Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 143

Number of Answers: 36

Points Needed for Genius: 100

Genius requires between 16 and 31 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 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 143 was in the 38th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on October 13, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 36 possible answers rank it in the 44th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on October 13, 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 14, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
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 91,857 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*:

  • abmho
  • abohm
  • amah
  • bhoot
  • brahma
  • haar
  • haha
  • hammam
  • hmmm
  • homa
  • homo
  • horah
  • moho
  • ortho
  • rath
  • rhomb
  • tahr
  • tathata
  • tharm
  • thoro
  • thro
  • toroth

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

abhor

verb
  1. To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
  2. To fill with horror or disgust.
  3. To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
  4. (canon law) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
  5. To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; construed with from.
  6. Differ entirely from.

arhat

noun
  1. One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.
  2. One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta.

baht

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. Without (Yorkshire dialect, famously part of the song title On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at)

bath

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
  2. A building or area where bathing occurs.
  3. The act of bathing.
  4. A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
verb
  1. To wash a person or animal in a bath
noun
  1. A room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
  2. A lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).

bathmat

noun
  1. A small mat used next to a bathtub to absorb water and thus prevent slipping.

bathroom

noun
  1. A room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
  2. A lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub.

boho

noun
  1. A bohemian.
  2. A style of female fashion drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences, popular in the mid-first decade of the 21st century.
adjective
  1. Bohemian.

boohoo

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To cry, weep.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The sailfish.

booth

noun
  1. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
  2. An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person.
  3. An enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café.
  4. An enclosure for keeping animals.

both

pronoun
  1. Each of the two, or of the two kinds.
conjunction
  1. Including both of (used with and).
  2. Including all of (used with and).

broth

noun
  1. Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.
  2. A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

haboob

noun
  1. A violent sandstorm or duststorm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America.

haram

noun
  1. A sin.
adjective
  1. (fiqh) Forbidden by Islam: unlawful, sinful.

harbor

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any place of shelter.
  2. A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.
  3. (glassworking) A mixing box for materials.
  4. A house of the zodiac, or the mansion of a heavenly body.
  5. Shelter, refuge.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To provide a harbor or safe place for.
  2. To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.
  3. To drive (a hunted stag) to covert.
  4. To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.

harm

noun
  1. Physical injury; hurt; damage
  2. Emotional or figurative hurt
  3. Detriment; misfortune.
  4. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
verb
  1. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

hart

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
  2. A red deer or one of related species.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
  2. Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
  3. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
  4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
  5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
  6. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
  7. Personality, disposition.
  8. A wight or being.
  9. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.
  10. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
  11. The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
  12. The centre, essence, or core.

hath

verb
  1. To possess, own.
  2. To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
  3. Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
  4. To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
  5. To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
  6. To experience, go through, undergo.
  7. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
  8. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
  9. Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
  10. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
  11. To give birth to.
  12. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
  13. To accept as a romantic partner.
  14. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
  15. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
  16. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
  17. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
  18. To defeat in a fight; take.
  19. (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
  20. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
  21. To trick, to deceive.
  22. (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
  23. (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
  24. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
  25. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
  26. (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
  27. To make an observation of (a bird species).

hoar

noun
  1. A white or greyish-white colour.
  2. Hoariness; antiquity.
verb
  1. To become mouldy or musty.
adjective
  1. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
  2. Hoarily bearded.
  3. Musty; mouldy; stale.

hobo

noun
  1. A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum.
  2. Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not.
  3. A kind of large handbag.
verb
  1. (perhaps pejorative) To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.

hoorah

No Definition Found.

hoot

noun
  1. A derisive cry or shout.
  2. The cry of an owl.
  3. A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
  4. A small particle.
verb
  1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
  2. To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.
  3. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
  4. To sound the horn of a vehicle

hora

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods.

horror

noun
  1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
  2. Something horrible; that which excites horror.
  3. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  4. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
  5. An individual work in this genre.
  6. A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
  7. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
  8. (plural) Delirium tremens.

mahatma

noun
  1. An epithet granted in India and Tibet to people thought to have great knowledge and love of humanity
  2. Such a person.

mammoth

noun
  1. Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
  2. A mastodon.
  3. Something very large of its kind.
adjective
  1. Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.

math

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A mowing; what is gathered from mowing.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math).
  2. A math course.
verb
  1. To do mathematical calculations
noun
  1. An abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure, change and the relationships between these concepts.
  2. A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram.

moth

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
  2. Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
verb
  1. To hunt for moths.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small particle; a speck.
noun
  1. A meeting for discussion.
  2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
  3. A place of meeting for discussion.
noun
  1. A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.
noun
  1. A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.

oath

noun
  1. A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
  2. A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
  3. A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
  4. A curse, a curse word.
verb
  1. To pledge.

that

noun
  1. Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
adverb
  1. (degree) To a given extent or degree.
  2. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
  3. To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
pronoun
  1. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
  2. The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
  3. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
  4. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
  5. Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
conjunction
  1. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
  2. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
  3. Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
  4. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
  5. Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
  6. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
  7. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
  8. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.

throat

noun
  1. The front part of the neck.
  2. The gullet or windpipe.
  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
  4. Station throat.
  5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
  6. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  7. That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
  8. The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
  9. The inside of a timber knee.
  10. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
verb
  1. To utter in or with the throat.
  2. To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
  3. To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

throb

noun
  1. A beating, vibration or palpitation.
verb
  1. To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
  2. To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.
  3. (of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.

tooth

noun
  1. A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  2. A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  3. A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
  4. A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
  5. A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  6. The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
  7. Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
  8. An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
verb
  1. To provide or furnish with teeth.
  2. To indent; to jag.
  3. To lock into each other, like gear wheels.

torah

No Definition Found.

troth

noun
  1. An oath, pledge, or promise.
  2. Truth; something true.
verb
  1. To pledge to marry somebody.

athrob

No Definition Found.

hatha

No Definition Found.