Saturday, January 25, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 142

Number of Answers: 31

Points Needed for Genius: 99

Genius requires between 14 and 27 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 142 was in the 37th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on January 23, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 31 possible answers rank it in the 29th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on January 18, 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 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on January 24, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
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 178
  • naan 167
  • nana 167
  • lilt 133
  • till 133
  • tilt 133
  • tint 131
  • mama 123
  • mamma 123
  • nene 123
  • acacia 116
  • acai 116
  • onto 116
  • toon 116
  • anal 111
  • onion 110
  • boob 108
  • booboo 108
  • anon 107
  • baba 104
  • olio 104
  • papa 103
  • tact 103
  • lull 102
  • lulu 102
  • mitt 102
  • dodo 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
  • coot 91
  • loon 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 96,325 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,417 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*:

  • aggie
  • amia
  • amie
  • amiga
  • atigi
  • giga
  • gighe
  • gimmie
  • gite
  • haematite
  • heigh
  • heighth
  • hight
  • highth
  • himatia
  • imamate
  • maihem
  • mamie
  • mammati
  • mammie
  • migg
  • mimetite
  • tammie
  • tattie
  • titi
  • tittie

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

agita

noun
  1. Dyspepsia
  2. Mental aggravation; annoyance

agitate

verb
  1. To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
  2. To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
  3. To set in motion; to actuate.
  4. To discuss or debate.
  5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to consider, to devise.

eight

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The digit/figure 8.
  2. Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
  3. A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
  4. (especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate.
  5. The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
numeral
  1. A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
  2. Describing a group or set with eight elements.
adjective
  1. The ordinal form of the number eight.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.

eighth

noun
  1. The person or thing in the eighth position.
  2. One of eight equal parts of a whole.
  3. An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.
verb
  1. To divide by eight
adjective
  1. The ordinal form of the number eight.

eightieth

No Definition Found.

emit

verb
  1. To send out or give off

gait

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
  2. One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
verb
  1. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A sheaf of corn.
  2. A charge for pasturage.

gimme

noun
  1. That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur.

height

noun
  1. The distance from the base of something to the top.
  2. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
  3. The highest point or maximum degree.
  4. A high point.
  5. An area of land at the top of a cliff.

hematite

noun
  1. An iron ore, mainly peroxide of iron, Fe2O3.

high

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A high point or position, literally or figuratively; an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
  2. A point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best.
  3. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
  4. A drug that gives such a high.
  5. A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
  6. The maximum value attained by some quantity within a specified period.
  7. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
  8. The highest card dealt or drawn.
verb
  1. To rise.
adjective
  1. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
  2. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
  3. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
  4. Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character.
  5. Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
  6. Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
  7. (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.
  8. (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.
  9. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
  10. (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
  11. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
  12. (with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused.
  13. (of a body of water) With tall waves.
  14. Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
  15. (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
  16. Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
  17. Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
  18. (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
  19. Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
  20. (of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
adverb
  1. In or to an elevated position.
  2. In or at a great value.
  3. At a pitch of great frequency.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Thought; intention; determination; purpose.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To hie; to hasten.

image

noun
  1. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
  2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
  3. A statue or idol.
  4. A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
  5. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
  6. Something mapped to by a function.
  7. The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
  8. A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
  9. Show; appearance; cast.
verb
  1. To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
  2. To reflect, mirror.
  3. To create an image of.
  4. To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

imam

noun
  1. (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
  2. One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

imitate

verb
  1. To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.

item

noun
  1. A distinct physical object.
  2. (by extension) An object that can be picked up for later use.
  3. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.
  4. (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.
  5. A matter for discussion in an agenda.
  6. Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
  7. A short article in a newspaper.
  8. A hint; an innuendo.
verb
  1. To make a note of.
adverb
  1. Likewise

magi

noun
  1. A magician, wizard or sorcerer.
noun
  1. (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan
  2. (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest

mahimahi

noun
  1. A large food and game fish of the family Coryphaenidae which is commonly found in tropical and subtropical waters.

maim

noun
  1. A serious wound
verb
  1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

megahit

No Definition Found.

might

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group.
  2. Physical strength or force.
  3. The ability to do something.
adjective
  1. Mighty; powerful.
  2. Possible.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To be strong; to have power (over).
  2. (auxiliary) To be able; can.
  3. To be able to go.
  4. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
  5. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly.
  6. (subjunctive present, defective) Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
  7. Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
verb
  1. (auxiliary) Used to indicate conditional or possible actions.
  2. Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done.
  3. (auxiliary) Even though.
  4. (auxiliary) Used in polite requests for permission

mime

noun
  1. A form of acting without words; pantomime.
  2. A pantomime actor.
  3. A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
  4. A performer of such a farce.
  5. A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
  6. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.
verb
  1. To mimic.
  2. To act without words.
  3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

mite

noun
  1. Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).
  2. A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
  3. A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
  4. A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
  5. (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle
  6. (often used affectionately) A small or naughty person, or one you take pity on; rascal

mitigate

verb
  1. To reduce, lessen, or decrease; to make less severe or easier to bear.
  2. To downplay.

mitt

noun
  1. A mitten
  2. An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
  3. (especially in plural) A hand.

taiga

noun
  1. A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.

tatami

noun
  1. Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses

teatime

noun
  1. The traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).

thigh

noun
  1. The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.
  2. That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.

tight

No Definition Found.

time

noun
  1. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
  2. A duration of time.
  3. An instant of time.
  4. The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
  5. Ratio of comparison.
  6. (grammar) Tense.
  7. The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
verb
  1. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
  2. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
  3. To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
  4. To pass time; to delay.
  5. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
  6. To measure, as in music or harmony.
interjection
  1. Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
  2. The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
  3. A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.

tithe

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tenth.
  2. The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses.
  3. A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church)
  4. A small part or proportion.
verb
  1. To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
  2. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
  3. To compose the tenth part of something.
adjective
  1. Tenth.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A boon (a grant or concession).
verb
  1. To grant, concede.
adjective
  1. Receiving a concession or grant; successful in prayer or request.