Friday, May 30, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 268

Number of Answers: 51

Points Needed for Genius: 188

Genius requires between 27 and 43 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 268 was in the 88th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on May 24, 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 May 25, 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 29, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.8.
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 131
  • mamma 131
  • acacia 123
  • acai 123
  • onto 123
  • toon 123
  • onion 120
  • 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
  • mitt 104
  • ratatat 104
  • tart 104
  • tartar 104
  • attar 103
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • tatty 103
  • allay 101
  • ally 101
  • tattoo 101
  • tutu 101
  • ammo 100
  • cocci 100
  • momma 100
  • epee 99
  • peep 99
  • loon 98
  • loot 95


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 101,887 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,605 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*:

  • beedi
  • benni
  • bibb
  • bibbed
  • bibe
  • bice
  • bidden
  • bidi
  • bine
  • boccie
  • bonnie
  • boobie
  • cebid
  • ceboid
  • cedi
  • cine
  • cion
  • coccic
  • coccid
  • coccoid
  • codein
  • coni
  • coniine
  • conin
  • conine
  • conoid
  • deni
  • dibbed
  • didie
  • dido
  • diene
  • dinned
  • dobbin
  • dobie
  • edenic
  • eide
  • indene
  • inion
  • inned
  • iodic
  • iodid
  • iodin
  • ionone
  • nibbed
  • nide
  • nided
  • nidi
  • ninon
  • niobic
  • nodi
  • noncoincidence
  • nonionic
  • obconic
  • odic
  • oidioid

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

bide

verb
  1. To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
  2. To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
  3. To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
  4. To wait for; to await.

bided

verb
  1. To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
  2. To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
  3. To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
  4. To wait for; to await.

bind

noun
  1. That which binds or ties.
  2. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
  3. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
  4. A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
  5. A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.
  6. The indurated clay of coal mines.
verb
  1. To tie; to confine by any ligature.
  2. To cohere or stick together in a mass.
  3. To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
  4. To exert a binding or restraining influence.
  5. To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
  6. To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
  7. To couple.
  8. To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
  9. To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
  10. To place under legal obligation to serve.
  11. To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
  12. To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
  13. To cover, as with a bandage.
  14. To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.
  15. To put together in a cover, as of books.
  16. To make two or more elements stick together.
  17. To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
  18. To complain; to whine about something.

bindi

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of married Hindu women.
  2. Makeup or jewellery worn in imitation of such a dot.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The common lawn weed, Soliva sessilis, introduced to Australia from South America.
  2. A seed of this plant, having small sharp spines which stick painfully into bare feet.
  3. Any of a number of plants of the genus Calotis which have small burrs with fine barbed awns.
  4. Any of a various plants of the genus Sclerolaena.

binned

verb
  1. To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
  2. To throw away, reject, give up.
  3. To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  4. To place into a bin for storage.

biocide

noun
  1. Any action or substance that can destroy living organisms.

bionic

adjective
  1. Related to bionics.
  2. Of a biological organism, having been enhanced by electronic or mechanical parts; cyborg.
  3. Superhuman

bobbin

noun
  1. A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
  2. In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
  3. The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
  4. (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.

bocci

noun
  1. A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court
  2. One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce.

bodice

noun
  1. A sleeveless shirt for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.
  2. Blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or European folk costume.
  3. The upper portion of a women's one-piece dress, equivalent to a shirt.
  4. Underbodice: an undershirt for women, particularly a corset or other undershirt stiffened with whalebone.

bodied

adjective
  1. (in combination) Having a specified form of body.
  2. Having a bodily form; corporeal or incarnate.
verb
  1. To give body or shape to something.
  2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
  3. To embody.
  4. To murder someone.
  5. (by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
  6. To hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.

cocci

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any approximately spherical bacterium.
  2. One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Coccidioidomycosis

codeine

noun
  1. An addictive alkaloid narcotic derived from opium and used as a hypnotic, analgesic and cough suppressant; often mixed with aspirin etc.

coin

noun
  1. (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
  2. A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
  3. That which serves for payment or recompense.
  4. Money in general, not limited to coins.
  5. One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
  6. A corner or external angle.
  7. A small circular slice of food.
  8. A cryptocurrency.
verb
  1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
  2. (by extension) To make or fabricate.
  3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

coincide

verb
  1. To occupy exactly the same space.
  2. To occur at the same time.
  3. To correspond, concur, or agree.

coincided

verb
  1. To occupy exactly the same space.
  2. To occur at the same time.
  3. To correspond, concur, or agree.

