Sunday, June 8, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 273

Number of Answers: 51

Points Needed for Genius: 191

Genius requires between 25 and 44 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 79% 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 273 was in the 89th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on June 7, 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 June 7, 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 26, 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 201
  • loll 197
  • toot 188
  • naan 172
  • nana 172
  • lilt 139
  • till 139
  • tilt 139
  • tint 136
  • nene 133
  • mama 132
  • mamma 132
  • acacia 124
  • acai 124
  • onto 124
  • toon 124
  • onion 121
  • anal 117
  • olio 116
  • anon 114
  • boob 112
  • booboo 112
  • dodo 110
  • poop 109
  • tact 109
  • baba 108
  • papa 108
  • lull 106
  • lulu 106
  • call 105
  • calla 105
  • ratatat 105
  • tart 105
  • tartar 105
  • attar 104
  • mitt 104
  • tatty 104
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • allay 102
  • ally 102
  • tattoo 102
  • ammo 101
  • cocci 101
  • momma 101
  • tutu 101
  • epee 99
  • peep 99
  • loon 98
  • roar 96


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 102,384 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,621 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*:

  • adaption
  • adnation
  • anatto
  • andantino
  • annona
  • anoa
  • anopia
  • antipot
  • apod
  • atonia
  • dado
  • danio
  • dato
  • datto
  • dido
  • dipnoan
  • doat
  • doit
  • dona
  • donna
  • doodoo
  • dopa
  • dopant
  • dotation
  • inanition
  • inion
  • iodation
  • iodid
  • iodin
  • iodination
  • nano
  • naoi
  • natation
  • nidation
  • ninon
  • niton
  • nodi
  • nona
  • nonpoint
  • nota
  • odonata
  • odontoid
  • oidia
  • oidioid
  • ootid
  • oppidan
  • otto
  • panino
  • panto
  • patination
  • patoot
  • pinnation
  • pinon
  • pintado
  • pintano
  • pion
  • pitot
  • poind
  • ponton
  • pood
  • poon
  • potation
  • potto
  • tanto
  • tinpot
  • toit
  • tondi
  • tondo
  • topi
  • topo
  • topoi

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

adaptation

noun
  1. The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
  2. A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
  3. The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
  4. An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
  5. The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
  6. (authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.

addition

noun
  1. The act of adding anything.
  2. Anything that is added.
  3. The arithmetic operation of adding.
  4. A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
  5. A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely, as in "John Doe, Esq.", "Robert Dale, Mason", "Thomas Way, of New York".
  6. Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour; opposed to abatement.

adopt

verb
  1. To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.)
  2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
  3. To select and take or approve.
  4. To win ten consecutive games against an opponent

adoption

noun
  1. The act of adopting.
  2. The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.
  3. Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.
  4. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance
  5. Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
  6. An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.
  7. Ten consecutive wins against an opponent.

anion

noun
  1. A negatively charged ion.

annatto

noun
  1. A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.
  2. The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.
  3. An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.

annotation

noun
  1. A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis
  2. A comment added to a text
  3. The process of writing such comment or commentary
  4. Metadata added to a document or program
  5. Information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases

anoint

verb
  1. To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
  2. To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.
  3. To choose or nominate somebody for a leading or otherwise important position, especially formally or officially, or as an intended successor.
  4. To mark somebody as an official ruler, especially a king or queen, as a part of a religious ceremony.

anon

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. Straight away; at once.
  2. Soon; in a little while.
  3. At another time; then; again.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An anonymous person, especially an author.
  2. A work with an unknown author.
  3. A work without a title.
adjective
  1. Anonymous

appoint

verb
  1. To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
  2. To name (someone to a post or role).
  3. To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
  4. To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
  5. To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
  6. To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
  7. To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

atop

adverb
  1. On, to, or at the top.
preposition
  1. On the top of.
  2. On the top, with "of".

dino

noun
  1. Dinosaur.

ditto

noun
  1. That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
  2. A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator.
  3. A copy; an imitation.
  4. A symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), when indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
  5. (in the plural) A suit of clothes of the same colour throughout.
verb
  1. To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
adverb
  1. As said before, likewise.
interjection
  1. Used as an expression of agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed.

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.

donation

noun
  1. A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.
  2. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.

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.

idiot

noun
  1. A person of low general intelligence.
  2. A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
  3. A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.
adjective
  1. Idiotic, stupid

initiation

noun
  1. The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced
  2. The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
  3. The first step of transcription or of transduction.

into

preposition
  1. To or towards the inside of.
  2. To or towards the region of.
  3. Against, especially with force or violence.
  4. Indicates transition into another form or substance.
  5. After the start of.
  6. Interested in or attracted to.
  7. Expressing the operation of multiplication.
  8. Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
  9. Investigating the subject (of).

intonation

noun
  1. The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
  2. The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
  3. Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
  4. Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
  5. A thundering; thunder.

iota

noun
  1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
  2. A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.

nation

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
  2. A sovereign state.
  3. An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity.
  4. A great number; a great deal.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Damnation.
adverb
  1. Extremely, very.

nonpaid

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noon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  2. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. The highest point; culmination.
verb
  1. To relax or sleep around midday

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

notation

noun
  1. The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
  2. A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
  3. A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.

notion

noun
  1. Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
  2. A sentiment; an opinion.
  3. Sense; mind.
  4. An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.
  5. Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, either for attachment to garments or as a tool, such as a button, zipper, or thimble.
  6. Inclination; intention; disposition.

