Tuesday, April 29, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 180

Number of Answers: 48

Points Needed for Genius: 126

Genius requires between 20 and 41 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 76% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 180 was in the 56th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on April 26, 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 26, 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 27, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
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 197
  • loll 192
  • toot 185
  • naan 171
  • nana 171
  • lilt 138
  • till 138
  • tilt 138
  • tint 134
  • nene 131
  • mama 129
  • mamma 129
  • acacia 122
  • acai 122
  • onto 121
  • toon 121
  • onion 117
  • anal 115
  • anon 112
  • olio 112
  • boob 111
  • booboo 111
  • baba 108
  • tact 108
  • papa 106
  • dodo 105
  • lull 105
  • lulu 105
  • call 104
  • calla 104
  • poop 104
  • mitt 103
  • ratatat 103
  • tart 103
  • tartar 103
  • attar 102
  • tatty 102
  • tattoo 101
  • allay 100
  • ally 100
  • mono 100
  • moon 100
  • tutu 100
  • ammo 99
  • momma 99
  • cocci 98
  • epee 98
  • peep 98
  • loon 96
  • loot 95


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 100,492 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,570 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*:

  • deedy
  • deet
  • defi
  • didie
  • digged
  • dite
  • eide
  • fetidity
  • fetted
  • fidge
  • fidged
  • figged
  • fytte
  • geed
  • giddied
  • gied
  • giftee
  • gite
  • gitted
  • igged
  • tedded
  • tegg
  • teiid
  • tiffed
  • tittie
  • tyee
  • yegg
  • yett

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

deed

noun
  1. An action or act; something that is done.
  2. A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
  3. Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
  4. A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before witnesses.
verb
  1. To transfer real property by deed.

deeded

verb
  1. To transfer real property by deed.

defied

verb
  1. To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition).
  2. To refuse to obey.
  3. To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.
  4. To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.

deft

adjective
  1. Quick and neat in action; skillful.

defy

noun
  1. A challenge.
verb
  1. To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition).
  2. To refuse to obey.
  3. To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.
  4. To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.

deified

verb
  1. To make a god of (something or someone).
  2. To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.

deify

verb
  1. To make a god of (something or someone).
  2. To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.

deity

noun
  1. A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess.
noun
  1. The state, position, or fact of being a god or God. [from 14th c.]
  2. A celestial being inferior to a supreme God but superior to man.
  3. The study of religion or religions.
  4. A type of confectionery made with egg whites, corn syrup, and white sugar.

died

verb
  1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  2. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
  3. To yearn intensely.
  4. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
  5. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  6. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  7. To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
  8. (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
  9. (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
  10. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
  11. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  12. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
  13. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  14. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  15. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
verb
  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

diet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
  2. A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  3. (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
adjective
  1. (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
  2. Having certain traits subtracted.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  2. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  3. To eat; to take one's meals.
  4. To cause to take food; to feed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
  2. A session of exams
  3. The proceedings under a criminal libel.
  4. A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.

dieted

verb
  1. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  2. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  3. To eat; to take one's meals.
  4. To cause to take food; to feed.

dyed

verb
  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
adjective
  1. Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.

eddied

verb
  1. To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

eddy

noun
  1. A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
  2. A circular current; a whirlpool.
verb
  1. To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

edge

noun
  1. The boundary line of a surface.
  2. A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
  3. An advantage.
  4. The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
  5. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
  6. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  7. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
  8. A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
  9. A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
  10. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
verb
  1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  8. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  9. To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

edged

verb
  1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  8. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  9. To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
adjective
  1. That has a sharp planar surface.
  2. Followed by with: Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.

edgy

adjective
  1. Nervous, apprehensive.
  2. (entertainment) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.
  3. (entertainment) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
  4. Irritable.
  5. Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
  6. (of a knife or blade) Sharp.
  7. Cool by virtue of being tough, dark, or badass.
  8. Exhibiting behavior that is disconcerting or alarming, sometimes in an effort to impress or to troll others.

edified

adjective
  1. Furnished with buildings.
verb
  1. To build, construct.
  2. To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

edify

verb
  1. To build, construct.
  2. To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

edit

noun
  1. A change to the text of a document.
  2. A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
  3. An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
  4. An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
verb
  1. To change a text, or a document.
  2. To be the editor of a publication.
  3. To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
  4. To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
  5. To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.
  6. To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
  7. To lend itself to editing in a certain way.

