Saturday, February 22, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 227

Number of Answers: 55

Points Needed for Genius: 159

Genius requires between 26 and 46 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 75% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 227 was in the 76th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on February 20, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 55 possible answers rank it in the 85th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on February 19, 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 February 21, 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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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
  • dodo 103
  • papa 103
  • tact 103
  • 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 97,566 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*:

  • deedy
  • dene
  • denned
  • dewed
  • dhow
  • donne
  • donnee
  • doodoo
  • doody
  • dowed
  • dyeweed
  • dyewood
  • dynode
  • eddo
  • heydey
  • hodden
  • hoodooed
  • hoody
  • hoyden
  • hoydened
  • neddy
  • neoned
  • noddy
  • nonwoody
  • ohed
  • oohed
  • weened
  • weeweed
  • wonned
  • woodhen
  • wynd
  • yodh
  • yowed

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

deed

noun
  1. An action or act; something that is done.
  2. A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
  3. Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
  4. A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before witnesses.
verb
  1. To transfer real property by deed.

deeded

verb
  1. To transfer real property by deed.

deny

verb
  1. To disallow or reject.
  2. To assert that something is not true.
  3. (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
  4. To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
  5. To prevent from scoring.
  6. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
  7. To refuse (to do or accept something).

dewy

adjective
  1. Covered by dew.
  2. Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
  3. Fresh and innocent.

dodo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
  2. A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Fried plantain.

done

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
  2. To perform; to execute.
  3. To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  4. To suffice.
  5. To be reasonable or acceptable.
  6. (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
  7. To fare, perform (well or poorly).
  8. (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  9. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
  10. To cook.
  11. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  12. To treat in a certain way.
  13. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
  14. To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  15. To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
  16. To impersonate or depict.
  17. (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
  18. To kill.
  19. To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  20. To punish for a misdemeanor.
  21. To have sex with. (See also do it)
  22. To cheat or swindle.
  23. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  24. To finish.
  25. To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  26. (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  27. To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  28. (ditransitive) To make or provide.
  29. To injure (one's own body part).
  30. To take drugs.
  31. (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
adjective
  1. (of food) Ready, fully cooked.
  2. Having completed or finished an activity.
  3. Being exhausted or fully spent.
  4. Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
  5. Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A synthetic opioid analgesic, used to wean addicts off heroin or other opiate based narcotics, and in chronic pain management.

donee

noun
  1. Someone who receives a gift from a donor.

donned

verb
  1. (clothing) To put on, to dress in.

dowdy

noun
  1. A plain or shabby person
adjective
  1. Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
  2. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.

down

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A negative aspect; a downer.
  2. A grudge (on someone).
  3. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
  4. A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
  5. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
  6. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
  7. Down payment.
verb
  1. To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell.
  2. To lower; to put (something) down.
  3. To defeat; to overpower.
  4. To disparage, to put down.
  5. To go or come down; to descend.
  6. To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
  7. To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
  8. (pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
adjective
  1. Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
  2. (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
  3. At a lower level than before.
  4. Having a lower score than an opponent.
  5. (following the noun modified) Out.
  6. (with "on") Negative about, hostile to.
  7. Comfortable with, accepting of, approachable.
  8. Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
  9. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
  10. (police, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
  11. (of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
  12. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
  13. Downright; absolute; positive.
  14. Accepted or respected, especially in the black or thug community.
  15. Facing downwards.
adverb
  1. From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
  2. At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
  3. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
  4. Away from the city (regardless of direction).
  5. At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
  6. Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
  7. Into a state of non-operation.
  8. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
  9. In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
  10. (sentence substitute) Get down.
  11. (academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
  12. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
  13. So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
  14. So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
  15. From less to greater detail.
  16. So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
  17. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb.
  18. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather than being of indefinite duration.
preposition
  1. From the higher end to the lower of.
  2. From nouth to south of.
  3. From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
  4. At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
  2. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
  3. (chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
  2. The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
  3. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
  4. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
verb
  1. To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

downed

verb
  1. To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell.
  2. To lower; to put (something) down.
  3. To defeat; to overpower.
  4. To disparage, to put down.
  5. To go or come down; to descend.
  6. To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
  7. To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
  8. (pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
verb
  1. To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
adjective
  1. That has been brought down.

