Wednesday, May 28, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 141

Number of Answers: 35

Points Needed for Genius: 99

Genius requires between 13 and 32 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 91% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 61% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 141 was in the 36th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on May 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 35 possible answers rank it in the 40th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on May 27, 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 May 27, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
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
  • dodo 109
  • baba 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 101,787 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,602 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*:

  • adbot
  • aoudad
  • ardour
  • audad
  • batard
  • burd
  • dada
  • dado
  • darb
  • darbar
  • dato
  • datto
  • datura
  • daut
  • doat
  • dobra
  • dobro
  • doob
  • doodoo
  • dorr
  • doura
  • dout
  • duad
  • dura
  • durbar
  • duro
  • durr
  • durra
  • odour
  • orad
  • ordo
  • outadd
  • rubboard
  • rudd
  • tardo
  • trad
  • turd

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

aboard

adverb
  1. On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
  2. On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
  3. On base.
  4. Into a team, group, or company.
  5. Alongside.
preposition
  1. On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
  2. Onto a horse.
  3. Across; athwart; alongside.

abroad

noun
  1. Countries or lands abroad.
adverb
  1. Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
  2. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
  3. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
  4. Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
  5. Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
  6. Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.
preposition
  1. Throughout, over.

adobo

noun
  1. A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic.
  2. A marinade.

ardor

noun
  1. Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
  2. Spirit; enthusiasm; passion.
  3. Intense heat.

bard

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
  2. (by extension) A poet.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
  2. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
  3. A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
  4. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
  5. Specifically, Peruvian bark.
verb
  1. To cover a horse in defensive armor.
  2. To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

baud

noun
  1. A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
  2. Bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.

board

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
  2. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
  3. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
  4. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
  5. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
  6. Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
  7. The side of a ship.
  8. The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
  9. The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
  10. A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
  11. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
  12. A level or stage having a particular layout.
  13. A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
verb
  1. To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
  2. To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
  3. To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
  4. To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
  5. To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
  6. To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
  7. To cover with boards or boarding.
  8. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
  9. To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A rebound.

brad

noun
  1. A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
  2. (elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
verb
  1. To attach using a brad.
  2. To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.

broad

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
  2. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
  3. A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
adjective
  1. Wide in extent or scope.
  2. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
  3. Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
  4. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
  5. Plain; evident.
  6. (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
  7. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
  8. Gross; coarse; indelicate.
  9. (of an accent) Strongly regional.
  10. (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
  2. (sometimes obsolete) A woman or girl.

brood

noun
  1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
  2. The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
  3. The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
  4. The children in one family; offspring.
  5. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
  6. Parentage.
  7. Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
verb
  1. To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
  2. To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
  3. (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
  4. To be bred.
adjective
  1. Kept or reared for breeding, said of animals.

dart

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin
  2. Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
  3. (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
  4. A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
  5. A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
  6. A plan or scheme.
  7. A sudden or fast movement.
  8. A fold that is stitched on a garment.
  9. A fish, the dace.
  10. A cigarette.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
  2. To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
  3. To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart
  4. To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
  5. To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along

dartboard

noun
  1. A board used as a target for throwing darts.

data

noun
  1. (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc.
  2. (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation.
  3. (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn.
  4. (plural: datums) A fixed reference point, or a coordinate system.

daub

noun
  1. Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
  2. A soft coating of mud, plaster etc.
  3. A crude or amateurish painting.
verb
  1. To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
  2. To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
  3. To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
  4. To flatter excessively or grossly.
  5. To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

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.

doodad

noun
  1. A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part.

door

noun
  1. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
  2. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
  3. (immigration) An entry point.
  4. A means of approach or access.
  5. A barrier.
  6. A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
verb
  1. To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

dorado

noun
  1. Coryphaena hippurus, the mahi-mahi or dolphin, a species of fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.

dotard

noun
  1. An old person with impaired intellect; one in his or her dotage.
  2. One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness.

doubt

noun
  1. Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
  2. A point of uncertainty; a query.
verb
  1. To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
  2. To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
  3. To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
  4. To fill with fear; to affright.
  5. To dread, to fear.

dour

adjective
  1. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
  2. Unyielding and obstinate.
  3. Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

drab

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drat

verb
  1. To damn or curse.
interjection
  1. Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration.

drub

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
  2. To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
  3. To forcefully teach something.
  4. To criticize harshly; to excoriate.

odor

noun
  1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
  2. A strong, pervasive quality.
  3. Esteem.
  4. Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.

outboard

noun
  1. An outboard motor.
  2. A vessel fitted with an outboard motor.
  3. A studio having outboard gear (compressor, equalizer, etc.).
adjective
  1. Situated outside the hull of a vessel.
  2. Positioned away from the centre line of a ship or aircraft.
  3. Being or relating to an external effects unit such as compressor or equalizer.

outdo

verb
  1. To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.

outdoor

verb
  1. (in some African communities) To publicly display a child after it has been named
adjective
  1. Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
  2. Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution.

radar

noun
  1. A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces
  2. A type of system using such method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.
  3. An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus.
  4. A superior ability to detect something.
verb
  1. To scan with radar, or as if with radar.

road

noun
  1. A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
  2. A road; or particularly a car, as a means of transportation.
  3. A path chosen in life or career.
  4. An underground tunnel in a mine.
  5. A railway or a single railway track.
  6. The act of riding on horseback.
  7. A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
  8. (often in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
  9. A journey, or stage of a journey.
  10. A way or route.
adjective
  1. At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.
  2. (Slang) Having attributes, primarily masculine, suggesting a tendency towards minor crime. Usually used by youths endearingly; glorifying crime.

rood

noun
  1. A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
  2. A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
  3. A measure of five and a half yards in length.

tabard

noun
  1. A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet.
  2. A woman's or girl's sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment.
  3. A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people.
  4. A cape or tunic worn by a knight, emblazoned with the coat of arms of his king or queen on the front.
  5. A similar garment officially worn by a herald and emblazoned with his sovereign's coat of arms.

toad

noun
  1. An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
  2. A contemptible or unpleasant person.
  3. An ugly person.
verb
  1. To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted.

trod

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
  2. To step or walk upon.
  3. To beat or press with the feet.
  4. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
  5. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
  6. To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
  7. (of a male bird) To copulate with.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A track or pathway.

troubadour

noun
  1. An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.