Friday, April 11, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 266

Number of Answers: 52

Points Needed for Genius: 186

Genius requires between 25 and 44 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, 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 266 was in the 88th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on April 2, 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 April 9, 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 8, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.7.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 194
  • loll 189
  • 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 115
  • anal 113
  • anon 111
  • boob 110
  • booboo 110
  • olio 109
  • baba 108
  • dodo 105
  • tact 105
  • call 104
  • calla 104
  • lull 104
  • lulu 104
  • papa 104
  • mitt 102
  • poop 102
  • ratatat 102
  • tart 102
  • tartar 102
  • attar 101
  • tattoo 101
  • tatty 101
  • allay 100
  • ally 100
  • ammo 99
  • momma 99
  • tutu 99
  • cocci 98
  • mono 98
  • moon 98
  • epee 97
  • peep 97
  • roar 95
  • loon 94


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 99,706 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,560 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*:

  • glogg
  • glonoin
  • gogo
  • golliwog
  • golliwogg
  • gonion
  • hillo
  • hilloing
  • hogg
  • hollo
  • holloing
  • holloo
  • hollooing
  • holo
  • hong
  • hongi
  • hongiing
  • ingoing
  • inion
  • lilo
  • lino
  • logion
  • logoi
  • logon
  • looing
  • lown
  • ninon
  • nogg
  • nogging
  • noil
  • nolo
  • nonwinning
  • nonwool
  • nooning
  • ohing
  • olingo
  • oohing
  • willowing
  • wonning

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

gigolo

noun
  1. A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman from whom he receives payment.
  2. A hired escort or dancing partner for a woman.

glow

noun
  1. The state of a glowing object.
  2. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
  3. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
verb
  1. To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
  2. To radiate some emotional quality like light.
  3. To gaze especially passionately at something.
  4. To radiate thermal heat.
  5. To shine brightly and steadily.
  6. To make hot; to flush.
  7. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

glowing

verb
  1. To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
  2. To radiate some emotional quality like light.
  3. To gaze especially passionately at something.
  4. To radiate thermal heat.
  5. To shine brightly and steadily.
  6. To make hot; to flush.
  7. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
noun
  1. The action of the verb glow.
adjective
  1. That glows or glow.
  2. Full of praise.

goggling

verb
  1. To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
  2. To roll the eyes.
noun
  1. A stare of curiosity or amazement.

going

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.
noun
  1. A departure.
  2. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
  3. Progress.
  4. Conditions for advancing in any way.
  5. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing
  6. (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
  7. (in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).
adjective
  1. Likely to continue; viable.
  2. Current, prevailing.
  3. (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.

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.

gonging

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.
noun
  1. The sounding of a gong.

googling

verb
  1. To deliver googlies.
  2. To move as a ball in a googly.
verb
  1. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
  2. (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
  3. To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

googol

numeral
  1. The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred.

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.

gown

noun
  1. A loose, flowing upper garment.
  2. A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
  3. The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
  4. (by metonymy) The university community.
  5. A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
  6. Any sort of dress or garb.
  7. The robe worn by a surgeon.
verb
  1. To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

gowning

verb
  1. To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

hogging

verb
  1. To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
  2. To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
  3. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  4. To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
verb
  1. To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
noun
  1. The targeting by men of overweight or obese women for sexual encounters, not due to sexual attraction but for amusement, or to take advantage of low self-esteem.
  2. Taking up too much of something so others cannot use it.
adjective
  1. Drooping at the ends; arching; in distinction from sagging.

holing

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To make holes in (an object or surface).
  2. (by extension) To destroy.
  3. To go into a hole.
  4. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
  5. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass

hollow

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small valley between mountains.
  2. A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
  3. A sunken area.
  4. A feeling of emptiness.
verb
  1. To make a hole in something; to excavate

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
  2. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
  3. Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
  4. Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
  5. Concave; gaunt; sunken.
  6. Pertaining to hollow body position
adverb
  1. Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

Etymology 3

interjection
  1. Hey, hello
verb
  1. To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.

hollowing

verb
  1. To make a hole in something; to excavate
verb
  1. To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.
noun
  1. The act of one who hollows; a cry or shout.

honing

verb
  1. To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
  2. To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  3. To refine or master (a skill).
  4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.
verb
  1. To grumble.
  2. To pine, lament, or long.
noun
  1. The process by which something is honed.

howl

noun
  1. The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
  2. A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
verb
  1. To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
  2. To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
  3. To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
  4. To utter with outcry.

howling

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act of producing howls.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
  2. To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
  3. To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
  4. To utter with outcry.
adjective
  1. Used as an intensifier

igloo

noun
  1. A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow.
  2. A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the sea ice.
  3. A reinforced bunker for the storage of nuclear weapons.
  4. (logistics) A kind of airfreight cargo container.

lingo

noun
  1. Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect.

