Monday, November 18, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 208

Number of Answers: 42

Points Needed for Genius: 146

Genius requires between 21 and 35 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 208 was in the 70th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 17, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 42 possible answers rank it in the 59th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 17, 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 17, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.6.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 186
  • loll 179
  • toot 170
  • naan 164
  • nana 164
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 125
  • mama 120
  • mamma 120
  • nene 116
  • acacia 113
  • acai 113
  • onto 112
  • toon 112
  • anal 109
  • 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 93,373 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*:

  • dewed
  • doowop
  • dowed
  • dowie
  • downpipe
  • dwine
  • dwined
  • eeew
  • enow
  • enwind
  • indow
  • indowed
  • inwind
  • newie
  • pinweed
  • pondweed
  • powwowed
  • ween
  • weened
  • weewee
  • weeweed
  • widdie
  • windowed
  • winned
  • wonned
  • woodie
  • woopie
  • wowee

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

down

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A negative aspect; a downer.
  2. A grudge (on someone).
  3. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
  4. A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
  5. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
  6. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
  7. Down payment.
verb
  1. To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell.
  2. To lower; to put (something) down.
  3. To defeat; to overpower.
  4. To disparage, to put down.
  5. To go or come down; to descend.
  6. To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
  7. To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
  8. (pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
adjective
  1. Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
  2. (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
  3. At a lower level than before.
  4. Having a lower score than an opponent.
  5. (following the noun modified) Out.
  6. (with "on") Negative about, hostile to.
  7. Comfortable with, accepting of, approachable.
  8. Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
  9. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
  10. (police, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
  11. (of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
  12. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
  13. Downright; absolute; positive.
  14. Accepted or respected, especially in the black or thug community.
  15. Facing downwards.
adverb
  1. From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
  2. At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
  3. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
  4. Away from the city (regardless of direction).
  5. At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
  6. Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
  7. Into a state of non-operation.
  8. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
  9. In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
  10. (sentence substitute) Get down.
  11. (academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
  12. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
  13. So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
  14. So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
  15. From less to greater detail.
  16. So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
  17. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb.
  18. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather than being of indefinite duration.
preposition
  1. From the higher end to the lower of.
  2. From nouth to south of.
  3. From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
  4. At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
  2. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
  3. (chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
  2. The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
  3. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
  4. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
verb
  1. To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

downed

verb
  1. To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell.
  2. To lower; to put (something) down.
  3. To defeat; to overpower.
  4. To disparage, to put down.
  5. To go or come down; to descend.
  6. To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
  7. To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
  8. (pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
verb
  1. To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
adjective
  1. That has been brought down.

downwind

adverb
  1. In the same direction as the wind is blowing
  2. (+ from) positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind
  3. In the direction opposite that of landing in a traffic pattern

endow

verb
  1. To provide with a dower or a dowry.
  2. To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
  3. Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
  4. Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).

endowed

verb
  1. To provide with a dower or a dowry.
  2. To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
  3. Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
  4. Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).
adjective
  1. Provided or furnished with something.
  2. Founded by an endowment.

owed

verb
  1. To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
  2. To have debt; to be in debt.
adjective
  1. That owes.

owned

verb
  1. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
  2. To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
  3. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
  4. To virtually or figuratively enslave.
  5. To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
  6. To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
verb
  1. To grant; give.
  2. To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
  3. To admit; concede; acknowledge.
  4. To take responsibility for.
  5. To answer to.
  6. To recognise; acknowledge.
  7. To claim as one's own.
  8. To confess.

peewee

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A short or small person; a small object.
  2. A kind of small marble in children's games.
  3. A player in a sports league for very young children.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (New South Wales and Queensland) A magpie-lark or mudlark, Grallina cyanoleuca.
  2. A pewee.

pewee

noun
  1. The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus).
  2. A woodcock.
  3. An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.

pinewood

noun
  1. The wood of a pine
  2. A forest or grove of pine trees, either natural or as a plantation

powwow

noun
  1. A ritual conducted by a Native American shaman.
  2. A Native American shaman.
  3. A Native American council or meeting.
  4. A short, private conference.
  5. A large gathering during which Indigenous songs and dances are showcased for an audience, essentially a recital or concert. Often also doubles as a fundraiser, or can be held in conjunction with a non-indigneous fair or exhibition in order to attract a large crowd, as at the Calgary Stampede and K-Days.
verb
  1. (of Native Americans) To hold a meeting; to gather together in council.
  2. (of Native Americans and by extension other groups, such as the Pennsylvania Dutch) To conduct a ritual in which magic is used.
  3. To hold a private conference.

wedded

verb
  1. To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
  2. To take as one's spouse.
  3. To take a spouse.
  4. To join or commit to, more or less permanently, as if in marriage.
  5. To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
  6. To wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager.
adjective
  1. (of a couple) Joined in marriage.
  2. Joined as if in a marriage.

weed

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
  2. Short for duckweed.
  3. Underbrush; low shrubs.
  4. A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
  5. A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
  6. A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
  7. Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A garment or piece of clothing.
  2. Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
  3. An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
  4. (especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
  2. Lymphangitis in a horse.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To urinate.

