Friday, March 7, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 141

Number of Answers: 31

Points Needed for Genius: 99

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.

Other days with this pangram:

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 141 was in the 37th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on March 4, 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 March 4, 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 March 5, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.3.
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 168
  • nana 168
  • lilt 135
  • till 135
  • tilt 135
  • tint 134
  • mama 126
  • mamma 126
  • nene 126
  • acacia 119
  • acai 119
  • onto 118
  • toon 118
  • anal 113
  • onion 113
  • anon 109
  • boob 109
  • booboo 109
  • baba 107
  • 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
  • ammo 97
  • cocci 97
  • epee 97
  • momma 97
  • mono 97
  • moon 97
  • peep 97
  • nada 93
  • loon 92


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 98,120 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,486 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*:

  • agama
  • agma
  • amah
  • ammono
  • anomy
  • anonym
  • gagman
  • gama
  • gamay
  • gammon
  • gammy
  • gnomon
  • hammam
  • hmmm
  • hogmanay
  • homa
  • homo
  • homogony
  • homy
  • mammy
  • mana
  • manana
  • mannan
  • mano
  • maya
  • mayan
  • moggy
  • moho
  • mongo
  • monogyny
  • mony
  • myoma
  • noma
  • nonman
  • ogam
  • ogham
  • oogamy

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

ammo

noun
  1. Ammunition.
verb
  1. To load up on ammunition.

among

preposition
  1. Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.)
  2. Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group.
  3. Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group.

gamma

noun
  1. The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
  2. The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
  3. A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
  4. A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
  5. (industries) slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
  6. A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change in delta with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
noun
  1. A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.

gamy

adjective
  1. Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat).
  2. Plucky, spirited or gritty
  3. Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive

hammy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Resembling or characteristic of ham.
  2. Amateurish; characterized by overacting.
noun
  1. One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
  2. The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hamster.

hangman

noun
  1. An executioner responsible for hanging criminals.
  2. (games) A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows.

homogamy

noun
  1. Fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant.
  2. Breeding between similar individuals.
  3. Marriage or other union between similar people, or people of the same sex.

homonym

noun
  1. (strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
  2. A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling).
  3. A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.

homonymy

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hymn

noun
  1. A song of praise or worship.
verb
  1. To sing a hymn.
  2. To praise or extol in hymns.

magma

noun
  1. The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
  2. A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
  3. Any soft doughy mass.
  4. The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.

mahogany

noun
  1. Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
  2. The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
  3. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
  4. A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
adjective
  1. Made of mahogany.
  2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

mama

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mamma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
  2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mammon

noun
  1. The desire for wealth personified as an evil spirit or a malign influence.
  2. Often mammon: wealth, material avarice, profit.

manga

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A comic originating in Japan.
  2. An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese comics, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of comics from other countries.
  3. A comic in manga style, regardless of the country of origin.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A covering for a crucifix.

mango

noun
  1. A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
  2. The fruit of the mango tree.
  3. A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.
  4. (chiefly southern Midwest US) A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
  5. A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
  6. Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.
  7. A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.
verb
  1. To stuff and pickle (a fruit).

mangy

adjective
  1. Afflicted with mange.
  2. (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.

manna

noun
  1. Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
  2. (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
  3. The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

many

noun
  1. A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
  2. A considerable number.
adjective
  1. A large number of; numerous.
pronoun
  1. An indefinite large number of people or things.

mayo

noun
  1. A white person.
noun
  1. A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc.
  2. Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient.
  3. Any cream, for example for moisturizing the face or conditioning the hair, for which the base is egg yolks and oil.

moan

noun
  1. A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
verb
  1. To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
  2. To grieve.
  3. To distress (someone); to sadden.
  4. To make a moan or similar sound.
  5. To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
  6. To complain; to grumble.

momma

noun
  1. Mother
  2. A voluptuous woman.
  3. One's wife or girlfriend.

mommy

noun
  1. (usually childish) Mother.
verb
  1. To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone.
adjective
  1. (chiefly in the superlative) Characteristic of a mother; motherly.

mono

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

Etymology 4

adjective
  1. Monochrome.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. An injective homomorphism
  2. The absence of sexual dimorphism
  3. A morphism n such that for any other morphisms f and g, if n \circ f = n \circ g then f = g.

Etymology 6

noun
  1. A monogamous person.
adjective
  1. Monoamorous, monogamous.

Etymology 7

adjective
  1. Monosexual.

monogamy

noun
  1. A form of sexual bonding involving a permanent pair bond between two beings.
  2. The practice of being married to one person as opposed to multiple.

moon

proper noun
  1. The Earth's moon Luna; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
  2. The god of the Moon in Heathenry.
  3. A surname.
  4. The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun
  1. (by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
  2. A month, particularly a lunar month.
  3. A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
  4. The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
  5. The thirty-second Lenormand card.
  6. In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
verb
  1. To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
  2. (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
  3. To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
  4. To expose to the rays of the Moon.
  5. To adorn with moons or crescents.
  6. (cryptocurrency) Of a coin or token: to rise in price rapidly.
  7. To shoot the moon.

moony

noun
  1. The act of mooning, flashing the buttocks.
  2. A silly person.
adjective
  1. Resembling the moon.
  2. Moonlit.
  3. Absent-minded.
  4. Silly.
  5. Sickly or tipsy.

myna

noun
  1. One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.

mynah

noun
  1. One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.

mononym

noun
  1. A single name by which a person, thing etc is known.
  2. A single term for a thing or concept, allowing for no synonyms.