Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 258

Number of Answers: 58

Points Needed for Genius: 181

Genius requires between 27 and 50 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 80% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, 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 258 was in the 86th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on August 23, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 58 possible answers rank it in the 89th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on August 23, 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 25, 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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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 179
  • loll 172
  • toot 164
  • naan 158
  • nana 158
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 119
  • mama 114
  • mamma 114
  • acacia 109
  • acai 109
  • nene 109
  • onto 106
  • toon 106
  • anal 105
  • boob 103
  • booboo 103
  • onion 103
  • anon 101
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • olio 100
  • baba 97
  • papa 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • poop 96
  • dodo 95
  • allay 94
  • ally 94
  • mitt 94
  • tatty 94
  • ratatat 92
  • tart 92
  • tartar 92
  • attar 91
  • tact 91
  • cocci 90
  • mono 90
  • moon 90
  • nanny 90
  • loon 89
  • radar 89
  • tattoo 89
  • tutu 89
  • epee 88
  • peep 88
  • array 87


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 89,797 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,217 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*:

  • deionize
  • deionized
  • demode
  • demoded
  • demoi
  • dido
  • domine
  • dominie
  • donne
  • donnee
  • doodoo
  • dozened
  • eddo
  • emodin
  • imido
  • imino
  • inion
  • iodid
  • iodin
  • ionone
  • meno
  • midnoon
  • mimeoed
  • modemed
  • modi
  • mome
  • momi
  • monde
  • monie
  • mozo
  • neoned
  • ninon
  • nodi
  • nome
  • nomen
  • nomoi
  • nonmen
  • oidioid
  • omened
  • omnimode
  • ozonide
  • ozonize
  • ozonized
  • zendo
  • zooid
  • zoon
  • zooned

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

demimonde

noun
  1. A class of women maintained by wealthy protectors; female courtesans or prostitutes as a group.
  2. (by extension) A group having little respect or reputation.
  3. (by extension) A member of such a class or group of persons.

demo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A demonstration or visual explanation.
  2. A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully.
  3. An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount.
  4. A march or gathering to make a political protest.
  5. An edition of limited functionality to give the user an example of how the program works.
  6. A non-interactive audiovisual computer program developed by enthusiasts to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine. See demoscene.
  7. A democrat.
  8. (collective) A demographic group.
  9. Demolition.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release.
  2. To demonstrate.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To demolish (especially a house or fixture).

demoed

verb
  1. To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release.
  2. To demonstrate.
verb
  1. To demolish (especially a house or fixture).

demon

noun
  1. An evil supernatural spirit.
  2. A neutral supernatural spirit.
  3. Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
  4. A form of patience (known as Canfield in the US).
  5. Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.

demonize

verb
  1. To turn into a demon.
  2. To describe or represent as evil or diabolic.

demonized

verb
  1. To turn into a demon.
  2. To describe or represent as evil or diabolic.

dino

noun
  1. Dinosaur.

diode

noun
  1. An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.

dodo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
  2. A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Fried plantain.

dome

noun
  1. A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola
  2. Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover
  3. Head (uppermost part of one's body)
  4. Head, oral sex
  5. A building; a house; an edifice
  6. Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
  7. A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form
verb
  1. To give a domed shape to.
  2. To perform fellatio on.

domed

adjective
  1. In the form of a dome.

dominion

noun
  1. Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
  2. Predominance; ascendancy
  3. (sometimes figurative) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.
  4. An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above virtues and below thrones.

domino

noun
  1. A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes.
  2. A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect.
  3. A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face.
  4. The mask itself.
  5. The person wearing the costume.
  6. A polyomino made up of two squares.
  7. A mistake in performing.
verb
  1. To collapse in the manner of dominoes.
  2. To cause to collapse in the manner of dominoes.

