Friday, May 23, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 320

Number of Answers: 69

Points Needed for Genius: 224

Genius requires between 36 and 57 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 73% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 69% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 320 was in the 96th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on May 3, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 69 possible answers rank it in the 98th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on May 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 May 21, 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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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 199
  • loll 195
  • toot 187
  • naan 171
  • nana 171
  • lilt 139
  • till 139
  • tilt 139
  • tint 136
  • nene 131
  • mama 130
  • mamma 130
  • acacia 123
  • acai 123
  • onto 123
  • toon 123
  • onion 119
  • anal 116
  • olio 115
  • anon 112
  • boob 112
  • booboo 112
  • baba 108
  • dodo 108
  • papa 108
  • tact 108
  • poop 107
  • lull 105
  • lulu 105
  • call 104
  • calla 104
  • ratatat 104
  • tart 104
  • tartar 104
  • attar 103
  • mitt 103
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • tatty 103
  • allay 101
  • ally 101
  • tattoo 101
  • tutu 101
  • ammo 100
  • momma 100
  • cocci 99
  • epee 99
  • peep 99
  • loon 97
  • loot 95


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 101,586 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,596 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*:

  • dido
  • dildoe
  • diol
  • doddle
  • dogey
  • dogy
  • doiled
  • doilied
  • doodoo
  • doody
  • doolee
  • doolie
  • dooly
  • doyley
  • doyly
  • eddo
  • glogg
  • godded
  • godlily
  • gogo
  • goldeye
  • goolie
  • gooly
  • iodid
  • lido
  • lilo
  • loggie
  • loggy
  • logily
  • logoed
  • logoi
  • loid
  • loided
  • lolly
  • looed
  • looey
  • looie
  • odyl
  • odyle
  • ogeed
  • oidioid
  • oilily
  • olde
  • oldy
  • ollied
  • ology
  • oology
  • yodelled
  • yodle
  • yodled
  • yogee

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

dildo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use.
  2. An idiot, a bore.
  3. A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii).
verb
  1. To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.

diode

noun
  1. An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.

dodge

noun
  1. An act of dodging.
  2. A trick, evasion or wile.
  3. A line of work.
verb
  1. To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
  2. To avoid; to sidestep.
  3. To go hither and thither.
  4. (videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
  5. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  6. To trick somebody.
adjective
  1. Dodgy

dodged

verb
  1. To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
  2. To avoid; to sidestep.
  3. To go hither and thither.
  4. (videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
  5. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  6. To trick somebody.

dodgy

adjective
  1. Evasive and shifty
  2. Unsound and unreliable
  3. Dishonest
  4. Risky
  5. Deviant
  6. Uncomfortable and weird

dodo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
  2. A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Fried plantain.

doge

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A dog.
  2. Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.

dogged

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To pursue with the intent to catch.
  2. To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
  3. To fasten a hatch securely.
  4. To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
  5. To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
  6. To criticize.
  7. To divide (a watch) with a comrade.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Stubbornly persevering, steadfast
adverb
  1. Very

doggedly

adverb
  1. In a way that is stubbornly persistent.
  2. Sullenly, gloomily

doggie

noun
  1. A dog, especially a small one.
  2. Doggy style
  3. (armed services) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer.

doggo

noun
  1. A dog.

doggy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A dog, especially a small one.
  2. Doggy style
  3. (armed services) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Suggestive of or in the manner of a dog.
  2. Fond of dogs.

dogie

noun
  1. A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.

dogleg

noun
  1. A sharp bend in the fairway (before the hole)
  2. A configuration of stairs where a flight ascends to a half landing before turning 180 degrees and continuing upwards.
  3. A sharp bend in a canyon or ravine.
verb
  1. To bend in the shape of the hind leg of a dog, especially to turn and then turn back in original direction, such as down, right, down.

doglegged

No Definition Found.

doily

noun
  1. A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food.
  2. An old kind of woollen material.

dole

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Money or other goods given as charity.
  2. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
  3. Payment by the state to the unemployed.
  4. A boundary; a landmark.
  5. A void space left in tillage.
verb
  1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Sorrow or grief; dolour.
  2. Dolus.

doled

verb
  1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

doll

noun
  1. A toy in the form of a human.
  2. (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman
  3. A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
  4. A dollar.
  5. (now possibly offensive) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.
  6. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.

dolled

No Definition Found.

dollied

verb
  1. To hit a dolly.
  2. To move (an object) using a dolly.
  3. To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly.
  4. To beat (red-hot metal) with a hammer.
  5. To crush ore with a dolly.

dolly

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A doll.
  2. A contrivance for stirring:
  3. A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
  4. In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
  5. A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
  6. A small truck without means of steering, to be slipped under a load.
  7. A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
  8. A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.
  9. A young woman, especially one who is frivolous or vapid.
  10. A fashionable young woman, one who follows the latest music or clothing fashions.
  11. A ball hit by a batsman such that it goes gently to a fielder for a simple catch.
  12. A marker placed on the winning number by the dealer at roulette.
verb
  1. To hit a dolly.
  2. To move (an object) using a dolly.
  3. To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly.
  4. To beat (red-hot metal) with a hammer.
  5. To crush ore with a dolly.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Pretty; attractive.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An offering of fruit or flowers.

doodle

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
  2. A small mindless sketch, etc.
  3. (sometimes childish) Penis.
verb
  1. To draw or scribble aimlessly.
  2. To drone like a bagpipe.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.

doodled

verb
  1. To draw or scribble aimlessly.
  2. To drone like a bagpipe.

geode

noun
  1. A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall.

geoid

noun
  1. (geodesy) The shape that the surface of the oceans of the Earth would take under the influence of the Earth's gravity and rotation alone, extending also through the continents, disregarding other factors such as winds and tides; that is, a surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation.

geology

noun
  1. The science that studies the structure of the earth (or other planets), together with its origin and development, especially by examination of its rocks.
  2. The geological structure of a region.

