Tuesday, September 24, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 88

Number of Answers: 26

Points Needed for Genius: 62

Genius requires between 10 and 23 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 84% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 88 was in the 7th 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 26 possible answers rank it in the 15th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 18, 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 September 21, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.7.
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 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
  • poop 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • dodo 96
  • mitt 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 90,904 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*:

  • dipody
  • dorp
  • gripy
  • gypo
  • gyppo
  • pipy
  • pirog
  • pirogi
  • podgy
  • pogy
  • pood
  • poopy
  • poori
  • porgy
  • porridgy
  • prog
  • pyoid
  • pyrogy

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

dippy

adjective
  1. Lacking common sense.
  2. Having romantic feelings for; excited or enthusiastic about.
  3. Of an egg: cooked so that the yolk remains runny and can be used for dipping.
  4. Involving or suited to dipping.

dopy

adjective
  1. Stupid, silly.

drip

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To fall one drop at a time.
  2. To leak slowly.
  3. To let fall in drops.
  4. (usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
  5. (of the weather) To rain lightly.
  6. To be wet, to be soaked.
  7. To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A drop of a liquid.
  2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
  3. An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
  4. A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
  5. That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

drippy

adjective
  1. Dripping or tending to drip.
  2. Rainy or wet.
  3. Maudlin, tiresome or annoying;

droop

noun
  1. Something which is limp or sagging
  2. A condition or posture of drooping
verb
  1. To hang downward; to sag.
  2. To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
  3. To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
  4. To allow to droop or sink.
  5. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.

droopy

adjective
  1. Tending to droop; sagging; wilting.

drop

noun
  1. A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape via surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
  2. A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
  3. (now especially with "the") Alcoholic spirits in general.
  4. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid globule: a hanging diamond ornament or earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.
  5. A thing which drops or hangs down:
  6. A fall, descent; an act or instance of dropping.
  7. A release (of music, a vdeo game, etc).
  8. A decline in quantity, quality, rate, or degree; a decline (when going from one value to another).
  9. A thing, person, etc which is dropped:
  10. An unsolicited credit card issue.
  11. The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
  12. The distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall; the distance to which someone or something drops; a steep slope.
  13. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
  14. The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
  15. The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
  16. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop) or secretly or illegaly (as in espionage or crime); a drop-off point.
  17. A drop-back.
  18. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
  19. A drop target.
verb
  1. To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
  2. To drip (a liquid).
  3. Generally, to fall (straight down).
  4. To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
  5. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
  6. To lower; to move to a lower position.
  7. To set down from a vehicle; to deliver or deposit by stopping.
  8. To sink quickly to the ground.
  9. To fall dead, or to fall in death.
  10. To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
  11. To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
  12. To part with or spend (money).
  13. To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion etc.).
  14. To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
  15. To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message) in an offhand manner.
  16. To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
  17. To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
  18. (of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have led to the batsman being out.
  19. To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
  20. To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
  21. To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
  22. To drop out of the betting.
  23. (rugby football) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
  24. To impart.
  25. To release to the public.
  26. To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
  27. To enter public distribution.
  28. To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
  29. To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
  30. (fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
  31. (of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
  32. (of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
  33. (of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
  34. To give birth to.
  35. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
  36. (of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

goop

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

goopy

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gorp

noun
  1. A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement for use while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.

grip

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
  2. To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
  3. To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
  4. To trench; to drain.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
  2. A handle or other place to grip.
  3. A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
  4. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
  5. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
  6. A lot of something.
  7. A long time.
  8. A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
  9. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
  10. Assistance; help or encouragement.
  11. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
  12. As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
  13. A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
  14. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
noun
  1. Influenza, the flu.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The griffin.

grippy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Having a tight grip, or tending to grip well.
  2. Tight-fisted, greedy, stingy.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Afflicted with, or relating to, grippe, or influenza.

opioid

noun
  1. A substance that has effects similar to opium.
  2. Any of the natural substances, such as an endorphin, released in the body in response to pain.
  3. Any of a group of synthetic compounds that exhibit similarities to the opium alkaloids that occur in nature.

piggy

noun
  1. (hypocoristic) A pig (the animal).
  2. (hypocoristic) A guinea pig.
  3. (hypocoristic) A toe.
  4. (mildly) A pig, a greedy person.
  5. A member of the police.
adjective
  1. Greedy
  2. Slovenly, dirty

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.

poop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Fecal matter, feces.
  2. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch.
verb
  1. To make a short blast on a horn
  2. To break wind.
  3. To defecate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stern of a ship.
  2. The poop deck.
verb
  1. To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
  2. To embark a ship over the stern.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A slothful person.

poor

noun
  1. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
adjective
  1. With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
  2. Of low quality.
  3. Used to express pity.
  4. Deficient in a specified way.
  5. Inadequate, insufficient.
  6. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

poppy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially the common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
  2. A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.
  3. A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Sunday.
adjective
  1. Of a bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower (Papaver rhoeas).

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Having a popping or bursting sound.
  2. Of a beverage: resembling soda pop; effervescent, fizzy.
  3. Of eyes: protruding, sticking out.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Popular.
  2. Typical, or in the style, of pop music.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.

prig

noun
  1. A tinker.
  2. A petty thief or pickpocket.
  3. A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
  4. A conceited dandy; a fop.
verb
  1. To filch or steal.
  2. To ride
  3. To copulate

prior

noun
  1. A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.
  2. A chief magistrate in Italy.
  3. (law enforcement) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record.
  4. In Bayesian inference, a prior probability distribution, one based on information or belief before additional data is collected.
adjective
  1. Advance; previous; coming before.
  2. Former, previous.
adverb
  1. Previously.

priory

noun
  1. A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.

prod

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
  2. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
  3. A poke.
  4. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
verb
  1. To poke, to push, to touch.
  2. To encourage, to prompt.
  3. To prick with a goad.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A production.

prodigy

noun
  1. An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.
  2. An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
  3. An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
  4. A wonderful example of something.
  5. An extremely talented person, especially a child.

prop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
  2. The player on either side of the hooker in a scrum.
  3. One of the seashells in the game of props.
verb
  1. (sometimes figurative) To support or shore up something.
  2. To play rugby in the prop position
  3. (usually with "up" - see prop up) To position the feet of (a person) while sitting, lying down, or reclining so that the knees are elevated at a higher level.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An item placed on a stage or set to create a scene or scenario in which actors perform.
  2. An item placed within an advertisement in order to suggest a style of living etc.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The propeller of an aircraft.
verb
  1. To manually start the engine of a propeller-driven aircraft with no electric starter by pulling vigorously on one of the propeller blades using the hands, so that the propeller can catch ignition.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A proposition, especially on an election-day ballot.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Propellant

pyro

noun
  1. A pyromaniac
  2. Pyrocellulose
  3. Pyrotechnician
  4. Pyrotechnics
  5. Pyrogallic acid
adjective
  1. Pyromaniac, pyromaniacal
  2. Pyrotechnic

ropy

adjective
  1. Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
  2. Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
  3. Of poor quality; in poor health.
  4. (of milk or another liquid) Slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.