Saturday, November 9, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 219

Number of Answers: 46

Points Needed for Genius: 153

Genius requires between 21 and 40 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 81% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 219 was in the 74th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 8, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 46 possible answers rank it in the 68th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 8, 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 8, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
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 186
  • loll 179
  • toot 170
  • naan 163
  • nana 163
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 123
  • mama 119
  • mamma 119
  • nene 114
  • acacia 113
  • acai 113
  • onto 112
  • toon 112
  • anal 108
  • onion 107
  • anon 106
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • olio 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • papa 100
  • baba 99
  • dodo 99
  • 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
  • tattoo 93
  • epee 92
  • peep 92
  • tutu 92
  • ammo 91
  • loon 91
  • momma 91
  • nanny 90


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 92,967 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*:

  • beebee
  • beigne
  • beigy
  • bene
  • benne
  • benni
  • benny
  • bibe
  • bine
  • biogen
  • biogeny
  • bogie
  • boney
  • bonne
  • bonnie
  • boobie
  • boogey
  • boogeying
  • engining
  • eyen
  • eyne
  • geeing
  • genning
  • gieing
  • gien
  • gobonee
  • gooney
  • goonie
  • gybe
  • gynie
  • inbeing
  • inbye
  • ionogen
  • ionone
  • neogene
  • nonego
  • oogeny
  • yegg
  • yogee

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

been

noun
  1. A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.

begging

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act of one who begs.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
  2. To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
  3. In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
  4. In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
  5. To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

begin

noun
  1. Beginning; start.
verb
  1. To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
  2. To be in the first stage of some situation
  3. To come into existence.

beginning

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
  2. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
  3. That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
  4. The initial portion of some extended thing.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
  2. To be in the first stage of some situation
  3. To come into existence.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

begone

Etymology 1

interjection
  1. Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.
  2. To clothe, dress.
  3. To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance.
verb
  1. (humoristic or faux-archaic) To go away, to disappear.

beige

noun
  1. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
  2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
adjective
  1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
  2. Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

being

noun
  1. A living creature.
  2. The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
  3. That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
  4. One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
  5. An abode; a cottage.
conjunction
  1. Given that; since.

benign

adjective
  1. Kind; gentle; mild.
  2. (of a climate or environment) mild and favorable
  3. (in combination) Not harmful to the environment.
  4. Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent.

bigeye

noun
  1. Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes.
  2. Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus.

biggie

noun
  1. Something large in size in comparison to similar things.
  2. Something impressive in comparison to similar things.
  3. (chiefly in the negative) Big deal.
  4. (originally US) A person of importance or power, especially in the entertainment industry.

binge

noun
  1. A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.
  2. (by extension) A short period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show.
verb
  1. To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.

bingeing

verb
  1. To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.

bogey

Etymology 1

noun
  1. One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
  2. An outlaw.
  3. One who cheats others.
  4. An enemy aircraft.
  5. A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
noun
  1. An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog.
noun
  1. (often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.
  2. A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
  3. A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
  4. A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
  5. An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
  6. A score of one over par on a hole.
verb
  1. To make a bogey.
noun
  1. A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
noun
  1. A swim or bathe; a bath.
noun
  1. One of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; the structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi.
  2. (Indian English, dated in UK) A railway carriage.
  3. A toy similar to a violin bow, consisting of a wooden stick with notches along one or more sides or edges to produce a rattly noise when stroked against a hard edge, eg, the lip of container.
noun
  1. A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
  2. Something suggestive of this material.
  3. A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing.
noun
  1. (mildly derogatory) A bodyboarder.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A swim or bathe; a bath.
verb
  1. To swim; to bathe.

bogeying

verb
  1. To make a bogey.
verb
  1. To swim; to bathe.

bone

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
  2. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
  3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  4. A bonefish
  5. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
  6. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
  7. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  8. The framework of anything.
  9. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
  10. A dollar.
  11. The wishbone formation.
  12. An erect penis; a boner.
  13. (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
verb
  1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
  2. To fertilize with bone.
  3. To put whalebone into.
  4. To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
  5. (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
  6. (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
  7. (usually with "up") To study.
  8. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
adjective
  1. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To apprehend, steal.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
  2. The common European bittern.

boogie

noun
  1. A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.
  2. A black person.
  3. Dancing usually prominently exhibiting movements of the buttocks.
  4. (skydiving) A large, organised skydiving event.
verb
  1. To dance a boogie.
  2. To move, walk, leave, exit.

boogieing

verb
  1. To dance a boogie.
  2. To move, walk, leave, exit.

bygone

noun
  1. (usually plural) An event that happened in the past.
adjective
  1. Having been or happened in the distant past.

ebbing

verb
  1. To flow back or recede
  2. To fall away or decline
  3. To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
  4. To cause to flow back.
noun
  1. The action of something that ebbs.

