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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 256

Number of Answers: 45

Points Needed for Genius: 179

Genius requires between 23 and 38 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 80% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 256 was in the 85th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on June 5, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 45 possible answers rank it in the 65th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on June 5, 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 June 5, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.0.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 200
  • loll 197
  • 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 116
  • anon 113
  • boob 112
  • booboo 112
  • dodo 109
  • baba 108
  • papa 108
  • poop 108
  • tact 108
  • lull 106
  • lulu 106
  • ratatat 105
  • tart 105
  • tartar 105
  • attar 104
  • call 104
  • calla 104
  • mitt 104
  • tatty 104
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • allay 102
  • ally 102
  • ammo 101
  • cocci 101
  • momma 101
  • tattoo 101
  • tutu 101
  • epee 99
  • peep 99
  • loon 98
  • roar 96


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 102,269 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,620 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*:

  • alow
  • awol
  • gnawn
  • golliwog
  • golliwogg
  • gowan
  • inwall
  • inwalling
  • lawing
  • lawning
  • lown
  • nonwinning
  • nonwool
  • waggon
  • waggoning
  • wagoning
  • wain
  • wali
  • waling
  • walla
  • wangan
  • wanigan
  • wanion
  • wannigan
  • wanning
  • wawl
  • wawling
  • wigan
  • wiling
  • williwaw
  • willowing
  • wonning

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

aglow

adjective
  1. (sometimes figurative) glowing; radiant

allow

verb
  1. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
  2. To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
  3. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
  4. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
  5. To not bar or obstruct.
  6. To acknowledge or concede.
  7. To take into account by making an allowance.
  8. To render physically possible.
  9. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
  10. To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
  11. To like; to be suited or pleased with.

allowing

verb
  1. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
  2. To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
  3. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
  4. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
  5. To not bar or obstruct.
  6. To acknowledge or concede.
  7. To take into account by making an allowance.
  8. To render physically possible.
  9. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
  10. To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
  11. To like; to be suited or pleased with.

awing

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. On the wing; flying; fluttering.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To inspire fear and reverence in.
  2. To control by inspiring dread.

awning

noun
  1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
  2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

glow

noun
  1. The state of a glowing object.
  2. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
  3. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
verb
  1. To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
  2. To radiate some emotional quality like light.
  3. To gaze especially passionately at something.
  4. To radiate thermal heat.
  5. To shine brightly and steadily.
  6. To make hot; to flush.
  7. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

glowing

verb
  1. To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
  2. To radiate some emotional quality like light.
  3. To gaze especially passionately at something.
  4. To radiate thermal heat.
  5. To shine brightly and steadily.
  6. To make hot; to flush.
  7. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
noun
  1. The action of the verb glow.
adjective
  1. That glows or glow.
  2. Full of praise.

gnaw

verb
  1. To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
  2. To produce excessive anxiety or worry.
  3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

gnawing

verb
  1. To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
  2. To produce excessive anxiety or worry.
  3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
noun
  1. The process by which something is gnawed.
  2. A sensation of being gnawed.
adjective
  1. (of pain or hunger) severe or intense

gown

noun
  1. A loose, flowing upper garment.
  2. A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
  3. The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
  4. (by metonymy) The university community.
  5. A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
  6. Any sort of dress or garb.
  7. The robe worn by a surgeon.
verb
  1. To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

gowning

verb
  1. To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

lawn

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An open space between woods.
  2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
  3. An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A type of thin linen or cotton.
  2. (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
  3. A piece of clothing made from lawn.

lowing

verb
  1. To depress; to lower.
verb
  1. To moo.
verb
  1. To burn; to blaze.
noun
  1. The sound of something that lows.

owing

verb
  1. To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
  2. To have debt; to be in debt.
adjective
  1. Still to be paid; owed as a debt.

owning

verb
  1. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
  2. To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
  3. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
  4. To virtually or figuratively enslave.
  5. To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
  6. To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
verb
  1. To grant; give.
  2. To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
  3. To admit; concede; acknowledge.
  4. To take responsibility for.
  5. To answer to.
  6. To recognise; acknowledge.
  7. To claim as one's own.
  8. To confess.

wagging

verb
  1. To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief.
  2. To play truant from school.
  3. To be in action or motion; to move; progress.
  4. To go; to depart.
noun
  1. The motion of something that is wagged.

waggling

verb
  1. To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.
  2. To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
noun
  1. The act of something being waggled.

waging

verb
  1. To wager, bet.
  2. To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
  3. To employ for wages; to hire.
  4. To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
  5. To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
  6. To give security for the performance of.

wagon

noun
  1. A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
  2. A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
  3. An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck.
  4. An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan.
  5. Short for dinner wagon.
  6. Short for paddy wagon.
  7. A freight car on a railway.
  8. Short for station wagon; (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
  9. A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.
  10. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
verb
  1. To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
  2. To travel in a wagon.

wail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
  2. Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.
  3. A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.
verb
  1. To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
  2. To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
  3. To make a noise like mourning or crying.
  4. To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.
  5. To perform with great liveliness and force.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.
  2. To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.
verb
  1. To choose, select.

wailing

verb
  1. To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
  2. To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
  3. To make a noise like mourning or crying.
  4. To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.
  5. To perform with great liveliness and force.
noun
  1. A loud drawn out scream or howl.
verb
  1. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.
  2. To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.
verb
  1. To choose, select.

wall

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
  2. A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
  3. Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
  4. A point of desperation.
  5. A point of defeat or extinction.
  6. An impediment to free movement.
  7. A type of butterfly (Lasiommata megera).
  8. (often in combination) A barrier.
  9. A barrier to vision.
  10. Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
  11. A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
  12. (auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
  13. A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
  14. A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
  15. A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
verb
  1. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To boil.
  2. To well, as water; spring.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spring of water.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
verb
  1. To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).

