Friday, October 18, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 114

Number of Answers: 25

Points Needed for Genius: 80

Genius requires between 11 and 22 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 81% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% 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 114 was in the 22nd 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 25 possible answers rank it in the 12th 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 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on October 17, 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 167
  • naan 162
  • nana 162
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 123
  • mama 116
  • mamma 116
  • nene 111
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • onto 110
  • toon 110
  • anal 107
  • onion 107
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • anon 104
  • olio 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • baba 99
  • papa 99
  • 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
  • epee 91
  • loon 91
  • peep 91
  • tattoo 91
  • tutu 91
  • nanny 90
  • array 89
  • nada 89


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 91,975 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,298 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*:

  • diff
  • fidging
  • fido
  • figging
  • finning
  • fino
  • fogdog
  • foin
  • foining
  • fonding
  • fondu
  • fonduing
  • fugging
  • fugio
  • fuguing
  • fundi
  • fungoid
  • funning
  • gonif
  • goniff
  • gonof
  • niff
  • niffing
  • nonfood
  • nuff
  • unfond

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

doff

verb
  1. (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing.
  2. To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect.
  3. To get rid of, to throw off.
  4. To strip; to divest; to undress.

doffing

verb
  1. (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing.
  2. To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect.
  3. To get rid of, to throw off.
  4. To strip; to divest; to undress.
noun
  1. The act by which an item of clothing is doffed.

duff

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Dough.
  2. A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
  3. A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
  2. Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
  3. Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
  4. A mixture of coal and rock.
  5. The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
  6. Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit, a worthless thing.
  7. (1800s) An error.
adjective
  1. Worthless; not working properly, defective.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The buttocks.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To disguise something to make it look new.
  2. To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
  3. (with "up") To beat up.
  4. To hit the ground behind the ball.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East.

duffing

verb
  1. To disguise something to make it look new.
  2. To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
  3. (with "up") To beat up.
  4. To hit the ground behind the ball.

fifing

verb
  1. To play this instrument.

find

noun
  1. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
  2. The act of finding.
verb
  1. To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
  2. To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
  3. (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
  4. To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
  5. To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
  6. To point out.
  7. (ditransitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
  8. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
  9. To supply; to furnish.
  10. To provide for
  11. To determine or judge.
  12. To discover game.

finding

verb
  1. To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
  2. To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
  3. (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
  4. To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
  5. To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
  6. To point out.
  7. (ditransitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
  8. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
  9. To supply; to furnish.
  10. To provide for
  11. To determine or judge.
  12. To discover game.
noun
  1. A result of research or an investigation.
  2. A formal conclusion by a judge, jury or regulatory agency on issues of fact.
  3. That which is found, a find, a discovery.
  4. The act of discovering something by chance, an instance of finding something by chance.
  5. (generally plural) Tools or materials used in shoe making or repair.
  6. A self-contained component of assembled jewellery.

fining

verb
  1. To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
  2. To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
  3. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
  4. To change by fine gradations.
  5. To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
  6. To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
verb
  1. To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
  2. To pay a fine.
verb
  1. To finish; to cease.
  2. To cause to cease; to stop.

fogging

verb
  1. To become covered with or as if with fog.
  2. To become obscured in condensation or water.
  3. To become dim or obscure.
  4. To make dim or obscure.
  5. To cover with or as if with fog.
  6. To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
  7. To obscure in condensation or water.
  8. To make confusing or obscure.
  9. To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
verb
  1. To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
  2. To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
noun
  1. The dispersal of insecticide into a forest canopy so as to collect organisms.

fond

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of.
  2. To caress; to fondle.
adjective
  1. (chiefly with of) Having a liking or affection (for).
  2. Affectionate.
  3. Indulgent.
  4. Outlandish; foolish; silly.
  5. Foolish; simple; weak.
  6. Doted on; regarded with affection.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The background design in lace-making.
  2. Brown residue in pans from cooking meats and vegetables.
  3. A group of records having shared provenance.
  4. Foundation; bottom; groundwork.
  5. Fund, stock, or store.

food

noun
  1. Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
  2. A foodstuff.
  3. Anything that nourishes or sustains.

found

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
  2. To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
  3. (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
  4. To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
  5. To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
  6. To point out.
  7. (ditransitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
  8. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
  9. To supply; to furnish.
  10. To provide for
  11. To determine or judge.
  12. To discover game.
noun
  1. Food and lodging; board.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To start (an institution or organization).
  2. To begin building.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
  2. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

founding

verb
  1. To start (an institution or organization).
  2. To begin building.
verb
  1. To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
  2. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
noun
  1. The establishment of something.
adjective
  1. Who or that founds or found.

fudging

verb
  1. To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
  2. To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral.
  3. To botch or bungle something.
  4. To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
noun
  1. The act of something being fudged, altered so as to hide a flaw or uncertainty.

fugu

noun
  1. Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins.

fund

noun
  1. A sum or source of money.
  2. An organization managing such money.
  3. A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
  4. A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
verb
  1. To pay for.
  2. To place (money) in a fund.
  3. To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.

funding

verb
  1. To pay for.
  2. To place (money) in a fund.
  3. To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.
noun
  1. The action of the verb fund.
  2. Money provided as funds.

fungi

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.
  2. A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of ukulele, banjo, guitar and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A cornmeal dish eaten in the Caribbean, usually made with okra and served with salt fish, shellfish or chicken; variant recipes are also known as cou-cou (coucou) or coo-coo (coocoo).

fungo

noun
  1. A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
  2. A fungo bat.

goof

noun
  1. A mistake or error.
  2. A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.
  3. A child molester.
verb
  1. To make a mistake.
  2. To engage in mischief.

goofing

verb
  1. To make a mistake.
  2. To engage in mischief.

guff

noun
  1. Nonsensical talk or thinking.
  2. Superfluous information.
  3. Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
  4. A fart; act of breaking wind.
verb
  1. To fart.
  2. To mislead.

info

noun
  1. Information.

offing

verb
  1. To kill.
  2. To switch off.
noun
  1. The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.
  2. The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.
  3. The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing.

unfound

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