Monday, October 28, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 261

Number of Answers: 48

Points Needed for Genius: 183

Genius requires between 25 and 40 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 74% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 261 was in the 87th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 20, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 48 possible answers rank it in the 73rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on October 27, 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 25, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.9.
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 185
  • loll 177
  • toot 167
  • naan 162
  • nana 162
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 123
  • mama 117
  • mamma 117
  • nene 113
  • acacia 112
  • acai 112
  • onto 111
  • toon 111
  • anal 107
  • onion 107
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • anon 104
  • olio 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • baba 99
  • papa 99
  • dodo 98
  • poop 98
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • mitt 96
  • ratatat 96
  • tart 96
  • tartar 96
  • allay 95
  • ally 95
  • attar 95
  • cocci 95
  • tatty 95
  • tact 94
  • mono 93
  • moon 93
  • epee 92
  • peep 92
  • loon 91
  • tattoo 91
  • tutu 91
  • nanny 90
  • ammo 89
  • array 89


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 92,408 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,308 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*:

  • agama
  • agma
  • amain
  • amarna
  • amia
  • amiga
  • amin
  • amir
  • amnia
  • animi
  • gagman
  • gama
  • gamming
  • grama
  • griming
  • inarm
  • inarming
  • maar
  • magian
  • mair
  • mana
  • manana
  • manganin
  • mannan
  • mara
  • margarin
  • margining
  • maria
  • marram
  • mawing
  • mawn
  • migg
  • mina
  • miri
  • nimming
  • ragman
  • rami
  • ramin
  • riming
  • wargaming
  • wimmin

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

aiming

verb
  1. To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it
  2. To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive
  3. To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object
  4. To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group
  5. To guess or conjecture.
noun
  1. The act of one who aims.

airman

noun
  1. A pilot of an aircraft.
  2. A member of an air force.
  3. A person of a rank in the U.S. Air Force above airman basic and below airman first class.
  4. A naval seaman, especially one in the U.S. Navy, who works on and/or handles aircraft.

anagram

noun
  1. (of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
verb
  1. To form anagrams.

anagramming

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anima

noun
  1. The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
  2. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.
  3. (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.

arming

verb
  1. To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
verb
  1. To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
  2. To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
  3. To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
  4. To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
  5. To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
  6. To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
noun
  1. A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
  2. The act of supplying with arms and ammunition in preparation of a conflict
  3. (chiefly in the plural) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.

gamin

noun
  1. A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy.

gaming

verb
  1. To gamble.
  2. To play card games, board games, or video games.
  3. To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
  4. (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
noun
  1. The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.
  2. Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

gamma

noun
  1. The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
  2. The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
  3. A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
  4. A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
  5. (industries) slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
  6. A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change in delta with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
noun
  1. A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.

gram

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea.
  2. The seeds of these plants.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Grandmother

Etymology 4

adjective
  1. Angry

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A photograph or video shared on this service.

gramma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Grandmother

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A variety of pumpkin, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.

grammar

noun
  1. A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
  2. The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
  3. A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
  4. A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
  5. Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
  6. A formal system defining a formal language
  7. The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
  8. A textbook.
  9. A grammar school.
verb
  1. To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

grammarian

noun
  1. A person who studies grammar.

grim

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Specter, ghost, haunting spirit
verb
  1. To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
adjective
  1. Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
  2. Rigid and unrelenting
  3. Ghastly or sinister
  4. Disgusting; gross

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Anger, wrath.

imaging

verb
  1. To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
  2. To reflect, mirror.
  3. To create an image of.
  4. To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.
noun
  1. The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.
  2. The use of mental images to alter a person's perceptions or behaviors.

imagining

verb
  1. To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
  2. To believe in something created by one's own mind.
  3. To assume
  4. To conjecture or guess
  5. To use one's imagination
  6. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
noun
  1. Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.

imam

noun
  1. (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
  2. One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

magi

noun
  1. A magician, wizard or sorcerer.
noun
  1. (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan
  2. (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest

magma

noun
  1. The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
  2. A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
  3. Any soft doughy mass.
  4. The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.

maim

noun
  1. A serious wound
verb
  1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

maiming

verb
  1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
noun
  1. The act by which somebody is maimed.

