Saturday, November 16, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 142

Number of Answers: 30

Points Needed for Genius: 99

Genius requires between 14 and 26 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 78% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 142 was in the 38th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on November 13, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 30 possible answers rank it in the 26th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on November 13, 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 14, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.5.
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 125
  • mama 120
  • mamma 120
  • 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 99
  • poop 98
  • allay 97
  • ally 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • ratatat 96
  • tact 96
  • tart 96
  • tartar 96
  • attar 95
  • cocci 95
  • tatty 95
  • tutu 94
  • mono 93
  • moon 93
  • tattoo 93
  • ammo 92
  • epee 92
  • momma 92
  • peep 92
  • loon 91
  • nanny 90


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 93,267 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,331 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*:

  • automan
  • autonym
  • autotomy
  • mantua
  • maun
  • maut
  • mouton
  • mumm
  • mumu
  • muon
  • muton
  • muttony
  • nonmutant
  • notum
  • noyau
  • nummy
  • nutant
  • outa
  • outta
  • tatouay
  • tauon
  • tautonym
  • tautonymy
  • touton
  • tunny
  • tutty
  • umma
  • unau
  • yamun

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

amount

noun
  1. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
  2. A quantity or volume.
  3. (sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
verb
  1. (followed by to) To total or evaluate.
  2. (followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
  3. To go up; to ascend.

aunt

noun
  1. The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
  2. The female cousin of one’s parent.
  3. A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
  4. Any elderly woman.
  5. A procuress or bawd.

aunty

noun
  1. The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
  2. The female cousin of one’s parent.
  3. A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
  4. Any elderly woman.
  5. A procuress or bawd.
noun
  1. Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.

auto

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An automobile.
  2. A setting for automatic operation.
  3. An automatic gearbox / transmission.
  4. A car with an automatic gearbox / transmission.
verb
  1. To travel by automobile.
adjective
  1. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
  2. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
  3. Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
  4. (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
  5. (of a handgun) An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
  6. (of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
  7. (of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An autorickshaw.

automat

noun
  1. A vending machine for food.
  2. A cafeteria consisting of vending machines.

automata

noun
  1. A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
  2. A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
  3. A formal system, such as finite automaton.
  4. A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
  5. The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.

automaton

noun
  1. A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
  2. A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
  3. A formal system, such as finite automaton.
  4. A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
  5. The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.

autonomy

noun
  1. Self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
  2. The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
  3. The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
  4. The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.

autumn

noun
  1. Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 24 to December 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
  2. (by extension) The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
  3. A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to autumn; autumnal

mount

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A hill or mountain.
  2. Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
  3. A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
  4. A bank; a fund.
  5. A green hillock in the base of a shield.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse
  2. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
  3. A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
  4. A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
  5. A signal for mounting a horse.
verb
  1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
  2. To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
  3. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
  4. To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
  5. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
  6. To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
  7. To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
  8. (sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
  9. To attain in value; to amount (to).
  10. To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
  11. To have sexual intercourse with someone.
  12. To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
  13. To deploy (cannon) for use.
  14. To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
  15. To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).

mummy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An embalmed human or animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.
  2. (by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a typical character in horror films.
  3. (by extension) Any naturally preserved human or animal body.
  4. A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.
  5. A pulp.
  6. A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.
  7. A sort of wax used in grafting.
verb
  1. To mummify.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (usually childish) mother.

mutant

noun
  1. Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
  2. Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
adjective
  1. Of, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone mutation.
  2. Strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
noun
  1. An object in a program that serves as a lock, used to negotiate mutual exclusion among threads.

mutt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
  2. (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry.
  3. An idiot, a stupid person.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram.

mutton

noun
  1. The flesh of sheep used as food.
  2. The flesh of goat used as food.
  3. A sheep.
  4. Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
  5. A prostitute.
  6. An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.
adjective
  1. Deaf.

muumuu

noun
  1. A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches).

noun

noun
  1. (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
  2. (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
verb
  1. To convert a word to a noun.

nutty

adjective
  1. Containing nuts.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of nuts.
  3. Barmy, crazy, mad.
  4. Extravagantly fashionable

outman

verb
  1. To have more people than (one's competitor); to outnumber in men.
  2. To outdo in manliness.

tantamount

noun
  1. Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below)
verb
  1. To amount to as much; to be equivalent.
adjective
  1. Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct.

taunt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery
verb
  1. To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Very high or tall.

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.

tout

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
  2. A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
  3. A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
  4. An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
verb
  1. To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
  2. To look upon or watch.
  3. To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
  4. To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
  5. To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
  6. To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
  7. To look for, try to obtain; used with for.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

tummy

noun
  1. (often childish) Stomach or belly.
  2. Protruding belly, paunch.

tuna

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
  2. The edible flesh of the tuna.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
  2. The fruit of the cactus.

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.

unman

verb
  1. To castrate; to remove the manhood of.
  2. To sap (a person) of the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation.
  3. To deprive of men.

unto

preposition
  1. Up to, indicating a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.
  2. To, indicating an indirect object.
conjunction
  1. Up to the time or degree that; until.

yuan

noun
  1. The basic unit of money in China.

yummy

adjective
  1. (lighthearted) Delicious.
noun
  1. A mother who is sexually attractive.

unmount

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