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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 226

Number of Answers: 46

Points Needed for Genius: 158

Genius requires between 23 and 39 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 81% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 226 was in the 76th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on March 13, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 46 possible answers rank it in the 68th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on March 15, 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 March 4, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.5.
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 185
  • toot 182
  • naan 168
  • nana 168
  • lilt 136
  • till 136
  • tilt 136
  • tint 134
  • mama 127
  • mamma 127
  • nene 126
  • acacia 119
  • acai 119
  • onto 118
  • toon 118
  • anal 113
  • onion 113
  • anon 109
  • boob 109
  • booboo 109
  • baba 107
  • olio 106
  • dodo 103
  • lull 103
  • lulu 103
  • papa 103
  • tact 103
  • call 102
  • calla 102
  • mitt 102
  • poop 102
  • ratatat 100
  • tart 100
  • tartar 100
  • tattoo 100
  • tatty 100
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • attar 99
  • tutu 99
  • ammo 97
  • cocci 97
  • epee 97
  • momma 97
  • mono 97
  • moon 97
  • peep 97
  • loot 93
  • lotto 93


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 98,533 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,528 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*:

  • doggoned
  • donged
  • dunged
  • dungeoned
  • endogen
  • geed
  • genet
  • genette
  • genned
  • gentoo
  • genu
  • getout
  • godded
  • godet
  • gogo
  • gude
  • gudgeon
  • gudgeoned
  • guenon
  • gundog
  • gunge
  • gunged
  • gunnen
  • neogene
  • nogg
  • nogged
  • nonego
  • noodge
  • noodged
  • ogeed
  • outdodge
  • outdodged
  • tegg
  • tegu
  • tenge
  • togue
  • tung
  • ungot
  • ungotten

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

dengue

noun
  1. An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.

dodge

noun
  1. An act of dodging.
  2. A trick, evasion or wile.
  3. A line of work.
verb
  1. To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
  2. To avoid; to sidestep.
  3. To go hither and thither.
  4. (videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
  5. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  6. To trick somebody.
adjective
  1. Dodgy

dodged

verb
  1. To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
  2. To avoid; to sidestep.
  3. To go hither and thither.
  4. (videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
  5. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  6. To trick somebody.

doge

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A dog.
  2. Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.

dogged

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To pursue with the intent to catch.
  2. To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
  3. To fasten a hatch securely.
  4. To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
  5. To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
  6. To criticize.
  7. To divide (a watch) with a comrade.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Stubbornly persevering, steadfast
adverb
  1. Very

doggo

noun
  1. A dog.

doggone

adjective
  1. Damned by God.
  2. Used as an intensifier expressing anger.

dong

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A penis.
  2. (by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch.
verb
  1. Of a bell: to make a low-pitched ringing sound.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.

dudgeon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.
  2. A hilt made of this wood.
  3. A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A feeling of anger or resentment.

dugong

noun
  1. A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions.

dugout

noun
  1. A canoe made from a hollowed-out log.
  2. A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire.
  3. A sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game.
  4. A device used to smoke marijuana.
  5. A pit used to catch and store rainwater or runoff.

dung

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Manure; animal excrement.
  2. A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
verb
  1. To fertilize with dung.
  2. (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
  3. To release dung: to defecate.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To hit or strike.
  2. To dash; to throw violently.
  3. To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
  4. To fire or reject.
  5. To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
  6. To mishit (a golf ball).

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

dungeon

noun
  1. An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
  2. The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon.
  3. A shrewd person.
  4. (games) An area inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure and bosses.
  5. (BDSM) A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.
verb
  1. To imprison in a dungeon.

edge

noun
  1. The boundary line of a surface.
  2. A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
  3. An advantage.
  4. The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
  5. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
  6. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  7. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
  8. A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
  9. A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
  10. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
verb
  1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  8. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  9. To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

edged

verb
  1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  8. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  9. To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
adjective
  1. That has a sharp planar surface.
  2. Followed by with: Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.

egged

verb
  1. To throw eggs at.
  2. To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
  3. To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
verb
  1. To encourage, incite.

eggnog

noun
  1. A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy or whisky; popular at Christmas.

gene

noun
  1. A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
  2. A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus.

gent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A gentleman.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
  2. Neat; pretty; elegant

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Short for gentamicin.

geode

noun
  1. A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall.

gone

verb
  1. To move:
  2. (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  3. To start; to begin (an action or process).
  4. To take a turn, especially in a game.
  5. To attend.
  6. To proceed:
  7. To follow or travel along (a path):
  8. To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  9. To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  10. To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
  11. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  12. To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  13. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  14. To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
  15. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  16. To tend (toward a result).
  17. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  18. To pass, to be used up:
  19. To die.
  20. To be discarded.
  21. To be lost or out:
  22. To break down or apart:
  23. To be sold.
  24. To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  25. To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  26. To have a certain record.
  27. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
  28. To say (something), to make a sound:
  29. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  30. To resort (to).
  31. To apply or subject oneself to:
  32. To fit (in a place, or together with something):
  33. To date.
  34. To attack:
  35. To be in general; to be usually.
  36. To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  37. To yield or weigh.
  38. To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  39. To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
  40. To urinate or defecate.
adjective
  1. Away, having left.
  2. No longer part of the present situation.
  3. No longer existing, having passed.
  4. Used up.
  5. Dead.
  6. Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings.
  7. Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on.
  8. Excellent; wonderful.
  9. Ago (used post-positionally).
  10. Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
  11. Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
preposition
  1. Past, after, later than (a time).

gong

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer.
  2. A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
verb
  1. To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
  2. To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
  3. To give an award or medal to.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
  2. The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
  2. An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.

