Monday, October 7, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 78

Number of Answers: 28

Points Needed for Genius: 55

Genius requires between 9 and 26 words. You need at least a 5-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 87% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 63% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 78 was in the 3rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 15, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 28 possible answers rank it in the 21st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer 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 5-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on December 15, 2023.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.5.
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 174
  • toot 164
  • naan 162
  • nana 162
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 122
  • mama 115
  • mamma 115
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • nene 110
  • anal 107
  • onto 107
  • toon 107
  • onion 106
  • boob 105
  • booboo 105
  • anon 103
  • olio 102
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • baba 99
  • papa 98
  • poop 98
  • dodo 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • mitt 96
  • allay 95
  • ally 95
  • cocci 95
  • ratatat 95
  • tart 95
  • tartar 95
  • tatty 95
  • attar 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 91,512 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,278 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*:

  • agama
  • agma
  • caeoma
  • comae
  • comake
  • comm
  • commo
  • gama
  • gemma
  • gemmae
  • kame
  • kokam
  • macaco
  • mack
  • mamee
  • mammae
  • mammee
  • mammock
  • moke
  • mome
  • mook
  • ogam

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

acme

noun
  1. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
  2. The crisis or height of a disease.
  3. Mature age; full bloom of life.

ammo

noun
  1. Ammunition.
verb
  1. To load up on ammunition.

amok

No Definition Found.

came

Etymology 1

preposition
  1. Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
verb
  1. To move from further away to nearer to.
  2. To arrive.
  3. To appear, to manifest itself.
  4. (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
  5. (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
  6. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
  7. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  8. (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
  9. (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  10. (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
  11. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  12. To carry through; to succeed in.
  13. Happen.
  14. (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
  15. (of grain) To germinate.
  16. To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
verb
  1. To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
  2. To ejaculate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.

cameo

noun
  1. A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
  2. A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.
verb
  1. To appear in a cameo role.

camo

noun
  1. A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
  2. Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
verb
  1. To camouflage.
  2. To put on camouflage clothing.

coma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
  2. A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
  3. A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

come

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Coming, arrival; approach.
  2. Semen
  3. Female ejaculatory discharge.
verb
  1. To move from further away to nearer to.
  2. To arrive.
  3. To appear, to manifest itself.
  4. (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
  5. (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
  6. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
  7. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  8. (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
  9. (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  10. (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
  11. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  12. To carry through; to succeed in.
  13. Happen.
  14. (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
  15. (of grain) To germinate.
  16. To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
preposition
  1. Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
interjection
  1. An exclamation to express annoyance.
  2. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.

comma

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.
verb
  1. To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

emcee

noun
  1. A rapper.
  2. Initialism of main colour.
  3. Initialism of matching colour.
  4. Initialism of movie clip.
  5. Initialism of mail code.
  6. Initialism of main character.
  7. Initialism of military cross.
  8. Initialism of Member of Congress.
  9. Initialism of medical college.
  10. Initialism of Mars-crosser.
  11. Initialism of medium coeli, the midheaven or highest point in the sky. Contrasted to Imum Coeli.
noun
  1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  2. (by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
  3. A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
  4. A group practice of several physicians.
  5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  7. A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  8. One confined to bed by sickness.
  9. One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
verb
  1. To act as the master of ceremonies (for).
  2. To rap as part of a hip-hop performance.
noun
  1. A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.
  2. A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
  3. A place of lodging.
noun
  1. Someone who acts as a host at a formal event.
  2. Someone who conducts a programme of varied entertainment, for example by introducing performers to the audience.
  3. A rapper.
noun
  1. Dichloromethane
noun
  1. A viral infection of the skin or (occasionally) mucous membranes, caused by Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), a DNA poxvirus.
noun
  1. A group of individuals whose primary interests and activities involve motorcycles.
noun
  1. A place used as a hospital on board a ship, on a spaceship (in science fiction).
  2. A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured in a school.

game

noun
  1. A playful or competitive activity.
  2. A video game.
  3. (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
  4. Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
  5. An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
  6. Wild animals hunted for food.
  7. (used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
  8. Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
  9. A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
verb
  1. To gamble.
  2. To play card games, board games, or video games.
  3. To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
  4. (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adjective
  1. Willing to participate.
  2. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
  3. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
  4. Injured, lame (of a limb).

gamecock

noun
  1. A fighting cock: a rooster used in cockfighting.

gamma

noun
  1. The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
  2. The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
  3. A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
  4. A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
  5. (industries) slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
  6. A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change in delta with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
noun
  1. A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.

mace

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A heavy fighting club.
  2. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
  3. A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
  4. An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
  5. A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
  6. A billiard cue.
verb
  1. To hit someone or something with a mace.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
  2. An old weight of 57.98 grains.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
verb
  1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
  2. To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

mage

noun
  1. A magician, wizard or sorcerer.

magma

noun
  1. The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
  2. A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
  3. Any soft doughy mass.
  4. The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.

make

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Brand or kind; model.
  2. Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
  3. Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
  4. A person's character or disposition.
  5. The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
  6. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
  7. A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
  8. Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
  9. (usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present or future target of seduction (usually female).
  10. A promotion.
  11. A home-made project
  12. Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
  13. A made basket.
  14. The closing of an electrical circuit.
verb
  1. To create.
  2. To behave, to act.
  3. To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
  4. To constitute.
  5. To add up to, have a sum of.
  6. (construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
  7. (usually stressed) To bring into success.
  8. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
  9. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
  10. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
  11. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
  12. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
  13. (of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
  14. (law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.
  15. To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
  16. To proceed (in a direction).
  17. To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
  18. To move at (a speed).
  19. To appoint; to name.
  20. To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
  21. To defecate or urinate.
  22. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
  23. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
  24. To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
  25. To enact; to establish.
  26. To develop into; to prove to be.
  27. To form or formulate in the mind.
  28. To perform a feat.
  29. To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
  30. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
  31. To increase; to augment; to accrue.
  32. To be engaged or concerned in.
  33. To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
  34. To take the virginity of.
  35. To have sexual intercourse with.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A halfpenny.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.

mako

noun
  1. Mako shark

mama

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mamma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
  2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mecca

No Definition Found.

meek

verb
  1. (of horses) To tame; to break.
adjective
  1. Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
  2. Submissive, dispirited.

mega

adjective
  1. Very large.
  2. Great; excellent

meme

noun
  1. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
  2. Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.
  3. A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.
verb
  1. To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.
  2. To create and use humorous memes.
  3. To joke around.

memo

noun
  1. A short note; a memorandum.
  2. A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
verb
  1. To record something; to make a note of something.
  2. To send someone a note about something, for the record.

mock

noun
  1. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
  2. Mockery, the act of mocking.
  3. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
  4. A mockup or prototype.
verb
  1. To mimic, to simulate.
  2. To create an artistic representation of.
  3. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
  4. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
  5. To create a mockup or prototype of.
adjective
  1. Imitation, not genuine; fake.

momma

noun
  1. Mother
  2. A voluptuous woman.
  3. One's wife or girlfriend.

omega

noun
  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.
  2. (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.
  3. Angular velocity; symbol: ω.
  4. An omega male.
  5. The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
  6. In omegaverse fiction, a person of a sexually-submissive (and sometimes secondary) gender/sex that is driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an alpha, with males of this type often being able to get pregnant.