Sunday, October 13, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 69

Number of Answers: 24

Points Needed for Genius: 48

Genius requires between 7 and 23 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 89% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 61% of the remaining points to reach genius.

The button below will reveal a chart with the number of words by each letter. Red bars indicate that there is a pangram(s) starting with that letter.


How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 69 was in the 1st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on March 27, 2023.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 24 possible answers rank it in the 10th 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 an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on October 8, 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 184
  • loll 176
  • toot 166
  • naan 162
  • nana 162
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 122
  • mama 116
  • mamma 116
  • nene 111
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • onto 109
  • toon 109
  • anal 107
  • onion 107
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • anon 104
  • olio 103
  • 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
  • mono 92
  • moon 92
  • tact 92
  • loon 91
  • tattoo 91
  • epee 90
  • nanny 90
  • peep 90
  • tutu 90
  • array 89
  • nada 89


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 91,781 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,282 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*:

  • akee
  • akela
  • ekka
  • kaka
  • kata
  • keef
  • keek
  • keet
  • kelt
  • keta
  • ketol
  • kloof
  • koel
  • kofta
  • kolo
  • koto
  • leke
  • taka
  • talooka

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

fake

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
  2. A trick; a swindle.
  3. A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
verb
  1. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  2. To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
  3. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
  4. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
adjective
  1. Not real; false, fraudulent.
  2. (of people) Insincere.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
verb
  1. To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

flak

noun
  1. Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
  2. Anti-aircraft shell fire.
  3. Adverse criticism.
  4. A public-relations spokesperson.

flake

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
  2. A scale of a fish or similar animal
  3. A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  4. A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
  5. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  6. A flat turn or tier of rope.
verb
  1. To break or chip off in a flake.
  2. To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  3. To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
  4. To hit (another person).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Dogfish.
  2. The meat of the gummy shark.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
  2. A trick; a swindle.
  3. A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
noun
  1. One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
noun
  1. A paling; a hurdle.
  2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
  3. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.

folk

noun
  1. A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
  2. The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
  3. (plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
  4. Folk music.
  5. People in general.
  6. A particular group of people.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
  2. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
  3. Of or related to local building materials and styles.
  4. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.

folktale

noun
  1. A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place.

kale

noun
  1. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
  2. Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.
  3. Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient.
  4. Money.

keel

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Red chalk; ruddle.
verb
  1. To mark with ruddle.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  2. To render inoperative.
  3. To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.
  4. To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.
  5. To cause great pain, discomfort or distress to.
  6. To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
  7. To use up or to waste.
  8. To exert an overwhelming effect on.
  9. To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.
  10. To force a company out of business.
  11. To produce intense pain.
  12. To punish severely.
  13. To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
  14. To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
  15. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
  16. To cause to assume the value zero.
  17. (IRC) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
  18. To deadmelt.

keto

No Definition Found.

kettle

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
  2. The quantity held by a kettle.
  3. A vessel for boiling water for tea.
  4. A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
  5. (collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
  6. A steam locomotive
  7. A kettledrum.
  8. An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
verb
  1. (of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.

koala

noun
  1. A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.

kola

noun
  1. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
  2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
noun
  1. A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract.
  2. A nut of this tree.

kook

noun
  1. An eccentric, strange or crazy person.
  2. (kiteboarding, wakeboarding) A boardsport participant who lacks style or skill; a newbie who acts as if they are better at the sport than they are.

lake

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
  2. A large, landlocked stretch of water.
  3. A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
  4. A pit, or ditch

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An offering, sacrifice, gift.
  2. Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
verb
  1. To present an offering.
  2. To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A kind of fine, white linen.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
  2. In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
verb
  1. To make lake-red.

latke

noun
  1. A pancake fried in oil, usually made from potatoes and sometimes also onions, traditionally served on Hanukkah.

leak

noun
  1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
  2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
  3. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
  4. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
  5. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
  6. The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
  7. (especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
verb
  1. To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  2. (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  3. To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
adjective
  1. Leaky.

leek

noun
  1. The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
  2. Any of several species of Allium, broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.

look

No Definition Found.

