Monday, November 11, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 137

Number of Answers: 33

Points Needed for Genius: 96

Genius requires between 13 and 30 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 90% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 62% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 137 was in the 35th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on November 2, 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 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 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on November 10, 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 186
  • loll 179
  • toot 170
  • naan 163
  • nana 163
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 124
  • 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
  • tact 96
  • tart 96
  • tartar 96
  • attar 95
  • cocci 95
  • tatty 95
  • mono 93
  • moon 93
  • tattoo 93
  • tutu 93
  • epee 92
  • peep 92
  • ammo 91
  • loon 91
  • momma 91
  • nanny 90


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 93,042 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*:

  • aphtha
  • dhoora
  • doodah
  • haar
  • haha
  • haphtara
  • haphtarah
  • haphtarot
  • haphtaroth
  • hodad
  • hoopoo
  • hoptoad
  • horah
  • odah
  • opah
  • ortho
  • paraph
  • pardah
  • phot
  • phpht
  • prototroph
  • rath
  • rhodora
  • tahr
  • tathata
  • thoro
  • thorp
  • thro
  • toph
  • toroth

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

arhat

noun
  1. One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.
  2. One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta.

arthropod

noun
  1. An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages

doth

verb
  1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
  2. To perform; to execute.
  3. To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  4. To suffice.
  5. To be reasonable or acceptable.
  6. (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
  7. To fare, perform (well or poorly).
  8. (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  9. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
  10. To cook.
  11. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  12. To treat in a certain way.
  13. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
  14. To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  15. To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
  16. To impersonate or depict.
  17. (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
  18. To kill.
  19. To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  20. To punish for a misdemeanor.
  21. To have sex with. (See also do it)
  22. To cheat or swindle.
  23. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  24. To finish.
  25. To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  26. (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  27. To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  28. (ditransitive) To make or provide.
  29. To injure (one's own body part).
  30. To take drugs.
  31. (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.

hard

noun
  1. A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
  2. A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
  3. Crack cocaine.
  4. Hard labor.
adjective
  1. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
  2. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
  3. Unquestionable.
  4. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
  5. (of a male) Sexually aroused.
  6. Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
  7. Plosive.
  8. Unvoiced
  9. Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized
  10. Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
  11. In a physical form, not digital.
  12. Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
  13. Far, extreme.
  14. Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
adverb
  1. (manner) With much force or effort.
  2. (manner) With difficulty.
  3. So as to raise difficulties.
  4. (manner) Compactly.
  5. Near, close.

hardhat

noun
  1. A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects.
noun
  1. A person who wears a hard hat, such as a construction worker.

hardtop

noun
  1. The removable rigid roof of a convertible or sports car.
  2. A car with such a roof.
  3. An indoor cinema with a roof, as opposed to a drive-in.

harp

noun
  1. A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
  2. A harmonica.
  3. A grain sieve.
verb
  1. (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject.
  2. To play on (a harp or similar instrument)
  3. To play (a tune) on the harp.
  4. To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

hart

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
  2. A red deer or one of related species.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
  2. Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
  3. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
  4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
  5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
  6. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
  7. Personality, disposition.
  8. A wight or being.
  9. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.
  10. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
  11. The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
  12. The centre, essence, or core.

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).

hoar

noun
  1. A white or greyish-white colour.
  2. Hoariness; antiquity.
verb
  1. To become mouldy or musty.
adjective
  1. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
  2. Hoarily bearded.
  3. Musty; mouldy; stale.

hoard

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A hidden supply or fund.
  2. A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
verb
  1. To amass, usually for one's own private collection.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
  2. A hoarding (billboard).

hood

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
  2. A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
  3. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
  4. A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
  5. The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle: known as a bonnet in other countries.
  6. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
verb
  1. To cover something with a hood.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Gangster, thug.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Neighborhood.
adjective
  1. Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Person wearing a hoodie.

hoodoo

noun
  1. A practitioner of voodoo.
  2. Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
  3. A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
verb
  1. To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.

hoop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
  2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
  3. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
  4. A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
  5. A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
  6. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
  7. The rim part of a basketball net.
  8. (in plural, metonym) The game of basketball.
  9. A hoop earring.
  10. (metonym) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.
  11. (usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey
  12. (usually in the plural) A requirement that must be met in order to proceed.
verb
  1. To bind or fasten using a hoop.
  2. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  2. The hoopoe.
verb
  1. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
  2. To whoop, as in whooping cough.

hoorah

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hoot

noun
  1. A derisive cry or shout.
  2. The cry of an owl.
  3. A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
  4. A small particle.
verb
  1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
  2. To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.
  3. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
  4. To sound the horn of a vehicle

hora

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods.

horror

noun
  1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
  2. Something horrible; that which excites horror.
  3. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  4. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
  5. An individual work in this genre.
  6. A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
  7. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
  8. (plural) Delirium tremens.

hotpot

noun
  1. A stew of beef or lamb and potatoes.
  2. A communal meal, popular in China, where diners share a bowl of hot broth or stock into which uncooked foods such as mushrooms, vegetables, and cuts of meat are dipped until they are cooked enough to be eaten.
  3. A jacuzzi or hot tub.

hotrod

noun
  1. Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be used to specifically describe and refer to modified cars from the original (or traditional) era of "hot rods", post World War II and prior to 1960.
  2. (sexuality) The penis.

oath

noun
  1. A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
  2. A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
  3. A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
  4. A curse, a curse word.
verb
  1. To pledge.

paratha

noun
  1. An Indian bread with a texture somewhat resembling puff pastry; sometimes stuffed with vegetables etc.

path

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
  2. A course taken.
  3. A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
  4. A metaphorical course.
  5. A method or direction of proceeding.
  6. A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
  7. A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
  8. A continuous map f from the unit interval I = [0,1] to a topological space X.
  9. A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
verb
  1. To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (abbreviation) Pathology.

pharaoh

noun
  1. The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the 'king' in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
  2. The card game faro.

phat

adjective
  1. (originally African American Vernacular English) Excellent; cool; very good.
  2. Sexy.
  3. Rich in texture; prominent.

photo

noun
  1. A photograph.
  2. A photo finish.
verb
  1. To take a photograph of.

pooh

noun
  1. Feces.
  2. A piece of feces or an act of defecation.
  3. Cannabis resin.
  4. Champagne.
verb
  1. To defecate.
  2. To dirty something with feces.
interjection
  1. Expressing annoyance, frustration, etc.: a minced oath for 'shit'.
noun
  1. Short for shampoo.
noun
  1. An instance of saying "pooh".
verb
  1. To say "pooh".
  2. To say "pooh" to.
interjection
  1. Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.
  2. Expressing disgust at an unpleasant smell.

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.

throat

noun
  1. The front part of the neck.
  2. The gullet or windpipe.
  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
  4. Station throat.
  5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
  6. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  7. That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
  8. The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
  9. The inside of a timber knee.
  10. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
verb
  1. To utter in or with the throat.
  2. To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
  3. To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

tooth

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.
verb
  1. To provide or furnish with teeth.
  2. To indent; to jag.
  3. To lock into each other, like gear wheels.

torah

No Definition Found.

troth

noun
  1. An oath, pledge, or promise.
  2. Truth; something true.
verb
  1. To pledge to marry somebody.

hatha

No Definition Found.