Monday, May 26, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 120

Number of Answers: 25

Points Needed for Genius: 84

Genius requires between 11 and 23 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 97% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 59% of the remaining points to reach genius.

The button below will reveal a chart with the number of words by each letter. Red bars indicate that there is a pangram(s) starting with that letter.


How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 120 was in the 24th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on May 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 25 possible answers rank it in the 12th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on April 17, 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 an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on May 18, 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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Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 200
  • loll 195
  • toot 187
  • naan 172
  • nana 172
  • lilt 139
  • till 139
  • tilt 139
  • tint 136
  • nene 133
  • mama 130
  • mamma 130
  • acacia 123
  • acai 123
  • onto 123
  • toon 123
  • onion 119
  • anal 117
  • olio 115
  • anon 113
  • 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 98
  • loot 95


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 101,719 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,601 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*:

  • caca
  • cachaca
  • cachucha
  • caracara
  • carr
  • caudad
  • chadar
  • charr
  • charry
  • chay
  • chuddah
  • chuddar
  • churr
  • crura
  • cuddy
  • curara
  • curch
  • curr
  • currach
  • cycad
  • dyarchy
  • yucch
  • yuch

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

accuracy

noun
  1. The state of being accurate; being free from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; correctness
  2. Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.

achy

adjective
  1. Suffering from aches, sore.

arch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An inverted U shape.
  2. An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
  3. An architectural element having the shape of an arch
  4. Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
  5. An arc; a part of a curve.
  6. A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
  7. Curved part of the bottom of a foot.
verb
  1. To form into an arch shape
  2. To cover with an arch or arches.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A chief.
adjective
  1. Knowing, clever, mischievous.
  2. Principal; primary.

archduchy

No Definition Found.

caddy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. One hired to assist another in playing the game of golf.
verb
  1. To serve as a caddy, carrying golf clubs etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small box, can, or chest to keep things in.
  2. A movable tray or other mechanism for holding, securing, and transporting a removable component within a piece of machinery or equipment.

card

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A playing card.
  2. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
  3. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
  4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
  5. A map or chart.
  6. An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
  7. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
  8. A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
  9. A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
  10. A greeting card.
  11. A business card.
  12. Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
  13. A test card.
  14. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
  15. A printed programme.
  16. (by extension) An attraction or inducement.
  17. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
  18. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
  19. An indicator card.
verb
  1. To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
  2. To play cards.
  3. To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Material with embedded short wire bristles.
  2. A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
  3. A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
  4. A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  5. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
verb
  1. To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  2. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
  3. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
  4. To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
  5. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)
  2. Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
  3. Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
  4. (color) A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)
  5. Short for cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., zero, one, two, three). (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal number.)
  6. (grammar) Short for cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
  7. Short for cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
  8. Short for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
  9. (bow) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
  10. Mulled red wine.

carry

noun
  1. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
  2. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
  3. The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
  4. The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
  5. The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
  6. Carried interest.
  7. The sky; cloud-drift.
verb
  1. To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
  2. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
  3. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
  4. To move; to convey using force
  5. To lead or guide.
  6. To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
  7. To adopt (something); take (something) over.
  8. To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
  9. In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
  10. To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
  11. To be transmitted; to travel.
  12. To insult, to diss.
  13. To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
  14. To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
  15. To have on one's person.
  16. To be pregnant (with).
  17. To have propulsive power; to propel.
  18. To hold the head; said of a horse.
  19. To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
  20. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
  21. To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
  22. To get possession of by force; to capture.
  23. To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
  24. To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
  25. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
  26. To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
  27. To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.

chad

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
  2. One of these pieces of paper.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (pickup community) A very handsome, usually tall, man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group.

char

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A charred substance.
verb
  1. To burn something to charcoal.
  2. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
noun
  1. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A charred substance.
noun
  1. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A time; a turn or occasion.
  2. A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
  3. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
  4. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
verb
  1. To turn, especially away or aside.
  2. To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
  3. To perform; to do; to finish.
  4. To work or hew (stone, etc.).

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Tea, sometimes specifically masala chai
noun
  1. Synonym of Korean foot: a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 30.3 cm.

chard

noun
  1. An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.
  2. Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat.

chary

adverb
  1. In a chary manner.
adjective
  1. Careful, cautious, shy, wary.
  2. Excessively particular or fussy about details; fastidious.
  3. Not disposed to give freely; not lavish; frugal, sparing.
  4. Cared for, regarded as precious; cherished.

church

noun
  1. A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
  2. Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.
  3. A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
  4. A particular denomination of Christianity.
  5. (as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
  6. Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
  7. Any religious group.
  8. Assembly.
verb
  1. To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
  2. To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.

churchy

noun
  1. (mildly pejorative) one who is piously Christian
adjective
  1. Piously Christian.
  2. Resembling a church.
  3. Reminiscent of a church service.

churchyard

noun
  1. A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.

crud

noun
  1. Dirt, filth or refuse.
  2. (by extension) Something of poor quality.
  3. A contemptible person.
  4. Mixed impurities, especially wear and corrosion products in nuclear reactor coolant.
  5. A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to travel.
  6. Feces; excrement.
  7. Venereal disease, or (by extension) any disease.
  8. A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.
interjection
  1. Non-vulgar interjection expressing annoyance, anxiety, etc.; sugar, damn.

cruddy

No Definition Found.

curacy

noun
  1. The office or position of a curate

curd

noun
  1. The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
  2. The coagulated part of any liquid.
  3. The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.
verb
  1. To form curd; to curdle.
  2. To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.

curdy

No Definition Found.

curry

Etymology 1

noun
  1. One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.
  2. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.
  3. Curry powder.
verb
  1. To cook or season with curry powder.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
  2. To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
  3. To beat, thrash; to drub.
  4. To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To perform currying upon.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To scurry; to ride or run hastily
  2. To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
  3. To hurry.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
noun
  1. A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
  2. An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
  3. An object of search or pursuit.
noun
  1. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.

dacha

noun
  1. A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.

duchy

noun
  1. A dominion or region ruled by a duke or duchess. (A grand duchy may be a self-governing state. A simple duchy tends to be a part of a larger kingdom or empire.)

racy

adjective
  1. Mildly risqué.
  2. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.
  3. (by extension) Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
  4. Involving a data race or a race condition.

yuca

noun
  1. Cassava
  2. Cassava root

yucca

noun
  1. Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
  2. The yuca (cassava).