Tuesday, July 8, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 210

Number of Answers: 37

Points Needed for Genius: 147

Genius requires between 16 and 33 words. You need at least a 9-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 210 was in the 69th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on July 6, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 37 possible answers rank it in the 45th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on July 6, 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 9-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on July 4, 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 205
  • loll 199
  • toot 192
  • naan 174
  • nana 174
  • lilt 141
  • till 141
  • tilt 141
  • tint 138
  • nene 135
  • mama 133
  • mamma 133
  • acacia 127
  • acai 127
  • onto 127
  • toon 127
  • onion 123
  • anon 119
  • anal 118
  • olio 116
  • boob 113
  • booboo 113
  • dodo 113
  • papa 111
  • poop 110
  • tact 110
  • baba 109
  • lull 108
  • lulu 108
  • mitt 107
  • call 106
  • calla 106
  • ratatat 106
  • tart 106
  • tartar 106
  • attar 105
  • tattoo 104
  • tatty 104
  • cocci 103
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • allay 102
  • ally 102
  • ammo 102
  • momma 102
  • tutu 102
  • epee 100
  • loon 100
  • peep 100
  • roar 98


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 103,714 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,668 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*:

  • adnation
  • anatoxin
  • anatto
  • andantino
  • annona
  • anoa
  • atonia
  • axion
  • dado
  • danio
  • dato
  • datto
  • dido
  • dioxan
  • dioxid
  • doat
  • doit
  • dona
  • donna
  • doodoo
  • dotation
  • inanition
  • inion
  • iodation
  • iodid
  • iodin
  • iodination
  • ixodid
  • nano
  • naoi
  • natation
  • nidation
  • ninon
  • niton
  • nodi
  • nona
  • nontax
  • nota
  • odonata
  • odontoid
  • oidia
  • oidioid
  • ootid
  • otto
  • oxid
  • tanto
  • toit
  • tondi
  • tondo
  • toxoid

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

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.

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

anoxia

noun
  1. A condition in which a tissue or environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen, severe hypoxia.

antioxidant

noun
  1. Any substance that acts to slow or prevent the oxidation of another chemical.
  2. (nutrition) One of a group of vitamins that act against the effects of free radicals.
adjective
  1. Acting or having agents that act against oxidation.

antitoxin

noun
  1. An antibody that is capable of neutralising specific toxins that are causative agents of disease.

axon

noun
  1. A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.

dino

noun
  1. Dinosaur.

dioxin

noun
  1. Any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds that occur as byproducts of herbicides.
  2. The parent compound, dibenzo-p-dioxin, in which two benzene rings are connected vio two oxygen atoms; oxanthrene.
  3. The unsaturated six-membered heterocycle having four carbon atoms, two oxygen atoms and two double bonds.

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.

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).

oxidant

noun
  1. An oxidizing agent

oxidation

noun
  1. The combination of a substance with oxygen.
  2. A reaction in which the atoms of an element lose electrons and the oxidation state of the element increases.

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.

taxation

noun
  1. The act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed.
  2. A particular system of taxing people or companies
  3. The revenue gained from taxes

taxon

noun
  1. A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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.

toxin

noun
  1. A toxic or poisonous substance produced by the biological processes of biological organisms.

doxx

verb
  1. To publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet.