Wednesday, November 27, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 189

Number of Answers: 44

Points Needed for Genius: 132

Genius requires between 22 and 36 words. You need at least a 6-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 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 189 was in the 62nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 24, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 44 possible answers rank it in the 64th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 24, 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 26, 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 187
  • loll 180
  • toot 171
  • naan 165
  • nana 165
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 125
  • mama 120
  • mamma 120
  • nene 117
  • acacia 113
  • acai 113
  • onto 113
  • toon 113
  • anal 110
  • onion 107
  • anon 106
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • olio 103
  • papa 102
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • baba 100
  • dodo 100
  • mitt 99
  • poop 99
  • allay 97
  • ally 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • ratatat 96
  • tact 96
  • tart 96
  • tartar 96
  • attar 95
  • cocci 95
  • tatty 95
  • tutu 94
  • epee 93
  • mono 93
  • moon 93
  • peep 93
  • tattoo 93
  • ammo 92
  • momma 92
  • loon 91
  • roar 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 93,730 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*:

  • agapae
  • apagoge
  • apod
  • dopa
  • epopee
  • gappy
  • gapy
  • gypo
  • gypped
  • gyppo
  • oped
  • pagod
  • payed
  • peag
  • peage
  • pedagog
  • pepo
  • podded
  • podgy
  • pogey
  • pogy
  • pood
  • pooed
  • poopy
  • popeyed

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

agape

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open.
  2. Wide open.
adverb
  1. In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
  2. Open wide.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others.
  2. Spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for others.
  3. A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist.

aped

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

apogee

noun
  1. The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is furthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.
  2. (more generally) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite.
  3. (possibly obsolete outside astrology) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is furthest from the Earth.
  4. The highest point.

dapped

verb
  1. To greet with a dap.

deep

noun
  1. (with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
  2. (with "the") A silent time; quiet isolation.
  3. A deep shade of colour.
  4. The profound part of a problem.
  5. (with "the") The sea, the ocean.
  6. A fielding position near the boundary.
adjective
  1. (of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards.
  2. (intellectual, social) Complex, involved.
  3. (sound, voice) Low in pitch.
  4. (of a color) Highly saturated.
  5. (sleep) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
  6. Immersed, submerged (in).
  7. Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
  8. (of time) Distant in the past, ancient.
adverb
  1. Deeply.

dope

noun
  1. Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
  2. An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
  3. Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
  4. Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.
  5. Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.
  6. (fireams) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
  7. A stupid person.
  8. Dessert topping.
verb
  1. To affect with drugs.
  2. To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
  3. To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
  4. To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
  5. To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
adjective
  1. Amazing.

doped

verb
  1. To affect with drugs.
  2. To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
  3. To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
  4. To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
  5. To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
adjective
  1. Drugged.
  2. Describing a semiconductor that has had small amounts of elements added to create charge carriers.
  3. Covered with dope, a glue or paint like pore filler.

dopey

adjective
  1. Stupid, silly.

dopy

adjective
  1. Stupid, silly.

epee

noun
  1. A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.

epode

noun
  1. The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe.
  2. A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one.

gape

noun
  1. An act of gaping; a yawn.
  2. A large opening.
  3. A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
  4. The width of an opening.
  5. The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
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.

gaped

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.

gapped

No Definition Found.

goop

noun
  1. (usually uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo.
  2. A silly, stupid, or boorish person.

goopy

No Definition Found.

padded

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.
adjective
  1. Having padding.

paddy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
  2. A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A fit of temper; a tantrum
  2. A white person.
  3. A labourer's assistant or workmate.
  4. A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.

page

Etymology 1

noun
  1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
  2. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
  3. Any record or writing; a collective memory.
  4. The type set up for printing a page.
  5. A screenful of text and possibly other content.
  6. A web page.
  7. A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
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.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
  2. A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  3. A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  4. (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  5. A boy child.
  6. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  7. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  8. A message sent to someone's pager.
  9. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
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.

paged

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.

pagoda

noun
  1. A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.
  2. (usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol.
  3. A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India.
  4. An ornamental structure imitating the design of the religious building, erected in a park or garden.
  5. A pagoda sleeve.

