Tuesday, October 29, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 101

Number of Answers: 33

Points Needed for Genius: 71

Genius requires between 11 and 30 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 82% 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 101 was in the 15th 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 33 possible answers rank it in the 35th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on October 26, 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 27, 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 185
  • loll 177
  • toot 168
  • 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 92,441 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*:

  • footy
  • forrit
  • mofo
  • momi
  • moory
  • morro
  • mort
  • motmot
  • mott
  • otto
  • rooty
  • rotiform
  • roto
  • ryot
  • tiro
  • toff
  • toffy
  • toft
  • toit
  • tommy
  • toom
  • torot
  • torr
  • torrify
  • tory
  • totty
  • toyo
  • triform
  • trimotor
  • yomim
  • yoof

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

foot

noun
  1. A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
  2. Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
  3. (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
  4. The base or bottom of anything.
  5. The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
  6. The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
  7. A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
  8. A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
  9. A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
  10. (collective) Foot soldiers; infantry.
  11. (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
  12. The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
  13. The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
  14. The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
  15. The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
  16. The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
  17. The bottom edge of a sail.
  18. The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
  19. In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
  20. The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
  21. The globular lower domain of a protein.
  22. The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
  23. Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
  24. Recognized condition; rank; footing.
verb
  1. To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
  2. To pay (a bill).
  3. To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
  4. To walk.
  5. To tread.
  6. To set on foot; to establish; to land.
  7. To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
  8. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.

form

noun
  1. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
  2. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
  3. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
  4. A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
  5. Level of performance.
  6. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
  7. The den or home of a hare.
  8. A window or dialogue box.
  9. An infraspecific rank.
  10. The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
  11. A quantic.
  12. (fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
verb
  1. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
  2. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
  3. To take shape.
  4. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
  5. To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
  6. To constitute, to compose, to make up.
  7. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
  8. To provide (a hare) with a form.
  9. To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.

fort

noun
  1. A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
  2. Any permanent army post.
  3. An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.
verb
  1. To create a fort, fortifications, a strong point, or a redoubt.

fortify

verb
  1. To increase the defenses of; to strengthen and secure by military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.
  2. To impart strength or vigor to.
  3. To add spirits to wine to increase the alcohol content.
  4. To increase the nutritional value of food by adding ingredients.

forty

noun
  1. A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces.
numeral
  1. The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one.

from

preposition
  1. Used to indicate source or provenance.
  2. Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
  3. Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
  4. Indicating removal or separation.
  5. Indicating exclusion.
  6. Indicating differentiation.
  7. Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
  8. Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.

mirror

noun
  1. A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
  2. An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
  3. A disk, website or other resource that contains replicated data.
  4. A mirror carp.
  5. A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.
verb
  1. Of an event, activity, behaviour, etc, to be identical to, to be a copy of.
  2. To create something identical to (a web site, etc.).
  3. To reflect, as in a mirror.

mommy

noun
  1. (usually childish) Mother.
verb
  1. To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone.
adjective
  1. (chiefly in the superlative) Characteristic of a mother; motherly.

moor

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
  2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cast anchor or become fastened.
  2. To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like
  3. To secure or fix firmly.

moot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moot court.
  2. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
  3. A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  4. A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  5. An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
  6. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
adjective
  1. Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  2. Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  3. Having no practical impact or relevance.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
  2. (rural) Talk.
verb
  1. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  2. To discuss or debate.
  3. To make or declare irrelevant.
  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  5. To talk or speak.
  6. To say, utter, also insinuate.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Vagina.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
verb
  1. To take root and begin to grow.
  2. To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout.

mortify

verb
  1. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
  2. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
  3. To kill.
  4. To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
  5. To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
  6. To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
  7. To grant in mortmain.
  8. To lose vitality.
  9. To gangrene.
  10. To be subdued.

motif

noun
  1. A recurring or dominant element; a theme.
  2. A short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.
  3. A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern.
  4. A decorative appliqué design or figure, as of lace or velvet, used in trimming.
  5. The physical object or objects repeated at each point of a lattice. Usually atoms or molecules.
  6. A basic element of a move in terms of why the piece moves and how it supports the fulfilment of a stipulation.
  7. In a nucleotide or amino-acid sequence, pattern that is widespread and has, or is conjectured to have, a biological significance.

motor

noun
  1. A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
  2. A motor car, or automobile.
  3. A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force.
  4. Any protein capable of converting chemical energy into mechanical work.
  5. The controller or prime mover of the universe; God.
  6. The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
verb
  1. To make a journey by motor vehicle; to drive.
  2. To move at a brisk pace.
  3. To leave.
adjective
  1. Relating to the ability to move
  2. Relating to motor cars
  3. Propelled by an internal combustion engine (as opposed to a steam engine or turbine).

