Tuesday, March 25, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 269

Number of Answers: 52

Points Needed for Genius: 188

Genius requires between 26 and 45 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 85% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 63% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 269 was in the 89th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on March 9, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 52 possible answers rank it in the 81st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on March 24, 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 23, 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 186
  • toot 182
  • naan 168
  • nana 168
  • lilt 136
  • till 136
  • tilt 136
  • tint 134
  • mama 127
  • mamma 127
  • nene 127
  • acacia 121
  • acai 121
  • onto 118
  • toon 118
  • anal 113
  • onion 113
  • boob 110
  • booboo 110
  • anon 109
  • baba 107
  • olio 107
  • dodo 104
  • tact 104
  • call 103
  • calla 103
  • lull 103
  • lulu 103
  • papa 103
  • mitt 102
  • poop 102
  • ratatat 101
  • tart 101
  • tartar 101
  • attar 100
  • tattoo 100
  • tatty 100
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • tutu 99
  • mono 98
  • moon 98
  • ammo 97
  • cocci 97
  • epee 97
  • momma 97
  • peep 97
  • roar 94
  • loot 93


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 98,944 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,539 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*:

  • airt
  • alar
  • alary
  • alvar
  • ariary
  • arrayal
  • artal
  • artily
  • arval
  • aryl
  • attrit
  • laari
  • lairy
  • lari
  • latria
  • liri
  • lyart
  • raia
  • ratal
  • rattily
  • raya
  • riata
  • talar
  • talaria
  • tartily
  • tarty
  • tatar
  • tayra
  • tirl
  • vair
  • valvar
  • vara
  • varia
  • virl
  • vivaria
  • vivary
  • yirr
  • yttria

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

airily

adverb
  1. In an airy manner.
  2. Lightly

airy

adjective
  1. Consisting of air.
  2. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
  3. Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
  4. Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
  5. Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
  6. Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
  7. Light-hearted; vivacious
  8. Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
  9. Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.

altar

noun
  1. A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
  2. A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
  3. Anything that is worshipped or sacrificed to.

aria

noun
  1. A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

aril

noun
  1. A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates.

array

noun
  1. Clothing and ornamentation.
  2. A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
  3. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
  4. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
  5. A large collection.
  6. Common name for matrix.
  7. Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
  8. A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  9. A militia.
  10. A group of hedgehogs.
  11. A microarray.
verb
  1. To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
  2. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
  3. To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.

arrival

noun
  1. The act of arriving or something that has arrived.
  2. The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
  3. A person who has arrived.

arty

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

atria

noun
  1. A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
  2. A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
  3. A cavity, entrance, or passage.
  4. Any enclosed sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.

atrial

No Definition Found.

attar

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

avatar

noun
  1. The incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.
  2. The physical embodiment of an idea or concept; a personification.
  3. A digital representation of a person or being; often, it can take on any of various forms, as a participant chooses. e.g. 3D, animated, photo, sketch of a person or a person's alter ego, sometimes used in a virtual world or virtual chat room.

aviary

noun
  1. A house, enclosure, large cage, or other place for keeping birds confined; a birdhouse.

lair

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
  2. A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
  3. A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
  4. A bed or resting place.
  5. A grave; a cemetery plot.
verb
  1. To rest; to dwell.
  2. To lay down.
  3. To bury.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bog; a mire.
verb
  1. To mire.
  2. To become mired.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.

lariat

noun
  1. A lasso.
  2. A tether.
  3. An attack where the wrestler runs towards an opponent, wraps his arm around their upper chest and neck and then forces them to the ground.
verb
  1. To lasso.

larva

noun
  1. An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
  2. An animal in the aforementioned stage.
  3. A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.

larval

adjective
  1. Of or relating to a larva or larvae.
  2. Being a larva.
  3. Characteristic of larvae.
  4. Having the form or shape of a larva.
  5. (disease) Undeveloped, latent.

liar

noun
  1. One who tells lies.
  2. A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week.

lira

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.
noun
  1. The basic unit of currency in Turkey.
  2. The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)
  3. The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs

rail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
  2. The metal bar that makes the track for a railroad.
  3. A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
  4. A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
  5. One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
  6. A vertical section on one side of a web page.
  7. A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
verb
  1. To travel by railway.
  2. To enclose with rails or a railing.
  3. To range in a line.
  4. To criticize severely.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To complain violently (against, about).