weeded

verb
  1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

weenie

noun
  1. Someone weak and unimportant.
  2. A geek or nerd, especially a computer user with a deficient social life.
  3. (collectible card games) A small creature which has a low cost to put into play, often used in a swarm with other such creatures.
noun
  1. A wiener.
  2. The penis.

weep

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A session of crying.
verb
  1. To cry; shed tears.
  2. To lament; to complain.
  3. (of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
  4. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
  5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
  6. To weep over; to bewail.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

weepie

noun
  1. A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience.

wend

noun
  1. A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
verb
  1. To turn; change.
  2. To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
  3. To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
  4. To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

wended

verb
  1. To turn; change.
  2. To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
  3. To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
  4. To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

wide

noun
  1. A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
adjective
  1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
  2. Large in scope.
  3. Operating at the side of the playing area.
  4. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  5. Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
  6. (now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
  7. Located some distance away; distant, far.
  8. Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
  9. Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
adverb
  1. Extensively
  2. Completely
  3. Away from a given goal
  4. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

widen

verb
  1. To become wide or wider.
  2. To make wide or wider.
  3. To let out clothes to a larger size.
  4. To broaden or extend in scope or range.
  5. To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.

widened

verb
  1. To become wide or wider.
  2. To make wide or wider.
  3. To let out clothes to a larger size.
  4. To broaden or extend in scope or range.
  5. To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.

widow

noun
  1. A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower.
  2. A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
  3. (in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc.
  4. An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
  5. A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column.
  6. A venomous spider, of the genus Latrodectus.
verb
  1. To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
  2. To strip of anything valued.
  3. To endow with a widow's right.
  4. To be widow to.

widowed

verb
  1. To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
  2. To strip of anything valued.
  3. To endow with a widow's right.
  4. To be widow to.
adjective
  1. (of a previously married person) Whose spouse has died or is gone missing; who has become a widow or widower.

wienie

noun
  1. A wiener.
  2. The penis.

wind

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
  2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
  3. The ability to breathe easily.
  4. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
  5. One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements).
  6. Flatus.
  7. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
  8. The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
  9. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
  10. Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
  11. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
  12. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
  13. A bird, the dotterel.
  14. The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
verb
  1. To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
  2. To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
  3. To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
  4. To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
  5. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
  6. To perceive or follow by scent.
  7. To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
  8. To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
verb
  1. To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
  2. To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
  3. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
  4. To travel in a way that is not straight.
  5. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
  6. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
  7. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
  8. To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
  9. To turn (a ship) around, end for end.

winded

verb
  1. To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
  2. To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
  3. To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
  4. To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
  5. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
  6. To perceive or follow by scent.
  7. To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
  8. To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
verb
  1. To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
  2. To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
  3. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
  4. To travel in a way that is not straight.
  5. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
  6. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
  7. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
  8. To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
  9. To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
adjective
  1. Out of breath

window

noun
  1. The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
  2. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
  3. Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
  4. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
  5. Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
noun
  1. An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
  2. An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
  3. The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
  4. A period of time when something is available.
  5. A restricted range.
  6. A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.
  7. A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
  8. The time between first infection and detectability.
verb
  1. To furnish with windows.
  2. To place at or in a window.

windpipe

noun
  1. The trachea.
  2. Any duct for air or other gas.
  3. A section of road or bridleway which has a reputation for having strong crosswinds or localized wind swirls.
  4. The anus.

wine

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes.
  2. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine".
  3. A serving of wine.
  4. A dark purplish red colour; the colour of red wine.
verb
  1. To entertain with wine.
  2. To drink wine.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Wind.

wined

verb
  1. To entertain with wine.
  2. To drink wine.

winnow

noun
  1. That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.
verb
  1. To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
  2. To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.
  3. To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
  4. To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

winnowed

verb
  1. To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
  2. To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.
  3. To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
  4. To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

wino

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; a drunk or drunkard.
  2. A wine enthusiast; an oenophile.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.

wipe

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act of wiping something.
  2. A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
  3. A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
  4. A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
verb
  1. To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
  2. To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
  3. To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
  4. To erase.
  5. To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
  6. To remove an expression from one's face.
  7. To deperm (a ship).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
verb
  1. To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.

wiped

verb
  1. To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
  2. To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
  3. To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
  4. To erase.
  5. To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
  6. To remove an expression from one's face.
  7. To deperm (a ship).
verb
  1. To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.

wood

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
  2. The wood of a particular species of tree.
  3. A forested or wooded area.
  4. Firewood.
  5. A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
  6. A woodwind instrument.
  7. An erection of the penis.
  8. Chess pieces.
verb
  1. To cover or plant with trees.
  2. To hide behind trees.
  3. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
  4. To take or get a supply of wood.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Mad, insane, crazed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (sometimes offensive, of a person) A peckerwood.

wooded

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Covered with trees.
  2. (of wine) Aged in wooden casks.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cover or plant with trees.
  2. To hide behind trees.
  3. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
  4. To take or get a supply of wood.

wooden

adjective
  1. Made of wood.
  2. As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

woodwind

noun
  1. Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.

wooed

verb
  1. To endeavor to gain someone's support.
  2. (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with
  3. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.

wowed

verb
  1. To amaze or awe.