Friday, September 27, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 266

Number of Answers: 60

Points Needed for Genius: 186

Genius requires between 28 and 51 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 74% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 266 was in the 88th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on September 19, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 60 possible answers rank it in the 92nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on September 8, 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 23, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
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 162
  • nana 162
  • lilt 129
  • till 129
  • tilt 129
  • tint 122
  • mama 114
  • mamma 114
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • nene 110
  • anal 107
  • onto 107
  • toon 107
  • 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 95
  • tart 95
  • tartar 95
  • tatty 95
  • attar 94
  • cocci 93
  • tact 92
  • mono 90
  • moon 90
  • nanny 90
  • tattoo 90
  • tutu 90
  • epee 89
  • loon 89
  • nada 89
  • peep 89
  • radar 89


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 91,047 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,264 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*:

  • arrowy
  • ayah
  • ayaya
  • haar
  • haha
  • horah
  • horary
  • hoya
  • orra
  • ottar
  • rath
  • rato
  • raya
  • rayah
  • rhyta
  • rota
  • tahr
  • tarty
  • tatar
  • tathata
  • tayra
  • thraw
  • thrawart
  • tora
  • torta
  • towaway
  • twat
  • waah
  • wrathy

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

ahoy

noun
  1. An utterance of this interjection.
verb
  1. To hail with a cry of "ahoy".
interjection
  1. Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
  2. Warning of something approaching or impending.

aorta

noun
  1. The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
  2. The liveliest part of something.

arhat

noun
  1. One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.
  2. One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta.

array

noun
  1. Clothing and ornamentation.
  2. A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
  3. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
  4. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
  5. A large collection.
  6. Common name for matrix.
  7. Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
  8. A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  9. A militia.
  10. A group of hedgehogs.
  11. A microarray.
verb
  1. To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
  2. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
  3. To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.

arrow

noun
  1. A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
  2. A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. →).
  3. A directed edge.
  4. A dart.
  5. The -> symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
  6. The inflorescence or tassel of a mature sugar cane plant.
verb
  1. To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow)
  2. To let fly swiftly and directly
  3. (of a sugar cane plant) To develop an inflorescence.
  4. To navigate using the arrow keys.

arrowroot

noun
  1. Maranta arundinacea from the Marantaceae family, a large perennial herb native to the Caribbean area with green leaves about 15 centimeters long.
  2. Usually preceded by an attributive word: some other plant the rhizomes of which are used to prepare a substance similar to arrowroot (sense 3), such as Zamia integrifolia (Florida arrowroot) or Pueraria montana var. lobata (Japanese arrowroot or kudzu).
  3. A starchy substance obtained from the rhizomes of an arrowroot plant used as a thickener.

arroyo

noun
  1. A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
  2. Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).

arty

adjective
  1. Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.

athwart

adverb
  1. From side to side; across.
  2. Across the path (of something).
  3. Wrongly; perplexingly.
preposition
  1. From one side to the other side of.
  2. Across the line of a ship's course or across its deck.
  3. Across the path or course of; opposing.

attar

noun
  1. An essential oil extracted from flowers.
  2. A perfume made from this oil.

away

verb
  1. To depart; to go to another place.
adjective
  1. Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
  2. At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
  3. Not on one's home territory.
  4. (following the noun modified) Out.
adverb
  1. From a place, hence.
  2. Aside; off; in another direction.
  3. Aside, so as to discard something.
  4. At a stated distance in time or space.
  5. In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
  6. In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
  7. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
  8. So as to remove or use up something.
  9. (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
  10. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
  11. Without restraint.
interjection
  1. Come on!; go on!

awry

adjective
  1. Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.
  2. Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss.
adverb
  1. Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
  2. Perversely, improperly.

harrow

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.
  2. An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
verb
  1. To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
  2. To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.
  3. To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.

harry

verb
  1. To plunder, pillage, assault.
  2. To make repeated attacks on an enemy.
  3. To strip, lay waste, ravage.
  4. To harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.

hart

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
  2. A red deer or one of related species.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
  2. Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
  3. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
  4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
  5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
  6. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
  7. Personality, disposition.
  8. A wight or being.
  9. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.
  10. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
  11. The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
  12. The centre, essence, or core.

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).

hoar

noun
  1. A white or greyish-white colour.
  2. Hoariness; antiquity.
verb
  1. To become mouldy or musty.
adjective
  1. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
  2. Hoarily bearded.
  3. Musty; mouldy; stale.

hoary

adjective
  1. White, whitish, or greyish-white.
  2. White or grey with age.
  3. Of a pale silvery grey.
  4. Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.
  5. Remote in time past.
  6. Moldy; mossy; musty.
  7. Old or old-fashioned.

hoorah

No Definition Found.

hooray

noun
  1. A shout to signify victory.
  2. An expression of excitement.
verb
  1. To shout an expression of excitement.
interjection
  1. Used to express approval, joy or victory.

hora

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods.

hortatory

noun
  1. Exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement.
  2. That which exhorts, incites, or encourages.
adjective
  1. Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging.

oath

noun
  1. A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
  2. A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
  3. A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
  4. A curse, a curse word.
verb
  1. To pledge.

oaty

No Definition Found.

orator

noun
  1. Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
  2. A skilled and eloquent public speaker.