Etymology 4

noun
  1. An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
  2. Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. (of a liquid) To gush, flow.

raita

noun
  1. A condiment used as a dip or sauce in the cuisine of southern Asia, made from seasoned yogurt.

rally

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
  2. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
  3. A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
  4. An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
  5. A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
verb
  1. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  2. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
  3. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
  4. To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Good-humoured raillery.
verb
  1. To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.

rarity

noun
  1. A measure of the scarcity of an object.
  2. (of a gas) Thinness; the property of having low density
  3. A rare object.

ratatat

noun
  1. A swiftly repeated knocking sound.

rattail

noun
  1. Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.
  2. A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head.

rattly

No Definition Found.

ratty

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

rial

noun
  1. The official currencies of Iran, Oman, and Yemen.
  2. An old gold coin of England.

rill

noun
  1. A very small brook; a streamlet.
verb
  1. To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream.
noun
  1. A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies.

rival

noun
  1. A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
  2. Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
  3. One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
verb
  1. To oppose or compete with.
  2. To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
  3. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
adjective
  1. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.

rivalry

noun
  1. An ongoing relationship between (usually two) rivals who compete for superiority.
  2. The characteristic of being a rivalrous good, such that it can be consumed or used by only one person at a time.
  3. Any competition between two or more things or factors.

riyal

noun
  1. The official currency of Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

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

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.

tartly

No Definition Found.

tiara

noun
  1. The papal crown.
  2. An ornamental coronet.

trail

noun
  1. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
  2. A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
  3. A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
  4. A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
verb
  1. To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
  2. To drag (something) behind on the ground.
  3. To leave (a trail of).
  4. To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
  5. To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
  6. To run or climb like certain plants.
  7. To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
  8. To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
  9. To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
  10. To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
  11. To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.

trait

noun
  1. An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
  2. An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.

travail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
  2. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
  3. An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
  4. The eclipse of a celestial object.
noun
  1. The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
  2. (in the plural) A series of journeys.
  3. (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
  4. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
  5. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
  6. Labour; parturition; travail.
noun
  1. A traditional North American Indian sled-like vehicle, pulled by person, dog, or horse.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To toil.
  2. To go through the labor of childbirth.

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.

trial

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An opportunity to test something out; a test.
  2. Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined.
  3. A difficult or annoying experience.
  4. A tryout to pick members of a team.
  5. A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
  6. An internal examination set by Eton College.
verb
  1. To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.
  2. To try out (a new player) in a sports team.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to a trial or test.
  2. Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components.
  2. Triple.
  3. (grammar) Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people; contrast singular, dual and plural. (See Ambai language for an example.)

trill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it, in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
  2. A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish rr.
  3. A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.
verb
  1. To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
  2. To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To trickle.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To twirl.

trivia

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information
  2. A quiz game that involves obscure facts.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric.
  2. The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

trivial

noun
  1. Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
adjective
  1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
  2. Commonplace, ordinary.
  3. Concerned with or involving trivia.
  4. Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
  5. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
  6. Self-evident.
  7. Pertaining to the trivium.
  8. Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

triviality

noun
  1. The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
  2. Something which is trivial or unimportant.

trivially

No Definition Found.

vary

noun
  1. Alteration; change.
verb
  1. To change with time or a similar parameter.
  2. To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
  3. Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
  4. (of the members of a group) To display differences.
  5. To be or act different from the usual.
  6. To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
  7. To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation.
  8. To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.

viral

noun
  1. A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to a biological virus.
  2. Caused by a virus.
  3. Of the nature of an informatic virus; able to spread copies of itself to other computers.
  4. Spread by word of mouth, with minimal intervention in order to create buzz and interest.
  5. (of an image, video, piece of information, etc.) circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another.

virally

No Definition Found.

virility

noun
  1. The state of being virile.
  2. Manly character, quality, or nature.
  3. The ability of a man to procreate.

virality

noun
  1. The state or condition of being viral; tendency to spread by word of mouth.