Monday, August 26, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 111

Number of Answers: 27

Points Needed for Genius: 78

Genius requires between 12 and 24 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 80% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 111 was in the 20th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 20, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 27 possible answers rank it in the 19th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 20, 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 24, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
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
  • acacia 109
  • acai 109
  • nene 109
  • anal 105
  • onto 105
  • toon 105
  • boob 103
  • booboo 103
  • anon 101
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • onion 101
  • olio 100
  • baba 97
  • papa 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • poop 96
  • allay 94
  • ally 94
  • dodo 94
  • mitt 94
  • tatty 94
  • ratatat 92
  • tart 92
  • tartar 92
  • attar 91
  • tact 91
  • cocci 90
  • nanny 90
  • 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 89,689 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,206 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*:

  • aalii
  • ahold
  • aldol
  • alidad
  • aliya
  • aliyah
  • allod
  • allodia
  • allodial
  • allyl
  • alodia
  • alodial
  • ayah
  • ayaya
  • dada
  • dado
  • dahl
  • dhal
  • doodah
  • hadal
  • haha
  • halala
  • halalah
  • halid
  • hallah
  • hallal
  • hallo
  • halloa
  • halloo
  • haloid
  • hila
  • hilloa
  • hodad
  • hodaddy
  • holdall
  • holla
  • holloa
  • holyday
  • hoya
  • hyaloid
  • hyla
  • hyoidal
  • ilia
  • iliad
  • ilial
  • laddy
  • ladhood
  • ladyhood
  • lahal
  • lall
  • odah
  • ohia
  • oidia
  • olla
  • yald

*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.

aioli

noun
  1. A type of sauce, similar to mayonnaise, made from garlic, egg, lemon juice and olive oil.

allay

noun
  1. Alleviation; abatement; check.
  2. An alloy.
verb
  1. To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
  2. To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
  3. To subside, abate, become peaceful.
  4. To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
  5. (by extension) To make worse by the introduction of inferior elements.

alloy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal.
  2. A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value.
  3. An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
  4. Fusion, marriage, combination.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To mix or combine; often used of metals.
  2. To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance.
  3. To impair or debase by mixture.

ally

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person, group, or state (etc) which is associated with another for a common cause; one united to another by treaty or common purpose; a confederate.
  2. A person, group, concept (etc) which is associated with another as a helper; a supporter; an auxiliary.
  3. Anything akin to something else by structure, etc.
  4. A closely related species, usually within the same family.
  5. A relative; a kinsman.
verb
  1. To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy.
  2. To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.
  2. The area between the outfielders.
  3. An establishment where bowling is played.
  4. An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
  5. The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
  6. A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
  7. A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
  8. (perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
  9. The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
noun
  1. A glass marble or taw.

aloha

noun
  1. Good wishes, love.
  2. An utterance of aloha (see Interjection, below).
interjection
  1. Expressing good wishes when greeting or parting from someone; hello; goodbye.

daddy

noun
  1. (usually childish) Father.
  2. A male lover.
  3. An informal term of address for a man.
  4. A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.
verb
  1. To father; to sire.

dahlia

noun
  1. Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

daily

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
verb
  1. To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks.
adjective
  1. That occurs every day, or at least every working day
  2. Diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. Quotidianly, every day
  2. Diurnally, by daylight

dally

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
  2. To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
  3. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
verb
  1. To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal

daylily

noun
  1. Any of several perennial plants, of the genus Hemerocallis, that have fleshy roots, grasslike leaves and colourful flowers that bloom for just one day.

dial

noun
  1. A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
  2. A clock face.
  3. A sundial.
  4. A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
  5. A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
  6. A person's face.
  7. A miner's compass.
verb
  1. To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
  2. To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
  3. To use a dial or a telephone.

dillydally

No Definition Found.

doodad

noun
  1. A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part.

dyad

noun
  1. A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
  2. Any set of two different pitch classes.
  3. A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation.
  4. An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.
  5. A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
  6. A tensor of order two and rank one.

hail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
verb
  1. Of hail, to fall from the sky.
  2. To send or release hail.
  3. To pour down in rapid succession.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To greet; give salutation to; salute.
  2. To name; to designate; to call.
  3. To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of
  4. To signal in order to initiate communication with.
adjective
  1. Healthy, whole, safe.

halal

verb
  1. To make halal.
adjective
  1. Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
  2. (of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.
adverb
  1. In a halal manner; in accordance with Muslim religious customs.

hall

noun
  1. A corridor; a hallway.
  2. A meeting room.
  3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
  4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
  5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  6. Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
  7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
  8. A living room.

halo

noun
  1. A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
  2. A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
  3. Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
  4. Nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
  5. The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
  6. (iconography) a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
  7. A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
  8. A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of a open cockpit racecar.
verb
  1. To encircle with a halo.

hiya

Etymology 1

interjection
  1. An informal greeting, hi, hello.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. A kiai, shouted as a limb is swung in attack.

holiday

noun
  1. A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.
  2. A day declared free from work by the state or government.
  3. A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.
  4. A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).
  5. A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made.
  6. A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.
verb
  1. To take a period of time away from work or study.
  2. To spend a period of time for travel.

lady

noun
  1. An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.
  2. A high priestess.
noun
  1. The mistress of a household.
  2. A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.
  3. The feminine of lord.
  4. A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.
  5. A title that can be used instead of the formal terms of marchioness, countess, viscountess or baroness.
  6. (polite or used by children) A woman: an adult female human.
  7. (in the plural) A polite reference or form of address to women.
  8. Used to address a female.
  9. (ladies' or ladies) Toilets intended for use by women.
  10. (familiar) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
  11. A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
  12. A queen (the playing card).
  13. (with a professional title) Who is a woman.
  14. The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster, consisting of calcareous plates; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.
  15. A five-pound note. (Rhyming slang, Lady Godiva for fiver.)
  16. A woman’s breast.

laid

adjective
  1. (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.
verb
  1. To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
  2. To cause to subside or abate.
  3. To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
  4. To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
  5. To produce and deposit an egg.
  6. To bet (that something is or is not the case).
  7. To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
  8. To have sex with.
  9. To take a position; to come or go.
  10. To state; to allege.
  11. To point; to aim.
  12. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
  13. To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
  14. To place (new type) properly in the cases.
  15. To apply; to put.
  16. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
  17. To impute; to charge; to allege.
  18. To present or offer.
verb
  1. To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

load

noun
  1. A burden; a weight to be carried.
  2. A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
  3. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
  4. A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
  5. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
  6. (often in the plural) A large number or amount.
  7. The volume of work required to be performed.
  8. The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
  9. The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
  10. A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
  11. Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
  12. A unit of measure for various quantities.
  13. The viral load
  14. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
  15. The charge of powder for a firearm.
  16. Weight or violence of blows.
  17. The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
  18. Nonsense; rubbish.
  19. The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
verb
  1. To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
  2. To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
  3. To put a load on something.
  4. To receive a load.
  5. To be placed into storage or conveyance.
  6. To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
  7. To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
  8. To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
  9. To be put into use in an apparatus.
  10. To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
  11. To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
  12. To put runners on first, second and third bases
  13. To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
  14. To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
  15. To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
  16. To provide in abundance.
  17. To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
  18. To adulterate or drug.
  19. To magnetize.

loyal

adjective
  1. Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.
  2. Firm in allegiance to a person or institution.
  3. Faithful to a person or cause.

loyally

adverb
  1. In a loyal manner, faithfully.

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.