ebon

noun
  1. (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.
adjective
  1. Made of ebony.
  2. Black in colour.

ebony

noun
  1. A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
  2. A tree that yields such wood.
  3. A deep, dark black colour.
  4. A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument.
adjective
  1. Made of ebony wood.
  2. A deep, dark black colour.
  3. Dark-skinned; black; especially in reference to African-Americans.

egging

verb
  1. To throw eggs at.
  2. To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
  3. To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
verb
  1. To encourage, incite.
noun
  1. The act of pelting with eggs.

eggnog

noun
  1. A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy or whisky; popular at Christmas.

eggy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Covered with or dipped in egg.
  2. Resembling eggs in some way.
  3. Of or relating to an egg or eggs.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Slightly annoyed.

engine

noun
  1. A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
  2. A tool; a utensil or implement.
  3. A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
  4. A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
  5. The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
  6. A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.
  7. A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
  8. Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
  9. The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
  10. Natural talent; genius.
  11. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
verb
  1. To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
  2. To assault with an engine.
  3. To contrive; to put into action.
  4. To rack; to torture.

eyeing

verb
  1. To observe carefully or appraisingly.
  2. To appear; to look.

eying

verb
  1. To observe carefully or appraisingly.
  2. To appear; to look.

gene

noun
  1. A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
  2. A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus.

genie

noun
  1. A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
  2. A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.

genii

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
  2. Extraordinary mental capacity.
  3. Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
  4. The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
  2. A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.

gibe

noun
  1. Alternative spelling of gybe
  2. Alternative spelling of jibe
verb
  1. Alternative spelling of gybe
  2. Alternative spelling of jibe

gone

verb
  1. To move:
  2. (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  3. To start; to begin (an action or process).
  4. To take a turn, especially in a game.
  5. To attend.
  6. To proceed:
  7. To follow or travel along (a path):
  8. To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  9. To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  10. To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
  11. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  12. To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  13. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  14. To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
  15. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  16. To tend (toward a result).
  17. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  18. To pass, to be used up:
  19. To die.
  20. To be discarded.
  21. To be lost or out:
  22. To break down or apart:
  23. To be sold.
  24. To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  25. To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  26. To have a certain record.
  27. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
  28. To say (something), to make a sound:
  29. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  30. To resort (to).
  31. To apply or subject oneself to:
  32. To fit (in a place, or together with something):
  33. To date.
  34. To attack:
  35. To be in general; to be usually.
  36. To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  37. To yield or weigh.
  38. To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  39. To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
  40. To urinate or defecate.
adjective
  1. Away, having left.
  2. No longer part of the present situation.
  3. No longer existing, having passed.
  4. Used up.
  5. Dead.
  6. Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings.
  7. Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on.
  8. Excellent; wonderful.
  9. Ago (used post-positionally).
  10. Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
  11. Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
preposition
  1. Past, after, later than (a time).

gooey

adjective
  1. Of or relating to goo
  2. Soft, sticky and viscous

nene

noun
  1. The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

neon

noun
  1. The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The lightest of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
  2. A form or sample of the element.
  3. Neon signs or lights, collectively.
  4. A neon tetra fish.
adjective
  1. (of a color) That resembles a neon light; extremely bright; fluorescent

nine

noun
  1. The digit or figure 9.
  2. A playing card with nine pips.
  3. A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
  4. (usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
  5. A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
numeral
  1. A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
  2. Describing a group or set with nine elements.

nonbeing

noun
  1. Nonexistence
  2. That which is not a being; a potential entity that does not exist.

none

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person without religious affiliation.
adverb
  1. To no extent, in no way.
  2. Not at all, not very.
  3. No, not.
pronoun
  1. Not any of a given number or group.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion.
noun
  1. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
  2. A break in play between the first and second sessions.
  3. (Minnesota) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
noun
  1. The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm.
noun
  1. (often capitalized) The notional first-quarter day of a Roman month, occurring on the 7th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 5th day of all other months.
  2. (sometimes capitalized) The ninth hour after dawn (about 3 pm).
  3. The divine office appointed to the hour.
noun
  1. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  2. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. The highest point; culmination.
noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

noogie

noun
  1. An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly.
verb
  1. To perform a noogie on.

obey

verb
  1. To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
  2. To do as one is told.
  3. To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).

obeying

verb
  1. To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
  2. To do as one is told.
  3. To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).

oboe

noun
  1. A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

ogee

noun
  1. A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape
  2. A pointed arch made from two ogees
  3. An inflection point.
  4. (aesthetic facial surgery) The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow.
  5. (distillation) The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.

yenning

verb
  1. To have a strong desire for.

innie

noun
  1. A navel that is formed of a hollow in the abdomen (as opposed to one that protrudes from the abdomen).
  2. A vagina with inner labia minora

enby

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