Monday, October 14, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 193

Number of Answers: 40

Points Needed for Genius: 135

Genius requires between 20 and 33 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 76% 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 193 was in the 64th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 11, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 40 possible answers rank it in the 54th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on October 12, 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 12, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.5.
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 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 91,821 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,286 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*:

  • dedendum
  • deme
  • deplume
  • deplumed
  • emeu
  • lumpen
  • meed
  • mell
  • melled
  • mudded
  • muled
  • mullen
  • mumm
  • mummed
  • mump
  • mumped
  • mumu
  • neem
  • neum
  • neume
  • numen
  • pellmell
  • peplumed
  • plumpen
  • plumpened
  • plumule
  • pudendum
  • pummelled
  • ummed
  • unmended

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

deem

noun
  1. An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.
verb
  1. To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
  2. To adjudge, to decree.
  3. To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
  4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
  5. To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

deemed

verb
  1. To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
  2. To adjudge, to decree.
  3. To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
  4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
  5. To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
adjective
  1. An accreditation awarded to higher educational institutions in India.

dumdum

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An ignorant person; an idiot.

dump

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
  2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
  4. An act of dumping, or its result.
  5. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program
  6. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
  7. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
  8. (often with the verb "take") An act of defecation; a defecating.
  9. (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency
  10. Absence of mind; revery.
  11. A pile of ore or rock.
  12. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
  13. An old kind of dance.
  14. A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
  15. A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
verb
  1. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
  2. To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
  3. To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
  4. To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  5. To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
  6. To end a relationship with.
  7. To knock heavily; to stump.
  8. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
  9. To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A thick, ill-shapen piece.
  2. A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

dumped

verb
  1. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
  2. To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
  3. To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
  4. To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  5. To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
  6. To end a relationship with.
  7. To knock heavily; to stump.
  8. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
  9. To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

emend

verb
  1. To correct and revise (text or a document).

emended

verb
  1. To correct and revise (text or a document).

lumen

noun
  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm.
  2. The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ.
  3. The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall.
  4. The bore of a tube such as a hollow needle or catheter.

lump

noun
  1. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
  2. A group, set, or unit.
  3. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
  4. A dull or lazy person.
  5. (as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
  6. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
  7. A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
  8. Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
verb
  1. To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
  2. To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.
  3. To hit or strike (a person).

lumped

verb
  1. To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
  2. To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.
  3. To hit or strike (a person).

meddle

verb
  1. To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.
  2. To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
  3. To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.
  4. To have sex.

meddled

verb
  1. To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.
  2. To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
  3. To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.
  4. To have sex.

meld

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To combine multiple similar objects into one

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A combination of cards which is melded.
verb
  1. In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.

melded

verb
  1. To combine multiple similar objects into one
verb
  1. In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.

melee

noun
  1. A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
  2. A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.
  3. Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.
  4. Lively contention or debate, skirmish.
  5. A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.
  6. Small cut and polished gemstones sold in lots.
verb
  1. To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.

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.

mend

noun
  1. A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
  2. The act of repairing.
verb
  1. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement.
  2. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
  3. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
  4. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

mended

verb
  1. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement.
  2. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
  3. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
  4. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

menu

noun
  1. The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
  2. A list of dishes offered in a restaurant.
  3. A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface

muddle

noun
  1. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
  2. A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.
verb
  1. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
  2. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
  3. To dabble in mud.
  4. To make turbid or muddy.
  5. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
  6. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
  7. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.

muddled

verb
  1. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
  2. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
  3. To dabble in mud.
  4. To make turbid or muddy.
  5. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
  6. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
  7. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
adjective
  1. Confused, disorganised, in disarray.

mule

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
  2. The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
  3. A hybrid plant.
  4. A stubborn person.
  5. A person paid to smuggle drugs.
  6. A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
  7. A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
  8. Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
  9. A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
  10. A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
verb
  1. To smuggle (illegal drugs).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.

mull

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A thin, soft muslin.
  2. Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
  3. A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
  4. The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
  5. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
verb
  1. (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
  2. To powder; to pulverize.
  3. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
  4. To heat and spice something, such as wine.
  5. To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
  6. To dull or stupefy.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A promontory.
  2. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Dirt; rubbish

mulled

verb
  1. (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
  2. To powder; to pulverize.
  3. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
  4. To heat and spice something, such as wine.
  5. To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
  6. To dull or stupefy.

muumuu

noun
  1. A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches).

pendulum

noun
  1. A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.
  2. A lamp, etc. suspended from a ceiling.
  3. A watch's guard-ring by which it is attached to a chain.

penmen

noun
  1. A scribe, or person who copies texts
  2. A journalist or other author

peplum

noun
  1. A genre of Italian films based on historical or biblical epics.
  2. An individual film in this genre.
noun
  1. A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. Compare the Roman palla.
  2. A veil.

plenum

noun
  1. A space that is completely filled with matter.
  2. A state of fullness, a great quantity (of something).
  3. A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present.
  4. An enclosed space having greater than atmospheric pressure.
  5. The space above a false ceiling used for cables, ducts etc.
  6. A type of network cabling which satisfies plenum-ratings issued by the National Electrical Code. These cables produce less smoke and fumes in the event of fire.

plum

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The fruit and its tree.
  2. Extended senses.
adjective
  1. Of a dark bluish-red colour.
  2. Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To plumb.
adjective
  1. Plumb
adverb
  1. Completely; utterly.

plume

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.
  2. A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle.
  3. A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
  4. The vane of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
  5. Short for plume moth.
  6. Things resembling a feather.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.
  2. Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence , to prepare for (something).
  3. (by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate.
  4. To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.
  5. Of a dispersed substance such as dust or smoke: to fan out or spread in a cloud.

plumed

verb
  1. To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.
  2. Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence , to prepare for (something).
  3. (by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate.
  4. To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.
  5. Of a dispersed substance such as dust or smoke: to fan out or spread in a cloud.
adjective
  1. Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.

plump

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To grow plump; to swell out.
  2. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
  3. To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
  4. To give a plumper (kind of vote).
  5. To give (a vote), as a plumper.
  6. To favor or decide in favor of something.
adjective
  1. Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
  2. Fat.
  3. Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
verb
  1. To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
adverb
  1. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.

plumped

verb
  1. To grow plump; to swell out.
  2. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
  3. To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
  4. To give a plumper (kind of vote).
  5. To give (a vote), as a plumper.
  6. To favor or decide in favor of something.
verb
  1. To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.

pummel

noun
  1. The upper front brow of a saddle.
  2. A rounded knob or handle.
  3. The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball.
verb
  1. To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.

pummeled

verb
  1. To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.

pump

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
  2. An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
  3. A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
  4. A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
  5. A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
  6. The heart.
  7. (British slang) The vagina.
verb
  1. To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
  2. (often followed by up) To fill with air.
  3. To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
  4. To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
  5. To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
  6. To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
  7. To be going very well.
  8. To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.
  9. To pass gas; to fart.
  10. To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
  11. (British slang) To copulate.
  12. To weightlift.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker.
  2. A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)
  3. A dancing shoe.
  4. A type of shoe without a heel.

pumped

verb
  1. To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
  2. (often followed by up) To fill with air.
  3. To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
  4. To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
  5. To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
  6. To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
  7. To be going very well.
  8. To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.
  9. To pass gas; to fart.
  10. To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
  11. (British slang) To copulate.
  12. To weightlift.
adjective
  1. Pumped up.
  2. Wearing pumps (the type of shoe).
  3. Very tired, especially when too fatigued to grip handholds well.

umped

verb
  1. To act as an umpire.

memed

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