Sunday, January 19, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 202

Number of Answers: 50

Points Needed for Genius: 141

Genius requires between 21 and 43 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 202 was in the 67th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on January 17, 2025.
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 January 17, 2025.
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 January 18, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
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 182
  • toot 177
  • naan 167
  • nana 167
  • lilt 132
  • till 132
  • tilt 132
  • tint 130
  • mama 123
  • mamma 123
  • nene 123
  • acacia 115
  • acai 115
  • onto 115
  • toon 115
  • anal 111
  • onion 110
  • boob 108
  • booboo 108
  • anon 107
  • baba 104
  • olio 104
  • papa 103
  • lull 102
  • lulu 102
  • tact 102
  • dodo 101
  • mitt 101
  • poop 101
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • call 99
  • calla 99
  • ratatat 99
  • tart 99
  • tartar 99
  • attar 98
  • tattoo 98
  • tatty 97
  • tutu 97
  • cocci 96
  • mono 96
  • moon 96
  • ammo 95
  • momma 95
  • epee 94
  • peep 94
  • loon 91
  • loot 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 96,047 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,409 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*:

  • gemmology
  • gemot
  • gemote
  • glogg
  • goglet
  • gogo
  • gooly
  • loggy
  • lolly
  • looey
  • loto
  • lotte
  • metol
  • moggy
  • molto
  • moly
  • mome
  • mool
  • mooley
  • motey
  • motmot
  • mott
  • motte
  • myology
  • myotome
  • ology
  • oology
  • otto
  • telome
  • tole
  • tolt
  • tolyl
  • tommy
  • toom
  • totty
  • toyo
  • yogee

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

emote

noun
  1. A virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than a direct message.
  2. (Twitch-speak) Short for emoticon.
verb
  1. To display emotions openly, especially while acting.
  2. To induce an emotion in.
  3. To perform a virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than sending a direct message.

etymology

noun
  1. The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.
  2. The origin and historical development of a word; the derivation.
  3. An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

gemology

noun
  1. The art and science of gems

geology

noun
  1. The science that studies the structure of the earth (or other planets), together with its origin and development, especially by examination of its rocks.
  2. The geological structure of a region.

glom

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To steal, to grab.
  2. To stare.
  3. To attach.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Short for glomerulus.

gloom

noun
  1. Darkness, dimness or obscurity.
  2. A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere.
  3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
  4. A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
verb
  1. To be dark or gloomy.
  2. To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
  3. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
  4. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
  5. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

gloomy

adjective
  1. Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening.
  2. Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.

goggle

noun
  1. A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye.
  2. (in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses.
verb
  1. To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
  2. To roll the eyes.

goggly

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golem

noun
  1. A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic.
  2. (by extension) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic.

golly

Etymology 1

interjection
  1. God!

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel.
  2. (racist) A black person.
  3. A hairy caterpillar.
  4. A receiver of stolen goods.
  5. Greyhound racing: the jolly dogs.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A galosh.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. (juvenile) Chewing gum.
  2. (juvenile) Saliva or phlegm.
verb
  1. (juvenile) To spit; to force up phlegm from one's throat.

gooey

adjective
  1. Of or relating to goo
  2. Soft, sticky and viscous

google

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To deliver googlies.
  2. To move as a ball in a googly.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An Internet search, such as those performed on the Google search engine.
  2. A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
verb
  1. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
  2. (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
  3. To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

googly

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. (of the eyes) Bulging.
  2. (usually of eyes, sometimes of persons) Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious.

googol

numeral
  1. The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred.

loge

noun
  1. A booth or stall.
  2. The lodge of a concierge.
  3. An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
  4. An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.

logy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Slow to respond or react; lethargic.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A term formed with the -logy suffix.

loll

verb
  1. To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
  2. To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
  3. To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.

loom

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
  2. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
  3. The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Loon (bird of order Gaviiformes)

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar.
verb
  1. To appear indistinctly, eg. when seen on the horizon or through the murk.
  2. To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; to be imminent.
  3. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.

loot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of plundering.
  2. Plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
  3. Any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
  4. Items dropped by defeated enemies.
verb
  1. To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
  2. To steal from.
  3. To examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

lotto

noun
  1. A game of chance similar to bingo
  2. A lottery

memo

noun
  1. A short note; a memorandum.
  2. A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
verb
  1. To record something; to make a note of something.
  2. To send someone a note about something, for the record.

mole

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae.
  2. Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats.
  3. An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
  4. A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines
  5. A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A moll, a bitch, a slut.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
  2. A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
  3. An Ancient Roman mausoleum.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number.

Etymology 6

noun
  1. A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.

