Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 238

Number of Answers: 51

Points Needed for Genius: 167

Genius requires between 23 and 44 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 238 was in the 80th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on April 21, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 51 possible answers rank it in the 79th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on April 19, 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 21, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.6.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 196
  • loll 191
  • toot 185
  • naan 170
  • nana 170
  • lilt 137
  • till 137
  • tilt 137
  • tint 134
  • nene 131
  • mama 128
  • mamma 128
  • acacia 122
  • acai 122
  • onto 121
  • toon 121
  • onion 116
  • anal 114
  • anon 111
  • boob 111
  • booboo 111
  • olio 111
  • baba 108
  • tact 107
  • papa 106
  • dodo 105
  • call 104
  • calla 104
  • lull 104
  • lulu 104
  • poop 104
  • ratatat 103
  • tart 103
  • tartar 103
  • attar 102
  • mitt 102
  • tattoo 101
  • tatty 101
  • allay 100
  • ally 100
  • mono 100
  • moon 100
  • ammo 99
  • momma 99
  • tutu 99
  • cocci 98
  • epee 98
  • peep 98
  • loon 95
  • loot 95


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 100,197 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,565 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*:

  • acceptant
  • acceptee
  • aceta
  • acta
  • anent
  • anta
  • antae
  • appetence
  • appetent
  • atap
  • attent
  • captan
  • cate
  • catena
  • catenae
  • catenate
  • cetane
  • cete
  • enate
  • epact
  • etape
  • etna
  • expectance
  • nepeta
  • nett
  • pataca
  • paten
  • pattee
  • patten
  • peccant
  • pectate
  • pecten
  • pennate
  • pentene
  • petnap
  • tacan
  • tace
  • tannate
  • tapeta
  • tappet
  • tate
  • tecta
  • tenace
  • tenne
  • tenpence
  • tepa

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

accent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
  2. Emphasis or importance in general.
  3. A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
  4. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
  5. The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
  6. (sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
  7. A word; a significant tone or sound.
  8. (usually plurale tantum) Expressions in general; speech.
  9. Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
  10. A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
  11. A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
  12. The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
  13. The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
  14. A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
  15. A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.
  16. A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc., as in 12' 27'', meaning twelve minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
  17. A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10'', meaning six feet ten inches.
  18. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
  19. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
  20. A distinctive feature or quality.
  21. Utterance.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
  2. To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
  3. To mark with written accents.

accept

verb
  1. To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
  2. To admit to a place or a group.
  3. To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
  4. To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
  5. To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
  6. To endure patiently.
  7. To agree to pay.
  8. To receive officially.
  9. To receive something willingly.
adjective
  1. Accepted.

acceptance

noun
  1. The act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.
  2. Belief in something; agreement, assent.
  3. The state of being accepted.
  4. The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
  5. An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance; the bill of exchange itself when accepted.
  6. An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner.
  7. The act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
  8. A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
noun
  1. A conserved property of the light in an optical system which characterizes how "spread out" the light is in terms of angle and area: it is the product of its cross-sectional area (normal to the direction of propagation) and the solid angle it subtends.

acetate

noun
  1. Any salt or ester of acetic acid.
  2. Cellulose acetate.
  3. A transparent sheet used for overlays.
  4. Ellipsis of acetate disc: a disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.

ante

noun
  1. A price or cost, as in up the ante.
  2. In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.
verb
  1. To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.
  2. To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.

antenna

noun
  1. A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
  2. An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
  3. The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
  4. A fragment of an oligosaccharide
  5. The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.

antennae

noun
  1. A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
  2. An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
  3. The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
  4. A fragment of an oligosaccharide
  5. The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.

cant

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
  2. A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
  3. A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
  4. Empty, hypocritical talk.
  5. Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
  6. A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
  7. A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
verb
  1. To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
  2. To speak in set phrases.
  3. To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
  4. Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
  5. To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Side, edge, corner, niche.
  2. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
  3. A corner (of a building).
  4. An outer or external angle.
  5. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
  6. A movement or throw that overturns something.
  7. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
  8. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
  9. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
  10. A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
verb
  1. To set (something) at an angle.
  2. To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
  3. To bevel an edge or corner.
  4. To overturn so that the contents are emptied.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A parcel, a division.
verb
  1. To divide or parcel out.

Etymology 4

adjective
  1. Lively, lusty.

cantata

noun
  1. A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.

canteen

noun
  1. A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
  2. A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.
  3. A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
  4. A military mess kit.
  5. A water bottle used by a soldier or camper.

catnap

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A brief, light sleep.
verb
  1. To take a catnap, to take a short sleep or nap.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To kidnap a cat.

cent

noun
  1. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
  2. A small sum of money.
  3. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
  4. (money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
  5. A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
noun
  1. The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  2. The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  3. The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
  4. The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
  5. The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
  6. The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.
  7. A place where the greater part of some function or activity occurs.
  8. A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
  9. A player in the middle of the playing area
  10. A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
  11. A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
  12. One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
  13. A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
  14. One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
  15. A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
  16. The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
noun
  1. A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Known as the Celsius scale since 1948.
  2. A single degree on this scale.
  3. A unit of angle equal to the hundredth part of a quadrant. Its symbol is gon.
noun
  1. (Sanskrit and other Indian philology) satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic
  2. Perfect score on a board exam
noun
  1. A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
  2. A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
  3. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
  4. A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
  5. A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
  6. A score of one hundred points.
  7. A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
  8. A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

cetacean

noun
  1. An animal belonging to the order Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to the zoologic order Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.
  2. (by extension, sometimes figurative) Resembling or relating to large aquatic mammals.

