Friday, March 21, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 169

Number of Answers: 37

Points Needed for Genius: 118

Genius requires between 15 and 33 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 78% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 169 was in the 51st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on March 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 37 possible answers rank it in the 45th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on March 20, 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 an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on March 14, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.6.
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 127
  • acacia 120
  • acai 120
  • onto 118
  • toon 118
  • anal 113
  • onion 113
  • anon 109
  • boob 109
  • booboo 109
  • baba 107
  • olio 106
  • tact 104
  • dodo 103
  • lull 103
  • lulu 103
  • papa 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 98,751 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,531 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*:

  • cete
  • cine
  • civie
  • enceinte
  • etic
  • eventive
  • evincive
  • evite
  • incent
  • intine
  • nett
  • neve
  • nevi
  • niente
  • nieve
  • tectite
  • teevee
  • tein
  • tenne
  • tentie
  • tittie
  • tzetze
  • venene
  • venin
  • venine
  • vive
  • zein
  • zetetic
  • zincite

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

cent

noun
  1. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
  2. A small sum of money.
  3. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
  4. (money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
  5. A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
noun
  1. The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  2. The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  3. The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
  4. The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
  5. The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
  6. The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.
  7. A place where the greater part of some function or activity occurs.
  8. A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
  9. A player in the middle of the playing area
  10. A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
  11. A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
  12. One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
  13. A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
  14. One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
  15. A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
  16. The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
noun
  1. A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Known as the Celsius scale since 1948.
  2. A single degree on this scale.
  3. A unit of angle equal to the hundredth part of a quadrant. Its symbol is gon.
noun
  1. (Sanskrit and other Indian philology) satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic
  2. Perfect score on a board exam
noun
  1. A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
  2. A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
  3. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
  4. A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
  5. A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
  6. A score of one hundred points.
  7. A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
  8. A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

cite

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
  2. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
  3. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A citation

citizen

noun
  1. A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally-recognized rights or duties.
  2. A legally-recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role.
  3. An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.
  4. A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
  5. A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.
  6. An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.
  7. (usually capitalized) A term of address among French citizens during the French Revolution or towards its supporters elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists.
  8. An object.

civet

noun
  1. A carnivorous catlike animal, Civettictis civetta, that produces a musky secretion. It is two to three feet long, with black bands and spots on the body and tail.
  2. The musky perfume produced by the animal.
  3. Any animal in the family Viverridae or the similar family Nandiniidae
  4. Any of several species of spotted skunk, in the genus Spilogale.

entente

noun
  1. An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.

entice

verb
  1. To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

even

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (diminutive) An even number.
verb
  1. To make flat and level.
  2. To equal.
  3. To be equal.
  4. To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.
  5. To set right; to complete.
  6. To act up to; to keep pace with.
adjective
  1. Flat and level.
  2. Without great variation.
  3. Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
  4. (of an integer) Divisible by two.
  5. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
  6. On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
  7. On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
  8. Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
  9. Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
  10. Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
adverb
  1. Exactly, just, fully.
  2. In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.
  3. Emphasizing a comparative.
  4. Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance; rather, that is.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Evening.

event

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An occurrence; something that happens.
  2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
  3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
  4. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
  5. A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
  6. A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
  7. A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
  8. An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
  9. An episode of severe health conditions.
verb
  1. To occur, take place.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
  2. To expose to the air, ventilate.

evict

verb
  1. To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.

evictee

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evince

verb
  1. To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.

incentive

noun
  1. Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
  2. A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
adjective
  1. Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
  2. Serving to kindle or set on fire.

incentivize

verb
  1. To provide incentives for; to encourage.
  2. To provide incentives to.

incite

verb
  1. To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

intent

noun
  1. A purpose; something that is intended.
  2. The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
adjective
  1. Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
  2. Engrossed.
  3. Unwavering from a course of action.

invective

noun
  1. An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
  2. A severe or violent censure or reproach.
  3. Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
  4. A harsh or reproachful accusation.
adjective
  1. Characterized by invection or railing.

invent

verb
  1. To design a new process or mechanism.
  2. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
  3. To come upon; to find; to discover.

inventive

adjective
  1. Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
  2. Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
  3. Purposefully fictive

invite

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
  2. To request formally.
  3. To encourage.
  4. To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An invitation.

invitee

noun
  1. A person who is invited into or onto someone else's premises

nene

noun
  1. The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

netizen

noun
  1. A member of the community of Internet users.

nice

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Niceness.
adjective
  1. Pleasant, satisfactory.
  2. Of a person: friendly, attractive.
  3. Respectable; virtuous.
  4. (with and) Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.
  5. Silly, ignorant; foolish.
  6. Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.
  7. Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.
  8. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
  9. Easily injured; delicate; dainty.
  10. Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.
adverb
  1. Nicely.
interjection
  1. Used to signify a job well done.
  2. Used to signify approval.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

niece

noun
  1. A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").

nine

noun
  1. The digit or figure 9.
  2. A playing card with nine pips.
  3. A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
  4. (usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
  5. A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
numeral
  1. A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
  2. Describing a group or set with nine elements.

nineteen

numeral
  1. The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

nite

noun
  1. The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
  2. (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
  3. (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
  4. An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
  5. A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.
  6. Nightfall.
  7. Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
  8. A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
  9. A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

teen

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A teenager.
adjective
  1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Grief; sorrow; trouble.
  2. Vexation; anger; hate.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
  2. To become angry or distressed.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. (provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.

tenet

noun
  1. An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

tent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
  2. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
  3. A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
  4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
verb
  1. To go camping.
  2. To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
  3. To form into a tent-like shape.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Attention; regard, care.
  2. Intention; design.
verb
  1. To attend to; to heed
  2. To guard; to hinder.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
  2. A probe for searching a wound.
verb
  1. (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

tine

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
  2. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
  3. A wild vetch or tare.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Small, diminutive

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Trouble; distress; teen.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To kindle; to set on fire.
  2. To rage; to smart.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To shut in, or enclose.

vein

noun
  1. A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
  2. (in plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
  3. In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
  4. The nervure of an insect’s wing.
  5. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
  6. A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
  7. A style, tendency, or quality.
  8. A fissure, cleft or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
verb
  1. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.

vent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
  2. A small aperture.
  3. The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
  4. A verbalized frustration.
  5. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
  6. A slit in the seam of a garment.
  7. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
  8. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
  9. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
  10. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
verb
  1. To allow gases to escape.
  2. To allow to escape through a vent.
  3. To express a strong emotion.
  4. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Ventriloquism.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Sale; opportunity to sell; market
verb
  1. To sell; to vend.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A baiting place; an inn.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Ventilation or ventilator.
verb
  1. To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.

vice

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A bad habit.
  2. Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs.
  3. A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping or holding (also spelled vise).
  2. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
  3. A grip or grasp.
  4. A winding or spiral staircase.
verb
  1. To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. One who acts in place of a superior.
adjective
  1. In place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
preposition
  1. Instead of, in place of

vine

noun
  1. The climbing plant that produces grapes.
  2. Any plant of the genus Vitis.
  3. (by extension) Any similar climbing or trailing plant.

zine

noun
  1. A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.

innie

noun
  1. A navel that is formed of a hollow in the abdomen (as opposed to one that protrudes from the abdomen).
  2. A vagina with inner labia minora