downy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.
  2. Sharp-witted, perceptive.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A blanket filled with down; a duvet.

doyen

noun
  1. A commander in charge of ten men.
  2. The senior, or eldest male member of a group.
  3. A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.

doyenne

noun
  1. A female doyen.
  2. The senior or eldest female member of a group, especially one who is most or highly respected.
  3. A woman who is highly experienced and knowledgeable in a particular field, subject, or line of work; expert

dyed

verb
  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
adjective
  1. Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.

dyne

noun
  1. A unit of force in the CGS system; the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram by one centimetre per second per second. Symbol: dyn.

eddy

noun
  1. A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
  2. A circular current; a whirlpool.
verb
  1. To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

ended

verb
  1. To come to an end
  2. To finish, terminate.
adjective
  1. (in combination) Having (a specified kind or number of) ends.

endow

verb
  1. To provide with a dower or a dowry.
  2. To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
  3. Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
  4. Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).

endowed

verb
  1. To provide with a dower or a dowry.
  2. To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
  3. Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
  4. Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).
adjective
  1. Provided or furnished with something.
  2. Founded by an endowment.

eyed

verb
  1. To observe carefully or appraisingly.
  2. To appear; to look.
adjective
  1. Having eyes.
  2. Having eye-like spots.
  3. (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.

heed

noun
  1. Careful attention.
verb
  1. To guard, protect.
  2. To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
  3. To pay attention, care.

heeded

verb
  1. To guard, protect.
  2. To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
  3. To pay attention, care.

hewed

verb
  1. To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
  2. To shape; to form.
  3. To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.

hoed

verb
  1. To care, be anxious, long.
verb
  1. To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
  2. To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

hoedown

noun
  1. A type of American folk or square dance.
  2. The type of music typically played for such a dance
  3. A gathering at which such dances take place.
verb
  1. To dance a hoedown dance

honed

verb
  1. To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
  2. To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  3. To refine or master (a skill).
  4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.
verb
  1. To grumble.
  2. To pine, lament, or long.
adjective
  1. Made sharp.
  2. Made more accurate or precise.

honeydew

noun
  1. A sweet sticky substance deposited on leaves by insects.
  2. A sweet sticky substance produced by the leaves of some plants.
  3. A melon with sweet green flesh, with a smooth greenish-white exterior, of cultivar group Cucumis melo Inodorus group.
  4. A light bluish-green colour, like that of a honeydew melon.
  5. A fine sort of tobacco moistened with molasses.
adjective
  1. Of a light bluish green colour, like that of a honeydew melon.

honeyed

verb
  1. To sweeten; to make agreeable.
  2. To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.
  3. To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
adjective
  1. Sweetened, with, or as if with, honey.
  2. Sugary, syrupy.
  3. Dulcet or mellifluous.

hood

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
  2. A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
  3. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
  4. A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
  5. The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle: known as a bonnet in other countries.
  6. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
verb
  1. To cover something with a hood.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Gangster, thug.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Neighborhood.
adjective
  1. Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Person wearing a hoodie.

hooded

verb
  1. To cover something with a hood.
adjective
  1. Wearing a hood.
  2. Covered with a hood.
  3. Shaped like a hood.
  4. (of an animal) Having a crest or similar elastic skin in the neck area.
  5. (of clothing) Fitted with a hood.
  6. (of eyes) Having thick, drooping eyelids.

hoodoo

noun
  1. A practitioner of voodoo.
  2. Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
  3. A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
verb
  1. To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.

howdy

noun
  1. A wife, a midwife.
verb
  1. To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"
interjection
  1. An informal greeting used in the South of the USA.

