Tuesday, August 19, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 235

Number of Answers: 52

Points Needed for Genius: 165

Genius requires between 22 and 47 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 87% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 63% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 235 was in the 78th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on August 17, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 52 possible answers rank it in the 80th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on August 17, 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 August 17, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.3.
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 210
  • loll 201
  • toot 194
  • naan 177
  • nana 177
  • lilt 144
  • till 144
  • tilt 144
  • nene 138
  • tint 138
  • mama 135
  • mamma 135
  • acacia 131
  • acai 131
  • onto 129
  • toon 129
  • onion 125
  • anon 120
  • anal 119
  • olio 116
  • dodo 115
  • tact 115
  • boob 113
  • booboo 113
  • papa 112
  • poop 112
  • baba 111
  • lull 110
  • lulu 110
  • call 108
  • calla 108
  • mitt 108
  • mono 106
  • moon 106
  • ratatat 106
  • tart 106
  • tartar 106
  • tutu 106
  • attar 105
  • tatty 105
  • ammo 104
  • cocci 104
  • momma 104
  • tattoo 104
  • allay 103
  • ally 103
  • loon 102
  • epee 100
  • peep 100
  • roar 99


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 105,647 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,717 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*:

  • entozoon
  • imino
  • inion
  • ionone
  • meno
  • mento
  • mome
  • momento
  • momi
  • monie
  • monition
  • monotint
  • monzonite
  • motmot
  • mott
  • motte
  • mozette
  • mozo
  • mozzette
  • ninon
  • niton
  • nome
  • nomen
  • nomoi
  • nonmen
  • noontime
  • otto
  • ozonize
  • tenno
  • toit
  • toneme
  • tonette
  • tontine
  • toom
  • totemite
  • zonetime
  • zoon

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

emote

noun
  1. A virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than a direct message.
  2. (Twitch-speak) Short for emoticon.
verb
  1. To display emotions openly, especially while acting.
  2. To induce an emotion in.
  3. To perform a virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than sending a direct message.

emotion

noun
  1. A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
  2. A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.

intention

noun
  1. The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
  2. Tension; straining, stretching.
  3. A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object or a purpose (an intent); closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
  4. The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
  5. Any mental apprehension of an object.
  6. The process of the healing of a wound.
verb
  1. Intend

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).

intone

verb
  1. To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
  2. To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.
  3. To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.

ionize

verb
  1. To dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged species; to be thus dissociated.

memento

noun
  1. A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.

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.

mention

noun
  1. A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase make mention of.
  2. A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.
verb
  1. To make a short reference to something.
  2. To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.

mezzo

noun
  1. Mezzo-soprano

mezzotint

noun
  1. A form of intaglio etching in which a metal plate is roughened evenly and then smoothed to bring out an image.
  2. An etching or print made using this method.
verb
  1. To make such etchings

mimeo

noun
  1. A mimeograph.
  2. An unpublished academic paper.
verb
  1. To mimeograph.

minion

noun
  1. The lowest limit.
  2. The smallest amount.
  3. A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
  4. A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
  5. The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
noun
  1. A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
  2. A sycophantic follower.
  3. A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.
  4. An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.
  5. The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.
adjective
  1. Favoured, beloved; "pet".

moment

noun
  1. A brief, unspecified amount of time.
  2. The smallest portion of time; an instant.
  3. Weight or importance.
  4. The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation.
  5. (unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
  6. A petit mal episode; such a spell.
  7. A fit; a brief tantrum.
  8. An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
  9. A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.

monetize

verb
  1. To convert something (especially a security) into currency.
  2. To mint money.
  3. To establish a currency as legal tender.
  4. To make a business activity profit-generating, particularly in computer and Internet-related activities.

mono

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

Etymology 4

adjective
  1. Monochrome.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. An injective homomorphism
  2. The absence of sexual dimorphism
  3. A morphism n such that for any other morphisms f and g, if n \circ f = n \circ g then f = g.

Etymology 6

noun
  1. A monogamous person.
adjective
  1. Monoamorous, monogamous.

Etymology 7

adjective
  1. Monosexual.

monotone

noun
  1. A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.
  2. A piece of writing in one strain throughout.
verb
  1. To speak in a monotone.
adjective
  1. (of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.
  2. Being, or having the salient properties of, a monotone function.

monte

noun
  1. A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.
  2. (Latin America) A wood or forest; timberland.

moon

proper noun
  1. The Earth's moon Luna; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
  2. The god of the Moon in Heathenry.
  3. A surname.
  4. The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun
  1. (by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
  2. A month, particularly a lunar month.
  3. A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
  4. The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
  5. The thirty-second Lenormand card.
  6. In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
verb
  1. To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
  2. (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
  3. To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
  4. To expose to the rays of the Moon.
  5. To adorn with moons or crescents.
  6. (cryptocurrency) Of a coin or token: to rise in price rapidly.
  7. To shoot the moon.

