Tuesday, July 15, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 145

Number of Answers: 39

Points Needed for Genius: 102

Genius requires between 17 and 34 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 145 was in the 37th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on July 11, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 39 possible answers rank it in the 50th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on July 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on July 14, 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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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 205
  • loll 200
  • toot 193
  • naan 175
  • nana 175
  • lilt 142
  • till 142
  • tilt 142
  • tint 138
  • nene 135
  • mama 134
  • mamma 134
  • acacia 128
  • acai 128
  • onto 127
  • toon 127
  • onion 123
  • anon 119
  • anal 118
  • olio 116
  • boob 113
  • booboo 113
  • dodo 113
  • papa 111
  • poop 111
  • tact 111
  • baba 109
  • lull 108
  • lulu 108
  • call 107
  • calla 107
  • mitt 107
  • ratatat 106
  • tart 106
  • tartar 106
  • attar 105
  • tattoo 104
  • tatty 104
  • ammo 103
  • cocci 103
  • momma 103
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • tutu 103
  • allay 102
  • ally 102
  • epee 100
  • loon 100
  • peep 100
  • roar 98


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 104,068 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,671 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*:

  • abeam
  • abmho
  • abohm
  • aboma
  • amah
  • ambo
  • bema
  • cabomba
  • caeoma
  • chacma
  • cham
  • chem
  • comae
  • combe
  • comm
  • commo
  • coomb
  • coombe
  • haem
  • hame
  • hammam
  • hmmm
  • homa
  • homo
  • mabe
  • macaco
  • mach
  • machaca
  • mache
  • mahoe
  • mamee
  • mammae
  • mammee
  • mech
  • moho
  • mome

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

acme

noun
  1. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
  2. The crisis or height of a disease.
  3. Mature age; full bloom of life.

ahem

noun
  1. A use of the interjection, ahem.
interjection
  1. The sound of a quiet cough or of clearing one's throat
  2. An exclamation or cough to get attention
  3. An exclamation of disapproval or annoyance
  4. An exclamation to indicate sarcasm

ameba

noun
  1. A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
  2. The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
  3. An asexual.

amebae

noun
  1. A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
  2. The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
  3. An asexual.

ammo

noun
  1. Ammunition.
verb
  1. To load up on ammunition.

amoeba

noun
  1. A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
  2. The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
  3. An asexual.

amoebae

noun
  1. A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
  2. The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
  3. An asexual.

bamboo

noun
  1. A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
  2. The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane.
  3. A didgeridoo.
  4. A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.
verb
  1. To flog with a bamboo cane.
  2. To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.
  3. To penetrate sexually.
adjective
  1. Made of the wood of the bamboo.

beachcomb

No Definition Found.

beam

noun
  1. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
  2. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
  3. The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam)
  4. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
  5. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
  6. The pole of a carriage or chariot.
  7. A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
  8. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
  9. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
  10. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
  11. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
  12. A ray; a gleam.
  13. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
  14. A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
  15. An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
verb
  1. To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
  2. To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
  3. To furnish or supply with beams
  4. To give the appearance of beams to.
  5. To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
  6. (currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
  7. To put (something) on a beam
  8. To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

became

verb
  1. To arrive, come (to a place).
  2. To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
  3. Begin to be; turn into.
  4. To be proper for; to beseem.
  5. Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

become

verb
  1. To arrive, come (to a place).
  2. To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
  3. Begin to be; turn into.
  4. To be proper for; to beseem.
  5. Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

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.

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.

came

Etymology 1

preposition
  1. Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
verb
  1. To move from further away to nearer to.
  2. To arrive.
  3. To appear, to manifest itself.
  4. (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
  5. (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
  6. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
  7. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  8. (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
  9. (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  10. (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
  11. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  12. To carry through; to succeed in.
  13. Happen.
  14. (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
  15. (of grain) To germinate.
  16. To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
verb
  1. To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
  2. To ejaculate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.

cameo

noun
  1. A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
  2. A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.
verb
  1. To appear in a cameo role.

camo

noun
  1. A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
  2. Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
verb
  1. To camouflage.
  2. To put on camouflage clothing.

chemo

noun
  1. Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
  2. (most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.

