Tuesday, November 5, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 163

Number of Answers: 40

Points Needed for Genius: 114

Genius requires between 16 and 36 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 86% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 63% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 163 was in the 49th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on November 4, 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 November 2, 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 November 3, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
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 179
  • toot 169
  • naan 163
  • nana 163
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 123
  • mama 119
  • mamma 119
  • acacia 113
  • acai 113
  • nene 113
  • onto 111
  • toon 111
  • anal 107
  • onion 107
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • anon 105
  • olio 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • papa 100
  • baba 99
  • dodo 98
  • poop 98
  • mitt 97
  • allay 96
  • ally 96
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • ratatat 96
  • tart 96
  • tartar 96
  • attar 95
  • cocci 95
  • tatty 95
  • tact 94
  • mono 93
  • moon 93
  • epee 92
  • peep 92
  • tattoo 92
  • ammo 91
  • loon 91
  • momma 91
  • tutu 91
  • nanny 90


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 92,772 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,324 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*:

  • acmatic
  • acmic
  • amia
  • amici
  • amidic
  • amido
  • amitotic
  • atma
  • cadmic
  • coadmit
  • cocomat
  • comatic
  • comitia
  • comm
  • commata
  • commo
  • daimio
  • domic
  • dotcom
  • imid
  • imidic
  • imido
  • macaco
  • madtom
  • mammati
  • matt
  • mattoid
  • miotic
  • mitotic
  • modi
  • modica
  • momi
  • motmot
  • mott
  • ommatidia
  • oomiac
  • tomcod
  • toom

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

admit

verb
  1. To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration
  2. To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.
  3. To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny
  4. To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
  5. To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).
  6. To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

amid

preposition
  1. In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by.

ammo

noun
  1. Ammunition.
verb
  1. To load up on ammunition.

atom

noun
  1. The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
  2. (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.
  3. The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
  4. In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.
  5. The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
  6. A mote of dust in a sunbeam.
  7. A very small amount; a whit.
  8. (Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.
  9. A non-zero member of a Boolean algebra that is not a union of any other elements. Or, a non-zero member of a Boolean lattice that has only zero below it.
  10. An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement.
  11. (usually capitalised as "Atom") A member of an age group division in hockey for ten- to 11-year-olds.

atomic

noun
  1. An atomic operation.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
  2. Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
  3. Infinitesimally small.
  4. Unable to be split or made any smaller.
  5. Of an operation: guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
  6. (of a commit in a VCS) Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.

cami

noun
  1. A camisole.

camo

noun
  1. A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
  2. Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
verb
  1. To camouflage.
  2. To put on camouflage clothing.

coma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
  2. A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
  3. A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

comic

noun
  1. A comedian.
  2. A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
  3. A children's newspaper.
adjective
  1. Funny; amusing; comical.
  2. Relating to comedy.

comma

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.
verb
  1. To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

commit

noun
  1. The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
verb
  1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
  2. To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.
  3. To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
  4. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  5. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
  6. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
  7. To make a set of changes permanent.
  8. (Latinism) To confound.
  9. To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  10. To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

dammit

noun
  1. The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.
interjection
  1. (mildly) Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.

diatom

noun
  1. Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta.

diatomic

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A diatomic molecule or other species
adjective
  1. (of a molecule etc.) Consisting of two atoms.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Of or relating to diatoms.

doom

noun
  1. Destiny, especially terrible.
  2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
  3. A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
  4. A law.
  5. A judgment or decision.
  6. A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
  7. Death.
  8. (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
verb
  1. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
  2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
  3. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
  4. To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  5. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

idiom

noun
  1. A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, person, or group of people.
  2. A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.
  3. An established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words, often peculiar to a given language.
  4. An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
  5. A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.

idiomatic

noun
  1. A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, person, or group of people.
  2. A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.
  3. An established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words, often peculiar to a given language.
  4. An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
  5. A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.
adjective
  1. Pertaining or conforming to the natural mode of expression of a language.
  2. Containing or using many idioms.
  3. Resembling or characteristic of an idiom.
  4. Parts or pieces which are written both within the natural physical limitations of the instrument and human body and, less so or less often, the styles of playing used on specific instruments.

imam

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

macadam

noun
  1. The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic).
  2. Any road or street.
verb
  1. To cover or surface with macadam.

macadamia

noun
  1. An evergreen tree, of the genus Macadamia, native to Australia and cultivated in Hawaii.
  2. The fruit of this tree; the macadamia nut.

madam

noun
  1. A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
  2. The mistress of a household.
  3. A conceited or quarrelsome girl.
  4. A woman who runs a brothel, particularly one that specializes in finding prostitutes for rich and important clients.
verb
  1. To address as "madam".

maid

noun
  1. A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
  2. A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
  3. A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.

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.

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.

mica

noun
  1. Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.

midi

noun
  1. A native or inhabitant of Berlin.
  2. A doughnut with a sweet filling.
  3. A newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 315 by 470 millimetres (12.4 in × 18.5 inches), slightly taller and wider than a tabloid but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet.
noun
  1. A coat or skirt having such a hemline.
adjective
  1. Having a hemline at mid-calf length.

mimic

noun
  1. A person who practices mimicry, or mime.
  2. An imitation.
verb
  1. To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
  2. To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
  2. Mock, pretended.
  3. Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

mitt

noun
  1. A mitten
  2. An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
  3. (especially in plural) A hand.

moat

noun
  1. A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
  2. An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.
  3. A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
  4. A hill or mound.
verb
  1. To surround with a moat.

momma

noun
  1. Mother
  2. A voluptuous woman.
  3. One's wife or girlfriend.

mood

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A mental or emotional state, composure.
  2. Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
  3. A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
  4. A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.
  5. A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
  6. A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.
  7. Courage, heart, valor; also vim and vigor.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

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.

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.

tatami

noun
  1. Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses

timid

adjective
  1. Lacking in courage or confidence.

tomato

noun
  1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
  2. The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.
  3. A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
  4. A desirable-looking woman.
  5. A stupid act or person.
verb
  1. To pelt with tomatoes
  2. To add tomatoes to (a dish)

tomcat

noun
  1. A tom, a male cat.
verb
  1. To prowl for sexual gratification.

tomtit

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