Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 90

Number of Answers: 28

Points Needed for Genius: 63

Genius requires between 10 and 25 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 84% 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 90 was in the 8th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on February 21, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 28 possible answers rank it in the 21st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on February 21, 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 22, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.7.
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 184
  • toot 181
  • naan 167
  • nana 167
  • lilt 135
  • till 135
  • tilt 135
  • tint 134
  • nene 126
  • mama 125
  • mamma 125
  • acacia 118
  • acai 118
  • onto 118
  • toon 118
  • anal 113
  • onion 113
  • anon 109
  • boob 109
  • booboo 109
  • baba 106
  • olio 105
  • dodo 103
  • lull 103
  • lulu 103
  • papa 103
  • tact 103
  • mitt 102
  • call 101
  • calla 101
  • poop 101
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • ratatat 99
  • tart 99
  • tartar 99
  • tattoo 99
  • tatty 99
  • tutu 99
  • attar 98
  • ammo 96
  • cocci 96
  • momma 96
  • mono 96
  • moon 96
  • epee 95
  • peep 95
  • loon 92
  • loot 92


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 97,758 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,476 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*:

  • alamo
  • alan
  • alma
  • alow
  • ammonal
  • awol
  • kalam
  • kamala
  • kolo
  • lall
  • lallan
  • lown
  • malm
  • mola
  • molal
  • mool
  • nala
  • nolo
  • nonwool
  • olla
  • walla
  • wawl
  • woolman

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

allow

verb
  1. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
  2. To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
  3. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
  4. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
  5. To not bar or obstruct.
  6. To acknowledge or concede.
  7. To take into account by making an allowance.
  8. To render physically possible.
  9. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
  10. To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
  11. To like; to be suited or pleased with.

anal

noun
  1. Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
  2. Anal sex.
adjective
  1. Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
  2. Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region.
  3. Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy, supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage.
  4. (of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

annal

noun
  1. The record of a single event or item.

knoll

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small mound or rounded hill.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A knell.
verb
  1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
  2. To sound, like a bell; to knell.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

koala

noun
  1. A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.

kola

noun
  1. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
  2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
noun
  1. A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract.
  2. A nut of this tree.

lama

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A master of Tibetan Buddhism.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

lank

verb
  1. To become lank.
adjective
  1. Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
  2. Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
  3. (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)
  4. Languid; drooping, slack.

lawman

noun
  1. A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.
  2. One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households.
  3. The presiding justice of the supreme court.
  4. A man of the law: a lawyer.
  5. An officer of the law: a law-enforcement officer.

lawn

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An open space between woods.
  2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
  3. An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A type of thin linen or cotton.
  2. (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
  3. A piece of clothing made from lawn.

llama

noun
  1. A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

llano

noun
  1. A plain or steppe in parts of Latin America.

loam

noun
  1. A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
  2. A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
verb
  1. To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
adjective
  1. Made of loam; consisting of loam.

loan

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
  2. A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).
  3. The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
  4. The permission to borrow any item.
verb
  1. To lend (something) to (someone).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A lonnen.

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.

look

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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.

loon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An idler, a lout.
  2. A boy, a lad.
  3. A harlot; mistress.
  4. A simpleton.
  5. A crazy or deranged person.
  6. An English soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.

mall

noun
  1. A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
  2. An enclosed shopping centre.
  3. An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
  4. A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
  5. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
  6. The game of polo.
  7. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.
verb
  1. To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
  2. To build up with the development of shopping malls
  3. To shop at the mall

mallow

noun
  1. Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans.

mammal

noun
  1. An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.
  2. A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

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

moola

noun
  1. Money, cash.

moonwalk

noun
  1. An exploration of the Moon's surface on foot (by an astronaut).
  2. A dance move in which the dancer slides backwards though the feet move as if walking forwards; the backslide.
  3. A dance style in which the dancer appears to be moving in a low gravity environment.
verb
  1. To walk on the surface of the Moon.
  2. To walk in leaps, like on the Moon or on other low gravity surfaces.
  3. To perform the moonwalk.
  4. To walk in a manner that is similar to the moonwalk dance style; to move while sliding backwards as though the feet move as if one was walking forwards.

walk

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
  2. To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
  3. Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
  4. (of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
  5. To travel (a distance) by walking.
  6. To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
  7. To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
  8. To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
  9. To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
  10. To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
  11. To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
  12. To leave, resign.
  13. To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
  14. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
  15. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
  16. To be in motion; to act; to move.
  17. To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
  18. (hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A trip made by walking.
  2. A distance walked.
  3. An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
  4. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
  5. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
  6. A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
  7. An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
  8. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
  9. (Belize) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
  10. A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
  11. An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
  12. A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
  13. Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
  14. A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).

wall

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
  2. A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
  3. Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
  4. A point of desperation.
  5. A point of defeat or extinction.
  6. An impediment to free movement.
  7. A type of butterfly (Lasiommata megera).
  8. (often in combination) A barrier.
  9. A barrier to vision.
  10. Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
  11. A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
  12. (auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
  13. A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
  14. A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
  15. A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
verb
  1. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To boil.
  2. To well, as water; spring.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spring of water.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
verb
  1. To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).

Etymology 5

interjection
  1. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
  2. An exclamation of surprise (often doubled or tripled).
  3. An exclamation of indignance.
  4. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
  5. Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
  6. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting

wallow

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An instance of wallowing.
  2. A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
  3. A kind of rolling walk.
verb
  1. To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
  2. To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
  3. To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
  4. To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
  5. To wither; to fade.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tasteless, flat.

wool

noun
  1. The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
  2. A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
  3. Anything with a texture like that of wool.
  4. A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
  5. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
  6. Yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
  7. Derogatory term for residents of the satellite towns outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.