lion

noun
  1. A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe.
  2. (by extension) Any of various extant and extinct big cats, especially the mountain lion.
  3. A Chinese foo dog.
  4. An individual who shows strength and courage, attributes associated with the lion.
  5. A famous person regarded with interest and curiosity.
  6. A light brown color that resembles the fur of a lion.
  7. An old Scottish coin, with a lion on the obverse, worth 74 shillings.
adjective
  1. Of the light brown color that resembles the fur of a lion.

logging

verb
  1. To cut trees into logs.
  2. To cut down (trees).
  3. To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.
verb
  1. To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.
  2. To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook
  3. To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by chip log.
verb
  1. To move to and fro; to rock.
noun
  1. An act or instance of logging (cutting trees).
  2. An act or instance of logging (making an entry in a log).

login

noun
  1. A combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer, program, network, etc.
  2. The process of logging in.

loin

noun
  1. The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips
  2. Any of several cuts of meat taken from this part of an animal

loll

verb
  1. To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
  2. To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
  3. To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.

lolling

verb
  1. To laugh out loud.
verb
  1. To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
  2. To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
  3. To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.
noun
  1. The act of one who lolls.

long

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A long vowel.
  2. A long syllable.
  3. A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
  4. A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
  5. An entity with a long position in an asset.
  6. A long-term investment.
  7. The long summer vacation at the English universities.
verb
  1. To take a long position in.
adjective
  1. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).
  2. Having great duration.
  3. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
  4. Not short; tall.
  5. Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.
  6. Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
  7. (of a ball or a shot) Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out.
  8. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. Over a great distance in space.
  2. For a particular duration.
  3. For a long duration.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
adjective
  1. On account of, because of.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Longitude

Etymology 6

verb
  1. To belong.

longing

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To take a long position in.
verb
  1. To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
verb
  1. To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
verb
  1. To belong.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
  2. The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise

loon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An idler, a lout.
  2. A boy, a lad.
  3. A harlot; mistress.
  4. A simpleton.
  5. A crazy or deranged person.
  6. An English soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.

lowing

verb
  1. To depress; to lower.
verb
  1. To moo.
verb
  1. To burn; to blaze.
noun
  1. The sound of something that lows.

noggin

noun
  1. A small mug, cup or ladle.
  2. (obsolete outside dialectal) A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill.
  3. The head.
  4. A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
noun
  1. A horizontal beam used in the construction of a building, especially to strengthen upright posts.
  2. Rough brick masonry used to fill open spaces.

nohow

adverb
  1. In no way; not at all; by no available means.

nonillion

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noon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  2. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. The highest point; culmination.
verb
  1. To relax or sleep around midday

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

ogling

verb
  1. To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
noun
  1. Action of the verb to ogle.

oiling

verb
  1. To lubricate with oil.
  2. To grease with oil for cooking.
noun
  1. An application of oil.

olio

noun
  1. A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables.
  2. A medley or mixture; a hotchpotch.
  3. A collection of various musical, theatrical or other artistic works; a miscellany.
  4. (by extension) Vaudeville or similar miscellaneous musical or theatrical entertainment skits presented between the main acts of burlesque or minstrel shows.

ongoing

verb
  1. To be ongoing (occurring, happening); to last, proceed or continue.
noun
  1. Something that is going on; a happening.
adjective
  1. Continuing, permanent, lasting.
  2. Presently or currently happening; being in progress.

onion

noun
  1. A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
  2. The bulb of such a plant.
  3. The genus as a whole.
  4. A ball.
  5. A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

oolong

noun
  1. A partially fermented tea, often roasted, which combines the characteristics of green tea and black tea.

owing

verb
  1. To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
  2. To have debt; to be in debt.
adjective
  1. Still to be paid; owed as a debt.

owning

verb
  1. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
  2. To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
  3. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
  4. To virtually or figuratively enslave.
  5. To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
  6. To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
verb
  1. To grant; give.
  2. To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
  3. To admit; concede; acknowledge.
  4. To take responsibility for.
  5. To answer to.
  6. To recognise; acknowledge.
  7. To claim as one's own.
  8. To confess.

willow

noun
  1. Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
  2. The wood of these trees.
  3. A cricket bat.
  4. (1800s) The baseball bat.
  5. A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
verb
  1. To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.
  2. To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow.

winnow

noun
  1. That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.
verb
  1. To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
  2. To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.
  3. To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
  4. To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

winnowing

verb
  1. To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
  2. To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.
  3. To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
  4. To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.
noun
  1. The act of separating chaff from grain.

wino

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; a drunk or drunkard.
  2. A wine enthusiast; an oenophile.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.

wooing

verb
  1. To endeavor to gain someone's support.
  2. (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with
  3. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
noun
  1. A courting; the process by which somebody is wooed.

wool

noun
  1. The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
  2. A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
  3. Anything with a texture like that of wool.
  4. A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
  5. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
  6. Yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
  7. Derogatory term for residents of the satellite towns outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.

wowing

verb
  1. To amaze or awe.

woohoo

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