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.

onto

adjective
  1. (of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.
preposition
  1. Upon; on top of.
  2. Aware of.
  3. Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).

opinion

noun
  1. A subjective belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed about a topic, issue, person or thing.
  2. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
  3. Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
  4. Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
  5. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
  6. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible
verb
  1. To have or express as an opinion.

opioid

noun
  1. A substance that has effects similar to opium.
  2. Any of the natural substances, such as an endorphin, released in the body in response to pain.
  3. Any of a group of synthetic compounds that exhibit similarities to the opium alkaloids that occur in nature.

option

noun
  1. One of a set of choices that can be made.
  2. The freedom or right to choose.
  3. A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
verb
  1. To purchase an option on something.
  2. To configure, by setting an option.

patio

noun
  1. A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation.
  2. An inner courtyard typical of traditional houses in some regions of Spain.

piano

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings
adjective
  1. Soft, quiet
  2. In extended use; quiet, subdued

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. Softly, as a musical direction (abbreviated to p. in sheet music)

pinion

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A wing.
  2. The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
  3. Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
  4. A moth of the genus Lithophane.
  5. A fetter for the arm.
verb
  1. To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
  2. To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
  3. (transferred sense) To restrain; to limit.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The smallest gear in a gear train.

pinot

noun
  1. Any of several grape varieties grown in Europe and North America.
  2. (by extension) Any of several wines made from these grapes.

pinpoint

noun
  1. The point of a pin.
verb
  1. To identify or locate precisely or with great accuracy.
adjective
  1. Extremely precise or specific, especially regarding location.

pinto

noun
  1. A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.
adjective
  1. Pied, mottled.

piton

noun
  1. A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber).
verb
  1. To put pitons into a rock/ice to facilitate climbing.

podia

noun
  1. A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit.
  2. (sometimes proscribed) A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly.
  3. A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize.
  4. A result amongst the best three at a competition.
  5. A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.
  6. A foot or footstalk.

point

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A discrete division of something.
  2. A sharp extremity.
  3. One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
  4. A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
  5. A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
  6. Lace worked by the needle.
  7. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
  8. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
  9. The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
  10. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
  11. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
  12. A vaccine point.
  13. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
  2. To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
  3. To face in a particular direction.
  4. (sometimes figurative) To direct toward an object; to aim.
  5. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
  6. To indicate a probability of something.
  7. To repair mortar.
  8. To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
  9. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
  10. To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
  11. To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
  12. To mark with diacritics.
  13. To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
  14. To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
  15. To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
  16. To sail close to the wind.
  17. To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
  18. (of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
  19. To give point to (something said or done); to give particular prominence or force to.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To appoint.

pond

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
  2. An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
  3. The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.
verb
  1. To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
  2. To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
  3. To form a pond; to pool.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To ponder.

pontoon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge.
  2. A floating structure supporting a bridge or dock.
  3. A box used to raise a sunken vessel.
  4. A float of a seaplane.
  5. A lighter or barge used for loading or unloading ships.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.

poop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Fecal matter, feces.
  2. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch.
verb
  1. To make a short blast on a horn
  2. To break wind.
  3. To defecate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stern of a ship.
  2. The poop deck.
verb
  1. To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
  2. To embark a ship over the stern.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A slothful person.

poppa

noun
  1. (sometimes childish) father, papa.

potato

noun
  1. The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
  2. A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
  3. A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
  4. A mentally handicapped person.
  5. An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.

potion

noun
  1. A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.
verb
  1. To drug.

tattoo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
  2. A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
verb
  1. To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
  2. To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
  2. A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
  3. A military display or pageant.
verb
  1. To tap rhythmically on, to drum.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.

tiptop

noun
  1. The very topmost point.
  2. The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.
adverb
  1. Excellently; in a first-rate manner.

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.

toon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
  2. A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
  2. The wood of this tree.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A town.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A melody.
  2. A song, or short musical composition.
  3. The act of tuning or maintenance.
  4. The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
  5. Temper; frame of mind.
  6. A sound; a note; a tone.
  7. Order; harmony; concord.

toot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The noise of a horn or whistle.
  2. (by extension) A fart; flatus.
  3. Cocaine.
  4. A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
  5. A spree of drunkness.
  6. (pronounced /tʊt/) Rubbish; tat.
  7. A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
verb
  1. To stand out, or be prominent.
  2. To peep; to look narrowly.
  3. To see; to spy.
  4. To flatulate.
  5. To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
  6. To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
  7. To go on a drinking binge.
  8. To snort (a recreational drug).
  9. To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A toilet.