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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 169

Number of Answers: 40

Points Needed for Genius: 118

Genius requires between 18 and 35 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% 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 169 was in the 50th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on May 31, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 40 possible answers rank it in the 52nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on May 31, 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 31, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
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 196
  • toot 187
  • naan 172
  • nana 172
  • lilt 139
  • till 139
  • tilt 139
  • tint 136
  • nene 133
  • mama 132
  • mamma 132
  • 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 102
  • ally 102
  • ammo 101
  • momma 101
  • tattoo 101
  • tutu 101
  • cocci 100
  • epee 99
  • peep 99
  • loon 98
  • loot 95


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 101,989 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*:

  • amort
  • armyworm
  • arrowworm
  • atma
  • atomy
  • maar
  • mammy
  • mara
  • marram
  • marrowy
  • martyry
  • matt
  • maya
  • moorwort
  • moory
  • mora
  • moratory
  • morro
  • mort
  • mortary
  • motmot
  • mott
  • myoma
  • myomata
  • rammy
  • rootworm
  • tamarao
  • tammy
  • tarama
  • tommy
  • toom
  • tryma
  • trymata
  • wormroot

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

amatory

adjective
  1. Of or relating to love, especially sexual love.

ammo

noun
  1. Ammunition.
verb
  1. To load up on ammunition.

armor

noun
  1. A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
  2. A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
  3. Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
  4. A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
  5. A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
  6. The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.
verb
  1. To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
  2. To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

armory

noun
  1. Heraldry
  2. A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
  3. A collection of weapons and materiel.
  4. A place where arms are made.

army

noun
  1. A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
  2. The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.
  3. A large group of people working toward the same purpose.
  4. A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.
  5. Any multitude.

aroma

noun
  1. A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.

atom

noun
  1. The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
  2. (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.
  3. The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
  4. In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.
  5. The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
  6. A mote of dust in a sunbeam.
  7. A very small amount; a whit.
  8. (Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.
  9. A non-zero member of a Boolean algebra that is not a union of any other elements. Or, a non-zero member of a Boolean lattice that has only zero below it.
  10. An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement.
  11. (usually capitalised as "Atom") A member of an age group division in hockey for ten- to 11-year-olds.

mama

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mamma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
  2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mammary

noun
  1. A mamma (milk-secreting organ of a woman or a female animal).
adjective
  1. Of or relating to mamma or breast (of a woman or a female animal).

marmot

noun
  1. Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.

marrow

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
  2. A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash.
  3. The pith of certain plants.
  4. The essence; the best part.
  5. The inner meaning or purpose.
  6. Bone marrow biopsy.
  7. Semen.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
  2. One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.

marry

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
  2. (in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom.
  3. To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
  4. To take as husband or wife.
  5. To unite; to join together into a close union.
  6. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
  7. To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
  8. To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. Indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.

mart

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A market.
  2. A bargain.
verb
  1. To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
  2. To traffic.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque.
  2. A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model).
  3. A ship commissioned for making captures.
noun
  1. Battle; contest.

martyr

noun
  1. One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.
  2. (by extension) One who sacrifices his or her life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
  3. (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.
verb
  1. To make someone into a martyr by putting him or her to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
  2. To persecute.
  3. To torment; to torture.

mayo

noun
  1. A white person.
noun
  1. A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc.
  2. Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient.
  3. Any cream, for example for moisturizing the face or conditioning the hair, for which the base is egg yolks and oil.

mayor

noun
  1. The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, &c., formerly usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.
  2. Short for mayor of the palace, the royal stewards of the Frankish Empire.
  3. Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland.
  4. A member of a city council.
  5. A high justice, an important judge.
  6. A largely ceremonial position in some municipal governments that presides over the city council while a contracted city manager holds actual executive power.
  7. A local VIP, a muckamuck or big shot reckoned to lead some local group.

moat

noun
  1. A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
  2. An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.
  3. A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
  4. A hill or mound.
verb
  1. To surround with a moat.

momma

noun
  1. Mother
  2. A voluptuous woman.
  3. One's wife or girlfriend.

mommy

noun
  1. (usually childish) Mother.
verb
  1. To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone.
adjective
  1. (chiefly in the superlative) Characteristic of a mother; motherly.

moor

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
  2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cast anchor or become fastened.
  2. To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like
  3. To secure or fix firmly.