motto

noun
  1. A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
  2. A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
  3. A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

omit

verb
  1. To leave out or exclude.
  2. To fail to perform.
  3. To neglect or take no notice of.

riot

noun
  1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
  2. The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
  3. A wide and unconstrained variety.
  4. Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
verb
  1. To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.
  2. To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.
  3. To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.
  4. To annoy.

roof

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The external covering at the top of a building.
  2. The top external level of a building.
  3. The upper part of a cavity.
  4. The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
  5. (rockclimbing) An overhanging rock wall

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cover or furnish with a roof.
  2. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
  3. To put into prison, to bird.
  4. To shelter as if under a roof.

room

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Opportunity or scope (to do something).
  2. Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
  3. A particular portion of space.
  4. Sufficient space for or to do something.
  5. A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
  6. Place; stead.
  7. A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
  8. (with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
  9. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
  10. (always in the singular, metonymy) The people in a room.
  11. An area for working in a coal mine.
  12. A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
  13. A IRC or chat room.
  14. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
  15. Furniture sufficient to furnish a room.
verb
  1. To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
  2. To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Wide; spacious; roomy.

Etymology 3

adverb
  1. Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
  2. Off from the wind.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A deep blue dye.

roomy

noun
  1. A roommate.
adjective
  1. Spacious, expansive, comfortable.

root

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
  2. A root vegetable.
  3. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
  4. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
  5. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
  6. The primary source; origin.
  7. Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
  8. A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
  9. A zero (of an equation).
  10. The single node of a tree that has no parent.
  11. The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
  12. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
  13. The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
  14. The lowest place, position, or part.
  15. In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
  16. The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
  17. A penis, especially the base of a penis.
verb
  1. To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
  2. To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings
  3. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
  4. To get root or priviledged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An act of sexual intercourse.
  2. A sexual partner.
verb
  1. To turn up or dig with the snout.
  2. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
  3. To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
  4. To root out; to abolish.
  5. To have sexual intercourse.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. (with "for" or "on") To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)

roti

noun
  1. A kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean.

rotor

noun
  1. A rotating part of a mechanical device, for example in an electric motor, generator, alternator or pump.
  2. The wing of a helicopter or similar aircraft.
  3. A quantity having magnitude, direction and position.

tommyrot

noun
  1. Nonsense, rot.

tomtit

noun
  1. Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.

toot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The noise of a horn or whistle.
  2. (by extension) A fart; flatus.
  3. Cocaine.
  4. A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
  5. A spree of drunkness.
  6. (pronounced /tʊt/) Rubbish; tat.
  7. A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
verb
  1. To stand out, or be prominent.
  2. To peep; to look narrowly.
  3. To see; to spy.
  4. To flatulate.
  5. To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
  6. To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
  7. To go on a drinking binge.
  8. To snort (a recreational drug).
  9. To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A toilet.

tori

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A topological space which is a product of two circles.
  2. The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a shape consisting of a ring with a circular cross-section: the shape of an inner tube or hollow doughnut.
  3. (in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles.
  4. A molding which projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.
  5. The end of the peduncle or flower stalk to which the floral parts (or in the Asteraceae, the florets of a flower head) are attached; receptacle, thalamus.
  6. A rounded ridge, especially one on the occipital bone.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. One who executes a technique against the training partner, or uke.

torii

noun
  1. A traditional Japanese gate at Shinto shrines, symbolically marking the transition from the profane to the sacred.

toro

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A traditional Japanese lantern.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Rapanea salicina, a species of shrub or small tree native to New Zealand.

tort

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An injury or wrong.
  2. A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
  3. (only in the plural torts) Tort law (the area of law dealing with such wrongful acts).

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tart; sharp.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Stretched tight; taut.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A tortoise.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A tortoiseshell (animal with coloured markings on fur).

trio

noun
  1. A group of three people or things.
  2. A group of three musicians.
  3. A piece of music written for three musicians.
  4. A passage in the middle of a minuet, frequently in a different key.
  5. Any cocktail made with a spirit, a liqueur, and a creamy ingredient.

trot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
  2. Equipment with legs.
  3. Type of equipment.
  4. A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
  5. The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
  6. An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).
  7. (among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
  8. (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery
noun
  1. Heroin (drug).
noun
  1. An ugly old woman, a hag.
  2. (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
  3. A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
  4. A brisk journey or progression.
  5. A toddler.
  6. A young animal.
  7. A moderately rapid dance.
  8. A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
  9. (with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
  10. (as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
verb
  1. To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
  2. (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
  3. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A supporter of Trotskyism.

troy

adjective
  1. Of, or relating to, troy weight.

tyro

noun
  1. A beginner; a novice.