eaten

verb
  1. To ingest; to be ingested.
  2. To use up.
  3. To cause (someone) to worry.
  4. To take the loss in a transaction.
  5. To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
  6. To corrode or erode.
  7. To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
adjective
  1. (especially in combination) That has been consumed by eating

enact

noun
  1. Purpose; determination
verb
  1. To make (a bill) into law
  2. To act the part of; to play
  3. To do; to effect

entente

noun
  1. An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.

exact

verb
  1. To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
  2. To make desirable or necessary.
  3. To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.
adjective
  1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
  2. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
  3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
  4. (of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
adverb
  1. Exactly

exacta

noun
  1. A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick the two runners who finish first and second, in the correct order.

except

verb
  1. To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
  2. To take exception, to object (to or against).
preposition
  1. With the exception of; but.
conjunction
  1. With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
  2. Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.

expat

noun
  1. An expatriate; a person who lives outside their own country.

expect

verb
  1. To predict or believe that something will happen
  2. To consider obligatory or required.
  3. To consider reasonably due.
  4. (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
  5. To wait for; to await.
  6. To wait; to stay.

expectant

noun
  1. A person who expects or awaits something.
adjective
  1. Marked by expectation.
  2. Pregnant.
  3. Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.

extant

adjective
  1. Still in existence.
  2. Currently existing; not having disappeared.
  3. Still alive; not extinct.
  4. Standing out, or above the rest.

extent

noun
  1. A range of values or locations.
  2. The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
  3. A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
  4. The valuation of property.
  5. A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
adjective
  1. Extended.

natant

adjective
  1. Floating or swimming (in water)
  2. In a horizontal position, as if swimming

neat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
adjective
  1. Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
  2. Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
  3. Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
  4. With all deductions or allowances made; net.
  5. Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
  6. Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
  7. Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.
  8. Good, excellent, desirable.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bull or cow.
  2. Cattle collectively.

neaten

verb
  1. To make neat; arrange in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.

next

noun
  1. The one that follows after this one.
adjective
  1. Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
  2. Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
  3. Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.
  4. Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)
adverb
  1. In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
  2. On the first subsequent occasion.
preposition
  1. On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.

pact

noun
  1. An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
  2. An agreement between two or more nations
verb
  1. To form a pact; to agree formally.

pancetta

noun
  1. A cured belly or pork; bacon.

pant

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
  2. Eager longing.
  3. A violent palpitation of the heart.
verb
  1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
  2. To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  3. To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
  4. Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
  5. To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
  6. To heave, as the breast.
  7. To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
  2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

pate

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown.
  2. Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.
noun
  1. A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables, sometimes with the addition of alcohol.

patent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent.
  2. A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.
  3. License; formal permission.
  4. Patent leather: a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for shoes and accessories.
verb
  1. To successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Open, unobstructed, expanded.
  2. Explicit and obvious.
  3. (of flour) That is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  4. Open; unconcealed; conspicuous.
  5. Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege.
  6. Protected by a legal patent.

patentee

noun
  1. One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.

peat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pet, a darling; a woman.

pennant

noun
  1. A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition.
  2. The winning of a competition, represented by a flag.
  3. A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
  4. A sandstone between coal measures in parts of South Wales

pent

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To enclose in a pen.
noun
  1. Confinement; concealment.
adjective
  1. Confined in a pen, imprisoned.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pentatonic scale.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A pentacle or pentagram.

pentane

noun
  1. An aliphatic hydrocarbon of chemical formula C5H12; either of the three isomers n-pentane, methyl-butane (isopentane), and di-methyl-propane (neopentane); volatile liquids under normal conditions.

tacet

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tact

noun
  1. The sense of touch; feeling.
  2. The stroke in beating time.
  3. Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.
  4. A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
verb
  1. To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).
noun
  1. A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.
  2. A maneuver used against an enemy.
  3. A sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.

tapa

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine.

tape

noun
  1. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
  2. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
  3. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
  4. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
  5. (by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
  6. An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
  7. (from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
  8. The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
  9. A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
verb
  1. To bind with adhesive tape.
  2. To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
  3. (passive) To understand, figure out.

taxa

noun
  1. A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

teat

noun
  1. The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
  2. Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.
  3. An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

teen

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A teenager.
adjective
  1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Grief; sorrow; trouble.
  2. Vexation; anger; hate.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
  2. To become angry or distressed.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. (provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.

teepee

verb
  1. To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.

tenant

noun
  1. One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
  2. One who has possession of any place.
  3. One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
  4. Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
verb
  1. To hold as, or be, a tenant.
  2. To inhabit.

tenet

noun
  1. An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

tent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
  2. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
  3. A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
  4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
verb
  1. To go camping.
  2. To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
  3. To form into a tent-like shape.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Attention; regard, care.
  2. Intention; design.
verb
  1. To attend to; to heed
  2. To guard; to hinder.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
  2. A probe for searching a wound.
verb
  1. (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

tepee

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee

text

noun
  1. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
  2. A book, tome or other set of writings.
  3. A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
  4. Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
  5. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
  6. (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
  7. A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
verb
  1. To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
  2. To send and receive text messages.
  3. To write in large characters, as in text hand.