Thursday, January 2, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 113

Number of Answers: 24

Points Needed for Genius: 79

Genius requires between 12 and 20 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 80% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

The button below will reveal a chart with the number of words by each letter. Red bars indicate that there is a pangram(s) starting with that letter.


How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 113 was in the 21st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on December 29, 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 December 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on December 29, 2024.

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



Haven't I seen these letters before?

Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 190
  • loll 181
  • toot 176
  • naan 166
  • nana 166
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 127
  • mama 122
  • mamma 122
  • nene 121
  • acacia 115
  • acai 115
  • onto 115
  • toon 115
  • anal 110
  • onion 110
  • anon 107
  • boob 107
  • booboo 107
  • olio 104
  • 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
  • tattoo 97
  • tatty 97
  • tutu 97
  • cocci 96
  • mono 95
  • moon 95
  • ammo 94
  • epee 94
  • momma 94
  • peep 94
  • loon 91
  • nanny 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 95,257 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,386 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*:

  • avadavat
  • avant
  • daven
  • davened
  • deave
  • deaved
  • deva
  • eventuate
  • eventuated
  • navette
  • neve
  • teevee
  • unevaded
  • vanadate
  • vanda
  • vaned
  • vanned
  • vatted
  • vatu
  • vedette
  • veena
  • vena
  • venae
  • vendee
  • vendu
  • vendue
  • venenate
  • venenated
  • venene

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

advent

noun
  1. Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears

avaunt

noun
  1. A vaunt; a boast.
verb
  1. To advance; to move forward; to elevate.
  2. To depart; to move away.
  3. To vaunt; to boast.
interjection
  1. Begone; depart; used in contempt or abhorrence.

avenue

noun
  1. A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.
  2. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
  3. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
  4. A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
  5. (urban toponymy) A street, especially, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is in a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.

duvet

noun
  1. A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets.
  2. A cover for a quilt or comforter.

eave

noun
  1. Eaves: the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building.

eaved

No Definition Found.

evade

verb
  1. To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from
  2. To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
  3. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

evaded

verb
  1. To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from
  2. To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
  3. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

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.

evened

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To occur; to happen; to come to pass.

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.

nave

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hub of a wheel.
  2. The navel.

uneven

verb
  1. To make uneven.
adjective
  1. Not even
  2. Not level or smooth
  3. Not uniform
  4. Varying in quality
  5. Odd

uvea

noun
  1. The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris.

vane

noun
  1. A weather vane
  2. Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid
  3. The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
  4. A sight on a sextant or compass
  5. One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile

vaunt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A boast; an instance of vaunting.
verb
  1. To speak boastfully.
  2. To speak boastfully about.
  3. To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The first part.

vaunted

verb
  1. To speak boastfully.
  2. To speak boastfully about.
  3. To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
adjective
  1. Highly or widely praised or boasted about.

vend

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act of vending or selling; a sale.
  2. The total sales of coal from a colliery.
verb
  1. To hawk or to peddle merchandise.
  2. To sell wares through a vending machine.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y.

vended

verb
  1. To hawk or to peddle merchandise.
  2. To sell wares through a vending machine.

vendetta

noun
  1. A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud.
  2. (often preceded by personal) A motivational grudge against a person or faction, which may or may not be reciprocated; the state of having it in for someone.

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.

vented

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.
verb
  1. To sell; to vend.
verb
  1. To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.

venue

noun
  1. A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events.
  2. A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes.
  3. A bout; a hit; a turn. See venew.
  4. Sport venue: a stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.

vetted

verb
  1. To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval.
adjective
  1. Having undergone an investigation and been approved.