Friday, June 13, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 239

Number of Answers: 51

Points Needed for Genius: 167

Genius requires between 24 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 239 was in the 79th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on June 12, 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 8, 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 7, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.5.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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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
  • papa 109
  • poop 109
  • tact 109
  • 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 102,587 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*:

  • acapnia
  • ancipital
  • antipapal
  • antipill
  • apical
  • aplanat
  • aplanatic
  • aplitic
  • appal
  • atap
  • calpac
  • calpain
  • capita
  • caplin
  • captan
  • clapt
  • clipt
  • incipit
  • inclip
  • lapilli
  • lapin
  • lipa
  • lipin
  • napa
  • nappa
  • nipa
  • paan
  • paca
  • pali
  • pallia
  • pallial
  • palpal
  • palpi
  • palpitant
  • papain
  • pappi
  • pataca
  • patin
  • pial
  • pian
  • piani
  • pianic
  • pical
  • piccalilli
  • pili
  • pina
  • pinna
  • pinnal
  • pinta
  • pipa
  • pipal
  • pitta
  • platan
  • platina
  • platinic
  • plica
  • plical
  • taipan
  • tipcat

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

alpaca

noun
  1. A sheep-like animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
  2. Wool from the alpaca.

anticipant

No Definition Found.

apian

noun
  1. (very rare) A bee.
adjective
  1. Relating to bees.

appall

verb
  1. To fill with horror; to dismay.
  2. To make pale; to blanch.
  3. To weaken; to reduce in strength
  4. To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
  5. To lose flavour or become stale.

applicant

noun
  1. One who applies for something; one who makes a request; a petitioner.
  2. The third coordinate (or z-coordinate) in a three-dimensional coordinate system.

capital

noun
  1. Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
  2. Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
  3. A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
  4. The most important city in the field specified.
  5. An uppercase letter.
  6. The uppermost part of a column.
  7. Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
  8. (by extension) The chief or most important thing.
adjective
  1. Of prime importance.
  2. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
  3. Excellent.
  4. Involving punishment by death.
  5. Uppercase.
  6. Of or relating to the head.

captain

noun
  1. A chief or leader.
  2. The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
  3. An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
  4. A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
  5. A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to an Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
  6. One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
  7. The leader of a group of workers.
  8. The head boy of a school.
  9. A maître d', a headwaiter.
  10. An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
verb
  1. To act as captain
  2. To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.

catalpa

noun
  1. Any tree of the genus Catalpa, in the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides, and the northern catalpa, Catalpa speciosa — along with the yellow catalpa, Catalpa ovata, from China — are often planted as ornamentals because of their showy flowers and decorative bean pods, though others regard the bean pods as a nuisance.

catnap

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A brief, light sleep.
verb
  1. To take a catnap, to take a short sleep or nap.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To kidnap a cat.

catnip

noun
  1. Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.
  2. Something that causes excitement or interest.

clap

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
  2. The explosive sound of thunder.
  3. Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
  4. A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.
  5. A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
  6. The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
  7. A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground)
verb
  1. To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.
  2. To applaud.
  3. To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.
  4. To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.
  5. To come together suddenly with noise.
  6. To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together).
  7. To set or put, usually in haste.
  8. To shoot (somebody) with a gun.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (with "the") Gonorrhea.

clip

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
  2. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
  3. An embrace.
  4. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
  5. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
  6. A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
verb
  1. To grip tightly.
  2. To fasten with a clip.
  3. To hug, embrace.
  4. To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
  2. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
  3. The condition of something, its state.
  4. A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
verb
  1. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
  2. To curtail; to cut short.
  3. To strike with the hand.
  4. To hit or strike, especially in passing.
  5. An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
  6. To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
  7. To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
  8. (Of a camera, character model, etc.) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
  9. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
  10. To grab or take stealthily

inapt

adjective
  1. Unapt

pact

noun
  1. An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
  2. An agreement between two or more nations
verb
  1. To form a pact; to agree formally.

pail

noun
  1. A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
  2. (In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.

pain

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
  2. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
  3. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
  4. Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  5. (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb
  1. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

paint

noun
  1. A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
  2. (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
  3. The free-throw lane, construed with the.
  4. Paintballs.
  5. A face card (king, queen, or jack).
  6. Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
  7. Makeup.
  8. Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
verb
  1. To apply paint to.
  2. To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
  3. To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
  4. To create (an image) with paints.
  5. To practise the art of painting pictures.
  6. To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
  7. To depict or portray.
  8. To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
  9. To direct a radar beam toward.

palapa

noun
  1. An open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves.

palatal

noun
  1. A palatal consonant.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to the palate.
  2. Of an upper tooth, on the side facing the palate.
  3. Articulated at the hard palate.

palatial

adjective
  1. Of or relating to a palace.
  2. On a grand scale; with very rich furnishings.

pall

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Senses relating to cloth.
  2. Senses relating to clothing.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
  2. To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.

