Monday, September 23, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 127

Number of Answers: 37

Points Needed for Genius: 89

Genius requires between 13 and 34 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 91% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 61% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 127 was in the 30th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 21, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 37 possible answers rank it in the 47th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 21, 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 22, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.8.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 181
  • loll 172
  • toot 164
  • naan 161
  • nana 161
  • lilt 129
  • till 129
  • tilt 129
  • 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
  • tutu 90
  • epee 89
  • loon 89
  • peep 89
  • radar 89
  • tattoo 89
  • array 87


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 90,878 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*:

  • abbatial
  • ablaut
  • abuttal
  • albata
  • atabal
  • atlatl
  • babbitt
  • baith
  • balata
  • balti
  • batata
  • batt
  • battalia
  • battu
  • bhut
  • bitt
  • bullbat
  • butut
  • haut
  • laith
  • lathi
  • lati
  • latilla
  • latu
  • litai
  • lithia
  • litu
  • tabu
  • tabuli
  • tala
  • tallith
  • tathata
  • thali
  • thalli
  • thill
  • thulia
  • titbit
  • titi

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

abut

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
  2. To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.

alit

No Definition Found.

atilt

adjective
  1. At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.
adverb
  1. At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.
  2. Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust).
preposition
  1. Diagonally over or across.

baht

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. Without (Yorkshire dialect, famously part of the song title On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at)

bait

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
  2. Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
  3. Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something
  4. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
verb
  1. To attract with bait; to entice.
  2. To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
  2. To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
  3. To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.
  4. (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
  5. (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

Etymology 4

adjective
  1. Obvious; blatant.
  2. Well-known; famous; renowned.

bath

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
  2. A building or area where bathing occurs.
  3. The act of bathing.
  4. A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
verb
  1. To wash a person or animal in a bath
noun
  1. A room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
  2. A lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).

bathtub

noun
  1. A large container for holding water in which a person may bathe (take a bath).

blat

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat.
  2. To make a senseless noise.
  3. To talk inconsiderately.
  4. To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Connections; relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).

built

verb
  1. To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
  2. To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
  3. To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
  4. To establish a basis for (something).
  5. To form by combining materials or parts.
  6. To develop in magnitude or extent.
  7. To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
  8. (of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
noun
  1. Shape; build; form of structure.
adjective
  1. Well-built, muscular or toned.

butt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
  2. The waste end of anything
  3. (generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
  4. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
verb
  1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
  2. A thrust in fencing.
verb
  1. To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
  2. To strike bluntly with the head.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
  2. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A heavy two-wheeled cart.
  2. A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

habit

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An action performed on a regular basis.
  2. An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
  3. A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
  4. A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.
  5. Outward appearance; attire; dress.
  6. Form of growth or general appearance of a variety or species of plant or crystal.
  7. An addiction.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To clothe.
  2. To inhabit.

habitat

noun
  1. Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
  2. A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs.
  3. A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
  4. A place in which a person lives.

habitual

noun
  1. One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.
  2. (grammar) A construction representing something done habitually.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
  2. Regular or usual.
  3. Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
  4. (grammar) Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.

halibut

noun
  1. A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.

halt

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To limp; move with a limping gait.
  2. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
  3. To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
  4. To waver.
  5. To falter.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
  2. A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
verb
  1. To stop marching.
  2. To stop either temporarily or permanently.
  3. To bring to a stop.
  4. To cause to discontinue.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Lameness; a limp.
adjective
  1. Lame, limping.

hath

verb
  1. To possess, own.
  2. To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
  3. Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
  4. To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
  5. To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
  6. To experience, go through, undergo.
  7. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
  8. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
  9. Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
  10. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
  11. To give birth to.
  12. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
  13. To accept as a romantic partner.
  14. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
  15. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
  16. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
  17. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
  18. To defeat in a fight; take.
  19. (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
  20. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
  21. To trick, to deceive.
  22. (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
  23. (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
  24. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
  25. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
  26. (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
  27. To make an observation of (a bird species).

hiatal

No Definition Found.

hilt

noun
  1. The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
  2. The base of the penis.
verb
  1. To provide with a hilt.
  2. To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (finger until palm, penis until pelvis).

lath

noun
  1. A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
verb
  1. To cover or line with laths

lilt

noun
  1. Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
  2. A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.
  3. A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking.
verb
  1. To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
  2. To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.
  3. To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.

tabla

noun
  1. A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.

tail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
  2. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
  3. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
  4. The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
  5. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
  6. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
  7. The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
  8. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
  9. The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
  10. One who surreptitiously follows another.
  11. The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
  12. The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
  13. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
  14. All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
  15. The buttocks or backside.
  16. The penis of a person or animal.
  17. Sexual intercourse.
  18. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
  19. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  20. The distal tendon of a muscle.
  21. A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
  22. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
  23. A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
  24. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
  25. A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
  26. The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
  27. A tailing.
  28. The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
  29. A tailcoat.
verb
  1. To follow and observe surreptitiously.
  2. To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
  3. To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
  4. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
  5. To pull or draw by the tail.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
adjective
  1. Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

tali

noun
  1. The bone of the ankle.

tall

noun
  1. (possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall.
adjective
  1. (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.
  2. (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high.
  3. (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
  4. (of a cup of coffee) A cup of coffee smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces.
  5. Obsequious; obedient.
  6. Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
  7. Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
  8. Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.

tallit

No Definition Found.

taut

verb
  1. To make taut; to tauten, to tighten.
adjective
  1. Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight.
  2. (of a body, muscles, etc.) Not flabby; firm, toned; (of a person) having a lean, strong body.
  3. (of music, writing, etc.) Containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled.
  4. Experiencing anxiety or stress.
  5. (of a sailor, a ship, etc.) Neat and well-disciplined; (by extension) efficient and in order.
  6. Strong; uncompromising.

that

noun
  1. Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
adverb
  1. (degree) To a given extent or degree.
  2. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
  3. To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
pronoun
  1. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
  2. The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
  3. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
  4. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
  5. Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
conjunction
  1. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
  2. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
  3. Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
  4. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
  5. Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
  6. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
  7. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
  8. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.

tibia

noun
  1. The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone
  2. The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.
  3. The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.
  4. A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

tibial

No Definition Found.

till

Etymology 1

preposition
  1. Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
  2. To, up to (physically).
  3. To make it possible that.
conjunction
  1. Until, until the time that.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cash register.
  2. A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
  3. The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
  4. A tray or drawer in a chest.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
  2. To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
  3. To cultivate soil.
  4. To prepare; to get.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
  2. Manure or other material used to fertilize land

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A vetch; a tare.

tilt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A slope or inclination.
  2. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
  3. The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
  4. A jousting contest.
  5. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
  6. A thrust, as with a lance.
  7. A tilt hammer.
verb
  1. To slope or incline (something); to slant.
  2. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
  3. To be at an angle.
  4. To point or thrust a weapon at.
  5. To point or thrust (a weapon).
  6. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
  7. To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
  8. (of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
  2. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
verb
  1. To cover with a tilt, or awning.

tilth

noun
  1. Agricultural labour; husbandry.
  2. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
  3. Rich cultivated soil.

tuba

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
  2. A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.
  3. A large reed stop in organs.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A tube or tubular organ.

tubal

adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a tube, especially an anatomical one

tutti

noun
  1. A passage in which all members of an orchestra are playing
adjective
  1. All together; with all playing at once.
adverb
  1. All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices.

tutu

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of the genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand.

hatha

No Definition Found.