done

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
  2. To perform; to execute.
  3. To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  4. To suffice.
  5. To be reasonable or acceptable.
  6. (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
  7. To fare, perform (well or poorly).
  8. (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  9. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
  10. To cook.
  11. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  12. To treat in a certain way.
  13. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
  14. To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  15. To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
  16. To impersonate or depict.
  17. (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
  18. To kill.
  19. To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  20. To punish for a misdemeanor.
  21. To have sex with. (See also do it)
  22. To cheat or swindle.
  23. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  24. To finish.
  25. To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  26. (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  27. To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  28. (ditransitive) To make or provide.
  29. To injure (one's own body part).
  30. To take drugs.
  31. (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
adjective
  1. (of food) Ready, fully cooked.
  2. Having completed or finished an activity.
  3. Being exhausted or fully spent.
  4. Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
  5. Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A synthetic opioid analgesic, used to wean addicts off heroin or other opiate based narcotics, and in chronic pain management.

donee

noun
  1. Someone who receives a gift from a donor.

donned

verb
  1. (clothing) To put on, to dress in.

doom

noun
  1. Destiny, especially terrible.
  2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
  3. A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
  4. A law.
  5. A judgment or decision.
  6. A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
  7. Death.
  8. (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
verb
  1. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
  2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
  3. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
  4. To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  5. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

doomed

verb
  1. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
  2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
  3. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
  4. To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  5. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
adjective
  1. Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.

doozie

noun
  1. Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense.

doze

noun
  1. A light, short sleep or nap.
verb
  1. To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
  2. To make dull; to stupefy.
  3. To bulldoze.

dozed

verb
  1. To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
  2. To make dull; to stupefy.
  3. To bulldoze.

dozen

noun
  1. A set of twelve.
  2. (as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.
  3. An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

idiom

noun
  1. A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, person, or group of people.
  2. A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.
  3. An established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words, often peculiar to a given language.
  4. An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
  5. A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.

iodide

noun
  1. A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical.

iodine

noun
  1. A chemical element (symbol: I) with an atomic number of 53; one of the halogens.
  2. An antiseptic incorporating the element.
  3. An iodide.
verb
  1. To treat with iodine.

iodize

verb
  1. To treat or react with iodine.

iodized

adjective
  1. Treated with iodine or an iodide.

ionize

verb
  1. To dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged species; to be thus dissociated.

ionized

verb
  1. To dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged species; to be thus dissociated.

memo

noun
  1. A short note; a memorandum.
  2. A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
verb
  1. To record something; to make a note of something.
  2. To send someone a note about something, for the record.

mezzo

noun
  1. Mezzo-soprano

mimeo

noun
  1. A mimeograph.
  2. An unpublished academic paper.
verb
  1. To mimeograph.

minion

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.
noun
  1. A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
  2. A sycophantic follower.
  3. A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.
  4. An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.
  5. The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.
adjective
  1. Favoured, beloved; "pet".

mode

Etymology 1

noun
  1. One of several ancient Greek scales.
  2. One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
  3. A particular means of accomplishing something.
  4. A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
  5. The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
  6. A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
  7. One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
  8. A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
  9. A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.
  10. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
  11. That which exists only as a quality of substance.
  12. In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern.
  13. The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
  14. A woman's mantle with a hood.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Style or fashion; popular trend.

modem

noun
  1. A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line.
verb
  1. To transmit by modem.

mondo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Big, large; major, significant.
adverb
  1. Very, extremely, really.

monied

adjective
  1. Affluent; rich
  2. Paid for; funded

mono

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

Etymology 4

adjective
  1. Monochrome.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. An injective homomorphism
  2. The absence of sexual dimorphism
  3. A morphism n such that for any other morphisms f and g, if n \circ f = n \circ g then f = g.

Etymology 6

noun
  1. A monogamous person.
adjective
  1. Monoamorous, monogamous.

Etymology 7

adjective
  1. Monosexual.

mood

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A mental or emotional state, composure.
  2. Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
  3. A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
  4. A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.
  5. A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
  6. A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.
  7. Courage, heart, valor; also vim and vigor.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

mooed

verb
  1. Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.

moon

proper noun
  1. The Earth's moon Luna; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
  2. The god of the Moon in Heathenry.
  3. A surname.
  4. The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun
  1. (by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
  2. A month, particularly a lunar month.
  3. A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
  4. The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
  5. The thirty-second Lenormand card.
  6. In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
verb
  1. To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
  2. (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
  3. To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
  4. To expose to the rays of the Moon.
  5. To adorn with moons or crescents.
  6. (cryptocurrency) Of a coin or token: to rise in price rapidly.
  7. To shoot the moon.