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.

godly

adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a god
  2. Devoted to a god or God; devout; righteous.
  3. Gloriously good.
adverb
  1. In a godly manner; piously; devoutly; righteously.

goggle

noun
  1. A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye.
  2. (in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses.
verb
  1. To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
  2. To roll the eyes.

goggled

verb
  1. To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
  2. To roll the eyes.
adjective
  1. Wearing goggles.
  2. Prominent; staring

goggly

No Definition Found.

gold

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
  2. A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.
  3. A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
  4. The bullseye of an archery target.
  5. A gold medal.
  6. Anything or anyone that is very valuable.
  7. (in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.
verb
  1. To pyrolyze or burn food until the color begins to change to a light brown, but not as dark as browning
adjective
  1. Made of gold.
  2. Having the colour of gold.
  3. (of commercial services) Premium, superior.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. (of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
adverb
  1. Of or referring to a gold version of something

golly

Etymology 1

interjection
  1. God!

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel.
  2. (racist) A black person.
  3. A hairy caterpillar.
  4. A receiver of stolen goods.
  5. Greyhound racing: the jolly dogs.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A galosh.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. (juvenile) Chewing gum.
  2. (juvenile) Saliva or phlegm.
verb
  1. (juvenile) To spit; to force up phlegm from one's throat.

good

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. (of people)
  2. (of capabilities)
  3. (properties and qualities)
  4. (when with and) Very, extremely. See good and.
  5. Holy (especially when capitalized) .
  6. (of quantities)
interjection
  1. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
  2. A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
  3. The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
  4. (usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
  2. To make good; turn to good; improve.
  3. To make improvements or repairs.
  4. To benefit; gain.
  5. To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
  6. To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
  7. To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

goodie

noun
  1. A good character in a story, often a hero.
interjection
  1. Expression of pleasure; yippee.

goodly

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Good; pleasing in appearance; attractive; comely; graceful; pleasant; desirable.
  2. Quite large; considerable; sufficient; adequate; more than enough.

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. In a goodly way; courteously, graciously.
  2. Well; excellently.

goody

noun
  1. A good character in a story, often a hero.
noun
  1. A small amount of something good to eat.
  2. Any small, usually free, item.
  3. Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
  4. Goodwife, a 17th-century puritan honorific.
  5. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
adjective
  1. Mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious.

gooey

adjective
  1. Of or relating to goo
  2. Soft, sticky and viscous

google

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To deliver googlies.
  2. To move as a ball in a googly.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An Internet search, such as those performed on the Google search engine.
  2. A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
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.

googled

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.

googly

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. (of the eyes) Bulging.
  2. (usually of eyes, sometimes of persons) Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious.

googol

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

ideology

noun
  1. Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
  2. The study of the origin and nature of ideas.

idol

noun
  1. A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
  2. A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
  3. (originally Japan) Popular entertainer; usually young, captivating, attractive; and often female, with an image of being close to fans.
  4. An eidolon or phantom; something misleading or elusive.

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.

iodide

noun
  1. A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical.

lode

noun
  1. A way or path; a road.
  2. A watercourse.
  3. A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
  4. (by extension) A rich source of supply.

lodge

noun
  1. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
  2. Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially as a college mailroom.
  3. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
  4. A local chapter of a trade union.
  5. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
  6. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
  7. A den or cave.
  8. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
  9. The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
  10. A collection of objects lodged together.
  11. An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
verb
  1. To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
  2. To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
  3. To stay in any place or shelter.
  4. To drive (an animal) to covert.
  5. To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  6. To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  7. To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  8. To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
  9. To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.

lodged

verb
  1. To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
  2. To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
  3. To stay in any place or shelter.
  4. To drive (an animal) to covert.
  5. To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  6. To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  7. To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  8. To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
  9. To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
adjective
  1. Lying down; used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is used of beasts of prey.

loge

noun
  1. A booth or stall.
  2. The lodge of a concierge.
  3. An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
  4. An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.

logged

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.

logy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Slow to respond or react; lethargic.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A term formed with the -logy suffix.

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.

lolled

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.

oddly

adverb
  1. In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.
  2. In a manner measured by an odd number.

ogee

noun
  1. A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape
  2. A pointed arch made from two ogees
  3. An inflection point.
  4. (aesthetic facial surgery) The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow.
  5. (distillation) The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.

ogle

noun
  1. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
  2. (usually in the plural) An eye.
verb
  1. To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.

ogled

verb
  1. To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.

oiled

verb
  1. To lubricate with oil.
  2. To grease with oil for cooking.
adjective
  1. Covered in, or supplied with, oil.
  2. Drunk. Usually in conjunction with well.

oily

noun
  1. A marble with an oily lustre.
  2. (in the plural) Oilskins. (waterproof garment)
adjective
  1. Relating to or resembling oil.
  2. Covered with or containing oil.
  3. Excessively friendly or polite but insincere.

oldie

noun
  1. Something or someone old.
  2. A song or record from a previous era.
  3. (in the plural) The genre of music composed of popular music from previous eras.

oleo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Margarine

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.

ollie

noun
  1. An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.
verb
  1. To perform an ollie.

yodel

noun
  1. A song incorporating yodelling.
verb
  1. To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.

yodeled

verb
  1. To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.

yogi

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A devotee or adherent of yoga.
verb
  1. To turn (someone) into a yogi; to lead into practicing yoga.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. (thru-hiker slang) To persuade someone to give you food or other favors without actually begging.