need

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A requirement for something; something needed.
  2. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To have an absolute requirement for.
  2. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
  3. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
  4. To be required; to be necessary.
  5. To be necessary (to someone).

needed

verb
  1. To have an absolute requirement for.
  2. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
  3. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
  4. To be required; to be necessary.
  5. To be necessary (to someone).
adjective
  1. Necessary; being required.

needy

adjective
  1. In need; poor.
  2. Desiring constant affirmation; lacking self-confidence.
  3. Needful; necessary.

nodded

verb
  1. To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
  2. To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
  3. To sway, move up and down.
  4. To gradually fall asleep.
  5. To signify by a nod.
  6. To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
  7. To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
  8. To allude to something.
  9. To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.

node

noun
  1. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
  2. The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
  3. A leaf node.
  4. A computer or other device attached to a network.
  5. The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
  6. The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
  7. A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
  8. A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
  9. A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
  10. A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
  11. The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
  12. A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
  13. The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

odeon

noun
  1. An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry.
  2. A theatre or concert hall.

owed

verb
  1. To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
  2. To have debt; to be in debt.
adjective
  1. That owes.

owned

verb
  1. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
  2. To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
  3. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
  4. To virtually or figuratively enslave.
  5. To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
  6. To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
verb
  1. To grant; give.
  2. To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
  3. To admit; concede; acknowledge.
  4. To take responsibility for.
  5. To answer to.
  6. To recognise; acknowledge.
  7. To claim as one's own.
  8. To confess.

wedded

verb
  1. To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
  2. To take as one's spouse.
  3. To take a spouse.
  4. To join or commit to, more or less permanently, as if in marriage.
  5. To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
  6. To wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager.
adjective
  1. (of a couple) Joined in marriage.
  2. Joined as if in a marriage.

weed

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
  2. Short for duckweed.
  3. Underbrush; low shrubs.
  4. A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
  5. A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
  6. A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
  7. Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A garment or piece of clothing.
  2. Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
  3. An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
  4. (especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
  2. Lymphangitis in a horse.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To urinate.

weeded

verb
  1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

weedy

adjective
  1. Abounding with weeds.
  2. Of, relating to or resembling weeds.
  3. Consisting of weeds.
  4. Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
  5. (of a person or animal) Small and weak.
  6. Lacking power or effectiveness.

wend

noun
  1. A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
verb
  1. To turn; change.
  2. To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
  3. To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
  4. To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

wended

verb
  1. To turn; change.
  2. To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
  3. To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
  4. To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

wood

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
  2. The wood of a particular species of tree.
  3. A forested or wooded area.
  4. Firewood.
  5. A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
  6. A woodwind instrument.
  7. An erection of the penis.
  8. Chess pieces.
verb
  1. To cover or plant with trees.
  2. To hide behind trees.
  3. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
  4. To take or get a supply of wood.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Mad, insane, crazed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (sometimes offensive, of a person) A peckerwood.

wooded

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Covered with trees.
  2. (of wine) Aged in wooden casks.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cover or plant with trees.
  2. To hide behind trees.
  3. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
  4. To take or get a supply of wood.

wooden

adjective
  1. Made of wood.
  2. As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

woody

noun
  1. An early station wagon or estate car in which the rear portion of the car's bodywork is made of wood, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
  2. A wooden rollercoaster; an amusement ride whose rails are overlaid upon a wooden track.
  3. An erection of the penis.
adjective
  1. Covered in woods; wooded.
  2. Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
  3. Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
  4. Non-herbaceous.
  5. Lignified.

wooed

verb
  1. To endeavor to gain someone's support.
  2. (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with
  3. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.

wowed

verb
  1. To amaze or awe.

yenned

verb
  1. To have a strong desire for.

yond

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Further; more distant
  2. Yonder
adverb
  1. Yonder

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Furious; mad; angry; fierce.