  1. Evoked
  2. Deduced

endue

verb
  1. To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.
  2. To take on, to take the form of.
  3. To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something).
  4. To invest (someone) with a given quality, property etc.; to endow.

endued

verb
  1. To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.
  2. To take on, to take the form of.
  3. To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something).
  4. To invest (someone) with a given quality, property etc.; to endow.

eunuch

noun
  1. A castrated human male.
  2. Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials.
  3. (in translations of ancient texts) A man who is not inclined to marry and procreate.

hued

adjective
  1. Coloured; having a hue.

hunch

noun
  1. A hump; a protuberance.
  2. A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
  3. A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
  4. A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
  5. A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
verb
  1. To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
  2. To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
  3. To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
  4. To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
  5. To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
  6. To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.

hunched

verb
  1. To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
  2. To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
  3. To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
  4. To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
  5. To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
  6. To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.

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.

kudu

noun
  1. A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (the lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (the greater kudu).

nude

noun
  1. A painting, sculpture, photograph or other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress.
  2. (with article, "the nude") The state of total nudity.
  3. A color that resembles or evokes bare flesh; a paint, dye, etc. of such color.
adjective
  1. Without clothing or other covering of the skin; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.
  2. Characterized by the nudity of people concerned or to whom the described noun is attributed.
  3. (of clothing, makeup, etc) Of a color (such as beige or tan) that evokes bare flesh.
  4. Not valid; void.

nuke

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A nuclear weapon.
  2. (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
  3. A nuclear power station.
  4. A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
  5. A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
  6. A microwave oven.
verb
  1. To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
  2. To destroy or erase completely.
  3. (by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
  4. To expose to some form of radiation.
  5. To cook in a microwave oven.
  6. To over-analyze or overly despair over something.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The spinal cord.
  2. The back of the neck, the nape; of an animal: the back of the head or the portion of the body behind the head.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.
  2. A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat.
  3. A recess, cove or hollow.
  4. An English unit of land area, originally 1/4 of a yardland but later 12 1/2 or 20 acres.
  5. A corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land.

nuked

verb
  1. To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
  2. To destroy or erase completely.
  3. (by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
  4. To expose to some form of radiation.
  5. To cook in a microwave oven.
  6. To over-analyze or overly despair over something.

nunchuk

No Definition Found.

unceded

No Definition Found.

unchecked

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Unrestrained, not held back.
  2. Not examined for accuracy, efficiency, etc.
  3. Of a check box: not checked (ticked or enabled).
  4. (crossword puzzles) Of a square: part of only one entry (that is, across or down, but not both).

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To remove a checkmark.
  2. (travel) To remove a previously checked-in passenger from the check-in system, allowing changes to the ticket.

undue

adjective
  1. Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.
  2. That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified.
  3. (of a payment etc) Not owing or payable.

unheeded

adjective
  1. Not heeded; not listened to; ignored
  2. (of advice) not followed.

unneeded

adjective
  1. Not needed.

nunchuck

No Definition Found.

uncheck

verb
  1. To remove a checkmark.
  2. (travel) To remove a previously checked-in passenger from the check-in system, allowing changes to the ticket.