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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 185

Number of Answers: 44

Points Needed for Genius: 130

Genius requires between 21 and 38 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 76% 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 185 was in the 60th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 3, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 44 possible answers rank it in the 64th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 3, 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 November 4, 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 108
  • onion 107
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • anon 105
  • olio 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • papa 100
  • baba 99
  • dodo 98
  • poop 98
  • allay 97
  • ally 97
  • mitt 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • ratatat 96
  • tart 96
  • tartar 96
  • attar 95
  • cocci 95
  • tact 95
  • tatty 95
  • mono 93
  • moon 93
  • epee 92
  • peep 92
  • tattoo 92
  • tutu 92
  • ammo 91
  • loon 91
  • momma 91
  • nanny 90


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 92,852 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,328 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*:

  • aceta
  • acta
  • acuate
  • cate
  • catechu
  • cathect
  • cete
  • chaeta
  • chaetae
  • chetah
  • cheth
  • cutch
  • eath
  • echt
  • haet
  • haut
  • heth
  • tace
  • tache
  • tate
  • tathata
  • tecta
  • teth
  • teuch
  • thae
  • theca
  • thecae
  • thecate

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

acetate

noun
  1. Any salt or ester of acetic acid.
  2. Cellulose acetate.
  3. A transparent sheet used for overlays.
  4. Ellipsis of acetate disc: a disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.

actuate

verb
  1. To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
  2. To incite to action; to motivate.

acute

noun
  1. A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
  2. An accent or tone higher than others.
  3. An acute accent (´).
verb
  1. To give an acute sound to.
  2. To make acute; to sharpen, to whet.
adjective
  1. Brief, quick, short.
  2. High or shrill.
  3. Intense, sensitive, sharp.
  4. Urgent.
  5. With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
  6. Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
  7. Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
  8. Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
  9. Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
  10. Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
  11. After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.

attach

verb
  1. To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
  2. To adhere; to be attached.
  3. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
  4. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
  5. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
  6. To take, seize, or lay hold of.
  7. To arrest, seize.

attache

noun
  1. A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.

cachet

noun
  1. A seal, as of a letter.
  2. A special characteristic or quality; prestige.
  3. A commemorative stamped design or inscription on an envelope, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage.
  4. A sealed envelope containing an item whose price is being negotiated.
  5. A capsule containing a pharmaceutical preparation.
  6. A hidden location from which one can observe birds while remaining unseen.
verb
  1. To mark (an envelope) with a commemorative stamped design or inscription.

catch

noun
  1. The act of seizing or capturing.
  2. The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
  3. The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
  4. The game of catching a ball.
  5. Something which is captured or caught.
  6. (by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
  7. A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
  8. A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
  9. (sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
  10. A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
  11. A fragment of music or poetry.
  12. A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
  13. A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
  14. A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
  15. A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
  16. The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
  17. The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
  18. A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
  19. The first contact of an oar with the water.
  20. A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
  21. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
  22. A slight remembrance; a trace.
verb
  1. (heading) To capture, overtake.
  2. (heading) To seize hold of.
  3. (heading) To intercept.
  4. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
  5. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
  6. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
  7. (heading) To obtain or experience

chat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Informal conversation.
  2. A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
  3. (totum pro parte, typically with definite article) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a single member thereof.
  4. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
  5. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
  6. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
verb
  1. To be engaged in informal conversation.
  2. To talk more than a few words.
  3. To talk of; to discuss.
  4. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small potato, such as is given to swine.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A louse (small, parasitic insect).

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Any savory snack, sold from a roadside stall in India, or served as a starter in an Indian restaurant

chateau

noun
  1. A French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house.
  2. Any stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.
  3. An estate where wine is produced and often bottled, especially in Bordeaux.

chateaux

noun
  1. A French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house.
  2. Any stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.
  3. An estate where wine is produced and often bottled, especially in Bordeaux.

cheat

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
  2. To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
  3. To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
  4. To deceive; to fool; to trick.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
  2. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
  3. The weed cheatgrass.
  4. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
  5. A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.

cheetah

noun
  1. A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head. It is native to Africa and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.

chute

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A framework, trough or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
  2. A waterfall or rapid.
  3. The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A parachute.
verb
  1. To parachute.