coma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
  2. A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
  3. A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

comb

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
  2. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
  3. A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
  4. A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
  5. An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
  6. The top part of a gun’s stock.
  7. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
  8. The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
  9. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
  10. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
  11. The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
  12. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
  13. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
  14. The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
  15. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
  16. A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
  17. A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
verb
  1. (especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb.
  2. To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
  3. To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
  4. To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (abbreviation) Combination.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A valley, often wooded and often with no river
  2. A cirque.

combo

noun
  1. A small musical group.
  2. A combination.
  3. An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game.
  4. A Caucasian man who marries or has a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman; a Caucasian man who lives among Aboriginal people and adopts Aboriginal culture
  5. A combo box.

come

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Coming, arrival; approach.
  2. Semen
  3. Female ejaculatory discharge.
verb
  1. To move from further away to nearer to.
  2. To arrive.
  3. To appear, to manifest itself.
  4. (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
  5. (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
  6. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
  7. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  8. (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
  9. (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  10. (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
  11. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  12. To carry through; to succeed in.
  13. Happen.
  14. (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
  15. (of grain) To germinate.
  16. To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
preposition
  1. Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
interjection
  1. An exclamation to express annoyance.
  2. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.

comma

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.
verb
  1. To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

emcee

noun
  1. A rapper.
  2. Initialism of main colour.
  3. Initialism of matching colour.
  4. Initialism of movie clip.
  5. Initialism of mail code.
  6. Initialism of main character.
  7. Initialism of military cross.
  8. Initialism of Member of Congress.
  9. Initialism of medical college.
  10. Initialism of Mars-crosser.
  11. Initialism of medium coeli, the midheaven or highest point in the sky. Contrasted to Imum Coeli.
noun
  1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  2. (by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
  3. A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
  4. A group practice of several physicians.
  5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  7. A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  8. One confined to bed by sickness.
  9. One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
verb
  1. To act as the master of ceremonies (for).
  2. To rap as part of a hip-hop performance.
noun
  1. A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.
  2. A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
  3. A place of lodging.
noun
  1. Someone who acts as a host at a formal event.
  2. Someone who conducts a programme of varied entertainment, for example by introducing performers to the audience.
  3. A rapper.
noun
  1. Dichloromethane
noun
  1. A viral infection of the skin or (occasionally) mucous membranes, caused by Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), a DNA poxvirus.
noun
  1. A group of individuals whose primary interests and activities involve motorcycles.
noun
  1. A place used as a hospital on board a ship, on a spaceship (in science fiction).
  2. A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured in a school.

heme

noun
  1. The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.

home

noun
  1. A dwelling.
  2. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
  3. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
  4. A focus point.
verb
  1. (of animals) To return to its owner.
  2. (always with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
  2. (except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed.
  3. Personal, intimate.
  4. Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
adverb
  1. To one's home
  2. At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
  3. To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
  4. Into the goal
  5. Into the right, proper or stowed position
noun
  1. A directory that contains a user's files.

mace

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A heavy fighting club.
  2. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
  3. A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
  4. An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
  5. A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
  6. A billiard cue.
verb
  1. To hit someone or something with a mace.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
  2. An old weight of 57.98 grains.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
verb
  1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
  2. To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

macho

noun
  1. A macho person; a person who tends to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, and bravado.
  2. The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus).
  3. A male llama.
adjective
  1. Tending to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, bravado, etc., in ways that are showily and histrionically tough

mama

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mamba

noun
  1. Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.

mambo

noun
  1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
  2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
verb
  1. To perform this dance.

mamma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
  2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mecca

No Definition Found.

meme

noun
  1. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
  2. Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.
  3. A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.
verb
  1. To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.
  2. To create and use humorous memes.
  3. To joke around.

memo

noun
  1. A short note; a memorandum.
  2. A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
verb
  1. To record something; to make a note of something.
  2. To send someone a note about something, for the record.

mocha

noun
  1. A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof; a caffè mocha.
  2. A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour.
  3. A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
  4. A strong Arabian coffee.
  5. An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
adjective
  1. Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

momma

noun
  1. Mother
  2. A voluptuous woman.
  3. One's wife or girlfriend.

mooch

noun
  1. An aimless stroll.
  2. One who mooches; a moocher.
  3. A unit of time comprising ten days, used to measure how long someone holds a job.
verb
  1. To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
  2. To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
  3. To steal or filch.