Etymology 5

interjection
  1. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
  2. An exclamation of surprise (often doubled or tripled).
  3. An exclamation of indignance.
  4. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
  5. Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
  6. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting

walling

verb
  1. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
verb
  1. To boil.
  2. To well, as water; spring.
verb
  1. To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
noun
  1. A group of walls.
  2. Material used for walls.
  3. A method of torture in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, which is then used to slam the person against a wall.

wallow

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An instance of wallowing.
  2. A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
  3. A kind of rolling walk.
verb
  1. To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
  2. To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
  3. To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
  4. To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
  5. To wither; to fade.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tasteless, flat.

wallowing

verb
  1. To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
  2. To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
  3. To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
  4. To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
  5. To wither; to fade.
noun
  1. The act of one who wallows.

wangling

verb
  1. To obtain through manipulative or deceitful methods.
  2. To falsify, as records.
  3. To achieve through contrivance or cajolery.
noun
  1. The act of one who wangles.

waning

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
  2. Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
  3. Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
  4. Said of a time period that comes to an end.
  5. To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
  6. To cause to decrease.
adjective
  1. Becoming weaker or smaller.
  2. Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The fact or act of becoming less or less intense.
  2. The fact or act of becoming smaller.

wigging

verb
  1. To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
  2. To upbraid, reprimand.
  3. To become extremely emotional or excitable; to lose control of one's emotions.
noun
  1. The action of the verb to wig.
  2. A telling-off or reprimand.
  3. The practice of male stuntmen performing for actresses.

wiggling

verb
  1. To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle.
noun
  1. The motion of something that wiggles.

wigwag

noun
  1. An act of wigwagging.
  2. Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states.
  3. A signal sent by waving a flag to and fro.
verb
  1. To move gently in one direction and then another; to wig or wiggle, to wag or waggle.
  2. To oscillate between two states.
  3. To send a signal by waving a flag to and fro.
adverb
  1. With a wigwagging or to-and-fro motion.

wigwagging

verb
  1. To move gently in one direction and then another; to wig or wiggle, to wag or waggle.
  2. To oscillate between two states.
  3. To send a signal by waving a flag to and fro.

will

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).
  2. (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
  3. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
  4. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation.
  5. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
  6. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
  7. (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".

Etymology 2

noun
  1. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
  2. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
  3. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
  4. Law A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
  5. That which is desired; one's wish.
  6. Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To wish, desire.
  2. To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
  3. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
  4. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

willing

verb
  1. To wish, desire.
  2. To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
  3. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
  4. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
noun
  1. The execution of a will.
adjective
  1. Ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course.

willow

noun
  1. Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
  2. The wood of these trees.
  3. A cricket bat.
  4. (1800s) The baseball bat.
  5. A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
verb
  1. To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.
  2. To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow.

wing

noun
  1. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
  2. Human arm.
  3. Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
  4. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
  5. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
  6. Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
  7. Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
  8. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
  9. Passage by flying; flight.
  10. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
  11. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
  12. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
  13. A protruding piece of material on a tampon to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
  14. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
  15. A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
  16. A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
  17. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
  18. A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
  19. A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
  20. That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
  21. A position in several field games on either side of the field.
  22. A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
  23. A háček.
  24. One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
  25. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
  26. A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
  27. On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype
verb
  1. To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
  2. To fly.
  3. (of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
  4. To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
  5. To throw.
  6. To furnish with wings.
  7. To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
  8. To traverse by flying.

winging

verb
  1. To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
  2. To fly.
  3. (of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
  4. To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
  5. To throw.
  6. To furnish with wings.
  7. To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
  8. To traverse by flying.

wining

verb
  1. To entertain with wine.
  2. To drink wine.
noun
  1. A session of drinking wine socially.

winning

verb
  1. To conquer, defeat.
  2. To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
  3. To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
  4. To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
  5. To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
  6. To achieve victory.
  7. To have power, coercion or control.
  8. To obtain (something desired).
  9. To cause a victory for someone.
  10. To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
noun
  1. The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.
  2. (chiefly in the plural) The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, especially in gambling.
  3. A new opening.
  4. The portion of a coalfield out for working.
adjective
  1. That constitutes a win.
  2. That leads to success.
  3. Attractive.

winnow

noun
  1. That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.
verb
  1. To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
  2. To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.
  3. To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
  4. To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

winnowing

verb
  1. To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
  2. To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.
  3. To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
  4. To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.
noun
  1. The act of separating chaff from grain.

wino

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; a drunk or drunkard.
  2. A wine enthusiast; an oenophile.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.

wooing

verb
  1. To endeavor to gain someone's support.
  2. (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with
  3. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
noun
  1. A courting; the process by which somebody is wooed.

wool

noun
  1. The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
  2. A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
  3. Anything with a texture like that of wool.
  4. A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
  5. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
  6. Yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
  7. Derogatory term for residents of the satellite towns outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.

wowing

verb
  1. To amaze or awe.

wanna

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