Saturday, December 28, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 7

Maximum Puzzle Score: 348

Number of Answers: 47

Points Needed for Genius: 244

Genius requires between 22 and 41 words. You need at least a 10-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 107% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 55% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 348 was in the 98th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 30, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 47 possible answers rank it in the 71st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on December 27, 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 10-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on December 12, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.9.
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 190
  • loll 180
  • toot 175
  • naan 165
  • nana 165
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 127
  • mama 122
  • mamma 122
  • nene 120
  • acacia 115
  • acai 115
  • onto 114
  • toon 114
  • anal 110
  • onion 110
  • anon 107
  • boob 107
  • booboo 107
  • olio 103
  • baba 102
  • papa 102
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • poop 101
  • tact 101
  • dodo 100
  • mitt 100
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • call 99
  • calla 99
  • ratatat 99
  • tart 99
  • tartar 99
  • attar 98
  • tatty 97
  • tutu 97
  • cocci 96
  • tattoo 96
  • mono 95
  • moon 95
  • ammo 94
  • epee 94
  • momma 94
  • peep 94
  • loon 91
  • roar 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 95,059 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,379 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*:

  • civie
  • coinvent
  • concoctive
  • connivent
  • covin
  • covine
  • envoi
  • evection
  • eventive
  • evincive
  • evite
  • neve
  • nevi
  • nieve
  • ovonic
  • teevee
  • venene
  • venin
  • venine
  • vinic
  • vino
  • vive

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

civet

noun
  1. A carnivorous catlike animal, Civettictis civetta, that produces a musky secretion. It is two to three feet long, with black bands and spots on the body and tail.
  2. The musky perfume produced by the animal.
  3. Any animal in the family Viverridae or the similar family Nandiniidae
  4. Any of several species of spotted skunk, in the genus Spilogale.

civic

adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.
  2. Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.

conceive

verb
  1. To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
  2. To understand (someone).
  3. To become pregnant (with).

connective

noun
  1. That which connects.
  2. A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
  3. (grammar) A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
  4. The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
  5. A connective tissue.
adjective
  1. Serving or tending to connect; connecting.

connive

verb
  1. Often followed by with: to secretly cooperate with another person or persons in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
  2. Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
  3. Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
  4. To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

convect

verb
  1. To carry or convey; to move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer heat or a fluid by convection.

convection

noun
  1. The process of conveying something.
  2. The transmission of heat in a fluid by the circulation of currents.
  3. The vertical movement of heat and moisture, especially by updrafts and downdrafts in an unstable air mass. The terms convection and thunderstorm are often used interchangeably, although thunderstorms are only one form of convection. Towering cumulus clouds are visible forms of convection.

convective

No Definition Found.

convene

verb
  1. To come together; to meet; to unite.
  2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
  3. To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
  4. To summon judicially to meet or appear.

convenience

noun
  1. The quality of being convenient.
  2. Any object that makes life more convenient; a helpful item.
  3. A convenient time.
  4. Clipping of public convenience: a public lavatory.
verb
  1. To make convenient

convenient

adjective
  1. Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
  2. Fit; suitable; appropriate.

convent

noun
  1. A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
  2. The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
  3. A Christian school.
  4. A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
  5. A coming together; a meeting.
verb
  1. To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
  2. To meet together; to concur.
  3. To be convenient; to serve.

convention

noun
  1. A meeting or gathering.
  2. A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
  3. The convening of a formal meeting.
  4. A formal agreement, contract or pact.
  5. A treaty or supplement to such.
  6. A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

convict

noun
  1. A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
  2. A person deported to a penal colony.
  3. The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
  4. A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
verb
  1. To find guilty
  2. (esp. religious) to convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something)

conviction

noun
  1. A firmly held belief.
  2. A judgement of guilt in a court of law.
  3. The state of being found or proved guilty.
  4. The state of being wholly convinced.

convince

verb
  1. To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
  2. To persuade.
  3. To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
  4. To confute; to prove wrong.
  5. To prove guilty; to convict.

cove

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
  2. A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
  3. A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
  4. A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
  5. A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
  6. The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
  7. A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
verb
  1. To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (thieves' cant) A fellow; a man.
  2. A friend; a mate.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.

coven

noun
  1. A formal group or assembly of witches.
  2. A family, group or assembly of vampires.
  3. A clique that shares common interests or activities.

covet

verb
  1. To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
  2. To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
  3. To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession.

