Monday, January 27, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 106

Number of Answers: 27

Points Needed for Genius: 74

Genius requires between 11 and 24 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 82% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 64% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 106 was in the 17th 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 27 possible answers rank it in the 18th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on January 2, 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 23, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
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 179
  • naan 167
  • nana 167
  • lilt 133
  • till 133
  • tilt 133
  • tint 131
  • mama 123
  • mamma 123
  • nene 123
  • onto 117
  • toon 117
  • acacia 116
  • acai 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 96,403 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*:

  • allheal
  • ayah
  • bach
  • beachball
  • beechy
  • bleachable
  • cabbalah
  • cachaca
  • caleche
  • chalah
  • chaleh
  • challa
  • chally
  • chay
  • chebec
  • chela
  • chelae
  • chyle
  • clach
  • eche
  • echelle
  • haha
  • halacha
  • halala
  • halalah
  • hallah
  • hallal
  • hallel
  • hayey
  • hebe
  • heelball
  • hyla
  • lahal
  • leachable
  • leachy
  • lych
  • yechy

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

ache

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
verb
  1. To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
  2. To cause someone or something to suffer pain.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Parsley

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The name of the Latin-script letter H.

achy

adjective
  1. Suffering from aches, sore.

beach

noun
  1. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
  2. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
  3. The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
verb
  1. To run aground on a beach.
  2. To run (something) aground on a beach.
  3. (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
noun
  1. A gravel-filled zone on a racetrack, used as a hazard, exclusionary region, and, safety device to slow down and trap vehicles.

beachy

adjective
  1. Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.
  2. Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like.

beech

noun
  1. A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves and many branches.
  2. The wood of the beech tree.

belch

noun
  1. The sound one makes when belching.
  2. Malt liquor.
verb
  1. To expel (gas) loudly from the stomach through the mouth.
  2. To eject or emit (something) with spasmodic force or noise.
  3. To be ejected or emitted (from something) with spasmodic force or noise.

bellyache

noun
  1. Any pain in the belly, stomach, or abdomen.
verb
  1. To unnecessarily complain or whine, often about simple matters.

blah

noun
  1. Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
  2. (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.
verb
  1. To utter idle, meaningless talk.
adjective
  1. Dull; uninteresting; insipid.
  2. Low in spirit or health; down.
interjection
  1. An expression of mild frustration.
  2. (When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
  3. Representing the sound of vomiting.

bleach

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Pale; bleak.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
  2. A variety of bleach.
verb
  1. To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
  2. To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
  3. (of corals) to lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
  4. To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A disease of the skin.

blech

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To have the vomiting reflex triggered.
interjection
  1. An imitation of the sound of gagging, used to express disgust or disdain.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A metal sheet used to cover stovetop burners on Shabbat to allow food to be kept warm without violating the prohibition against cooking.

cache

noun
  1. A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
  2. A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
  3. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
verb
  1. To place in a cache.

challah

noun
  1. A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for Yom Tov.
  2. The commandment to separate a portion of bread or bread dough for the cohanim (Numbers 15:17–21); in contemporary practice, the portion is burned until inedible.
  3. The portion separated in fulfillment of the above.

each

noun
  1. (operations) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
adverb
  1. For one; apiece; per.
pronoun
  1. Every one; every thing.

halal

verb
  1. To make halal.
adjective
  1. Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
  2. (of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.
adverb
  1. In a halal manner; in accordance with Muslim religious customs.

hale

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Health, welfare.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly.

hall

noun
  1. A corridor; a hallway.
  2. A meeting room.
  3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
  4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
  5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  6. Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
  7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
  8. A living room.

heal

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
  2. Health
verb
  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
  2. To become better or healthy again.
  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
  2. To become better or healthy again.
  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
verb
  1. To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
  2. (now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).

healable

No Definition Found.

heel

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
  2. The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
  3. The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
  4. The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
  5. (usually in the plural) A woman's high-heeled shoe.
  6. The back, upper part of the stock.
  7. The last or lowest part of anything.
  8. A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
  9. The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
  10. A contemptible, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
  11. A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
  12. The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
  13. Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
  14. The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
  15. (specifically) The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
  16. (workman slang) A cyma reversa.
  17. The short side of an angled cut.
  18. The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
  19. The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the toe (upper end).
  20. In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.
verb
  1. To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
  2. To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
  3. To kick with the heel.
  4. To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
  5. To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
  6. To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
  7. To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
verb
  1. To incline to one side; to tilt.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
  2. To become better or healthy again.
  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
verb
  1. To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
  2. (now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).

hell

No Definition Found.

leach

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
  2. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
  3. A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
noun
  1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
  2. A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
  3. A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
noun
  1. A physician.
  2. (Heathenry) A healer.
noun
  1. The vertical edge of a square sail.
  2. The aft edge of a triangular sail.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
  2. To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

lech

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A strong, lecherous desire or craving.
  2. A lecher.
verb
  1. To behave lecherously

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The capstone of a cromlech.

leech

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
  2. A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
  3. A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
verb
  1. To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
  2. To drain (resources) without giving back.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A physician.
  2. (Heathenry) A healer.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To treat, cure or heal.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The vertical edge of a square sail.
  2. The aft edge of a triangular sail.

lychee

noun
  1. The Chinese tropical fruit tree Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family.
  2. That tree's bright red oval fruit with a single stone surrounded by a fleshy white aril.
  3. A soft pink-red colour, like that of a lychee rind (also called lychee red).

yeah

Etymology 1

interjection
  1. Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
  2. (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.
  3. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.
  4. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
  5. A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
  6. A level or grade in school or college.
  7. The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).

yecch

noun
  1. An exclamation of disgust.
interjection
  1. An exclamation of disgust.

yech

noun
  1. An exclamation of disgust.
interjection
  1. An exclamation of disgust.