cute

adjective
  1. Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
  2. Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
  3. Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
  4. Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)

etch

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
  2. To engrave a surface.
  3. To make a lasting impression.
  4. To sketch; to delineate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been been mowed; also, a field of such growth.

exact

verb
  1. To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
  2. To make desirable or necessary.
  3. To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.
adjective
  1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
  2. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
  3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
  4. (of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
adverb
  1. Exactly

exacta

noun
  1. A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick the two runners who finish first and second, in the correct order.

execute

verb
  1. To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
  2. To carry out; to put into effect.
  3. To perform.
  4. To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
  5. To start, launch or run
  6. To run, usually successfully.

hatch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
  2. A trapdoor.
  3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
  4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
  5. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
  6. A gullet.
  7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
  8. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
  9. A bedstead.
  10. An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
verb
  1. To close with a hatch or hatches.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of hatching.
  2. Development; disclosure; discovery.
  3. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
  4. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
  5. A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."
verb
  1. (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
  2. (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
  3. To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
  4. To devise.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
  2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

hatchet

noun
  1. A small light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
verb
  1. To cut with a hatchet.

hate

noun
  1. An object of hatred.
  2. Hatred.
  3. Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.
verb
  1. To dislike intensely or greatly.
  2. To experience hatred.

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).

haute

No Definition Found.

heat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Thermal energy.
  2. The condition or quality of being hot.
  3. An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
  4. A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
  5. An undesirable amount of attention.
  6. The police.
  7. One or more firearms.
  8. A fastball.
  9. A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
  10. A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
  11. One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
  12. A hot spell.
  13. Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
  14. The output of a heating system.
  15. In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which alphas and omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
  2. To become hotter.
  3. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
  4. To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
  5. To arouse, to excite (sexually).

heath

noun
  1. A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
  2. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
  3. Certain butterflies and moths

hutch

noun
  1. A cage for keeping rabbits, guinea pigs, etc.
  2. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
  3. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  4. The case of a flour bolt.
  5. A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
  6. A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
  7. A baker's kneading-trough.
verb
  1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
  2. To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

tacet

No Definition Found.

tach

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Tachometer

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (costers) A hat.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Tachycardia.

tact

noun
  1. The sense of touch; feeling.
  2. The stroke in beating time.
  3. Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.
  4. A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
verb
  1. To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).
noun
  1. A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.
  2. A maneuver used against an enemy.
  3. A sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.

taut

verb
  1. To make taut; to tauten, to tighten.
adjective
  1. Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight.
  2. (of a body, muscles, etc.) Not flabby; firm, toned; (of a person) having a lean, strong body.
  3. (of music, writing, etc.) Containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled.
  4. Experiencing anxiety or stress.
  5. (of a sailor, a ship, etc.) Neat and well-disciplined; (by extension) efficient and in order.
  6. Strong; uncompromising.

taxa

noun
  1. A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

teach

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
  2. (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
  3. To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
  4. (ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.
  5. (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (usually as a term of address) teacher

teat

noun
  1. The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
  2. Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.
  3. An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

tech

noun
  1. Technology
  2. Technician
  3. Technique
  4. (used in titles) technical college

teeth

noun
  1. The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.
verb
  1. To grow teeth.
  2. To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.
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.

teethe

verb
  1. To grow teeth.
  2. To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.

text

noun
  1. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
  2. A book, tome or other set of writings.
  3. A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
  4. Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
  5. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
  6. (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
  7. A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
verb
  1. To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
  2. To send and receive text messages.
  3. To write in large characters, as in text hand.

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.

thatch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
  2. Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
  3. A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
  4. (by extension) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.

thee

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
  2. To use the word thee.
pronoun
  1. Objective and reflexive case of thou.
  2. Thou.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To thrive; prosper.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.

theta

noun
  1. The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
  2. The measure of an angle.
  3. The sensitivity of the value of a derivative with respect to time; the "time decay".
  4. Designating a level of brain activity as measured by electroencephalography having a frequency of between four and seven cycles per second (associated with drowsiness in adults).
  5. The voiceless dental fricative represented by θ.

tutee

noun
  1. A student of a tutor.

tutu

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of the genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand.

hatha

No Definition Found.