Monday, December 16, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 233

Number of Answers: 50

Points Needed for Genius: 163

Genius requires between 26 and 41 words. You need at least a 6-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 233 was in the 79th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on December 12, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 50 possible answers rank it in the 77th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on December 7, 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 4, 2024.

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



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 189
  • loll 180
  • toot 173
  • naan 165
  • nana 165
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 126
  • mama 121
  • mamma 121
  • nene 119
  • acacia 115
  • acai 115
  • onto 114
  • toon 114
  • anal 110
  • onion 109
  • anon 107
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • olio 103
  • papa 102
  • baba 101
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • poop 101
  • dodo 100
  • mitt 100
  • tact 100
  • allay 97
  • ally 97
  • call 97
  • calla 97
  • ratatat 97
  • tart 97
  • tartar 97
  • attar 96
  • tatty 96
  • tutu 96
  • cocci 95
  • tattoo 95
  • ammo 94
  • epee 94
  • momma 94
  • mono 94
  • moon 94
  • peep 94
  • loon 91
  • roar 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 94,507 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,365 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*:

  • dipeptide
  • dipt
  • epidote
  • epitope
  • epopee
  • oped
  • pepo
  • peptid
  • petti
  • petto
  • pipetted
  • pipped
  • pitot
  • podded
  • podite
  • pood
  • pooed
  • poove
  • poppied
  • potto
  • topee
  • topi
  • topo
  • topoi
  • veepee

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

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.

depot

noun
  1. A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
  2. A bus station or railway station.
  3. A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
  4. A place for the storage, servicing or upgrade of military hardware.
  5. The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
  6. The tableau; the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.

dipped

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.
adjective
  1. That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
  2. Of headlights: lowered.
  3. Caught up in debt; mortgaged.

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.

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.

opioid

noun
  1. A substance that has effects similar to opium.
  2. Any of the natural substances, such as an endorphin, released in the body in response to pain.
  3. Any of a group of synthetic compounds that exhibit similarities to the opium alkaloids that occur in nature.

opted

verb
  1. To choose; select.

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.

peeve

noun
  1. An annoyance or grievance.
verb
  1. To annoy; vex.

peeved

verb
  1. To annoy; vex.

pepped

verb
  1. To inject with energy and enthusiasm.

peptide

noun
  1. Any of a class of organic compounds consisting of various numbers of amino acids in which the amine of one is reacted with the carboxylic acid of the next to form an amide bond.
  2. The peptide bond itself.

petit

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy.
  2. A kind of pigeon.
adjective
  1. (of size) Petite: small, little.
  2. Petty, in its various senses:

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.

petite

adjective
  1. (especially of a woman) fairly short and of slim build.
  2. (clothing) of small size.
  3. Small, little; insignificant; petty.

petted

verb
  1. To stroke or fondle (an animal).
  2. To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
  3. Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously.
  4. To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
  5. To be a pet.
  6. To be peevish; to sulk.

pied

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Having two or more colors, especially black and white.
  2. Decorated or colored in blotches.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To spill or mix printing type.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
  2. To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
  3. (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.

pipe

noun
  1. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
  2. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
  3. Meanings relating to a container.
  4. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
  5. Meanings relating to computing.
  6. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
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.

piped

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.
adjective
  1. Shaped like a pipe; tubular.

pipet

noun
  1. A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
verb
  1. To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.

pipette

noun
  1. A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
verb
  1. To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.

pipit

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

pitied

verb
  1. To feel pity for (someone or something).
  2. To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.

pitted

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.
adjective
  1. Having a surface marked by pits; pockmarked or alveolate
  2. (of fruit) Having had the pits removed
  3. (of a maintenance area) Provided with one or more inspection pits.

pivot

noun
  1. A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
  2. (by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
  3. Act of turning on one foot.
  4. The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
  5. A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
  6. An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
  7. A pivot table.
  8. Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
  9. An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
  10. A quarterback.
  11. A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
verb
  1. To turn on an exact spot.
  2. To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.

pivoted

verb
  1. To turn on an exact spot.
  2. To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.
adjective
  1. Fitted with a pivot or pivots.

poet

noun
  1. A person who writes poems.
  2. A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

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).

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.

poppet

noun
  1. (term of endearment) An endearingly sweet or beautiful child.
  2. (term of endearment) A young woman or girl.
  3. The stem and valve head in a poppet valve.
  4. A doll (such as a voodoo doll) made in witchcraft to represent a person, used in casting spells on that person.
  5. One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
  6. An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.

potpie

noun
  1. A pie, having pastry sides and bottom, and filled with meat etc
  2. A dish of meat and vegetable stew with dumplings

potted

verb
  1. To put (something) into a pot.
  2. To preserve by bottling or canning.
  3. To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  4. To be capable of being potted.
  5. To shoot with a firearm.
  6. To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
  7. To secure; gain; win; bag.
  8. To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
  9. To tipple; to drink.
  10. To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
  11. To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
  12. To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
adjective
  1. Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.
  2. Drunk.

teepee

verb
  1. To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.

tepee

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee

tepid

adjective
  1. Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
  2. Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness.

tipi

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee

tipped

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.

tippet

noun
  1. A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.
  2. A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen.
  3. A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.
  4. A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching.
  5. In fly fishing, the part of the leader that attaches to the fly.
  6. A bird's ruffle.
  7. One of the patagia, or pieces at the side of the pronotum of a moth.

tiptoe

noun
  1. (usually in the plural) The tip of the toe.
verb
  1. To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.
adjective
  1. Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
  2. Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.

tiptoed

verb
  1. To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.

tiptop

noun
  1. The very topmost point.
  2. The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.
adverb
  1. Excellently; in a first-rate manner.

tope

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To drink excessively; to get drunk.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A grove of trees.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.

toped

verb
  1. To drink excessively; to get drunk.

topped

verb
  1. To cover on the top or with a top.
  2. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
  3. To excel, to surpass, to beat.
  4. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
  5. To commit suicide.
  6. To murder.
  7. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
  8. (gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
  9. (gay sexuality) To anally penetrate.
  10. To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
  11. To predominate.
  12. To excel; to rise above others.
  13. To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
  14. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
  15. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
  16. To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
  17. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
  18. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
  19. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
  20. To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.

veep

noun
  1. (US politics) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination.
  2. Any vice president (in a corporation, organization, etc.)