Etymology 7

noun
  1. One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially the sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.

moll

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
  2. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
  3. Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
  4. A girlfriend of a bikie.
  5. A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
  6. A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Minor; in the minor mode

molly

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A woman or girl, especially of low status.
  2. An effeminate male, a male homosexual.
  3. Pure MDMA powder.
  4. A mollemoke.
  5. A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)
  6. A bird, the wagtail.
  7. A molly bolt.
verb
  1. To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies.

molt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
  2. The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting.
verb
  1. To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.
  2. To shed in such a manner.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
  2. To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
  3. To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
  4. To be discouraged.
  5. To be emotionally softened or touched.
  6. To be very hot and sweat profusely.

mommy

noun
  1. (usually childish) Mother.
verb
  1. To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone.
adjective
  1. (chiefly in the superlative) Characteristic of a mother; motherly.

moot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moot court.
  2. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
  3. A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  4. A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  5. An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
  6. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
adjective
  1. Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  2. Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  3. Having no practical impact or relevance.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
  2. (rural) Talk.
verb
  1. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  2. To discuss or debate.
  3. To make or declare irrelevant.
  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  5. To talk or speak.
  6. To say, utter, also insinuate.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Vagina.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
verb
  1. To take root and begin to grow.
  2. To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout.

mote

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small particle; a speck.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. May or might.
  2. Must.
  3. Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A meeting for discussion.
  2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
  3. A place of meeting for discussion.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.

motel

noun
  1. A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there.
  2. A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
verb
  1. To stay in a motel or motels.

motet

noun
  1. A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

motley

noun
  1. An incongruous mixture.
  2. A jester's multicoloured clothes.
  3. (by extension) A jester; a fool.
adjective
  1. Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity; heterogeneous.
  2. Having many colours; variegated.

mottle

noun
  1. A distinguishing blotch of color.
  2. A mottled coloration or pattern.
verb
  1. To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

motto

noun
  1. A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
  2. A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
  3. A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

ogee

noun
  1. A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape
  2. A pointed arch made from two ogees
  3. An inflection point.
  4. (aesthetic facial surgery) The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow.
  5. (distillation) The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.

ogle

noun
  1. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
  2. (usually in the plural) An eye.
verb
  1. To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.

oleo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Margarine

omelet

noun
  1. A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with cheese, chives or other foodstuffs.
  2. A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.

omelette

noun
  1. A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with cheese, chives or other foodstuffs.
  2. A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.

otology

noun
  1. The branch of medicine that deals with the ear, its structure, function and pathology.

teleology

noun
  1. The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences.
  2. (by extension) An instance of such a design or purpose, usually in natural phenomena.
  3. The use of a purpose or design rather than the laws of nature to explain an occurrence.

toggle

noun
  1. A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat.
  2. (in particular) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.
  3. A toggle switch.
  4. An appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.
  5. A horizontal piece of wood that is placed on a door, flat, or other wooden structure, but is not on one of the edges of the structure.
  6. (skydiving) A loop of webbing or a dowel affixed to the end of the steering/brake lines of a parachute providing the pilot with a means of control.
verb
  1. To alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever.
  2. To switch between alternate states.
  3. To fix like a toggle iron; to fix fast.

toll

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
  2. A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
  3. A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
  4. A tollbooth.
  5. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
  6. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
verb
  1. To impose a fee for the use of.
  2. To levy a toll on (someone or something).
  3. To take as a toll.
  4. To pay a toll or tallage.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act or sound of tolling
verb
  1. To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
  2. To summon by ringing a bell.
  3. To announce by tolling.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To draw; pull; tug; drag.
  2. To tear in pieces.
  3. To draw; entice; invite; allure.
  4. To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To take away; to vacate; to annul.
  2. To suspend.

tome

noun
  1. One in a series of volumes.
  2. A large or scholarly book.

tool

noun
  1. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
  2. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
  3. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
  4. A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
  5. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
  6. Penis.
  7. (by extension) An obnoxious or uptight person.
verb
  1. To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
  2. To equip with tools.
  3. To work very hard.
  4. To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
  5. To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
  6. To drive (a coach or other vehicle).
  7. To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.
  8. To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

toot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The noise of a horn or whistle.
  2. (by extension) A fart; flatus.
  3. Cocaine.
  4. A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
  5. A spree of drunkness.
  6. (pronounced /tʊt/) Rubbish; tat.
  7. A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
verb
  1. To stand out, or be prominent.
  2. To peep; to look narrowly.
  3. To see; to spy.
  4. To flatulate.
  5. To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
  6. To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
  7. To go on a drinking binge.
  8. To snort (a recreational drug).
  9. To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A toilet.

tootle

noun
  1. A soft toot sound.
  2. A trip or excursion.
verb
  1. To make a soft toot sound.
  2. To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound.
  3. To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly.
  4. To transport (someone somewhere).

tote

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tote bag.
  2. A heavy burden.
  3. (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
verb
  1. To carry or bear.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To add up; to calculate a total.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
  2. Pari-mutuel betting.

totem

noun
  1. Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family.
  2. The representation of such object or creature.
  3. The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature.
  4. An arbitrarily chosen object serving as a reminder to check whether one is awake or not, to aid in having lucid dreams.