palp

noun
  1. A pedipalp, an appendage found near the mouth in invertebrates; has a variety of functions but is often primarily used for predating.
noun
  1. A fleshy part of a fingertip.
  2. Short for palpation.
verb
  1. To feel, to explore by touch.
adjective
  1. Palpatory; obtained by palpation.

panic

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
  2. Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
  3. A kernel panic or system crash.
verb
  1. To feel overwhelming fear.
  2. To cause somebody to panic.
  3. (by extension) To crash.
  4. (by extension) To cause the system to crash.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to the god Pan.
  2. Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A plant of the genus Panicum.

panini

noun
  1. A type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.

pant

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
  2. Eager longing.
  3. A violent palpitation of the heart.
verb
  1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
  2. To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  3. To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
  4. Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
  5. To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
  6. To heave, as the breast.
  7. To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
  2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

papal

adjective
  1. Having to do with the pope or the papacy.

papilla

noun
  1. A nipple-like anatomical structure.

patina

noun
  1. A paten, flat type of dish
  2. The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
  3. A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
  4. A gloss or superficial layer.
adjective
  1. Of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.

pica

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A size of type between small pica and English, standardized as 12-point.
  2. (usually with qualifier) A font of this size.
  3. A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially 35/83 cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now 1/6 in.
  4. A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A magpie.

piccata

No Definition Found.

picnic

noun
  1. An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
  2. The meal eaten at such a gathering.
  3. An easy or pleasant task.
  4. An entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table.
verb
  1. To take part in a picnic.

pill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
  2. (definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
  3. A comical or entertaining person.
  4. A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
  5. A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.
  6. A baseball.
  7. A bullet (projectile).
  8. A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
verb
  1. Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
  2. To form into the shape of a pill.
  3. To medicate with pills.
  4. To persuade or convince someone of something.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The peel or skin.
verb
  1. To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
  2. To peel; to make by removing the skin.
  3. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
  4. To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

pinata

noun
  1. (Latin American culture) A doll or other decorated container that is filled with candy and hit with a hammer or a stick by blindfolded children during birthday parties or other celebrations until the candy falls out.
verb
  1. To hit something or someone with sticks after having filled them with candy.

pint

noun
  1. A unit of volume, equivalent to:
  2. (metonym) A pint of milk.
  3. (metonymy) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.

pintail

noun
  1. A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.
  2. A pin-tailed snipe, Gallinago stenura.
  3. The end of a fastening pin or mandrel on a Huckbolt or pop rivet that is broken off when installation is complete.
  4. A surfboard with a pointed back end.

pipit

noun
  1. Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.

pippin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A seed

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red
  2. Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties
  3. An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted)

pita

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper.
  2. The plant which yields the fiber.

pitapat

noun
  1. A series of quick tapping sounds
verb
  1. To make a series of quick tapping sounds; to palpitate
adverb
  1. With a quick tapping sound

plain

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Flat, level.
  2. Simple.
  3. Obvious.
  4. Open.
  5. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
  6. Not a trump.
adverb
  1. Simply.
  2. Plainly; distinctly.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A lamentation.
verb
  1. To complain.
  2. To lament, bewail.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
  2. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
  3. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
  4. Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
noun
  1. An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.
verb
  1. To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
  2. To make plain or manifest; to explain.
noun
  1. A level or flat surface.
  2. A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
  3. A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)
  4. A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
  5. (Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
  6. An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
noun
  1. A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
noun
  1. An airplane; an aeroplane.
  2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called aeroplanes.
  3. The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
noun
  1. A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
  2. (Northern UK) A sycamore.

plaint

noun
  1. A lament or woeful cry.
  2. A complaint.
  3. A sad song.
  4. An accusation.

plait

noun
  1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
  2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
verb
  1. To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat
  2. To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid

plan

noun
  1. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
  2. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
  3. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
  4. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
  5. A subscription to a service.
verb
  1. To design (a building, machine, etc.).
  2. To create a plan for.
  3. To intend.
  4. To make a plan.

plant

noun
  1. An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
  2. An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
  3. Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
  4. Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
  5. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
  6. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
  7. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
  8. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
  9. A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
  10. Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
  11. A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
  12. The sole of the foot.
  13. A plan; a swindle; a trick.
  14. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
  15. A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
verb
  1. To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
  2. To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
  3. To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
  4. To place in the ground.
  5. To furnish or supply with plants.
  6. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
  7. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
  8. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
  9. To set up; to install; to instate.

plantain

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A plant in the genus Musa, the genus that includes banana, but with lower sugar content than banana.
  2. The fruit of the plant, usually cooked before eating and used like potatoes.

plat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A plot of land; a lot.
  2. A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
  3. A plot, a scheme.
verb
  1. To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
  2. Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
verb
  1. (obsolete except regional England) To braid, to plait.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
adverb
  1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flatly, plainly.

pliant

adjective
  1. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking
  2. Easily influenced; tractable.

tapa

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine.

tilapia

noun
  1. Any of various edible fish, of the genus Tilapia, native to Africa and the Middle East but naturalized worldwide.

tipi

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee