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Number of Pangrams: 4

Maximum Puzzle Score: 267

Number of Answers: 45

Points Needed for Genius: 187

Genius requires between 21 and 40 words. You need at least an 8-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 267 was in the 88th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on June 8, 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 11, 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 June 9, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.1.
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 202
  • loll 198
  • toot 188
  • naan 172
  • nana 172
  • lilt 140
  • till 140
  • tilt 140
  • tint 136
  • nene 133
  • mama 132
  • mamma 132
  • acacia 124
  • acai 124
  • onto 124
  • toon 124
  • onion 121
  • anal 117
  • olio 116
  • anon 115
  • boob 112
  • booboo 112
  • dodo 111
  • baba 109
  • poop 109
  • tact 109
  • papa 108
  • lull 106
  • lulu 106
  • call 105
  • calla 105
  • mitt 105
  • ratatat 105
  • tart 105
  • tartar 105
  • attar 104
  • tatty 104
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • allay 102
  • ally 102
  • tattoo 102
  • ammo 101
  • cocci 101
  • momma 101
  • tutu 101
  • epee 99
  • loon 99
  • peep 99
  • roar 96


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 102,536 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,627 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*:

  • coccid
  • coccoid
  • codding
  • codlin
  • codling
  • collodion
  • condign
  • conoid
  • dido
  • dindling
  • dingdong
  • dingdonging
  • dinning
  • diol
  • doggoning
  • dolci
  • donging
  • doodoo
  • godding
  • godling
  • gonidic
  • indign
  • indigoid
  • indol
  • iodic
  • iodid
  • iodin
  • lidding
  • lido
  • lingcod
  • loid
  • loiding
  • nidi
  • niding
  • noddling
  • nodi
  • noncoding
  • noodging
  • odic
  • oidioid

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

clod

noun
  1. A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
  2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  3. A stupid person; a dolt.
  4. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
verb
  1. To pelt with clods.
  2. To throw violently; to hurl.
  3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

coddling

verb
  1. To treat gently or with great care.
  2. To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
  3. To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
noun
  1. The act of one who coddles or pampers.
noun
  1. A young small cod.
  2. A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus Urophycis.
noun
  1. A small, immature apple
  2. Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking

codicil

noun
  1. An addition or supplement that explains, modifies, or revokes a will or part of one.

coding

verb
  1. To write software programs.
  2. To add codes to a dataset.
  3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
  4. To encode.
  5. To encode a protein.
  6. To call a hospital emergency code.
verb
  1. Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
noun
  1. The process of encoding or decoding.
  2. The process of writing computer software code.
  3. An encoding.
  4. A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
  5. An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.

codon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A handbell used for summoning monks.
  2. The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation.

coinciding

verb
  1. To occupy exactly the same space.
  2. To occur at the same time.
  3. To correspond, concur, or agree.
noun
  1. Act or situation by which things coincide; coincidence.

cold

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
  2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
  3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
  4. Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
  5. Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
  6. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
  7. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
  8. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
  9. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
  10. Not pungent or acrid.
  11. Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
  12. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
  13. Not sensitive; not acute.
  14. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
  15. Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
  16. Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
  17. Without compassion; heartless; ruthless

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A condition of low temperature.
  2. (with 'the') A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
  3. A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
  4. Rheum, sleepy dust

Etymology 3

adverb
  1. While at low temperature.
  2. Without preparation.
  3. With finality.
  4. In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

colliding

verb
  1. To impact directly, especially if violent.
  2. To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
noun
  1. A collision.

colloid

noun
  1. A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.
  2. An intimate mixture of two substances one of which, called the dispersed phase (or colloid), is uniformly distributed in a finely divided state throughout the second substance, called the dispersion medium (or dispersing medium).
  3. A particle less than 1 micron in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
adjective
  1. Glue-like; gelatinous.

condo

noun
  1. Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more countries.
  2. A region or territory under such rule.
  3. A building in which each unit is owned by an individual but the grounds, structure etc are owned jointly.
  4. The system of ownership by which such condominiums operate
  5. A unit or apartment in such a complex.
  6. The legal tenure involved.

condoling

verb
  1. To express sympathetic sorrow; to lament in sympathy (with someone on something).
  2. To condole with (someone).
  3. To say in an expression of sympathy.
  4. To lament, grieve, bemoan (something).
noun
  1. Condolence.
adjective
  1. Expressing condolence; sympathetic.

condoning

verb
  1. To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
  2. To allow, accept or permit (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
  3. To forgive (marital infidelity or other marital offense).

dicing

verb
  1. To play dice.
  2. To cut into small cubes.
  3. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
noun
  1. A game of dice.
  2. A fragment of diced food.

diddling

verb
  1. To cheat; to swindle.
  2. To have sex with.
  3. To masturbate (especially of women).
  4. To waste time.
  5. To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
  6. To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).

digging

verb
  1. To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
  2. To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
  3. To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
  4. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
  5. To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
  6. To thrust; to poke.
  7. To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
verb
  1. To understand or show interest in.
  2. To appreciate, or like.
noun
  1. The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
  2. A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.
  3. Region; locality

dildo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use.
  2. An idiot, a bore.
  3. A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii).
verb
  1. To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.

dill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.
  2. A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring
  3. A fool.
verb
  1. To cook or flavor with dill

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

ding

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
  2. A rejection.
verb
  1. To hit or strike.
  2. To dash; to throw violently.
  3. To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
  4. To fire or reject.
  5. To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
  6. To mishit (a golf ball).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
  2. The act of levelling up.
verb
  1. To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
  2. To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
  3. To level up.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

dinging

verb
  1. To hit or strike.
  2. To dash; to throw violently.
  3. To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
  4. To fire or reject.
  5. To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
  6. To mishit (a golf ball).
verb
  1. To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
  2. To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
  3. To level up.

dingo

noun
  1. Canis lupus dingo, a wild dog native to Australia.

dining

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.
noun
  1. Eating dinner as a social function.
  2. Entertaining someone to dinner.

dino

noun
  1. Dinosaur.

dodging

verb
  1. To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
  2. To avoid; to sidestep.
  3. To go hither and thither.
  4. (videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
  5. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  6. To trick somebody.
noun
  1. The act of dodging; a dodge.

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.

dogging

verb
  1. To pursue with the intent to catch.
  2. To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
  3. To fasten a hatch securely.
  4. To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
  5. To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
  6. To criticize.
  7. To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
noun
  1. The act of one who dogs or harasses.
  2. The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.

doggo

noun
  1. A dog.

doing

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
  2. To perform; to execute.
  3. To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  4. To suffice.
  5. To be reasonable or acceptable.
  6. (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
  7. To fare, perform (well or poorly).
  8. (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  9. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
  10. To cook.
  11. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  12. To treat in a certain way.
  13. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
  14. To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  15. To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
  16. To impersonate or depict.
  17. (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
  18. To kill.
  19. To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  20. To punish for a misdemeanor.
  21. To have sex with. (See also do it)
  22. To cheat or swindle.
  23. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  24. To finish.
  25. To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  26. (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  27. To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  28. (ditransitive) To make or provide.
  29. To injure (one's own body part).
  30. To take drugs.
  31. (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
noun
  1. A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.

doling

verb
  1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
noun
  1. The act of one who doles.

doll

noun
  1. A toy in the form of a human.
  2. (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman
  3. A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
  4. A dollar.
  5. (now possibly offensive) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.
  6. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.

dolling

No Definition Found.

dong

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A penis.
  2. (by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch.
verb
  1. Of a bell: to make a low-pitched ringing sound.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.

donning

verb
  1. (clothing) To put on, to dress in.

doodling

verb
  1. To draw or scribble aimlessly.
  2. To drone like a bagpipe.
noun
  1. Something doodled; a careless sketch.

gild

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
  2. To adorn.
  3. To decorate with a golden surface appearance.
  4. To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
  5. To make appear drunk.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages.
  2. A corporation.
  3. A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits.
  4. An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.

gilding

verb
  1. To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
  2. To adorn.
  3. To decorate with a golden surface appearance.
  4. To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
  5. To make appear drunk.
noun
  1. The art of applying gold leaf to a surface.
  2. Gold leaf.
  3. A coating of gold or gold-coloured paint, etc.

gliding

verb
  1. To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
  2. To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
  3. To cause to glide.
  4. To pass with a glide, as the voice.
noun
  1. The action or motion of something that glides.
  2. The hobby, sport or act of flying a glider.
adjective
  1. That moves or changes with a glide.
  2. (employment) Employing flexitime.

gold

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
  2. A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.
  3. A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
  4. The bullseye of an archery target.
  5. A gold medal.
  6. Anything or anyone that is very valuable.
  7. (in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.
verb
  1. To pyrolyze or burn food until the color begins to change to a light brown, but not as dark as browning
adjective
  1. Made of gold.
  2. Having the colour of gold.
  3. (of commercial services) Premium, superior.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. (of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
adverb
  1. Of or referring to a gold version of something

good

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. (of people)
  2. (of capabilities)
  3. (properties and qualities)
  4. (when with and) Very, extremely. See good and.
  5. Holy (especially when capitalized) .
  6. (of quantities)
interjection
  1. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
  2. A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
  3. The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
  4. (usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
  2. To make good; turn to good; improve.
  3. To make improvements or repairs.
  4. To benefit; gain.
  5. To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
  6. To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
  7. To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

idling

verb
  1. To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
  2. To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
  3. Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
noun
  1. An idle period; something done idly.

idol

noun
  1. A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
  2. A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
  3. (originally Japan) Popular entertainer; usually young, captivating, attractive; and often female, with an image of being close to fans.
  4. An eidolon or phantom; something misleading or elusive.

indigo

noun
  1. A purplish-blue colour
  2. An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
  3. An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).
adjective
  1. Having a deep purplish-blue colour

lodging

verb
  1. To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
  2. To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
  3. To stay in any place or shelter.
  4. To drive (an animal) to covert.
  5. To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  6. To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  7. To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  8. To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
  9. To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
noun
  1. A place to live or lodge.
  2. Sleeping accommodation.
  3. (in the plural) Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
  4. The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.

nodding

verb
  1. To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
  2. To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
  3. To sway, move up and down.
  4. To gradually fall asleep.
  5. To signify by a nod.
  6. To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
  7. To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
  8. To allude to something.
  9. To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
noun
  1. The act by which one nods.
adjective
  1. Having the flower facing downwards.

noodling

verb
  1. To think or ponder.
  2. To fiddle, play with, or mess around.
  3. To improvise music.
  4. To fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body
  5. To fossick, especially for opals.
noun
  1. The practice and sport of fishing for catfish using the bare hands.
  2. Musical improvisation.

clodding

No Definition Found.