Tuesday, April 8, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 207

Number of Answers: 48

Points Needed for Genius: 145

Genius requires between 22 and 41 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 75% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 207 was in the 68th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on April 7, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 48 possible answers rank it in the 73rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on April 6, 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 April 7, 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 193
  • loll 187
  • toot 183
  • naan 169
  • nana 169
  • lilt 137
  • till 137
  • tilt 137
  • tint 134
  • nene 130
  • mama 128
  • mamma 128
  • acacia 121
  • acai 121
  • onto 119
  • toon 119
  • onion 114
  • anal 113
  • anon 111
  • boob 110
  • booboo 110
  • baba 108
  • olio 108
  • tact 105
  • dodo 104
  • lull 104
  • lulu 104
  • papa 104
  • call 103
  • calla 103
  • mitt 102
  • poop 102
  • ratatat 102
  • tart 102
  • tartar 102
  • attar 101
  • tattoo 101
  • tatty 101
  • allay 100
  • ally 100
  • tutu 99
  • ammo 98
  • cocci 98
  • momma 98
  • mono 98
  • moon 98
  • epee 97
  • peep 97
  • loot 94
  • lotto 94


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 99,565 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,559 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*:

  • aglu
  • agued
  • ahull
  • aludel
  • alula
  • alulae
  • audad
  • augh
  • auld
  • duad
  • duded
  • duelled
  • gaud
  • gude
  • guggle
  • guggled
  • haugh
  • heugh
  • leagued
  • lehua
  • leud
  • lude
  • ullage
  • ullaged

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

ague

noun
  1. An acute fever.
  2. An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
  3. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever
  4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
  5. Malaria.
verb
  1. To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

allude

verb
  1. To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.

alluded

verb
  1. To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.

delude

verb
  1. To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
  2. To frustrate or disappoint.

deluded

verb
  1. To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
  2. To frustrate or disappoint.
adjective
  1. Being affected by delusions.

deluge

noun
  1. A great flood or rain.
  2. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
  3. (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
verb
  1. To flood with water.
  2. To overwhelm.

deluged

verb
  1. To flood with water.
  2. To overwhelm.

dual

noun
  1. Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
  2. Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.
  3. (grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of, exactly two of), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number.
  4. Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
verb
  1. To convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway.
adjective
  1. Exhibiting duality; characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
  2. Acting as a counterpart.
  3. Double.
  4. (grammar) Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two of something, such as a pair of shoes, in the context of the singular, plural and, in some languages, trial grammatical number.
  5. Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
  6. Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.

dude

noun
  1. A man, generally a younger man.
  2. (used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning him or offering him advice.
  3. An inexperienced cowboy.
  4. A tourist.
  5. A man who is very concerned about his dress and appearance; a dandy, a fop.
verb
  1. To address someone as dude.
  2. To take a vacation in a dude ranch.
  3. Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes.
interjection
  1. A term of address, usually for a man, conveying awe, excitement, surprise, etc.

duel

noun
  1. Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
  2. Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat)
  3. Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas.
verb
  1. To engage in a battle.

dueled

verb
  1. To engage in a battle.

dull

verb
  1. To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
  2. To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
  3. To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
  4. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
adjective
  1. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
  2. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
  3. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
  4. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
  5. Sluggish, listless.
  6. Cloudy, overcast.
  7. Insensible; unfeeling.
  8. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
  9. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
  10. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.

dulled

verb
  1. To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
  2. To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
  3. To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
  4. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

elude

verb
  1. To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill
  2. To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip
  3. To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to

eluded

verb
  1. To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill
  2. To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip
  3. To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to

gauge

noun
  1. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
  2. An act of measuring.
  3. An estimate.
  4. Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
  5. A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
  6. The distance between the rails of a railway.
  7. A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
  8. The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
  9. Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
  10. The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
  11. (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
  12. That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
  13. A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
  14. (by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
  15. A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
verb
  1. To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
  2. To estimate.
  3. To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
  4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
  5. To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
  6. To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.

gauged

verb
  1. To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
  2. To estimate.
  3. To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
  4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
  5. To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
  6. To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.

glue

noun
  1. A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
  2. Anything that binds two things or people together.
  3. Birdlime.
verb
  1. To join or attach something using glue.
  2. To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.