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.

papaya

noun
  1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
  2. The fruit of this tree.
  3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

pappy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Like pap; soft; mushy.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Father
  2. Grandfather

payday

noun
  1. The day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid.

payee

noun
  1. One to whom money is paid.

pedagogy

noun
  1. The profession of teaching.
  2. The activities of educating, teaching or instructing.
  3. The strategies of instruction.

peed

verb
  1. To urinate.
  2. (mildly vulgar) To drizzle.

peep

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird.
  2. A feeble utterance or complaint.
  3. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
  4. A kind of bird; a sandpiper.
verb
  1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
  2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
  2. The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
verb
  1. To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
  2. To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spot on a die or domino.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Person.

peeped

verb
  1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
  2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.
verb
  1. To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
  2. To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

pegged

verb
  1. To fasten using a peg.
  2. To affix or pin.
  3. To fix a value or price.
  4. To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
  5. To throw.
  6. To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.)
  7. To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
  8. To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
  9. (typically in heterosexual contexts) To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a dildo.
  10. To keep working hard at something; to peg away.

pepped

verb
  1. To inject with energy and enthusiasm.

peppy

adjective
  1. Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy

pogo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A dance associated with the 1970s punk rock movement in which participants jump up and down on the spot in the manner of someone riding a pogo stick.
  2. The act of lifting the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jumping up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
verb
  1. To use a pogo stick.
  2. To dance the pogo.
  3. To lift the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jump up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
  4. To move rapidly up and down like a pogo stick.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A corndog on a stick.

pogoed

verb
  1. To use a pogo stick.
  2. To dance the pogo.
  3. To lift the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jump up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
  4. To move rapidly up and down like a pogo stick.

poop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Fecal matter, feces.
  2. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch.
verb
  1. To make a short blast on a horn
  2. To break wind.
  3. To defecate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stern of a ship.
  2. The poop deck.
verb
  1. To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
  2. To embark a ship over the stern.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A slothful person.

pooped

verb
  1. To make a short blast on a horn
  2. To break wind.
  3. To defecate.
verb
  1. To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.
verb
  1. To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
  2. To embark a ship over the stern.
adjective
  1. Tired; exhausted.
  2. Fitted or furnished with a poop.
  3. Having had a wave come over the stern from abaft.

pope

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
  2. (Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
  3. An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
  4. Any bishop of the early Christian church.
  5. The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
  6. (Cumberland) The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
  7. The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
  8. The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).
verb
  1. To act as or like a pope.
  2. To convert to Roman Catholicism.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (Russian Orthodoxy) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The whippoorwill (Caprimulgus vociferus).
  2. The nighthawk (Chordeiles minor).

poppa

noun
  1. (sometimes childish) father, papa.

popped

verb
  1. To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
  2. To burst (something) with a popping sound.
  3. (with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart.
  4. To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.
  5. (often with over, round, along, etc.) To make a short trip or visit.
  6. To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.
  7. To hit (something or someone).
  8. To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
  9. To ejaculate.
  10. To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
  11. To remove a data item from the top of (a stack).
  12. To pawn (something) (to raise money).
  13. To swallow or consume (especially a tablet of a drug, sometimes extended to other small items such as sweets or candy).
  14. To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
  15. (of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.

poppy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially the common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
  2. A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.
  3. A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Sunday.
adjective
  1. Of a bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower (Papaver rhoeas).

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Having a popping or bursting sound.
  2. Of a beverage: resembling soda pop; effervescent, fizzy.
  3. Of eyes: protruding, sticking out.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Popular.
  2. Typical, or in the style, of pop music.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.

yapped

Etymology 1

verb
  1. Of a small dog, to bark.
  2. To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
  3. To rob or steal from (someone).

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Of a book: having a yapp.

yappy

adjective
  1. Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner.
  2. Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.

peapod

No Definition Found.