Tuesday, July 1, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 104

Number of Answers: 29

Points Needed for Genius: 73

Genius requires between 12 and 26 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 82% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 104 was in the 15th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on June 27, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 29 possible answers rank it in the 22nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on June 27, 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on June 30, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.8.
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 204
  • loll 199
  • toot 191
  • naan 174
  • nana 174
  • lilt 140
  • till 140
  • tilt 140
  • tint 138
  • nene 135
  • mama 133
  • mamma 133
  • acacia 126
  • acai 126
  • onto 126
  • toon 126
  • onion 122
  • anal 118
  • anon 118
  • olio 116
  • boob 113
  • booboo 113
  • dodo 112
  • papa 111
  • poop 110
  • tact 110
  • baba 109
  • lull 107
  • lulu 107
  • call 106
  • calla 106
  • mitt 106
  • ratatat 105
  • tart 105
  • tartar 105
  • attar 104
  • tatty 104
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • tattoo 103
  • allay 102
  • ally 102
  • ammo 102
  • momma 102
  • cocci 101
  • tutu 101
  • epee 100
  • loon 100
  • peep 100
  • roar 98


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 103,386 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,654 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*:

  • beebee
  • bene
  • benne
  • benny
  • bobby
  • bobo
  • bogy
  • bogymen
  • boney
  • bonne
  • boogey
  • boogeymen
  • boogy
  • boogymen
  • boyo
  • gobo
  • gobonee
  • gobony
  • gombeen
  • gombo
  • gybe
  • nobby
  • yobbo
  • yobby

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

been

noun
  1. A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.

begem

No Definition Found.

begone

Etymology 1

interjection
  1. Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.
  2. To clothe, dress.
  3. To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance.
verb
  1. (humoristic or faux-archaic) To go away, to disappear.

bogey

Etymology 1

noun
  1. One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
  2. An outlaw.
  3. One who cheats others.
  4. An enemy aircraft.
  5. A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
noun
  1. An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog.
noun
  1. (often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.
  2. A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
  3. A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
  4. A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
  5. An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
  6. A score of one over par on a hole.
verb
  1. To make a bogey.
noun
  1. A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
noun
  1. A swim or bathe; a bath.
noun
  1. One of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; the structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi.
  2. (Indian English, dated in UK) A railway carriage.
  3. A toy similar to a violin bow, consisting of a wooden stick with notches along one or more sides or edges to produce a rattly noise when stroked against a hard edge, eg, the lip of container.
noun
  1. A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
  2. Something suggestive of this material.
  3. A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing.
noun
  1. (mildly derogatory) A bodyboarder.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A swim or bathe; a bath.
verb
  1. To swim; to bathe.

bogeymen

noun
  1. A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.
  2. (by extension) Any make-believe threat, especially one used to intimidate or distract.

boggy

adjective
  1. Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.

bomb

noun
  1. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
  2. A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
  3. A large amount of money.
  4. (social) Something highly effective or attractive.
  5. A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
  6. A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
  7. A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
  8. A woman’s breast.
  9. A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
  10. A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
  11. An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.
verb
  1. To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
  2. To fail dismally.
  3. To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
  4. To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
  5. To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
  6. To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
  7. To make oneself drunk.
  8. (especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed.
adjective
  1. Great, awesome.

bombe

noun
  1. A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold.
  2. (chiefly in German cooking) A small, cylindrical or spherical chocolate-covered confection. (Compare truffle.)
  3. An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.

bonbon

noun
  1. A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
  2. A small, spherical savory snack or canapé.
  3. A Christmas cracker.

bone

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
  2. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
  3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  4. A bonefish
  5. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
  6. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
  7. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  8. The framework of anything.
  9. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
  10. A dollar.
  11. The wishbone formation.
  12. An erect penis; a boner.
  13. (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
verb
  1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
  2. To fertilize with bone.
  3. To put whalebone into.
  4. To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
  5. (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
  6. (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
  7. (usually with "up") To study.
  8. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
adjective
  1. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To apprehend, steal.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
  2. The common European bittern.

bong

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The clang of a large bell.
  2. Doorbell chimes.
verb
  1. To pull a bell.
  2. To ring a doorbell.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana or pot.
  2. An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
  3. A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A very wide piton.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. (thieves' cant) A purse.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. An Australian Aboriginal person.

bongo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
verb
  1. To play the bongo drums.
  2. Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
  3. To hit something rhythmically with the hands.

bonny

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Merry; happy.
  2. Beautiful; pretty; attractive.
  3. Fine, good (often used ironically).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

bonobo

noun
  1. The pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.

bony

adjective
  1. Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
  2. Full of bones
  3. With little flesh; skinny, thin
  4. Having prominent bones

boob

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Idiot, fool.
verb
  1. To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
  2. To make a mistake
adjective
  1. Idiotic, foolish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A prison; jail.

booboo

noun
  1. A mistake or error.
  2. (by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
  3. (by or to young children) Feces.

booby

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A stupid person.
  2. Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.
  3. In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket.
verb
  1. To behave stupidly; to act like a booby.
  2. To install a booby trap on or at (something); to attack (someone) with a booby trap.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A woman’s breast.

boom

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
  2. A rapid expansion or increase.
  3. One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
verb
  1. To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
  2. (of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
  3. To make something boom.
  4. To publicly praise.
  5. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
interjection
  1. Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
  2. Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
  2. A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
  3. A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
  4. The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
  5. A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
  6. A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
  7. The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
  8. A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
verb
  1. To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
  2. (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
verb
  1. To flourish, grow, or progress.
  2. To cause to advance rapidly in price.

boomy

adjective
  1. Characterized by heavy bass sounds.
  2. Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc.

boon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A prayer; petition.
  2. That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
  3. A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
  4. An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Good; prosperous.
  2. Kind; bountiful; benign.
  3. (Now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

bygone

noun
  1. (usually plural) An event that happened in the past.
adjective
  1. Having been or happened in the distant past.

ebon

noun
  1. (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.
adjective
  1. Made of ebony.
  2. Black in colour.

ebony

noun
  1. A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
  2. A tree that yields such wood.
  3. A deep, dark black colour.
  4. A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument.
adjective
  1. Made of ebony wood.
  2. A deep, dark black colour.
  3. Dark-skinned; black; especially in reference to African-Americans.

goby

noun
  1. Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker.
  2. A gudgeon, such as Gobio gobio.

obey

verb
  1. To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
  2. To do as one is told.
  3. To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).

oboe

noun
  1. A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

noob

noun
  1. (often pejorative) A newb or newbie; refers to the idea that someone is new to a game, concept, or idea; implying a lack of experience. Also, in some areas the word noob can mean someone is obsessed with things.

enby

No Definition Found.