Wednesday, September 4, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 166

Number of Answers: 39

Points Needed for Genius: 116

Genius requires between 17 and 34 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% 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 166 was in the 51st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on September 3, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 39 possible answers rank it in the 52nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on September 2, 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 September 1, 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 179
  • loll 172
  • toot 164
  • naan 159
  • nana 159
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 120
  • mama 114
  • mamma 114
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • nene 109
  • onto 106
  • toon 106
  • anal 105
  • boob 103
  • booboo 103
  • onion 103
  • anon 102
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • olio 100
  • baba 98
  • papa 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • poop 96
  • dodo 95
  • mitt 95
  • allay 94
  • ally 94
  • tatty 94
  • ratatat 93
  • tart 93
  • tartar 93
  • attar 92
  • cocci 92
  • 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 90,063 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,227 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*:

  • agama
  • agloo
  • agly
  • agma
  • algology
  • allogamy
  • apogamy
  • apolog
  • apologal
  • galago
  • gally
  • gama
  • gamay
  • gammy
  • gamp
  • gaol
  • gappy
  • gapy
  • gayal
  • glammy
  • gloam
  • glogg
  • gogo
  • gooly
  • gypo
  • gyppo
  • loggy
  • magalog
  • moggy
  • myology
  • ogam
  • ology
  • oogamy
  • oology
  • plagal
  • pogy
  • polygala
  • pomology

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

agog

adjective
  1. In eager desire, eager, astir.
  2. (chiefly of eyes) Wide open.
adverb
  1. In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest.

alga

noun
  1. Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.

algal

noun
  1. An alga.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to, or like, algae

amalgam

noun
  1. An alloy containing mercury.
  2. A combination of different things.
  3. One of the ingredients in an alloy.
verb
  1. To amalgamate.

apology

noun
  1. An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).
  2. A formal justification, defence.
  3. Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.

gaga

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Mentally senile.
  2. Crazy.
  3. Infatuated.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon.

gala

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Pomp, show, or festivity.
  2. A showy and festive party.
adjective
  1. Celebratory; festive.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.

gall

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
  2. The gall bladder.
  3. Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
  4. A feeling of exasperation.
  5. Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
  6. A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
  7. A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
  8. A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
verb
  1. To bother or trouble.
  2. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
  3. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
  4. To exasperate.
  5. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
  6. To scoff; to jeer.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
  2. A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
verb
  1. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

gallop

noun
  1. The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
  2. An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
verb
  1. (of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.
  2. To ride at a galloping pace.
  3. To cause to gallop.
  4. To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
  5. To run very fast.
  6. To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
  7. (of an infection, especially pneumonia) To progress rapidly through the body.

galop

noun
  1. A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time.
  2. The music for a dance of this kind.

gamma

noun
  1. The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
  2. The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
  3. A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
  4. A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
  5. (industries) slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
  6. A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change in delta with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
noun
  1. A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.

gamy

adjective
  1. Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat).
  2. Plucky, spirited or gritty
  3. Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive

gayly

No Definition Found.

glam

noun
  1. Glamour.
  2. A style of rock music, glam rock, associated with an androgynous yet masculine look and a driving, pounding bluesy form of psychedelic rock; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
verb
  1. To make glamorous or more glamorous.
adjective
  1. Glamorous.

glom

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To steal, to grab.
  2. To stare.
  3. To attach.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Short for glomerulus.

gloom

noun
  1. Darkness, dimness or obscurity.
  2. A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere.
  3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
  4. A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
verb
  1. To be dark or gloomy.
  2. To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
  3. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
  4. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
  5. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

gloomy

adjective
  1. Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening.
  2. Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.

gloop

noun
  1. Any gooey, viscous substance.
verb
  1. To flow like goo or goop, to move in a slushy way.
  2. To cover someone in gloop or goo.

gloopy

No Definition Found.

glop

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To stare in amazement.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any gooey substance.
  2. A gooey blob of some substance.
verb
  1. To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.
  2. To swallow greedily.

gloppy

No Definition Found.

goal

noun
  1. A result that one is attempting to achieve.
  2. In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
  3. The act of placing the object into the goal.
  4. A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
  5. A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
verb
  1. To score a goal.

goggly

No Definition Found.

golly

Etymology 1

interjection
  1. God!

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel.
  2. (racist) A black person.
  3. A hairy caterpillar.
  4. A receiver of stolen goods.
  5. Greyhound racing: the jolly dogs.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A galosh.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. (juvenile) Chewing gum.
  2. (juvenile) Saliva or phlegm.
verb
  1. (juvenile) To spit; to force up phlegm from one's throat.

googly

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. (of the eyes) Bulging.
  2. (usually of eyes, sometimes of persons) Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious.

googol

numeral
  1. The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred.

goop

noun
  1. (usually uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo.
  2. A silly, stupid, or boorish person.

goopy

No Definition Found.

lallygag

noun
  1. Horseplay, fooling around.
  2. A layabout, one who lallygags.
verb
  1. (See lollygag.) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
  2. To pet, kiss, or otherwise demonstrate overt affection, generally in public.

logy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Slow to respond or react; lethargic.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A term formed with the -logy suffix.

lollygag

noun
  1. Silliness, nonsense.
verb
  1. To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
  2. (19th-20th centuries) To fool around, especially sexually.

magma

noun
  1. The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
  2. A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
  3. Any soft doughy mass.
  4. The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.

mammalogy

noun
  1. The study of mammals.

pogo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A dance associated with the 1970s punk rock movement in which participants jump up and down on the spot in the manner of someone riding a pogo stick.
  2. The act of lifting the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jumping up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
verb
  1. To use a pogo stick.
  2. To dance the pogo.
  3. To lift the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jump up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
  4. To move rapidly up and down like a pogo stick.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A corndog on a stick.

polygamy

noun
  1. The condition of having more than one spouse or marriage partner at one time.
  2. The state or habit of having more than one sexual mate.
  3. The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.
noun
  1. The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; plurality of wives; marriage to several wives.
  2. The condition of an ant colony that has multiple egg-laying queens.

pygmy

noun
  1. (often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature.
  2. A member of a race of dwarfs.
  3. Any dwarfish person or thing.
  4. An insignificant person, at least in some respect.
adjective
  1. Relating or belonging to the Pygmy people.
  2. Like a pygmy; unusually short or small for its kind.

yoga

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The tree Elaeocarpus joga.

laggy

adjective
  1. Having a delayed response to a change in the factors influencing it.
  2. Tending to lag, or respond slowly because of network latency.