even

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (diminutive) An even number.
verb
  1. To make flat and level.
  2. To equal.
  3. To be equal.
  4. To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.
  5. To set right; to complete.
  6. To act up to; to keep pace with.
adjective
  1. Flat and level.
  2. Without great variation.
  3. Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
  4. (of an integer) Divisible by two.
  5. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
  6. On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
  7. On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
  8. Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
  9. Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
  10. Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
adverb
  1. Exactly, just, fully.
  2. In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.
  3. Emphasizing a comparative.
  4. Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance; rather, that is.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Evening.

event

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An occurrence; something that happens.
  2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
  3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
  4. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
  5. A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
  6. A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
  7. A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
  8. An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
  9. An episode of severe health conditions.
verb
  1. To occur, take place.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
  2. To expose to the air, ventilate.

evict

verb
  1. To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.

evictee

No Definition Found.

eviction

noun
  1. The act of evicting.
  2. The state of being evicted.

evince

verb
  1. To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.

incentive

noun
  1. Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
  2. A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
adjective
  1. Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
  2. Serving to kindle or set on fire.

inconvenience

noun
  1. The quality of being inconvenient.
  2. Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
verb
  1. To bother; to discomfort

inconvenient

noun
  1. An inconsistency, an incongruity.
  2. An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
adjective
  1. Not convenient

invective

noun
  1. An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
  2. A severe or violent censure or reproach.
  3. Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
  4. A harsh or reproachful accusation.
adjective
  1. Characterized by invection or railing.

invent

verb
  1. To design a new process or mechanism.
  2. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
  3. To come upon; to find; to discover.

invention

noun
  1. Something invented.
  2. The act of inventing.
  3. The capacity to invent.
  4. A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
  5. The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

inventive

adjective
  1. Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
  2. Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
  3. Purposefully fictive

invite

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
  2. To request formally.
  3. To encourage.
  4. To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An invitation.

invitee

noun
  1. A person who is invited into or onto someone else's premises

invoice

noun
  1. A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
  2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
  3. (generally of a vehicle) The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
verb
  1. To bill; to issue an invoice to.
  2. To make an invoice for (goods or services).

nonevent

noun
  1. An anticipated event that does not occur, or one that is a disappointing anticlimax.

novice

noun
  1. A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
  2. A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.

oven

noun
  1. A chamber used for baking or heating.

ovine

noun
  1. A sheep.
adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep
  2. (by extension) resembling a sheep in character; passive, of low intelligence and acquiescent

vein

noun
  1. A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
  2. (in plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
  3. In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
  4. The nervure of an insect’s wing.
  5. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
  6. A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
  7. A style, tendency, or quality.
  8. A fissure, cleft or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
verb
  1. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.

vent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
  2. A small aperture.
  3. The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
  4. A verbalized frustration.
  5. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
  6. A slit in the seam of a garment.
  7. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
  8. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
  9. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
  10. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
verb
  1. To allow gases to escape.
  2. To allow to escape through a vent.
  3. To express a strong emotion.
  4. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Ventriloquism.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Sale; opportunity to sell; market
verb
  1. To sell; to vend.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A baiting place; an inn.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Ventilation or ventilator.
verb
  1. To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.

veto

noun
  1. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
  2. An invocation of that right.
  3. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
verb
  1. To use a veto against.

vice

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A bad habit.
  2. Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs.
  3. A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping or holding (also spelled vise).
  2. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
  3. A grip or grasp.
  4. A winding or spiral staircase.
verb
  1. To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. One who acts in place of a superior.
adjective
  1. In place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
preposition
  1. Instead of, in place of

vine

noun
  1. The climbing plant that produces grapes.
  2. Any plant of the genus Vitis.
  3. (by extension) Any similar climbing or trailing plant.

voice

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
  2. Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
  3. The tone or sound emitted by an object
  4. The faculty or power of utterance
  5. That which is communicated; message; meaning.
  6. An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered
  7. Command; precept.
  8. One who speaks; a speaker.
  9. A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
  10. (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
  11. In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
  12. (IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
  2. To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
  3. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
  4. To vote; to elect; to appoint
  5. To clamor; to cry out
  6. (IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
  7. To act as a voice actor to portray a character.

vote

noun
  1. A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities
  2. An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot
  3. An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer
verb
  1. To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election
  2. To choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent

votive

noun
  1. A hymn or chant dedicated to a particular saint, or to the Virgin Mary
adjective
  1. Dedicated or given in fulfillment of a vow or pledge
  2. Of, expressing or symbolizing a vow. Often used to describe thick cylindrical candles found in many churches, lit when making a private vow or asking a private intention.