Tuesday, October 8, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 152

Number of Answers: 33

Points Needed for Genius: 106

Genius requires between 15 and 29 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 152 was in the 43rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on October 7, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 33 possible answers rank it in the 35th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on October 7, 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 an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on September 29, 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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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
  • nene 111
  • acacia 110
  • acai 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 91,545 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*:

  • eeew
  • engining
  • geeing
  • genning
  • gieing
  • gien
  • gighe
  • gwine
  • heeze
  • heezing
  • heigh
  • hieing
  • hinnie
  • newie
  • ngwee
  • weeing
  • ween
  • weening
  • weewee
  • weeweeing
  • wheen
  • winze
  • wizzen
  • zein

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

egging

verb
  1. To throw eggs at.
  2. To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
  3. To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
verb
  1. To encourage, incite.
noun
  1. The act of pelting with eggs.

engine

noun
  1. A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
  2. A tool; a utensil or implement.
  3. A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
  4. A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
  5. The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
  6. A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.
  7. A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
  8. Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
  9. The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
  10. Natural talent; genius.
  11. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
verb
  1. To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
  2. To assault with an engine.
  3. To contrive; to put into action.
  4. To rack; to torture.

geez

Etymology 1

interjection
  1. An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Informal address to a male.

gene

noun
  1. A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
  2. A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus.

genie

noun
  1. A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
  2. A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.

genii

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
  2. Extraordinary mental capacity.
  3. Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
  4. The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
  2. A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.

ghee

noun
  1. A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee.
  2. Vegetable oil for cooking.

heinie

noun
  1. The buttocks.

henge

noun
  1. A prehistoric enclosure in the form of a circle or circular arc defined by a raised circular bank and a circular ditch usually running inside the bank, with one or more entrances leading into the enclosed open space.

hewing

verb
  1. To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
  2. To shape; to form.
  3. To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
noun
  1. The act of one who hews or chops.

hewn

verb
  1. To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
  2. To shape; to form.
  3. To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
adjective
  1. Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.
  2. Having been cut or mown down.

hinge

noun
  1. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
  2. A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
  3. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
  4. A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
  5. The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
  6. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
verb
  1. To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
  2. (with on or upon) To depend on something.
  3. The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
  4. To bend.

neigh

noun
  1. The cry of a horse.
verb
  1. (of a horse) To make its cry.
  2. To make a sound similar to a horse's cry.
  3. To scoff or sneer.

neighing

verb
  1. (of a horse) To make its cry.
  2. To make a sound similar to a horse's cry.
  3. To scoff or sneer.
noun
  1. The sound made by a horse; an act or instance of the verb neigh.

nene

noun
  1. The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

nine

noun
  1. The digit or figure 9.
  2. A playing card with nine pips.
  3. A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
  4. (usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
  5. A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
numeral
  1. A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
  2. Describing a group or set with nine elements.

weenie

noun
  1. Someone weak and unimportant.
  2. A geek or nerd, especially a computer user with a deficient social life.
  3. (collectible card games) A small creature which has a low cost to put into play, often used in a swarm with other such creatures.
noun
  1. A wiener.
  2. The penis.

weigh

verb
  1. To determine the weight of an object.
  2. Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
  3. To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
  4. To judge; to estimate.
  5. To consider a subject.
  6. To have a certain weight.
  7. To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
  8. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
  9. To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
  10. To weigh anchor.
  11. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
  12. To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.

weighing

verb
  1. To determine the weight of an object.
  2. Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
  3. To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
  4. To judge; to estimate.
  5. To consider a subject.
  6. To have a certain weight.
  7. To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
  8. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
  9. To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
  10. To weigh anchor.
  11. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
  12. To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
noun
  1. The process by which something is weighed.
adjective
  1. That weighs or burdens.

whee

interjection
  1. An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion.

wheeze

noun
  1. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
  2. An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
  3. (British, Irish) An ulterior scheme or plan
  4. Something very humorous or laughable.
verb
  1. To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

wheezing

verb
  1. To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
noun
  1. The quality or symptom of breathing with an audible wheeze

when

noun
  1. The time at which something happens.
adverb
  1. (interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
  2. At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
  3. (relative) At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
pronoun
  1. (interrogative) What time; which time.
  2. The time that.
conjunction
  1. At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if.
  2. During the time that; at the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
  3. At what time; at which time.
  4. Since; given the fact that; considering that.
  5. Whereas; although; at the same time as; in spite of the fact that.
interjection
  1. That's enough, a command to stop adding something, especially an ingredient of food or drink.
  2. Expressing impatience. (Compare what.)

whew

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover.
interjection
  1. An expressive sound made indicating the release of one's inner tension; the release of breath; an expression of relief.
  2. An expression of amazement or surprise.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To bustle about.

whine

noun
  1. A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound
  2. A complaint or criticism
verb
  1. To utter a high-pitched cry.
  2. To make a sound resembling such a cry.
  3. To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine.
  4. To move with a whining sound.
  5. To utter with the sound of a whine.

whinge

noun
  1. A cry.
  2. A peevish complaint.
verb
  1. To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
  2. To whine.

whingeing

verb
  1. To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
  2. To whine.
noun
  1. A peevish complaint.

wienie

noun
  1. A wiener.
  2. The penis.

wine

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes.
  2. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine".
  3. A serving of wine.
  4. A dark purplish red colour; the colour of red wine.
verb
  1. To entertain with wine.
  2. To drink wine.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Wind.

wizen

verb
  1. To wither; to become, or make, lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness.
adjective
  1. Wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

wizening

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zine

noun
  1. A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.

innie

noun
  1. A navel that is formed of a hollow in the abdomen (as opposed to one that protrudes from the abdomen).
  2. A vagina with inner labia minora