Friday, October 4, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 145

Number of Answers: 42

Points Needed for Genius: 102

Genius requires between 18 and 37 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 78% 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 145 was in the 39th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 24, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 42 possible answers rank it in the 59th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on September 29, 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 October 1, 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 182
  • loll 173
  • toot 164
  • naan 162
  • nana 162
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 122
  • mama 114
  • mamma 114
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • nene 110
  • anal 107
  • onto 107
  • toon 107
  • onion 106
  • boob 105
  • booboo 105
  • anon 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • olio 101
  • baba 99
  • papa 98
  • poop 98
  • dodo 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • mitt 96
  • allay 95
  • ally 95
  • ratatat 95
  • tart 95
  • tartar 95
  • tatty 95
  • attar 94
  • cocci 94
  • tact 92
  • mono 91
  • moon 91
  • epee 90
  • nanny 90
  • peep 90
  • tattoo 90
  • tutu 90
  • loon 89
  • nada 89
  • radar 89


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 91,371 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,272 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*:

  • aphony
  • apnoea
  • apophony
  • epha
  • ephah
  • epopee
  • heapy
  • hoopoe
  • hoopoo
  • hypha
  • hyphae
  • hyponea
  • hypopnea
  • hypopyon
  • napa
  • nappa
  • nappe
  • nappy
  • neep
  • opah
  • paan
  • paeon
  • pahoehoe
  • panne
  • papayan
  • pean
  • penna
  • pennae
  • pennon
  • pepo
  • phon
  • phoney
  • phonon
  • poon
  • poopy
  • yapon

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

apnea

noun
  1. The cessation of breathing.

epee

noun
  1. A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.

happen

verb
  1. To occur or take place.
  2. To happen to; to befall.
  3. (with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
  4. (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
adverb
  1. Maybe, perhaps.

happy

noun
  1. A happy event, thing, person, etc.
noun
  1. Preceded by the: happy people as a group.
verb
  1. Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
  2. Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
adjective
  1. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
  2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
  3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
  4. (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
  5. (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
  6. (of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.

heap

noun
  1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  3. A great number or large quantity of things.
  4. A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  5. Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  6. A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  7. A lot, a large amount
verb
  1. To pile in a heap.
  2. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  3. To supply in great quantity.
adverb
  1. (representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans; may be offensive) Very.

hoop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
  2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
  3. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
  4. A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
  5. A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
  6. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
  7. The rim part of a basketball net.
  8. (in plural, metonym) The game of basketball.
  9. A hoop earring.
  10. (metonym) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.
  11. (usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey
  12. (usually in the plural) A requirement that must be met in order to proceed.
verb
  1. To bind or fasten using a hoop.
  2. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  2. The hoopoe.
verb
  1. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
  2. To whoop, as in whooping cough.

hope

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
  2. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
  3. To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
  4. To wish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
  2. The actual thing wished for.
  3. A person or thing that is a source of hope.
  4. The virtuous desire for future good.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
  2. A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

hoppy

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hype

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims.
verb
  1. To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Hyped.
  2. Excellent, cool.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A drug addict.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.
verb
  1. To throw (an opponent) using this technique.

hyphen

noun
  1. The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
  2. Something that links two more consequential things.
  3. An enclosed walkway or passage that connects two buildings.
  4. Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc.
verb
  1. To separate or punctuate with a hyphen; to hyphenate.
conjunction
  1. Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-".

hypo

noun
  1. Melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression.
  2. A hypochondriac.
  3. Sodium thiosulphate, a photographic fixing agent.
  4. A hypoglycaemia attack in a person with diabetes.
  5. The substance sodium hyposulfite.
  6. A hypodermic syringe.
  7. Hypothecation.
  8. (in the study of law) A hypothetical case.
  9. A hypomelanistic snake.

nape

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The back part of the neck.
  2. The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A tablecloth.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Napalm.
verb
  1. To bombard with napalm.

neap

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A neap tide.
verb
  1. To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
  2. To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail
adjective
  1. (of a tide) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
  2. Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland.

nope

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A negative reply, no.
  2. An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (except near Staffordshire) A bullfinch