moot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moot court.
  2. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
  3. A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  4. A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  5. An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
  6. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
adjective
  1. Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  2. Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  3. Having no practical impact or relevance.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
  2. (rural) Talk.
verb
  1. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  2. To discuss or debate.
  3. To make or declare irrelevant.
  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  5. To talk or speak.
  6. To say, utter, also insinuate.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Vagina.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
verb
  1. To take root and begin to grow.
  2. To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout.

moray

noun
  1. Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.

morrow

noun
  1. The next or following day.
  2. Morning.
verb
  1. To dawn

mortar

noun
  1. A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
  2. A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
  3. A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
verb
  1. To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
  2. To pound in a mortar.
  3. To fire a mortar (weapon).

motor

noun
  1. A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
  2. A motor car, or automobile.
  3. A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force.
  4. Any protein capable of converting chemical energy into mechanical work.
  5. The controller or prime mover of the universe; God.
  6. The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
verb
  1. To make a journey by motor vehicle; to drive.
  2. To move at a brisk pace.
  3. To leave.
adjective
  1. Relating to the ability to move
  2. Relating to motor cars
  3. Propelled by an internal combustion engine (as opposed to a steam engine or turbine).

motorway

noun
  1. (parts of Australia) A broad highway designed for high speed traffic, having restrictions on the vehicle types permitted and merging lanes instead of cross traffic; in parts of the United States and other places called freeway.

motto

noun
  1. A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
  2. A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
  3. A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

roam

verb
  1. To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
  2. To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
  3. To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
  4. To range or wander over.

room

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Opportunity or scope (to do something).
  2. Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
  3. A particular portion of space.
  4. Sufficient space for or to do something.
  5. A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
  6. Place; stead.
  7. A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
  8. (with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
  9. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
  10. (always in the singular, metonymy) The people in a room.
  11. An area for working in a coal mine.
  12. A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
  13. A IRC or chat room.
  14. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
  15. Furniture sufficient to furnish a room.
verb
  1. To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
  2. To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Wide; spacious; roomy.

Etymology 3

adverb
  1. Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
  2. Off from the wind.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A deep blue dye.

roomy

noun
  1. A roommate.
adjective
  1. Spacious, expansive, comfortable.

tomato

noun
  1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
  2. The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.
  3. A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
  4. A desirable-looking woman.
  5. A stupid act or person.
verb
  1. To pelt with tomatoes
  2. To add tomatoes to (a dish)

tommyrot

noun
  1. Nonsense, rot.

tomorrow

noun
  1. The day after the present day.
adverb
  1. On the day after the present day.
  2. At some point in the future; later on
  3. (possibly obsolete) On next (period of time other than a day, such as a week or a month), following the present (period of time).
  4. On the next day (following some date in the past).

tram

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America).
  2. A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
  3. A people mover.
  4. An aerial cable car.
  5. A train with wheels that runs on a road; a trackless train.
  6. A car on a horse railway or tramway (horse trams preceded electric trams).
  7. The shaft of a cart.
  8. One of the rails of a tramway.
verb
  1. To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway.
  2. To travel by tram.
  3. To transport (material) by tram.
  4. To align a component in mechanical engineering or metalworking, particularly the head of a drill press.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

tramway

noun
  1. The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs.
  2. The system of cables that supports a cable car.

warm

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
  2. Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
  3. Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
  4. Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
  5. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
  6. Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness
  7. Ardent, zealous.
  8. Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
  9. Requiring arduous effort.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
verb
  1. To make or keep warm.
  2. To become warm, to heat up.
  3. To favour increasingly.
  4. To become ardent or animated.
  5. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
  6. To beat or spank.

worm

noun
  1. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
  2. More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
  3. A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent.
  4. Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
  5. A contemptible or devious being.
  6. A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
  7. A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
  8. Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
  9. Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
  10. An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
  11. A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
  12. The lytta.
  13. (preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
verb
  1. To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
  2. To move with one's body dragging the ground.
  3. To work one's way by artful or devious means.
  4. To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
  5. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out.
  6. (in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
  7. To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
  8. To deworm (an animal).
  9. To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
  10. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

wormy

adjective
  1. Of or like a worm or worms; shaped like a worm or worms.
  2. Infested with worms.

marm

noun
  1. Madam; a polite term of address for a lady.