take

noun
  1. The or an act of taking.
  2. Something that is taken; a haul.
  3. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
  4. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
  5. A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
  6. A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
  7. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
  8. An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
  9. A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
  10. The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
verb
  1. To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
  2. To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
  3. To remove.
  4. To have sex with.
  5. To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
  6. To grasp or grip.
  7. To select or choose; to pick.
  8. To adopt (select) as one's own.
  9. To carry or lead (something or someone).
  10. To use as a means of transportation.
  11. To visit; to include in a course of travel.
  12. To obtain for use by payment or lease.
  13. To consume.
  14. To experience, undergo, or endure.
  15. To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
  16. To regard in a specified way.
  17. To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
  18. To understand (especially in a specified way).
  19. To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
  20. To believe, to accept the statements of.
  21. To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
  22. To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
  23. To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
  24. To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
  25. To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
  26. To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
  27. (of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
  28. (of a ship) To let in (water).
  29. To require.
  30. To proceed to fill.
  31. To fill, to use up (time or space).
  32. To avail oneself of.
  33. To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
  34. To assume or perform (a form or role).
  35. To bind oneself by.
  36. To move into.
  37. To go into, through, or along.
  38. To have and use one's recourse to.
  39. To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
  40. To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
  41. To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
  42. To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
  43. To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
  44. (now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
  45. To deal with.
  46. To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
  47. To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
  48. To accept as an input to a relation.
  49. To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
  50. To engage, take hold or have effect.
  51. To become; to be affected in a specified way.
  52. (possibly obsolete) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
  53. An intensifier.
  54. To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
  55. (obsolete outside dialectal and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.

takeoff

noun
  1. The rising or ascent of an aircraft or rocket into flight.
  2. A parody or lampoon of someone or something.
  3. A quantification, especially of building materials.
  4. The removal of sheets from the press.
  5. The spot from which one takes off; specifically, the place from which a jumper rises in leaping.

talk

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To communicate, usually by means of speech.
  2. To discuss; to talk about.
  3. To speak (a certain language).
  4. (chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
  5. To confess, especially implicating others.
  6. To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
  7. To gossip; to create scandal.
  8. (chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
  2. A lecture.
  3. Gossip; rumour.
  4. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
  5. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child about a reality of life; in particular:
  6. (not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
  7. (usually plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.

teak

noun
  1. An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).
  2. A tree of the species in the genus Tectona
  3. A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.
adjective
  1. Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.

teakettle

noun
  1. (obsolete outside United States) A vessel for boiling water for tea.

toke

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (casinos) A gratuity.
verb
  1. To give a gratuity to.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A puff of marijuana.
verb
  1. To smoke marijuana.
  2. To inhale a puff of marijuana

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A piece of bread.

took

verb
  1. To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
  2. To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
  3. To remove.
  4. To have sex with.
  5. To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
  6. To grasp or grip.
  7. To select or choose; to pick.
  8. To adopt (select) as one's own.
  9. To carry or lead (something or someone).
  10. To use as a means of transportation.
  11. To visit; to include in a course of travel.
  12. To obtain for use by payment or lease.
  13. To consume.
  14. To experience, undergo, or endure.
  15. To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
  16. To regard in a specified way.
  17. To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
  18. To understand (especially in a specified way).
  19. To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
  20. To believe, to accept the statements of.
  21. To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
  22. To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
  23. To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
  24. To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
  25. To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
  26. To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
  27. (of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
  28. (of a ship) To let in (water).
  29. To require.
  30. To proceed to fill.
  31. To fill, to use up (time or space).
  32. To avail oneself of.
  33. To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
  34. To assume or perform (a form or role).
  35. To bind oneself by.
  36. To move into.
  37. To go into, through, or along.
  38. To have and use one's recourse to.
  39. To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
  40. To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
  41. To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
  42. To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
  43. To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
  44. (now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
  45. To deal with.
  46. To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
  47. To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
  48. To accept as an input to a relation.
  49. To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
  50. To engage, take hold or have effect.
  51. To become; to be affected in a specified way.
  52. (possibly obsolete) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
  53. An intensifier.
  54. To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
  55. (obsolete outside dialectal and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.