mooned

verb
  1. To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
  2. (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
  3. To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
  4. To expose to the rays of the Moon.
  5. To adorn with moons or crescents.
  6. (cryptocurrency) Of a coin or token: to rise in price rapidly.
  7. To shoot the moon.
adjective
  1. Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon.

neon

noun
  1. The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The lightest of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
  2. A form or sample of the element.
  3. Neon signs or lights, collectively.
  4. A neon tetra fish.
adjective
  1. (of a color) That resembles a neon light; extremely bright; fluorescent

nodded

verb
  1. To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
  2. To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
  3. To sway, move up and down.
  4. To gradually fall asleep.
  5. To signify by a nod.
  6. To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
  7. To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
  8. To allude to something.
  9. To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.

node

noun
  1. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
  2. The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
  3. A leaf node.
  4. A computer or other device attached to a network.
  5. The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
  6. The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
  7. A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
  8. A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
  9. A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
  10. A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
  11. The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
  12. A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
  13. The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

nominee

noun
  1. A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.
  2. A person or organisation in whose name a security is registered though true ownership is held by another party, called nominator, especially for the purpose of concealing the identity of the nominator.
  3. A person to whom the holder of a copyhold estate surrenders their interest.

none

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person without religious affiliation.
adverb
  1. To no extent, in no way.
  2. Not at all, not very.
  3. No, not.
pronoun
  1. Not any of a given number or group.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion.
noun
  1. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
  2. A break in play between the first and second sessions.
  3. (Minnesota) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
noun
  1. The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm.
noun
  1. (often capitalized) The notional first-quarter day of a Roman month, occurring on the 7th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 5th day of all other months.
  2. (sometimes capitalized) The ninth hour after dawn (about 3 pm).
  3. The divine office appointed to the hour.
noun
  1. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  2. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. The highest point; culmination.
noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

noon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  2. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. The highest point; culmination.
verb
  1. To relax or sleep around midday

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

odeon

noun
  1. An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry.
  2. A theatre or concert hall.

omen

noun
  1. Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
  2. A thing of prophetic significance.
verb
  1. To be an omen of.
  2. To divine or predict from omens.

onion

noun
  1. A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
  2. The bulb of such a plant.
  3. The genus as a whole.
  4. A ball.
  5. A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

ooze

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
  2. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
  3. Secretion, humour.
  4. Juice, sap.
verb
  1. To be secreted or slowly leak.
  2. To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
  2. A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
  3. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

oozed

verb
  1. To be secreted or slowly leak.
  2. To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

ozone

noun
  1. An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O₃) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a blue gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.
  2. Fresh air, especially that breathed at the seaside and smelling of seaweed.
verb
  1. To treat with ozone.

zone

noun
  1. Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
  2. Any given region or area of the world.
  3. A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
  4. A band or area of growth encircling anything.
  5. A band or stripe extending around a body.
  6. A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
  7. The strike zone.
  8. Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
  9. A semicircular area in front of each goal.
  10. A high-performance phase or period.
  11. A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
  12. That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
  13. (Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
  14. A belt or girdle.
  15. The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
  16. (perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
  17. A circuit; a circumference.
verb
  1. To divide into or assign sections or areas.
  2. To define the property use classification of an area.
  3. To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
  4. To girdle or encircle.

zoned

verb
  1. To divide into or assign sections or areas.
  2. To define the property use classification of an area.
  3. To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
  4. To girdle or encircle.

zoom

verb
  1. To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software.
noun
  1. A humming noise from something moving very fast
  2. A quick ascent
  3. A big increase
  4. An augmentation of a view
verb
  1. To move fast with a humming noise
  2. To fly an airplane straight up
  3. To move rapidly
  4. To go up sharply
  5. To change the focal length of a zoom lens
  6. (used with in or out) to manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it
interjection
  1. Representing a humming sound
  2. Suggesting something moving quickly
  3. Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase

zoomed

verb
  1. To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software.
verb
  1. To move fast with a humming noise
  2. To fly an airplane straight up
  3. To move rapidly
  4. To go up sharply
  5. To change the focal length of a zoom lens
  6. (used with in or out) to manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it