Sunday, September 22, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 200

Number of Answers: 40

Points Needed for Genius: 140

Genius requires between 18 and 35 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 82% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

The button below will reveal a chart with the number of words by each letter. Red bars indicate that there is a pangram(s) starting with that letter.


How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 200 was in the 67th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on September 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 40 possible answers rank it in the 54th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on September 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 September 20, 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 181
  • loll 172
  • toot 164
  • naan 161
  • nana 161
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 122
  • mama 114
  • mamma 114
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • nene 110
  • onto 107
  • toon 107
  • anal 106
  • boob 105
  • booboo 105
  • onion 105
  • anon 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • olio 100
  • baba 99
  • papa 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • dodo 96
  • mitt 96
  • poop 96
  • allay 95
  • ally 95
  • ratatat 94
  • tart 94
  • tartar 94
  • tatty 94
  • attar 93
  • cocci 93
  • tact 92
  • mono 90
  • moon 90
  • nanny 90
  • epee 89
  • loon 89
  • peep 89
  • radar 89
  • tattoo 89
  • tutu 89
  • array 87


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 90,841 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,257 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*:

  • addedly
  • aiyee
  • aliya
  • allyl
  • ayaya
  • deedy
  • delly
  • diddley
  • didy
  • laddy
  • layed
  • leady
  • leally
  • lezzy
  • yald
  • yeld
  • yill
  • zaidy

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

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.

allayed

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.

alley

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A glass marble or taw.

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.

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.

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.

dazedly

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deadeye

noun
  1. A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.
  2. A very accurate marksman.
  3. A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant.
adjective
  1. Very accurate in shooting or throwing.
  2. (concerning a stare) Cold; unfriendly.

deadly

adjective
  1. Subject to death; mortal.
  2. Causing death; lethal.
  3. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
  4. Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
  5. Very boring.
  6. Excellent, awesome, cool.
adverb
  1. Fatally, mortally.
  2. In a way which suggests death.
  3. Extremely.

delay

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
  2. An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
verb
  1. To put off until a later time; to defer.
  2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
  3. To allay; to temper.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To dilute, temper.
  2. To assuage, quench, allay.

delayed

verb
  1. To put off until a later time; to defer.
  2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
  3. To allay; to temper.
verb
  1. To dilute, temper.
  2. To assuage, quench, allay.

dialyze

verb
  1. To subject (something or someone) to dialysis.
  2. To undergo dialysis.

dialyzed

verb
  1. To subject (something or someone) to dialysis.
  2. To undergo dialysis.

diddly

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small amount of no worth.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. A written representation of a trill sound.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (sometimes childish) penis

dilly

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Redolent of dill (the herb).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A dilly bag.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A kind of stagecoach.

dillydallied

No Definition Found.

dillydally

No Definition Found.

dizzily

No Definition Found.

dizzy

verb
  1. To make dizzy, to bewilder.
adjective
  1. Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.
  2. Producing giddiness.
  3. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

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.

dyed

verb
  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
adjective
  1. Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.

eddy

noun
  1. A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
  2. A circular current; a whirlpool.
verb
  1. To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

eely

No Definition Found.

eyed

verb
  1. To observe carefully or appraisingly.
  2. To appear; to look.
adjective
  1. Having eyes.
  2. Having eye-like spots.
  3. (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.

eyelid

noun
  1. A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.

ideally

adverb
  1. In an ideal way; perfectly.
  2. Given ideal circumstances; preferably.

idly

adverb
  1. In an idle manner.
  2. Without specific purpose, intent or effort.

idyl

noun
  1. Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
  2. An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
  3. A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

idyll

noun
  1. Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
  2. An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
  3. A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

illy

No Definition Found.

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.

lazily

adverb
  1. In a lazy manner.

lazy

noun
  1. A lazy person.
  2. Sloth (animal).
verb
  1. To laze, act in a lazy manner.
adjective
  1. Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
  2. Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
  3. Showing a lack of effort or care.
  4. Sluggish; slow-moving.
  5. Lax:
  6. (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
  7. Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
  8. Wicked; vicious.

lily

noun
  1. Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.
  2. Any of several species of herbaceous flower which may or may not resemble the genus Lilium in some way, and which are not closely related to it or each other.
  3. The flower used as a heraldic charge; also commonly used to describe the fleur-de-lis.
  4. The end of a compass needle that should point north, traditionally often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.
  5. (usually in the plural) A royal spade in auction bridge.
  6. The thirtieth Lenormand card, representing calmness and maturity.
adjective
  1. White (as a racial epithet).

yell

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shout.
  2. A phrase to be shouted.
verb
  1. Shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
  2. To convey by shouting
  3. To tell someone off (in a loud and angry manner)

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Dry (of cow)

yelled

verb
  1. Shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
  2. To convey by shouting
  3. To tell someone off (in a loud and angry manner)

yield

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
  2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
  3. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
  4. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
  5. To give, or give forth, (anything).
  6. To give way; to succumb to a force.
  7. To produce as return, as from an investment.
  8. To produce as a result.
  9. To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
  10. (of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
  11. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Payment; tribute.
  2. A product; the quantity of something produced.
  3. The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
  4. Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.

yielded

verb
  1. To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
  2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
  3. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
  4. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
  5. To give, or give forth, (anything).
  6. To give way; to succumb to a force.
  7. To produce as return, as from an investment.
  8. To produce as a result.
  9. To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
  10. (of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
  11. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.