Sunday, November 24, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 261

Number of Answers: 48

Points Needed for Genius: 183

Genius requires between 26 and 39 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 74% 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 261 was in the 87th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 21, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 48 possible answers rank it in the 73rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 23, 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 21, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.9.
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 187
  • loll 179
  • toot 171
  • naan 164
  • nana 164
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 125
  • mama 120
  • mamma 120
  • nene 117
  • acacia 113
  • acai 113
  • onto 113
  • toon 113
  • anal 109
  • onion 107
  • anon 106
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • olio 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • papa 101
  • baba 100
  • dodo 100
  • 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
  • roar 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 93,633 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,355 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*:

  • agapai
  • atap
  • dipt
  • gapping
  • giddap
  • gipping
  • napa
  • nappa
  • nipa
  • paan
  • padi
  • padnag
  • panada
  • pandan
  • pandani
  • panga
  • panging
  • papain
  • pappi
  • patagia
  • patin
  • patinating
  • patining
  • pian
  • piani
  • piggin
  • piing
  • pina
  • pinang
  • pinna
  • pinta
  • pintada
  • pipa
  • pipping
  • pitapatting
  • pitta
  • taipan

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

adapt

verb
  1. To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
  2. To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
  3. To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
  4. To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
adjective
  1. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

adapting

verb
  1. To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
  2. To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
  3. To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
  4. To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.

apian

noun
  1. (very rare) A bee.
adjective
  1. Relating to bees.

aping

verb
  1. To behave like an ape.
  2. To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
noun
  1. Foolish imitation or mimicry.

dapping

verb
  1. To greet with a dap.

dipping

verb
  1. To lower into a liquid.
  2. To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
  3. (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
  4. To lower a light's beam.
  5. To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
  6. To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
  7. To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
  8. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
  9. To immerse for baptism.
  10. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
  11. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
  12. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
  13. To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
  14. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
  15. To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
  16. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
  17. To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
  18. To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
  19. To leave.
  20. To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
noun
  1. An act or process of immersing.
  2. The act of inclining downward.
  3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
  4. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
  5. The use of dipping tobacco (moist snuff) in the mouth, usually between the lip and gum or cheek and gum in the lower or upper part of the mouth.
  6. The act or fact of missing out on seeing a bird.

gaping

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
  2. To stare in wonder.
  3. To open wide; to display a gap.
  4. Of a cat: to open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
adjective
  1. Wide open.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of one who gapes.
  2. Something gaping; something agape.

inapt

adjective
  1. Unapt

napping

verb
  1. To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
  2. To be off one's guard.
verb
  1. To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
verb
  1. To grab; to nab.
verb
  1. To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive).
noun
  1. The act of taking a nap or short sleep.
  2. The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.

nipping

verb
  1. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
  2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
  3. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  4. To annoy, as by nipping.
  5. To taunt.
  6. To squeeze or pinch.
  7. To steal; especially to cut a purse.
verb
  1. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
noun
  1. The act or sensation of giving a nip.

padding

verb
  1. To stuff.
  2. To furnish with a pad or padding.
  3. To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
  4. To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
  5. To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
verb
  1. To travel along (a road, path etc.).
  2. To travel on foot.
  3. To wear a path by walking.
  4. To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
  5. To practise highway robbery.
noun
  1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
  2. Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
  3. Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
  4. Anything of little value used to fill up space.

pagan

noun
  1. A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion.
  2. (by extension) An uncivilized or unsocialized person.
  3. (by extension) An unruly, badly educated child.
adjective
  1. Relating to, characteristic of religions that differ from main world religions.
  2. (by extension) Savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild.

paginating

verb
  1. To number the pages of (a book or other document); to foliate.
  2. To separate (data) into batches, so that it can be retrieved with a number of smaller requests.

paging

verb
  1. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
  2. (often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
  3. To furnish with folios.
verb
  1. To attend (someone) as a page.
  2. To call or summon (someone).
  3. To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
  4. To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
noun
  1. The arrangement of pages in a book or other publication.
  2. A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as hard disk drive.

paid

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
  2. To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
  3. To be profitable for.
  4. To give (something else than money).
  5. To be profitable or worth the effort.
  6. To discharge an obligation or debt.
  7. To suffer consequences.
  8. To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. That is not free of charge; that costs money.
  2. Rich, wealthy

pain

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
  2. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
  3. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
  4. Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  5. (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb
  1. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

paining

verb
  1. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

paint

noun
  1. A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
  2. (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
  3. The free-throw lane, construed with the.
  4. Paintballs.
  5. A face card (king, queen, or jack).
  6. Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
  7. Makeup.
  8. Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
verb
  1. To apply paint to.
  2. To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
  3. To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
  4. To create (an image) with paints.
  5. To practise the art of painting pictures.
  6. To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
  7. To depict or portray.
  8. To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
  9. To direct a radar beam toward.

painting

verb
  1. To apply paint to.
  2. To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
  3. To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
  4. To create (an image) with paints.
  5. To practise the art of painting pictures.
  6. To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
  7. To depict or portray.
  8. To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
  9. To direct a radar beam toward.
noun
  1. An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint.
  2. The action of applying paint to a surface.
  3. The same activity as an art form.

panda

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail.
  2. Short for giant panda.
  3. (law enforcement) Short for panda car.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A brahmin who acts as the hereditary superintendent of a particular ghat or temple, and is regarded as knowledgeable in matters of genealogy and ritual.

