Wednesday, November 13, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 120

Number of Answers: 28

Points Needed for Genius: 84

Genius requires between 12 and 25 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 81% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 120 was in the 25th 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 28 possible answers rank it in the 21st 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on November 6, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



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 115
  • 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
  • mitt 98
  • poop 98
  • allay 97
  • ally 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 93,120 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,330 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*:

  • dido
  • didy
  • doit
  • droit
  • imid
  • imido
  • immy
  • iodid
  • irid
  • middy
  • miri
  • mirid
  • miry
  • mity
  • modi
  • momi
  • myoid
  • oidioid
  • ootid
  • ridotto
  • rimy
  • tiro
  • titi
  • titty
  • toit
  • trimotor
  • yird
  • yirr
  • yomim

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

dimity

noun
  1. A light strong fabric with woven stripes or squares.

dirt

noun
  1. Soil or earth.
  2. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
  3. Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.
  4. Meanness; sordidness.
  5. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
  6. Freckles
verb
  1. To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

dirty

verb
  1. To make (something) dirty.
  2. To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
  3. To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
  4. To become soiled.
adjective
  1. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
  2. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
  3. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
  4. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
  5. Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
  6. Out of tune.
  7. Of color, discolored by impurities.
  8. Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
  9. Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
  10. Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
  11. Sleety; gusty; stormy.
  12. Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives.
  13. Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way.
adverb
  1. In a dirty manner.

ditto

noun
  1. That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
  2. A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator.
  3. A copy; an imitation.
  4. A symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), when indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
  5. (in the plural) A suit of clothes of the same colour throughout.
verb
  1. To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
adverb
  1. As said before, likewise.
interjection
  1. Used as an expression of agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed.

ditty

noun
  1. A short verse or tune.
  2. A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated.
verb
  1. To sing; to warble a little tune.

dormitory

noun
  1. A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
  2. A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
  3. A dormitory town.

droid

noun
  1. A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.

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.

idiot

noun
  1. A person of low general intelligence.
  2. A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
  3. A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.
adjective
  1. Idiotic, stupid

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.

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.

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.

oddity

noun
  1. An odd or strange thing or opinion.
  2. A strange person; an oddball.
  3. Strangeness.

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.

roti

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

tidy

noun
  1. A tabletop container for pens and stationery.
  2. A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.
  3. A child's pinafore.
  4. The wren.
verb
  1. To make tidy; to neaten.
adjective
  1. Arranged neatly and in order.
  2. Not messy; neat and controlled.
  3. Satisfactory; comfortable.
  4. Generous, considerable.
  5. In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
  6. Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
  7. Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
interjection
  1. Expression of positive agreement, usually in reply to a question.

timid

adjective
  1. Lacking in courage or confidence.

timidity

noun
  1. Shyness

tomtit

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

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.

toroid

noun
  1. A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
  2. A ring-shaped object whose surface is a torus.

torrid

adjective
  1. Very hot and dry.
  2. Full of intense emotions arising from sexual love; ardent and passionate.
  3. Full of difficulty.

torridity

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trim

noun
  1. Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
  2. A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
  3. Dress; gear; ornaments.
  4. The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
  5. Sexual intercourse.
  6. The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
  7. The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
verb
  1. To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
  2. To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
  3. (of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
  4. (of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.
  5. (of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
  6. To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
  7. To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
  8. (of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
  9. To rebuke; to reprove.
  10. To beat or thrash.
adjective
  1. Physically fit.
  2. Slender, lean.
  3. Neat or smart in appearance.
adverb
  1. In good order; properly managed or maintained.
  2. With sails well trimmed.

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.

itty

No Definition Found.