Friday, August 30, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 125

Number of Answers: 30

Points Needed for Genius: 88

Genius requires between 14 and 26 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 81% 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 125 was in the 29th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 26, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 30 possible answers rank it in the 27th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 26, 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 28, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
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 179
  • loll 172
  • toot 164
  • naan 158
  • nana 158
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 119
  • mama 114
  • mamma 114
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • 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
  • mitt 95
  • allay 94
  • ally 94
  • tatty 94
  • ratatat 92
  • tart 92
  • tartar 92
  • attar 91
  • cocci 91
  • tact 91
  • 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 89,861 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,218 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*:

  • acmatic
  • acmic
  • amia
  • amici
  • amitotic
  • atactic
  • ataxic
  • coccic
  • comatic
  • comitia
  • comix
  • commix
  • commixt
  • ictic
  • immix
  • ixia
  • mammati
  • maxicoat
  • miotic
  • mitotic
  • mixt
  • momi
  • ocicat
  • oiticica
  • oomiac
  • otic
  • otitic
  • ototoxic
  • oxic
  • oxim
  • taxitic
  • tictac
  • tictoc
  • titi
  • toit

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

acacia

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae.
  2. The thickened or dried juice of several species in Acacieae, in particular Vachellia nilotica (syn. Acacia nilotica), the Egyptian acacia.
  3. A false acacia; robinia tree, Robinia pseudoacacia.
  4. Gum arabic; gum acacia.
  5. Any of several related trees, such as the locust tree.
  6. A light to moderate greenish yellow with a hint of red.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (history) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

acai

noun
  1. Any of several South American palms, of the genus Euterpe, having a dark purple drupe.
  2. The fruit of these trees, harvested for its juice.

ataxia

noun
  1. Lack of coordination while performing voluntary movements, which may appear to be clumsiness, inaccuracy, or instability.
  2. The condition of a polymer in which the orientation of the subunits is random
  3. Disorder; irregularity.

atomic

noun
  1. An atomic operation.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
  2. Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
  3. Infinitesimally small.
  4. Unable to be split or made any smaller.
  5. Of an operation: guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
  6. (of a commit in a VCS) Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.

attic

noun
  1. The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

axiom

noun
  1. A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
  2. (proof theory) A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate (sometimes distinguished from postulates as being universally applicable, whereas postulates are particular to a certain science or context).
  3. An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.

axiomatic

adjective
  1. Self-evident or unquestionable.
  2. Relating to or containing axioms.

cacti

noun
  1. Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.
  2. Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs.

cami

noun
  1. A camisole.

ciao

noun
  1. A greeting or farewell using the word "ciao".
interjection
  1. Hello, hi.
  2. Bye, goodbye.

coati

noun
  1. Any of several omnivorous mammals, of the genus Nasua or Nasuella, in order Carnivora, that live in the range from southern United States to northern Argentina.

cocci

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any approximately spherical bacterium.
  2. One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Coccidioidomycosis

comic

noun
  1. A comedian.
  2. A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
  3. A children's newspaper.
adjective
  1. Funny; amusing; comical.
  2. Relating to comedy.

commit

noun
  1. The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
verb
  1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
  2. To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.
  3. To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
  4. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  5. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
  6. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
  7. To make a set of changes permanent.
  8. (Latinism) To confound.
  9. To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  10. To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

imam

noun
  1. (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
  2. One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

iota

noun
  1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
  2. A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.

maim

noun
  1. A serious wound
verb
  1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

maxi

noun
  1. A coat or skirt having such a hemline
adjective
  1. Having a hemline at ankle length
noun
  1. A class of racing sailing yacht that pushes at the upper limits of the International Offshore Rule of regulated sail yacht racing, having a waterline length in excess of 70-feet.
noun
  1. A music single with more than two tracks, i.e. not just an A-side and a B-side.
noun
  1. A maxi boat
noun
  1. The highest limit
  2. The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function
  3. An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set
  4. The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution
  5. A 147 break; the highest possible break
  6. A score of 180 with three darts
  7. A scoring shot for 6 runs

maxim

noun
  1. A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
  2. A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.

maxima

noun
  1. A music note equal to two (or sometimes three) longæ; in modern notation, this is typically equivalent to eight semibreves.
noun
  1. The highest limit
  2. The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function
  3. An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set
  4. The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution
  5. A 147 break; the highest possible break
  6. A score of 180 with three darts
  7. A scoring shot for 6 runs

mica

noun
  1. Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.

mimic

noun
  1. A person who practices mimicry, or mime.
  2. An imitation.
verb
  1. To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
  2. To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
  2. Mock, pretended.
  3. Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

mitt

noun
  1. A mitten
  2. An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
  3. (especially in plural) A hand.

omit

verb
  1. To leave out or exclude.
  2. To fail to perform.
  3. To neglect or take no notice of.

tacit

adjective
  1. Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.
  2. Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

tactic

noun
  1. A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.
  2. A maneuver used against an enemy.
  3. A sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.
adjective
  1. Tactical; of or relating to the art of military and naval tactics.
  2. Describing a polymer whose repeat units are identical.

tatami

noun
  1. Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses

taxi

noun
  1. A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver.
  2. A share taxi.
verb
  1. To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power.
  2. To travel by taxicab.

tomtit

noun
  1. Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.

toxic

adjective
  1. Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
  2. Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
  3. Severely negative or harmful.
  4. (of a person) Hateful or strongly antipathetic.