main

Etymology 1

verb
  1. Short for mainline.
  2. To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game.
  3. Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road.
adjective
  1. Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
  2. Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
  3. (of force, strength, etc.) Full, sheer, undivided.
  4. Big; angry.
  5. Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
  6. Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
adverb
  1. Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
  2. A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
  3. Short for main course.
  4. The high seas.
  5. The mainland.
  6. Short for mainsail.
  7. (except in might and main) Force, power, strength, violent effort.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A hand or match in a game of dice.
  2. The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.
  3. A stake played for at dice.
  4. A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
  5. A banker's shovel for coins.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A basket for gathering grapes.

mama

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mamma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
  2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

managing

verb
  1. To direct or be in charge of.
  2. To handle or control (a situation, job).
  3. To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
  4. To succeed at an attempt.
  5. To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
  6. To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
  7. To treat with care; to husband.
  8. To bring about; to contrive.
noun
  1. Management

manga

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A comic originating in Japan.
  2. An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese comics, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of comics from other countries.
  3. A comic in manga style, regardless of the country of origin.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A covering for a crucifix.

mania

noun
  1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
  3. The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

manna

noun
  1. Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
  2. (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
  3. The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

manning

verb
  1. To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
  2. To take up position in order to operate (something).
  3. (possibly obsolete) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)
  4. To wait on, attend to or escort.
  5. To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

margin

noun
  1. The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
  2. The edge or border of any flat surface.
  3. The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
  4. A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
  5. A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
  6. The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
  7. Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
verb
  1. To add a margin to.
  2. To enter (notes etc.) into the margin.

marina

noun
  1. A harbour for small boats.

marinara

noun
  1. A marinara sauce.
adjective
  1. Prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce.
  2. Of pasta: In a seafood sauce. Of pizza: With seafood topping.

marring

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.

miming

verb
  1. To mimic.
  2. To act without words.
  3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.
noun
  1. A performance in mime.

mini

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Miniature, tiny, small.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A miniskirt.
  2. A minicomputer.

minim

noun
  1. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
  3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
  5. The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
  7. A small fish; a minnow.
  8. A short poetical encomium.

minima

noun
  1. The lowest limit.
  2. The smallest amount.
  3. A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
  4. A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
  5. The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

mining

verb
  1. To remove (ore) from the ground.
  2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
  3. To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
  4. To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
  5. To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
  6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
  7. (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
  8. To pick one's nose.
  9. To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
noun
  1. The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
  2. Any activity that extracts or undermines.
  3. The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode
  4. Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof-of-work

mirin

noun
  1. A form of Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake.

miring

verb
  1. To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
  2. To sink into mud.
  3. To weigh down.
  4. To soil with mud or foul matter.

naming

verb
  1. (ditransitive) To give a name to.
  2. To mention, specify.
  3. To identify as relevant or important
  4. To publicly implicate.
  5. To designate for a role.
  6. (Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
noun
  1. The process of giving names to things.
  2. A ritual or ceremony in which a person's name is given or announced.
adjective
  1. Giving a name to a person or thing.

ramming

verb
  1. To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.
  2. To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
  3. To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
  4. To thrust during sexual intercourse.
noun
  1. A collision, where something is rammed.

rimming

verb
  1. To form a rim on.
  2. To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
  3. (of a ball) To roll around a rim.
verb
  1. To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act.
noun
  1. The act of performing a rim job; anilingus.

warm

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
  2. Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
  3. Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
  4. Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
  5. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
  6. Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness
  7. Ardent, zealous.
  8. Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
  9. Requiring arduous effort.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
verb
  1. To make or keep warm.
  2. To become warm, to heat up.
  3. To favour increasingly.
  4. To become ardent or animated.
  5. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
  6. To beat or spank.

warming

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To make or keep warm.
  2. To become warm, to heat up.
  3. To favour increasingly.
  4. To become ardent or animated.
  5. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
  6. To beat or spank.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small rise in temperature.
  2. A beating; a thrashing.

wigwam

noun
  1. A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.
  2. (possibly obsolete) Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world.
verb
  1. To dry (flax or straw) by standing it outside in the shape of a wigwam.

wingman

noun
  1. A pilot partner of another, a pilot who flies in the same wing or squadron.
  2. (by extension) a friend who accompanies one to offer (or receive) support, especially in flirting with love interests

marm

noun
  1. Madam; a polite term of address for a lady.