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A blow to the head.
verb
  1. To hit someone on the head.

open

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Not closed
  2. Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended
  3. Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
  4. Receptive.
  5. Public
  6. Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
  7. (of a formula) Having a free variable.
  8. (of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
  9. (of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
  10. (of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
  11. Not fulfilled.
  12. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
  13. (stringed instruments) Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
  14. (wind instruments) Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
  15. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
  16. (Of correspondence) Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement. (Opposite of "without prejudice")
  17. Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
  18. Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
  19. (of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
  20. Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
  21. Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
  2. To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
  3. To bring up, broach.
  4. To enter upon, begin.
  5. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
  6. To make accessible to customers or clients.
  7. To start (a campaign).
  8. To become open.
  9. To begin conducting business.
  10. To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
  11. To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
  12. To reveal one's hand.
  13. (of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
  14. To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
  2. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
  3. A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.
  4. A sports event in which anybody can compete

paean

noun
  1. A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.
  2. (by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
  3. (by extension) An enthusiastic expression of praise.
verb
  1. To sing a paean; to praise.

pane

noun
  1. An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
  2. A layer in the build-up of a GUI.
  3. A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
  4. A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
  5. One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
  6. A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
  7. A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
  8. One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
  9. One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.
verb
  1. To fit with panes.
noun
  1. The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.

papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

papaya

noun
  1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
  2. The fruit of this tree.
  3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

pappy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Like pap; soft; mushy.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Father
  2. Grandfather

payee

noun
  1. One to whom money is paid.

peahen

noun
  1. A female peafowl.

peen

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.
verb
  1. To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Penis.

peep

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird.
  2. A feeble utterance or complaint.
  3. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
  4. A kind of bird; a sandpiper.
verb
  1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
  2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
  2. The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
verb
  1. To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
  2. To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spot on a die or domino.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Person.

penne

noun
  1. A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.

penny

noun
  1. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d.
  2. In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p.
  3. In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
  4. In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1/100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.
  5. In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
  6. A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
  7. Money in general.
verb
  1. To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
  2. To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.

peon

noun
  1. A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.
  2. A person of low rank or importance.
  3. A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman.

peony

noun
  1. A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers.
  2. A dark red colour.

peppy

adjective
  1. Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy

phone

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
verb
  1. To call (someone) using a telephone.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.

phono

noun
  1. A phonograph.

phony

noun
  1. A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
  2. A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
  3. Anything fraudulent or fake.
adjective
  1. Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.

phooey

noun
  1. Hooey; nonsense
interjection
  1. An expression of disgust, rejection, or disappointment.

pone

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
  2. A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The last player to bet or play in turn.

pony

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.
  2. A small serving of an alcoholic beverage, especially beer.
  3. (New South Wales, Victoria) A serving of 140 millilitres of beer (formerly 5 fl oz); a quarter pint.
  4. Twenty-five pounds sterling.
  5. A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
  6. A ponytail hairstyle.
verb
  1. To lead (a horse) from another horse.
  2. To use a crib or cheat-sheet in translating.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
adjective
  1. Of little worth.

pooh

noun
  1. Feces.
  2. A piece of feces or an act of defecation.
  3. Cannabis resin.
  4. Champagne.
verb
  1. To defecate.
  2. To dirty something with feces.
interjection
  1. Expressing annoyance, frustration, etc.: a minced oath for 'shit'.
noun
  1. Short for shampoo.
noun
  1. An instance of saying "pooh".
verb
  1. To say "pooh".
  2. To say "pooh" to.
interjection
  1. Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.
  2. Expressing disgust at an unpleasant smell.

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.

pope

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
  2. (Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
  3. An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
  4. Any bishop of the early Christian church.
  5. The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
  6. (Cumberland) The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
  7. The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
  8. The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).
verb
  1. To act as or like a pope.
  2. To convert to Roman Catholicism.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (Russian Orthodoxy) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The whippoorwill (Caprimulgus vociferus).
  2. The nighthawk (Chordeiles minor).

poppa

noun
  1. (sometimes childish) father, papa.

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.

yappy

adjective
  1. Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner.
  2. Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.

payphone

noun
  1. A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.