edited

verb
  1. To change a text, or a document.
  2. To be the editor of a publication.
  3. To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
  4. To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
  5. To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.
  6. To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
  7. To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
adjective
  1. Having been altered from the original version.

effete

adjective
  1. Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
  2. Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
  3. Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
  4. (of a person) Affected, overrefined

effigy

noun
  1. A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
  2. A likeness of a person.

egged

verb
  1. To throw eggs at.
  2. To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
  3. To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
verb
  1. To encourage, incite.

eggy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Covered with or dipped in egg.
  2. Resembling eggs in some way.
  3. Of or relating to an egg or eggs.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Slightly annoyed.

eyed

verb
  1. To observe carefully or appraisingly.
  2. To appear; to look.
adjective
  1. Having eyes.
  2. Having eye-like spots.
  3. (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.

feed

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
  2. Something supplied continuously.
  3. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
  4. The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
  5. A meal.
  6. A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
  7. Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
verb
  1. (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
  2. To eat (usually of animals).
  3. To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
  4. To give to a machine to be processed.
  5. To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
  6. To supply with something.
  7. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
  8. To pass to.
  9. (of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
  10. (of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

feet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
  2. Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
  3. (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
  4. The base or bottom of anything.
  5. The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
  6. The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
  7. A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
  8. A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
  9. A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
  10. (collective) Foot soldiers; infantry.
  11. (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
  12. The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
  13. The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
  14. The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
  15. The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
  16. The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
  17. The bottom edge of a sail.
  18. The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
  19. In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
  20. The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
  21. The globular lower domain of a protein.
  22. The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
  23. Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
  24. Recognized condition; rank; footing.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Fact; performance; feat.

fete

noun
  1. A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
  2. A feast, celebration or carnival.
verb
  1. (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person).

feted

verb
  1. (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person).
adjective
  1. Honoured; celebrated.

fetid

noun
  1. The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.
adjective
  1. Foul-smelling, stinking.

fidget

noun
  1. A nervous wriggling or twitching motion.
  2. A person who fidgets, especially habitually.
  3. A toy intended to be fidgeted with.
verb
  1. To wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly.
  2. To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.

fidgeted

verb
  1. To wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly.
  2. To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.

fidgety

adjective
  1. Having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget; restless.

fief

noun
  1. An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior.
  2. Something over which one has rights or exercises control.
  3. An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.

fife

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
verb
  1. To play this instrument.

Etymology 2

numeral
  1. Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion.

fifed

verb
  1. To play this instrument.

fitted

verb
  1. To be suitable for.
  2. To conform to in size and shape.
  3. To be of the right size and shape
  4. (with to) To make conform in size and shape.
  5. To be in agreement with.
  6. To adjust.
  7. To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
  8. To equip or supply.
  9. To make ready.
  10. To be seemly.
  11. To be proper or becoming.
  12. To be in harmony.
verb
  1. To suffer a fit.
adjective
  1. (of a kitchen, bathroom, etc.) Incorporating all of the fittings into connected units.

gifted

verb
  1. To give as a gift or donation.
  2. To give away, to concede easily.
adjective
  1. Endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities.

gigged

verb
  1. To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
  2. To engage in musical performances.
  3. To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
  4. To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
verb
  1. To engender.

teddy

noun
  1. By extension, any stuffed toy.
  2. A type of all-in-one piece of women's underwear.
noun
  1. A plush toy in the shape of a bear.
  2. A lovable, endearing, large, strong, hairy, or sweet man

teed

verb
  1. To draw; lead.
  2. To draw away; go; proceed.
verb
  1. To place a ball on a tee

teff

noun
  1. A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
  2. The fine grain of this plant.

tide

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
  2. A stream, current or flood.
  3. (chronology, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
  4. A time.
  5. A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
  6. The period of twelve hours.
  7. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
  8. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
  9. Violent confluence
verb
  1. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  2. To pour a tide or flood.
  3. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To happen, occur.

tided

verb
  1. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  2. To pour a tide or flood.
  3. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
verb
  1. To happen, occur.
adjective
  1. Affected by the tide; having a tide.

tidied

verb
  1. To make tidy; to neaten.

tied

verb
  1. To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
  2. To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
  3. To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
  4. To secure (something) by string or the like.
  5. To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
  6. To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
  7. To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
  8. To believe; to credit.
  9. In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
adjective
  1. Closely connected or associated.
  2. Restricted.
  3. Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
  4. That resulted in a tie.
  5. Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
  6. Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.

yeti

noun
  1. An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas