Friday, February 21, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 88

Number of Answers: 20

Points Needed for Genius: 62

Genius requires between 10 and 18 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 87% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 63% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 88 was in the 7th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on February 11, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 20 possible answers rank it in the 1st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on December 11, 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 February 18, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
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 192
  • loll 183
  • toot 181
  • naan 167
  • nana 167
  • lilt 134
  • till 134
  • tilt 134
  • tint 133
  • nene 126
  • mama 125
  • mamma 125
  • onto 118
  • toon 118
  • acacia 117
  • acai 117
  • onion 113
  • anal 112
  • anon 109
  • boob 109
  • booboo 109
  • baba 106
  • olio 105
  • papa 103
  • tact 103
  • dodo 102
  • lull 102
  • lulu 102
  • mitt 102
  • call 101
  • calla 101
  • poop 101
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • ratatat 99
  • tart 99
  • tartar 99
  • tattoo 99
  • tutu 99
  • attar 98
  • tatty 98
  • ammo 96
  • cocci 96
  • momma 96
  • mono 96
  • moon 96
  • epee 95
  • peep 95
  • loot 92
  • lotto 92


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 97,511 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,465 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*:

  • hili
  • hillo
  • hollo
  • holloo
  • holo
  • hornito
  • liroth
  • loth
  • nihil
  • nonillionth
  • oolith
  • ortho
  • otolith
  • thill
  • thio
  • thiol
  • thionin
  • thir
  • thirl
  • tholoi
  • thoro
  • thoron
  • thro
  • toroth
  • trilith
  • trilithon

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

hill

noun
  1. An elevated location smaller than a mountain.
  2. A sloping road.
  3. A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
  4. A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
  5. The pitcher’s mound.
verb
  1. To form into a heap or mound.
  2. To heap or draw earth around plants.

hilt

noun
  1. The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
  2. The base of the penis.
verb
  1. To provide with a hilt.
  2. To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (finger until palm, penis until pelvis).

hint

noun
  1. A clue.
  2. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
  3. A small, barely detectable amount of.
  4. Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering. Also known as hinting.
  5. An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
verb
  1. To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
  2. To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
  3. To develop and add hints to a font.

holt

noun
  1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
  2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

honor

noun
  1. Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful)
  2. The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity
  3. A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen
  4. A privilege
  5. (in the plural) the privilege of going first
  6. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
  7. (feudal law) a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended
  8. The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point)
  9. In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
  10. (in the plural) (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank
verb
  1. To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of
  2. To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like)
  3. To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone)
  4. To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.)

hoot

noun
  1. A derisive cry or shout.
  2. The cry of an owl.
  3. A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
  4. A small particle.
verb
  1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
  2. To make the cry of an owl, a hoo.
  3. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
  4. To sound the horn of a vehicle

horn

noun
  1. A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
  2. Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
  3. An antler.
  4. The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
  5. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
  6. Any of several musical wind instruments.
  7. An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
  8. A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
  9. A sound signaling the expiration of time.
  10. A conical device used to direct waves.
  11. Generally, any brass wind instrument.
  12. (from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
  13. (definite article) An erection of the penis.
  14. A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
  15. A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
  16. An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
verb
  1. (of an animal) To assault with the horns.
  2. To furnish with horns.
  3. To cuckold.

horror

noun
  1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
  2. Something horrible; that which excites horror.
  3. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  4. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
  5. An individual work in this genre.
  6. A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
  7. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
  8. (plural) Delirium tremens.

litho

verb
  1. To lithograph.
adjective
  1. Related to the method of lithography.

ninth

noun
  1. The person or thing in the ninth position.
  2. One of nine equal parts of a whole.
  3. The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).
verb
  1. To lose a ninth
  2. To divide by nine
adjective
  1. The ordinal form of the number nine.

north

noun
  1. One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map, abbreviated as N.
  2. The up or positive direction.
  3. The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).
verb
  1. To turn or move toward the north.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
  2. Toward the north; northward.
  3. Of wind, from the north.
  4. Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
  5. More or greater than.
adverb
  1. Toward the north; northward; northerly.

rhino

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A rhinoceros.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Money

thin

noun
  1. A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
  2. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
verb
  1. To make thin or thinner.
  2. To become thin or thinner.
  3. To dilute.
  4. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
adjective
  1. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
  2. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
  3. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
  4. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
  5. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
  6. Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
  7. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
  8. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
adverb
  1. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

thorn

noun
  1. A sharp protective spine of a plant.
  2. Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
  3. That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
  4. A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
verb
  1. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn

thrill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
  2. A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
  3. A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
  4. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
verb
  1. To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
  2. To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
  3. To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
  4. To hurl; to throw; to cast.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.

tilth

noun
  1. Agricultural labour; husbandry.
  2. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
  3. Rich cultivated soil.

tinhorn

noun
  1. A contemptible or pretentious person, especially one who gambles for low stakes.
adjective
  1. Cheap, inferior; pretentious.

tooth

noun
  1. A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  2. A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  3. A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
  4. A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
  5. A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  6. The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
  7. Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
  8. An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
verb
  1. To provide or furnish with teeth.
  2. To indent; to jag.
  3. To lock into each other, like gear wheels.

trillionth

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troth

noun
  1. An oath, pledge, or promise.
  2. Truth; something true.
verb
  1. To pledge to marry somebody.