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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 135

Number of Answers: 31

Points Needed for Genius: 95

Genius requires between 15 and 27 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 135 was in the 34th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on February 26, 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 February 26, 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 February 27, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
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 119
  • acai 119
  • 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
  • call 102
  • calla 102
  • mitt 102
  • poop 101
  • ratatat 100
  • tart 100
  • tartar 100
  • tatty 100
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • attar 99
  • tattoo 99
  • tutu 99
  • cocci 97
  • ammo 96
  • epee 96
  • momma 96
  • mono 96
  • moon 96
  • peep 96
  • loon 92
  • loot 92


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 97,893 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,478 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*:

  • adyta
  • anta
  • antra
  • datary
  • hant
  • hydranth
  • ratan
  • ratany
  • rath
  • rhatany
  • rhyta
  • tahr
  • tanyard
  • tarn
  • tartana
  • tarty
  • tatar
  • tathata
  • tayra
  • trad
  • tranny
  • yantra

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

arhat

noun
  1. One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.
  2. One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta.

arrant

adjective
  1. Utter; complete (with a negative sense).
adjective
  1. Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits.
  2. Wandering; roving around.
  3. Prone to making errors; misbehaved.
  4. Utter, complete (negative); arrant.

arty

adjective
  1. Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.

attar

noun
  1. An essential oil extracted from flowers.
  2. A perfume made from this oil.

dart

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin
  2. Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
  3. (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
  4. A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
  5. A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
  6. A plan or scheme.
  7. A sudden or fast movement.
  8. A fold that is stitched on a garment.
  9. A fish, the dace.
  10. A cigarette.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
  2. To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
  3. To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart
  4. To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
  5. To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along

data

noun
  1. (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc.
  2. (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation.
  3. (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn.
  4. (plural: datums) A fixed reference point, or a coordinate system.

drat

verb
  1. To damn or curse.
interjection
  1. Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration.

hardhat

noun
  1. A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects.
noun
  1. A person who wears a hard hat, such as a construction worker.

hart

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
  2. A red deer or one of related species.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
  2. Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
  3. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
  4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
  5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
  6. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
  7. Personality, disposition.
  8. A wight or being.
  9. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.
  10. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
  11. The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
  12. The centre, essence, or core.

hath

verb
  1. To possess, own.
  2. To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
  3. Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
  4. To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
  5. To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
  6. To experience, go through, undergo.
  7. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
  8. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
  9. Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
  10. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
  11. To give birth to.
  12. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
  13. To accept as a romantic partner.
  14. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
  15. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
  16. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
  17. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
  18. To defeat in a fight; take.
  19. (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
  20. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
  21. To trick, to deceive.
  22. (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
  23. (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
  24. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
  25. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
  26. (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
  27. To make an observation of (a bird species).

hydrant

noun
  1. An outlet from a liquid/fluid main often consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached from which fluid (e.g. water or fuel) can be tapped.

natant

adjective
  1. Floating or swimming (in water)
  2. In a horizontal position, as if swimming

natty

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Smart and fashionable.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Knotty.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Someone whose muscle gains are natural and not aided by the use of steroids.
  2. A national championship
adjective
  1. Natural, as opposed to steroid enhanced.
  2. National

rant

noun
  1. A criticism done by ranting.
  2. A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.
  3. A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.
verb
  1. To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
  2. To criticize by ranting.
  3. To speak extravagantly, as in merriment.
  4. To dance rant steps.

ratatat

noun
  1. A swiftly repeated knocking sound.

rattan

noun
  1. Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
  2. The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
  3. (by extension) A cane made from this material.
verb
  1. To beat with a rattan cane.

ratty

adjective
  1. Similar to a rat; ratlike.
  2. Infested with rats.
  3. In poor condition or repair
  4. Irritable, annoyed, bad-tempered.

tantara

No Definition Found.

tantra

noun
  1. A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text.

tardy

noun
  1. A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.
  2. An instance of a student being marked as tardy by a teacher in his or her attendance sheet.
verb
  1. To make tardy.
adjective
  1. Late; overdue or delayed.
  2. Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.
  3. Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.
  4. Unwary; unready (especially in the phrase take (someone) tardy).
  5. Criminal; guilty.

tarry

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sojourn.
verb
  1. To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
  2. To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
  3. To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
  4. To stay somewhere temporarily.
  5. To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Resembling tar.
  2. Covered with tar.

tart

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
  2. (of wine) high or too high in acidity.
  3. Sharp; keen; severe.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A prostitute.
  2. By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals.
verb
  1. To practice prostitution
  2. To practice promiscuous sex
  3. To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily

tartan

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns.
  2. The pattern associated with such material.
  3. An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
  4. Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
verb
  1. To clothe in tartan.
adjective
  1. Having a pattern like a tartan.
  2. Scottish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.
  2. A kind of long covered carriage.

tartar

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate - a source of cream of tartar.
  2. A hard yellow deposit on the teeth.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fearsome or angrily violent person.

tatty

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Potato

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

than

adverb
  1. At that time; then.
preposition
  1. Introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.
conjunction
  1. Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
  2. (obsolete outside dialectal, usually used with for) Because; for.

that

noun
  1. Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
adverb
  1. (degree) To a given extent or degree.
  2. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
  3. To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
pronoun
  1. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
  2. The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
  3. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
  4. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
  5. Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
conjunction
  1. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
  2. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
  3. Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
  4. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
  5. Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
  6. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
  7. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
  8. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.

tray

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
  2. A flat carrier for items being transported.
  3. The items on a full tray.
  4. A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
  5. A notification area used for icons and alerts.
  6. A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
  7. (pickup) truck bed
verb
  1. To place (items) on a tray
  2. To slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Trouble; annoyance; anger

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To grieve; to annoy

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To betray

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A playing card or die with the rank of three.
  2. A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes.
  3. A three-pointer.
  4. The third bearer of the same personal name in a family, often denoted by suffixed Roman numeral III.
  5. The third branch of a deer's antler.

tyranny

noun
  1. A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power; this system of government.
  2. The office or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler.
  3. Absolute power, or its use.
  4. A system of government in which power is exercised on behalf of the ruler or ruling class, without regard to the wishes of the governed.
  5. Extreme severity or rigour.

tyrant

noun
  1. A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.
  2. Any monarch or governor.
  3. A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
  4. (by extension) Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
  5. (by extension) A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
  6. The tyrant bird, members of the family Tyrannidae, which often fight or drive off other birds which approach their nests.
verb
  1. To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical.
  2. To tyrannize.
adjective
  1. Tyrannical, tyrannous; like, characteristic of, or in the manner of a tyrant.

hatha

No Definition Found.