Thursday, March 27, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 274

Number of Answers: 55

Points Needed for Genius: 192

Genius requires between 26 and 47 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 84% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 64% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 274 was in the 90th 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 55 possible answers rank it in the 85th 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 26, 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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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
  • nene 128
  • mama 127
  • mamma 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 99,034 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,540 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*:

  • cepe
  • clepe
  • cleped
  • clodpole
  • clodpoll
  • coco
  • codded
  • codec
  • cole
  • coled
  • collop
  • coocoo
  • cooee
  • cooeed
  • copepod
  • coude
  • couped
  • cupel
  • cupeled
  • cupelled
  • cupule
  • decuple
  • decupled
  • deuced
  • dolce
  • douce
  • duce
  • dulce
  • locoed
  • locule
  • loculed
  • luce
  • poco

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

cede

verb
  1. To give up; yield to another.
  2. To give way.

ceded

verb
  1. To give up; yield to another.
  2. To give way.

cell

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
  2. A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
  3. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
  4. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
  5. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
  6. Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
  7. The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
  8. Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
  9. A section or compartment of a larger structure.
  10. Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
  11. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
  12. The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
  13. A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
  14. The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
  15. In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
  16. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
  17. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.
  18. (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
  19. A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
  20. The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
  21. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
  22. A cella.
  23. An area of an insect wing bounded by veins
verb
  1. To place or enclose in a cell.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cellular phone.

celled

No Definition Found.

cello

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings, tuned from lowest to highest C-G-D-A, and played with a bow, also possessing an endpin to support the instrument's weight.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Cellophane

cellule

No Definition Found.

clod

noun
  1. A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
  2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  3. A stupid person; a dolt.
  4. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
verb
  1. To pelt with clods.
  2. To throw violently; to hurl.
  3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

clop

noun
  1. The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.
  2. My Little Pony-themed pornography
verb
  1. To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.

clopped

verb
  1. To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.

cloud

noun
  1. A rock; boulder; a hill.
  2. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
  3. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
  4. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
  5. Anything unsubstantial.
  6. A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
  7. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
  8. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
  9. (with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
  10. A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
  11. Crystal methamphetamine.
  12. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
verb
  1. To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
  2. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
  3. To make obscure.
  4. To make less acute or perceptive.
  5. To make gloomy or sullen.
  6. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
  7. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
  8. To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.

clouded

verb
  1. To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
  2. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
  3. To make obscure.
  4. To make less acute or perceptive.
  5. To make gloomy or sullen.
  6. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
  7. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
  8. To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
adjective
  1. Filled with clouds.
  2. Unclear; surrounded in mystery.
  3. Made dim or blurry.
  4. Variegated with spots.

clue

noun
  1. A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.
  2. Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
  3. An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.
  4. Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)
verb
  1. To provide with a clue.
  2. To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up").

clued

verb
  1. To provide with a clue.
  2. To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up").

coddle

noun
  1. An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
  2. An effeminate person.
verb
  1. To treat gently or with great care.
  2. To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
  3. To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.

coddled

verb
  1. To treat gently or with great care.
  2. To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
  3. To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.

code

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
  2. A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
  3. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
  4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
  5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
  6. A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
  7. Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
  8. (scientific programming) A program.
  9. A particular lect or language variety.
  10. An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
verb
  1. To write software programs.
  2. To add codes to a dataset.
  3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
  4. To encode.
  5. To encode a protein.
  6. To call a hospital emergency code.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

coded

verb
  1. To write software programs.
  2. To add codes to a dataset.
  3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
  4. To encode.
  5. To encode a protein.
  6. To call a hospital emergency code.
verb
  1. Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
adjective
  1. Encoded; written in code or cipher.

coed

noun
  1. A young woman who attends college.
  2. A (generally young) woman, especially on the campus of a college or other educational institute.
adjective
  1. Of an educational institution, that teaches both males and females.
  2. Of any location, that mixes males and females.

cold

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
  2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
  3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
  4. Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
  5. Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
  6. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
  7. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
  8. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
  9. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
  10. Not pungent or acrid.
  11. Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
  12. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
  13. Not sensitive; not acute.
  14. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
  15. Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
  16. Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
  17. Without compassion; heartless; ruthless

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A condition of low temperature.
  2. (with 'the') A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
  3. A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
  4. Rheum, sleepy dust

Etymology 3

adverb
  1. While at low temperature.
  2. Without preparation.
  3. With finality.
  4. In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

collude

verb
  1. To act in concert with; to conspire

colluded

verb
  1. To act in concert with; to conspire

cooed

verb
  1. To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.
  2. To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.

cool

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
  2. A calm temperament.
  3. The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
adjective
  1. Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
  2. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
  3. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
  4. Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
  5. Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
  6. Calmly audacious.
  7. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
  8. Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
  9. In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
  10. Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
  11. Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
  12. Quietly impudent, defiant, or selfish; deliberately presuming: said of persons and acts.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To lose heat, to get colder.
  2. To make cooler, less warm.
  3. To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  4. To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  5. To kill.