oratory

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A private chapel or prayer room.
  2. A large Roman Catholic church.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner.
  2. Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.

ratatat

noun
  1. A swiftly repeated knocking sound.

ratty

adjective
  1. Similar to a rat; ratlike.
  2. Infested with rats.
  3. In poor condition or repair
  4. Irritable, annoyed, bad-tempered.

roar

noun
  1. A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
  2. The cry of the lion.
  3. The deep cry of the bull.
  4. A loud resounding noise.
  5. A show of strength or character.
verb
  1. To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
  2. To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
  3. Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
  4. Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
  5. To proceed vigorously.
  6. To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
  7. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
  8. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
  9. (North Midlands) to cry

rotary

noun
  1. A traffic circle.
  2. (chiefly with initial capital) Any of the clubs making up the international Rotary International movement for community service.
adjective
  1. Capable of rotation.

rotator

noun
  1. One who or that which rotates.
  2. A muscle by which a joint can be rotated.
  3. A revolving reverberatory furnace.
  4. A banner ad that cycles through multiple advertisements.

rotatory

No Definition Found.

taro

noun
  1. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
  2. Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
  3. Food from a taro plant.

tarot

noun
  1. (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
  2. Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

tarry

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sojourn.
verb
  1. To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
  2. To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
  3. To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
  4. To stay somewhere temporarily.
  5. To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Resembling tar.
  2. Covered with tar.

tart

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
  2. (of wine) high or too high in acidity.
  3. Sharp; keen; severe.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A prostitute.
  2. By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals.
verb
  1. To practice prostitution
  2. To practice promiscuous sex
  3. To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily

tartar

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate - a source of cream of tartar.
  2. A hard yellow deposit on the teeth.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fearsome or angrily violent person.

tattoo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
  2. A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
verb
  1. To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
  2. To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
  2. A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
  3. A military display or pageant.
verb
  1. To tap rhythmically on, to drum.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.

tatty

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Potato

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

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.

thataway

adverb
  1. That way (usually in terms of physical direction)

thaw

noun
  1. The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
  2. A warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen
verb
  1. To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen
  2. To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
  3. To grow gentle or genial.
  4. To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.

throat

noun
  1. The front part of the neck.
  2. The gullet or windpipe.
  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
  4. Station throat.
  5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
  6. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  7. That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
  8. The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
  9. The inside of a timber knee.
  10. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
verb
  1. To utter in or with the throat.
  2. To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
  3. To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

throaty

adjective
  1. (of a sound) Produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.
  2. (of livestock or dogs) Having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck.

throwaway

noun
  1. Something temporary and disposable.
adjective
  1. Disposable; intended for a single use prior to being discarded.
  2. Extemporaneous; off the cuff.
  3. Selected or used without care or attention.

thwart

noun
  1. A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
  2. A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
  3. An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
verb
  1. To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
  2. To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
  3. To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
  4. To move (something) across or counter to; to cross.
adjective
  1. Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
  2. Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.
  3. Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.
adverb
  1. Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.
preposition
  1. Across, athwart.

torah

No Definition Found.

tray

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
  2. A flat carrier for items being transported.
  3. The items on a full tray.
  4. A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
  5. A notification area used for icons and alerts.
  6. A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
  7. (pickup) truck bed
verb
  1. To place (items) on a tray
  2. To slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Trouble; annoyance; anger

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To grieve; to annoy

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To betray

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A playing card or die with the rank of three.
  2. A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes.
  3. A three-pointer.
  4. The third bearer of the same personal name in a family, often denoted by suffixed Roman numeral III.
  5. The third branch of a deer's antler.

wahoo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The winged elm, Ulmus alata.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Euonymus atropurpureus, an eastern burning bush.

wart

noun
  1. A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
  2. Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
  3. Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.

warty

No Definition Found.

wary

adjective
  1. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent
  2. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful; on one's guard
  3. Thrifty, provident

watt

noun
  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W

what

adverb
  1. (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor.
noun
  1. Something; thing; stuff.
  2. The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
  3. Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who.
adverb
  1. (usually followed by "with," but also sometimes "would" or "might," especially in finance) In some manner or degree; in part; partly. See also what with
  2. Such.
  3. Why.
  4. Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both…and.
pronoun
  1. (interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.
  2. That which; those that; the thing that.
  3. (relative) That; which; who.
  4. Whatever.
interjection
  1. An expression of surprise or disbelief.
  2. What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires.
  3. Clipping of what do you say?
  4. What did you say? I beg your pardon?
  5. (typically with a) An intensifier to an adjective phrase; used to begin a sentence.

whoa

verb
  1. To attempt to slow (an animal) by crying "whoa".
interjection
  1. Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
  2. An expression of surprise.
  3. Used as a meaningless filler in song lyrics.

worrywart

noun
  1. A person who worries excessively, especially about unimportant matters.

wrath

noun
  1. Great anger.
  2. Punishment.
verb
  1. To anger; to enrage.
adjective
  1. Wrathful; wroth; very angry.

yahoo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
  2. A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To give a cry of "yahoo".
  2. To search using the Yahoo! search engine.
interjection
  1. An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
  2. A battle cry.

yarrow

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine.
  2. Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium, the type species of the genus.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The green woodpecker, Picus viridis.

hatha

No Definition Found.