glued

verb
  1. To join or attach something using glue.
  2. To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.

glug

noun
  1. The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle.
  2. The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard.
verb
  1. To flow in noisy bursts.
  2. To quickly swallow liquid.

glugged

verb
  1. To flow in noisy bursts.
  2. To quickly swallow liquid.

gulag

noun
  1. A prison camp.
  2. The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.
verb
  1. To force into this prison or a similar system.

gull

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
  2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cheating trick; a fraud.
  2. One easily cheated; a dupe.
  3. (Oxford University slang) A swindler or trickster.
verb
  1. To deceive or cheat.
  2. To mislead.
  3. To trick and defraud.

gulled

verb
  1. To deceive or cheat.
  2. To mislead.
  3. To trick and defraud.

haul

noun
  1. An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
  2. The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
  3. An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
  4. Short for haul video.
  5. (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
verb
  1. To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
  2. To draw or pull something heavy.
  3. To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
  4. To drag, to pull, to tug.
  5. Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
  6. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
  7. To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
  8. Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
  9. To haul ass.

haulage

noun
  1. The act of hauling.
  2. The business of transporting goods.
  3. The charge levied for hauling or pulling a ship or boat.

hauled

verb
  1. To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
  2. To draw or pull something heavy.
  3. To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
  4. To drag, to pull, to tug.
  5. Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
  6. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
  7. To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
  8. Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
  9. To haul ass.

huddle

noun
  1. A dense and disorderly crowd.
  2. A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
  3. A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.
verb
  1. To crowd together.
  2. To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
  3. To get together and discuss a topic.
  4. To form a huddle.
  5. To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
  6. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together).
  7. To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move.
adjective
  1. Muted, as if emitted by a huddled embryo

huddled

verb
  1. To crowd together.
  2. To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
  3. To get together and discuss a topic.
  4. To form a huddle.
  5. To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
  6. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together).
  7. To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move.
adjective
  1. Crowded together in a huddle
  2. Crouched

hued

adjective
  1. Coloured; having a hue.

huge

adjective
  1. Very large.
  2. Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.

hugged

verb
  1. To crouch; huddle as with cold.
  2. To cling closely together.
  3. To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
  4. To stay close to (the shore etc.)
  5. To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.

hula

noun
  1. A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
verb
  1. To dance the hula.

hull

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
  2. Any covering.
verb
  1. To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
  2. (of a set A) The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
verb
  1. To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
  2. To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.

hulled

verb
  1. To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
verb
  1. To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
  2. To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
adjective
  1. Deprived of the hulls.
  2. Having a hull.

laud

noun
  1. Praise or glorification.
  2. Hymn of praise.
  3. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.
verb
  1. To praise, to glorify

lauded

verb
  1. To praise, to glorify

laugh

noun
  1. An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
  2. Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
  3. A fun person.
verb
  1. To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
  2. To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
  3. (followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
  4. To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
  5. To express by, or utter with, laughter.

laughed

verb
  1. To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
  2. To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
  3. (followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
  4. To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
  5. To express by, or utter with, laughter.

league

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A group or association of cooperating members.
  2. An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
  3. (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
  4. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
verb
  1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
noun
  1. A version of rugby football, played between two teams of thirteen.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
  2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

luau

noun
  1. An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.

luge

noun
  1. A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.
  2. The sport of racing on luges.
  3. A piece of ice, bone or other material with a channel down which a (usually alcoholic) drink can be poured into someone's mouth.
verb
  1. To travel by luge; to ride a luge.

luged

verb
  1. To travel by luge; to ride a luge.

luggage

noun
  1. The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.
  2. The contents of such containers.
  3. A specific bag or container holding a traveller's belongings.

lugged

verb
  1. (sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
  2. To run at too slow a speed.
  3. To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
  4. To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
adjective
  1. Having ears.

lull

noun
  1. A period of rest or soothing.
  2. A period of reduced activity; a respite
  3. A period without waves or wind.
  4. An extended pause between sets of waves.
verb
  1. To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
  2. To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.

lulled

verb
  1. To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
  2. To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.

lulu

noun
  1. A remarkable person, object or idea.
  2. A very attractive or alluring person.
  3. A very bad mistake or error.
  4. A fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.