cooled

verb
  1. To lose heat, to get colder.
  2. To make cooler, less warm.
  3. To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  4. To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  5. To kill.
adjective
  1. Brought to a lower temperature.
  2. Brought to a lower temperature by means of (often in compounds).
  3. Brought to a reduced degree of anger or fervour.

coop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
  2. A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
  3. A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
  4. A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
verb
  1. To keep in a coop.
  2. To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
  3. To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
  4. (law enforcement) Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
  5. To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.
  2. A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small heap.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A unit of a housing co-operative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.
  2. Any co-operative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.
  3. Any shop owned by a co-operative.
  4. A co-operative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.

cooped

verb
  1. To keep in a coop.
  2. To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
  3. To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
  4. (law enforcement) Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
  5. To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.

cope

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
  2. To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
  3. To clip the beak or talons of a bird.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
  2. Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
  3. The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
  4. A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
  5. (foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
  6. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
verb
  1. To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
  2. To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To bargain for; to buy.
  2. To exchange or barter.
  3. To make return for; to requite; to repay.
  4. To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
  5. To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

coped

verb
  1. To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
  2. To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
  3. To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
verb
  1. To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
  2. To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
verb
  1. To bargain for; to buy.
  2. To exchange or barter.
  3. To make return for; to requite; to repay.
  4. To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
  5. To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
adjective
  1. Clad in a cope.

copped

verb
  1. To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
  2. To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
  3. (trainspotting) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
  4. To steal.
  5. To adopt.
  6. To earn by bad behavior.
  7. (usually with “to”) to admit, especially to a crime.
  8. For a pimp to recruit a prostitute into the stable.
adjective
  1. Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested.

could

verb
  1. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
  2. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
  3. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
  4. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
  5. To know.
noun
  1. Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

coulee

noun
  1. A stream.
  2. A lava flow.
  3. A deep gulch or ravine, frequently dry in summer.

coup

noun
  1. A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
  2. (of Native Americans) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.
  3. A coup d'état.
  4. (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
  5. A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
  6. One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
verb
  1. To make a coup.

coupe

noun
  1. An ice cream dessert; the glass it is served in.
  2. A car with two doors (variant of coupé).
  3. An area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place.

couple

noun
  1. Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
  2. Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
  3. A small number.
  4. One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
  5. Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel lines), thus creating the turning effect of a torque or moment.
  6. A couple-close.
  7. That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
verb
  1. To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
  2. To join in wedlock; to marry.
  3. To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
adjective
  1. Two or (a) small number of.

coupled

verb
  1. To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
  2. To join in wedlock; to marry.
  3. To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

cuddle

noun
  1. A snuggle; an affectionate embrace, often given to family members and close friends.
verb
  1. To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly.
  2. To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth.
  3. To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.

cuddled

verb
  1. To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly.
  2. To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth.
  3. To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.

cued

No Definition Found.

cull

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A selection.
  2. An organised killing of selected animals.
  3. (farming) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
  4. (seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
  5. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
verb
  1. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
  2. To gather, collect.
  3. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
  4. To kill (animals etc).
  5. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fool, gullible person; a dupe.

culled

verb
  1. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
  2. To gather, collect.
  3. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
  4. To kill (animals etc).
  5. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.

cupped

verb
  1. To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
  2. To hold something in cupped hands.
  3. To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
  4. To supply with cups of wine.
  5. To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
  6. To make concave or in the form of a cup.
adjective
  1. In the shape of a cup; concave.

deco

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (underwater diving) Decompression.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A friendship book in which people add decorative elements such as drawings, stickers and sequins.

decode

noun
  1. A product of decoding
  2. Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols
verb
  1. To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
  2. To figure out something difficult to interpret.

decoded

verb
  1. To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
  2. To figure out something difficult to interpret.

decouple

verb
  1. To unlink; to take or come apart.

decoupled

verb
  1. To unlink; to take or come apart.

deduce

verb
  1. To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
  2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
  3. (Latinism) To lead forth.

deduced

verb
  1. To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
  2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
  3. (Latinism) To lead forth.

deuce

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
  2. A side of a die with two spots.
  3. A cast of dice totalling two.
  4. The number two.
  5. A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
  6. A curveball.
  7. A '32 Ford.
  8. (in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
  9. (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
  10. A piece of excrement.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

educe

noun
  1. An inference.
verb
  1. To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
  2. To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises.
  3. To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
  4. To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.
  5. To cause or generate; to bring about.

educed

verb
  1. To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
  2. To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises.
  3. To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
  4. To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.
  5. To cause or generate; to bring about.
adjective
  1. Evoked
  2. Deduced

loco

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
verb
  1. To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
  2. (by extension) To render insane.
adjective
  1. Crazy.
  2. Intoxicated by eating locoweed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A locomotive.

occlude

verb
  1. To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
  2. To absorb, as a gas by a metal.

occluded

verb
  1. To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
  2. To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
adjective
  1. Closed or obstructed
  2. (of air) forced upwards by colder, denser air

puce

noun
  1. A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
adjective
  1. Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.