gonged

verb
  1. To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
  2. To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
  3. To give an award or medal to.

good

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. (of people)
  2. (of capabilities)
  3. (properties and qualities)
  4. (when with and) Very, extremely. See good and.
  5. Holy (especially when capitalized) .
  6. (of quantities)
interjection
  1. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
  2. A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
  3. The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
  4. (usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
  2. To make good; turn to good; improve.
  3. To make improvements or repairs.
  4. To benefit; gain.
  5. To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
  6. To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
  7. To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

goon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
  2. A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
  3. An enforcer or fighter.
  4. (WWII, PoW slang) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
  5. A member of the comedy web site Something Awful.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A wine flagon or cask.
  2. Cheap or inferior cask wine.

gotten

verb
  1. (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  2. To receive.
  3. (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  4. To fetch, bring, take.
  5. To become, or cause oneself to become.
  6. To cause to become; to bring about.
  7. To cause to do.
  8. To cause to come or go or move.
  9. To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  10. (with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
  11. To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  12. To begin (doing something or to do something).
  13. To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  14. To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  15. (followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
  16. To understand. (compare get it)
  17. To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
  18. To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  19. To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  20. To catch out, trick successfully.
  21. To perplex, stump.
  22. To find as an answer.
  23. To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  24. To hear completely; catch.
  25. To getter.
  26. To beget (of a father).
  27. To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  28. Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  29. To go, to leave; to scram.
  30. To kill.
  31. To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  32. To measure.
adjective
  1. (mostly in combination) obtained, acquired

gouge

noun
  1. Senses relating to cutting tools.
  2. A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
  3. (originally United States) An act of gouging.
  4. A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
  5. An impostor.
  6. Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
  7. Information.
verb
  1. To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
  2. To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
  3. To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
  4. To use a gouge.

gouged

verb
  1. To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
  2. To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
  3. To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
  4. To use a gouge.

gout

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
  2. (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch.
  3. A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
verb
  1. To spurt.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Taste; relish

gunned

verb
  1. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
  2. To speed something up.
  3. To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
  4. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.
  5. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
  6. To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer.
adjective
  1. Equipped or bedecked with guns.

gutted

verb
  1. To eviscerate.
  2. To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
adjective
  1. Eviscerated.
  2. With the most important parts destroyed (often by fire), removed or rendered useless.
  3. Having a gut or guts.
  4. Deeply disappointed; annoyed; down.

nudge

noun
  1. A gentle push.
  2. A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound.
  3. The rotation by one step of a fruit machine reel of the player's choice.
  4. The use of positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions as ways to influence.
verb
  1. To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.
  2. To near or come close to something.

nudged

verb
  1. To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.
  2. To near or come close to something.

nugget

noun
  1. A small, compact chunk or clump.
  2. A chicken nugget.
  3. A tidbit of something valuable.
  4. A small piece of tasty food, a tidbit.
  5. A type of boot polish.
  6. A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant, especially one that is potent.
  7. An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.
  8. A partial description gleaned from data mining.

ogee

noun
  1. A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape
  2. A pointed arch made from two ogees
  3. An inflection point.
  4. (aesthetic facial surgery) The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow.
  5. (distillation) The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.

outgo

noun
  1. The act or process of going out.
  2. A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
  3. An expenditure, cost or outlay.
verb
  1. To go out, to set forth.
  2. To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond.
  3. To overtake; to travel faster than.
  4. To outdo; exceed; surpass.
  5. To come to an end.

outgone

verb
  1. To go out, to set forth.
  2. To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond.
  3. To overtake; to travel faster than.
  4. To outdo; exceed; surpass.
  5. To come to an end.

outgun

verb
  1. To defeat in terms of firepower.

outgunned

verb
  1. To defeat in terms of firepower.
adjective
  1. Having insufficient weapons.

togged

adjective
  1. Dressed; clothed.

tong

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
verb
  1. To use tongs.
  2. To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A Chinese secret society or gang.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
  2. This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).−
  3. (metonym) A language.
  4. Speakers of a language, collectively.
  5. Voice (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).
  6. Manner of speaking, often habitually.
  7. (metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).
  8. The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
  9. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
  10. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
  11. Honourable discourse; eulogy.
  12. (often in the plural) Glossolalia.
  13. In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
  14. Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
  15. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
  16. A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
  17. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
  18. The clapper of a bell.
  19. An individual point of flame from a fire.
  20. A small sole (type of fish).
  21. A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
  22. A reed.
  23. A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.

tonged

verb
  1. To use tongs.
  2. To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.

tongue

noun
  1. The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
  2. This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).−
  3. (metonym) A language.
  4. Speakers of a language, collectively.
  5. Voice (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).
  6. Manner of speaking, often habitually.
  7. (metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).
  8. The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
  9. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
  10. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
  11. Honourable discourse; eulogy.
  12. (often in the plural) Glossolalia.
  13. In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
  14. Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
  15. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
  16. A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
  17. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
  18. The clapper of a bell.
  19. An individual point of flame from a fire.
  20. A small sole (type of fish).
  21. A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
  22. A reed.
  23. A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
verb
  1. On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
  2. To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
  3. To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
  4. To join by means of a tongue and groove.
  5. To talk; to prate.
  6. To speak; to utter.
  7. To chide; to scold.

tongued

verb
  1. On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
  2. To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
  3. To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
  4. To join by means of a tongue and groove.
  5. To talk; to prate.
  6. To speak; to utter.
  7. To chide; to scold.
adjective
  1. Resembling a tongue.
  2. (in combination) Having a particular manner of speaking.

tugged

verb
  1. To pull or drag with great effort
  2. To pull hard repeatedly
  3. To tow by tugboat

unguent

noun
  1. Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.