pandit

noun
  1. (Nepal) An honorary title for a learned man or scholar.

pang

noun
  1. (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
  2. (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow.
verb
  1. To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.

panini

noun
  1. A type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.

panning

verb
  1. To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
  2. To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.
  3. With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.
  4. (of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
  5. To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)
verb
  1. Of a camera, etc.: to turn horizontally.
  2. To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
  3. (audio) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
verb
  1. To join or fit together; to unite.
noun
  1. The act of one who pans, as for gold.
  2. Material that has been panned.
  3. (audio) The act by which a sound is panned.
  4. Thorough criticism.

pant

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
  2. Eager longing.
  3. A violent palpitation of the heart.
verb
  1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
  2. To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  3. To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
  4. Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
  5. To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
  6. To heave, as the breast.
  7. To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
  2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

panting

verb
  1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
  2. To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  3. To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
  4. Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
  5. To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
  6. To heave, as the breast.
  7. To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
noun
  1. The act of one who pants.

papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

patina

noun
  1. A paten, flat type of dish
  2. The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
  3. A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
  4. A gloss or superficial layer.
adjective
  1. Of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.

patting

verb
  1. To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
  2. To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
  3. To stroke or fondle (an animal).
  4. To gently rain.
noun
  1. The act by which something is patted.

pidgin

noun
  1. An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.
  2. A person's business, occupation, work, or trade.

pigging

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (of swine) to give birth.
  2. To greedily consume (especially food).
  3. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
  4. To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
noun
  1. The use of a pig (the device) to clean a pipeline.
adjective
  1. Damned (used as a mild intensive).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small pail, can or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can. In the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long. This stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop for scattering grain, slopping the hogs, etc.

pinata

noun
  1. (Latin American culture) A doll or other decorated container that is filled with candy and hit with a hammer or a stick by blindfolded children during birthday parties or other celebrations until the candy falls out.
verb
  1. To hit something or someone with sticks after having filled them with candy.

ping

noun
  1. A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  2. (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
  3. A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
  4. An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
  5. Latency.
  6. A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
  7. (WMF jargon) A notification.
verb
  1. To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  2. (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
  3. To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
  4. (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
  5. To flick.
  6. To bounce.
  7. To cause something to bounce.
  8. To call out audibly.
  9. To penalize.

pinging

verb
  1. To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  2. (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
  3. To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
  4. (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
  5. To flick.
  6. To bounce.
  7. To cause something to bounce.
  8. To call out audibly.
  9. To penalize.
noun
  1. The sound of a ping.
  2. The act of sending a ping, as by a submarine or over a computer network.

pining

verb
  1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
  2. To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
  3. To grieve or mourn for.
  4. To inflict pain upon; to torment.
noun
  1. The act of one who pines.

pinning

verb
  1. To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.
verb
  1. (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
  2. (usually in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
  3. To pin down (someone).
  4. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  5. To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.
  6. To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
  7. To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
noun
  1. The action of the verb pin in any sense.
  2. A ceremony in which a pin badge is given.
  3. The establishment of the definite quantum state of a particle, or of the occupation number of a system of particles

pint

noun
  1. A unit of volume, equivalent to:
  2. (metonym) A pint of milk.
  3. (metonymy) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.

piping

verb
  1. To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
  2. To shout loudly and at high pitch.
  3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  4. Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
  5. To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
  6. To install or configure with pipes.
  7. To dab moisture away from.
  8. To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
  9. To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (pipe) at the command line.
  10. To create or decorate with piping (icing).
  11. To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
  12. (of a male) To have sexual intercourse with a female.
  13. To see.
noun
  1. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
  2. The sound of musical pipes.
  3. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
  4. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
  5. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
  6. Icing extruded from a piping bag.
  7. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
  8. Propagation by cuttings
adjective
  1. High-pitched.

pipit

noun
  1. Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.

pippin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A seed

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red
  2. Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties
  3. An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted)

pita

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper.
  2. The plant which yields the fiber.

pitapat

noun
  1. A series of quick tapping sounds
verb
  1. To make a series of quick tapping sounds; to palpitate
adverb
  1. With a quick tapping sound

pitting

verb
  1. To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
  2. To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
  3. To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
  4. To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
verb
  1. To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
noun
  1. The formation of pits on a surface because of corrosion.
  2. The digging of a pit.

tapa

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine.

taping

verb
  1. To bind with adhesive tape.
  2. To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
  3. (passive) To understand, figure out.
noun
  1. The act of something being recorded on tape.
  2. The act of something being stuck with adhesive tape.

tapping

verb
  1. To furnish with taps.
  2. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
  3. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
  4. To exploit.
  5. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
  6. To intercept a communication without authority.
  7. To cut an internal screw thread.
  8. To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).
  9. To cadge, borrow or beg.
  10. To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
  11. To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
verb
  1. To strike lightly.
  2. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
  3. To make a sharp noise.
  4. To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
  5. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
  6. To have sexual intercourse with.
  7. To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
  8. To force (an opponent) to submit.
  9. To put a new sole or heel on.
noun
  1. An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
  2. A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
  3. The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.

tipi

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee

tipping

verb
  1. To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
verb
  1. (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
  2. (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
  3. To drink.
  4. To dump (refuse).
  5. To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
  6. To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
verb
  1. To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
verb
  1. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
  2. To give, pass.
verb
  1. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
noun
  1. The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
  2. The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
  3. The dumping of rubbish.
  4. A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.