Monday, April 14, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 82

Number of Answers: 23

Points Needed for Genius: 57

Genius requires between 10 and 21 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 84% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, 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 82 was in the 4th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on March 4, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 23 possible answers rank it in the 7th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on April 3, 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on April 12, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.7.
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 195
  • loll 189
  • toot 184
  • naan 169
  • nana 169
  • lilt 137
  • till 137
  • tilt 137
  • tint 134
  • nene 130
  • mama 128
  • mamma 128
  • acacia 121
  • acai 121
  • onto 120
  • toon 120
  • onion 115
  • anal 113
  • anon 111
  • boob 111
  • booboo 111
  • olio 109
  • baba 108
  • dodo 105
  • papa 105
  • tact 105
  • call 104
  • calla 104
  • lull 104
  • lulu 104
  • poop 104
  • mitt 102
  • ratatat 102
  • tart 102
  • tartar 102
  • attar 101
  • tattoo 101
  • tatty 101
  • allay 100
  • ally 100
  • ammo 99
  • momma 99
  • mono 99
  • moon 99
  • tutu 99
  • cocci 98
  • epee 98
  • peep 98
  • roar 95
  • loon 94


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 99,848 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*:

  • agapae
  • apagoge
  • bopeep
  • boppy
  • epopee
  • gappy
  • gapy
  • gypo
  • gyppo
  • peag
  • peage
  • peepbo
  • pepo
  • poboy
  • pogey
  • pogy
  • poopy

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

agape

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open.
  2. Wide open.
adverb
  1. In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
  2. Open wide.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others.
  2. Spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for others.
  3. A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist.

apogee

noun
  1. The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is furthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.
  2. (more generally) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite.
  3. (possibly obsolete outside astrology) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is furthest from the Earth.
  4. The highest point.

bebop

noun
  1. An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.
verb
  1. To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.
  2. (usually with a directional preposition) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner.

beep

noun
  1. The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
  2. A short, electronically produced tone.
verb
  1. To sound (something that makes a beep).
  2. To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts
  3. To produce a beep.
  4. To contact (someone via) a pager device.
  5. Telephoning a person, but only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.

epee

noun
  1. A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.

gape

noun
  1. An act of gaping; a yawn.
  2. A large opening.
  3. A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
  4. The width of an opening.
  5. The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
verb
  1. To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
  2. To stare in wonder.
  3. To open wide; to display a gap.
  4. Of a cat: to open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.

goop

noun
  1. (usually uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo.
  2. A silly, stupid, or boorish person.

goopy

No Definition Found.

page

Etymology 1

noun
  1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
  2. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
  3. Any record or writing; a collective memory.
  4. The type set up for printing a page.
  5. A screenful of text and possibly other content.
  6. A web page.
  7. A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
verb
  1. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
  2. (often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
  3. To furnish with folios.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
  2. A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  3. A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  4. (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  5. A boy child.
  6. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  7. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  8. A message sent to someone's pager.
  9. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
verb
  1. To attend (someone) as a page.
  2. To call or summon (someone).
  3. To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
  4. To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.

pageboy

noun
  1. A boy who serves as a page.
  2. A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under.

papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

papaya

noun
  1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
  2. The fruit of this tree.
  3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

pappy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Like pap; soft; mushy.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Father
  2. Grandfather

payee

noun
  1. One to whom money is paid.

peep

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird.
  2. A feeble utterance or complaint.
  3. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
  4. A kind of bird; a sandpiper.
verb
  1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
  2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
  2. The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
verb
  1. To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
  2. To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spot on a die or domino.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Person.

peppy

adjective
  1. Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy

pogo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A dance associated with the 1970s punk rock movement in which participants jump up and down on the spot in the manner of someone riding a pogo stick.
  2. The act of lifting the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jumping up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
verb
  1. To use a pogo stick.
  2. To dance the pogo.
  3. To lift the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jump up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
  4. To move rapidly up and down like a pogo stick.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A corndog on a stick.

poop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Fecal matter, feces.
  2. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch.
verb
  1. To make a short blast on a horn
  2. To break wind.
  3. To defecate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stern of a ship.
  2. The poop deck.
verb
  1. To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
  2. To embark a ship over the stern.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A slothful person.

pope

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
  2. (Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
  3. An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
  4. Any bishop of the early Christian church.
  5. The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
  6. (Cumberland) The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
  7. The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
  8. The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).
verb
  1. To act as or like a pope.
  2. To convert to Roman Catholicism.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (Russian Orthodoxy) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The whippoorwill (Caprimulgus vociferus).
  2. The nighthawk (Chordeiles minor).

poppa

noun
  1. (sometimes childish) father, papa.

poppy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially the common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
  2. A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.
  3. A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Sunday.
adjective
  1. Of a bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower (Papaver rhoeas).

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Having a popping or bursting sound.
  2. Of a beverage: resembling soda pop; effervescent, fizzy.
  3. Of eyes: protruding, sticking out.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Popular.
  2. Typical, or in the style, of pop music.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.

yappy

adjective
  1. Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner.
  2. Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.

boop

No Definition Found.