coincidence

noun
  1. Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.
  2. Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection when there is none.
  3. A coincidence point.
  4. A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.

coined

verb
  1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
  2. (by extension) To make or fabricate.
  3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

conic

noun
  1. A conic section.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to a cone or cones.
  2. Shaped like a cone.
  3. Describing a map projection in which meridians are mapped to equally spaced lines radiating out from the apex and parallels of latitude are mapped to circular arcs centred on the apex.

decide

verb
  1. To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle
  2. To make a judgment, especially after deliberation
  3. To cause someone to come to a decision
  4. To cut off; to separate

decided

verb
  1. To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle
  2. To make a judgment, especially after deliberation
  3. To cause someone to come to a decision
  4. To cut off; to separate
adjective
  1. Determined; resolute
  2. Clear; unmistakable

deice

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deiced

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deicide

noun
  1. The killing of a god or goddess; godslaughter.
  2. The killer of a god or goddess.
  3. The crucifixion of Jesus viewed as a crime.

denied

verb
  1. To disallow or reject.
  2. To assert that something is not true.
  3. (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
  4. To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
  5. To prevent from scoring.
  6. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
  7. To refuse (to do or accept something).

dice

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Gaming with one or more dice.
  2. A die.
  3. That which has been diced.
verb
  1. To play dice.
  2. To cut into small cubes.
  3. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
  2. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
  3. (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

diced

verb
  1. To play dice.
  2. To cut into small cubes.
  3. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

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.

dine

noun
  1. Dinnertime
verb
  1. To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
  3. To dine upon; to have to eat.

dined

verb
  1. To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
  3. To dine upon; to have to eat.

dino

noun
  1. Dinosaur.

diode

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

doobie

noun
  1. A marijuana cigarette.

ecocide

noun
  1. The complete destruction of an ecosystem due to human activities. It may result from exploitation of resources, nuclear warfare, or the dumping of harmful chemicals.

eddied

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

iced

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. With ice added.
  2. Very cold, but not necessarily containing ice.
  3. Covered with icing.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cool with ice, as a beverage.
  2. To become ice; to freeze.
  3. To make icy; to freeze.
  4. To murder.
  5. To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
  6. To put out a team for a match.
  7. To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

icon

noun
  1. An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
  2. (especially Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
  3. (by extension) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
  4. A small picture that represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
  5. A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.

iconic

adjective
  1. Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.
  2. Famously and distinctively representative of its type.
  3. Representing something; symbolic.

incidence

noun
  1. The act of something happening; occurrence.
  2. The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.
  3. The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.
  4. The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.
  5. A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.
  6. The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.

indeed

adverb
  1. (modal) Truly; in fact; actually.
  2. (degree, after the adjective modified) In fact.
interjection
  1. Indicates emphatic agreement.
  2. With interrogative intonation (low-high) indicates serious doubt.

indie

noun
  1. An independent publisher.
  2. A work released by an independent publisher.
  3. A type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic.
  4. A person who listens to indie music and follows indie fashion.
adjective
  1. Independent; from outside the mainstream.

innocence

noun
  1. Absence of responsibility for a crime, tort, etc.
  2. Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.
  3. Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
  4. Imbecility; mental deficiency.

iodide

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

iodine

noun
  1. A chemical element (symbol: I) with an atomic number of 53; one of the halogens.
  2. An antiseptic incorporating the element.
  3. An iodide.
verb
  1. To treat with iodine.

ionic

adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or containing ions

nice

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Niceness.
adjective
  1. Pleasant, satisfactory.
  2. Of a person: friendly, attractive.
  3. Respectable; virtuous.
  4. (with and) Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.
  5. Silly, ignorant; foolish.
  6. Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.
  7. Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.
  8. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
  9. Easily injured; delicate; dainty.
  10. Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.
adverb
  1. Nicely.
interjection
  1. Used to signify a job well done.
  2. Used to signify approval.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

niece

noun
  1. A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").

nine

noun
  1. The digit or figure 9.
  2. A playing card with nine pips.
  3. A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
  4. (usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
  5. A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
numeral
  1. A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
  2. Describing a group or set with nine elements.

obedience

noun
  1. The quality of being obedient.
  2. The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
  3. A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
  4. Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.

onion

noun
  1. A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
  2. The bulb of such a plant.
  3. The genus as a whole.
  4. A ball.
  5. A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

innie

noun
  1. A navel that is formed of a hollow in the abdomen (as opposed to one that protrudes from the abdomen).
  2. A vagina with inner labia minora