Wednesday, December 4, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 98

Number of Answers: 24

Points Needed for Genius: 69

Genius requires between 11 and 21 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 83% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 98 was in the 13th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on November 26, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 24 possible answers rank it in the 10th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on November 19, 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 December 2, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
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 172
  • naan 165
  • nana 165
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 125
  • mama 121
  • mamma 121
  • nene 118
  • acacia 114
  • acai 114
  • onto 113
  • toon 113
  • anal 110
  • onion 107
  • anon 106
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • olio 103
  • papa 102
  • baba 101
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • dodo 100
  • mitt 99
  • poop 99
  • tact 98
  • allay 97
  • ally 97
  • call 97
  • calla 97
  • ratatat 96
  • tart 96
  • tartar 96
  • attar 95
  • cocci 95
  • tatty 95
  • tutu 95
  • tattoo 94
  • ammo 93
  • epee 93
  • momma 93
  • mono 93
  • moon 93
  • peep 93
  • loon 91
  • roar 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 94,017 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*:

  • abaka
  • akee
  • akene
  • ananke
  • debeak
  • debeaked
  • ekka
  • kabab
  • kabaka
  • kaka
  • kame
  • kana
  • kanaka
  • kanban
  • kane
  • keek
  • keeked
  • kenned
  • medaka

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

babka

No Definition Found.

bake

noun
  1. The act of cooking food by baking.
  2. Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
  3. A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
  4. (Barbadian, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
  5. Any item that is baked.
verb
  1. (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.
  2. (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
  3. To be warmed to drying and hardening.
  4. To dry by heat.
  5. To be hot.
  6. To cause to be hot.
  7. To smoke marijuana.
  8. To harden by cold.
  9. To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
  10. (with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.

baked

verb
  1. (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.
  2. (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
  3. To be warmed to drying and hardening.
  4. To dry by heat.
  5. To be hot.
  6. To cause to be hot.
  7. To smoke marijuana.
  8. To harden by cold.
  9. To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
  10. (with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
adjective
  1. That has been cooked by baking.
  2. High on cannabis.

bank

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
  2. A branch office of such an institution.
  3. An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
  4. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
  5. The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
  6. Money; profit
  7. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
  8. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
  9. A device used to store coins or currency.
verb
  1. To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
  2. To put into a bank.
  3. To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
  2. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
  3. A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
  4. The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
  5. An incline, a hill.
  6. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
  7. The face of the coal at which miners are working.
  8. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
  9. The ground at the top of a shaft.
verb
  1. To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
  2. To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
  3. To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
  4. To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
  5. To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
  6. To pass by the banks of.
  7. To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
  2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
  3. A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
  4. A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
verb
  1. (order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
  2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
  3. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.
  4. A kind of table used by printers.
  5. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
  6. Slang for money

banked

verb
  1. To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
  2. To put into a bank.
  3. To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
verb
  1. To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
  2. To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
  3. To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
  4. To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
  5. To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
  6. To pass by the banks of.
  7. To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
verb
  1. (order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
adjective
  1. Piled high.
  2. Of a cheque, deposited in a bank.

beak

noun
  1. Anatomical uses.
  2. Figurative uses.
  3. Colloquial uses.
verb
  1. Strike with the beak.
  2. Seize with the beak.
  3. To play truant.

beaked

No Definition Found.

dank

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Moisture; humidity; water.
adjective
  1. Dark, damp and humid.
  2. (of marijuana) Highly potent.
  3. (often ironic) Great, awesome.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.

deke

noun
  1. A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman.
  2. As in hockey, a fake or other move to confuse other players on a team.
  3. A quick detour.
verb
  1. To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
  2. To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports.

deked

verb
  1. To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
  2. To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports.

eked

verb
  1. Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.

embank

verb
  1. To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone

embanked

verb
  1. To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone

kebab

noun
  1. A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
  2. A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
  3. The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
  4. A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
  5. The vulva.
verb
  1. To roast in the style of a kebab
  2. To stab or skewer

keen

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To make cold, to sharpen.
adjective
  1. Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
  2. Fierce, intense, vehement.
  3. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
  4. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
  5. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
  6. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
  7. Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
  8. Marvelous.
  9. Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
verb
  1. To utter a keen.
  2. To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
  3. To mourn.

keened

verb
  1. To make cold, to sharpen.
verb
  1. To utter a keen.
  2. To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
  3. To mourn.

knead

noun
  1. The act of kneading something.
verb
  1. To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
  2. To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
  3. (of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
  4. To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.

kneaded

verb
  1. To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
  2. To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
  3. (of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
  4. To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.

knee

noun
  1. In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
  2. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
  3. The part of a garment that covers the knee.
  4. A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
  5. An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.
  6. Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point.
  7. A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
verb
  1. To kneel to.
  2. To poke or strike with the knee.
  3. To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.

kneed

verb
  1. To kneel to.
  2. To poke or strike with the knee.
  3. To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.
adjective
  1. Having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or knees.
  2. Having angular joints like the knee.

make

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Brand or kind; model.
  2. Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
  3. Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
  4. A person's character or disposition.
  5. The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
  6. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
  7. A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
  8. Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
  9. (usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present or future target of seduction (usually female).
  10. A promotion.
  11. A home-made project
  12. Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
  13. A made basket.
  14. The closing of an electrical circuit.
verb
  1. To create.
  2. To behave, to act.
  3. To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
  4. To constitute.
  5. To add up to, have a sum of.
  6. (construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
  7. (usually stressed) To bring into success.
  8. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
  9. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
  10. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
  11. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
  12. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
  13. (of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
  14. (law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.
  15. To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
  16. To proceed (in a direction).
  17. To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
  18. To move at (a speed).
  19. To appoint; to name.
  20. To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
  21. To defecate or urinate.
  22. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
  23. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
  24. To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
  25. To enact; to establish.
  26. To develop into; to prove to be.
  27. To form or formulate in the mind.
  28. To perform a feat.
  29. To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
  30. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
  31. To increase; to augment; to accrue.
  32. To be engaged or concerned in.
  33. To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
  34. To take the virginity of.
  35. To have sexual intercourse with.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A halfpenny.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.

meek

verb
  1. (of horses) To tame; to break.
adjective
  1. Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
  2. Submissive, dispirited.

naked

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Bare, not covered by clothing.
  2. Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
  3. Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.
  4. Characterized by the nakedness of the people concerned or to whom the described noun is attributed.
  5. Unarmed.
  6. Unaided, unaccompanied.
  7. Unprotected, uncovered; (by extension) without a condom.
  8. (of a derivative contract) Where the writer (seller) does not own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
  9. Resourceless, poor, lacking means.
  10. (with “of”) Lacking or devoid of something.
  11. Blank, clean, empty.
  12. (of land, rocks, or plants) Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
  13. Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.
  14. (of food or other consumer products) Without any additives, or without some component that would usually be included.
  15. Of a singularity, not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make naked; to bare.

nankeen

noun
  1. A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.