moot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moot court.
  2. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
  3. A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  4. A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  5. An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
  6. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
adjective
  1. Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  2. Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  3. Having no practical impact or relevance.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
  2. (rural) Talk.
verb
  1. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  2. To discuss or debate.
  3. To make or declare irrelevant.
  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  5. To talk or speak.
  6. To say, utter, also insinuate.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Vagina.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
verb
  1. To take root and begin to grow.
  2. To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout.

mote

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small particle; a speck.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. May or might.
  2. Must.
  3. Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A meeting for discussion.
  2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
  3. A place of meeting for discussion.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.

motet

noun
  1. A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

motion

noun
  1. A state of progression from one place to another.
  2. A change of position with respect to time.
  3. A change from one place to another.
  4. A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
  5. An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
  6. From κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
  7. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
  8. A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
  9. A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
  10. Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
  11. A puppet, or puppet show.
  12. A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
verb
  1. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
  2. To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
  3. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

motto

noun
  1. A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
  2. A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
  3. A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

neon

noun
  1. The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The lightest of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
  2. A form or sample of the element.
  3. Neon signs or lights, collectively.
  4. A neon tetra fish.
adjective
  1. (of a color) That resembles a neon light; extremely bright; fluorescent

nominee

noun
  1. A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.
  2. A person or organisation in whose name a security is registered though true ownership is held by another party, called nominator, especially for the purpose of concealing the identity of the nominator.
  3. A person to whom the holder of a copyhold estate surrenders their interest.

none

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person without religious affiliation.
adverb
  1. To no extent, in no way.
  2. Not at all, not very.
  3. No, not.
pronoun
  1. Not any of a given number or group.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion.
noun
  1. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
  2. A break in play between the first and second sessions.
  3. (Minnesota) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
noun
  1. The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm.
noun
  1. (often capitalized) The notional first-quarter day of a Roman month, occurring on the 7th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 5th day of all other months.
  2. (sometimes capitalized) The ninth hour after dawn (about 3 pm).
  3. The divine office appointed to the hour.
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.
noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

nonet

noun
  1. A composition for nine instruments or nine voices.
  2. A group of nine nuclear or subatomic particles.
  3. A byte of nine bits.

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.

note

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
  2. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
  3. (heading) A sound.
  4. Observation; notice; heed.
  5. Reputation; distinction.
  6. Notification; information; intelligence.
  7. Mark of disgrace.
verb
  1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
  2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
  3. To denote; to designate.
  4. To annotate.
  5. To set down in musical characters.
  6. To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
  2. The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.

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.

ointment

noun
  1. A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.
  2. A substance used to anoint, as in religious rituals.

omen

noun
  1. Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
  2. A thing of prophetic significance.
verb
  1. To be an omen of.
  2. To divine or predict from omens.

omit

verb
  1. To leave out or exclude.
  2. To fail to perform.
  3. To neglect or take no notice of.

onetime

adjective
  1. (principally US) Former.
  2. (principally US) Occurring or used in a single instance and then never again.

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).

ooze

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
  2. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
  3. Secretion, humour.
  4. Juice, sap.
verb
  1. To be secreted or slowly leak.
  2. To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
  2. A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
  3. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

ozone

noun
  1. An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O₃) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a blue gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.
  2. Fresh air, especially that breathed at the seaside and smelling of seaweed.
verb
  1. To treat with ozone.

tenon

noun
  1. A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame.
verb
  1. To make into a tenon.
  2. To fit with tenons.

tome

noun
  1. One in a series of volumes.
  2. A large or scholarly book.

tomtit

noun
  1. Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.

tone

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A specific pitch.
  2. (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
  3. (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
  4. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
  5. General character, mood, or trend.
  6. The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
  7. A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
  8. The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
  9. State of mind; temper; mood.
  10. The shade or quality of a colour.
  11. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
  12. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
  13. The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
  14. Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
  15. A gun
verb
  1. To give a particular tone to
  2. To change the colour of
  3. To make (something) firmer
  4. To harmonize, especially in colour
  5. To utter with an affected tone.

Etymology 2

pronoun
  1. The one (of two)

tonne

noun
  1. A metric unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. Symbol: t
  2. A score of 100.

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.

toonie

No Definition Found.

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.

tote

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tote bag.
  2. A heavy burden.
  3. (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
verb
  1. To carry or bear.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To add up; to calculate a total.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
  2. Pari-mutuel betting.

totem

noun
  1. Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family.
  2. The representation of such object or creature.
  3. The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature.
  4. An arbitrarily chosen object serving as a reminder to check whether one is awake or not, to aid in having lucid dreams.

zone

noun
  1. Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
  2. Any given region or area of the world.
  3. A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
  4. A band or area of growth encircling anything.
  5. A band or stripe extending around a body.
  6. A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
  7. The strike zone.
  8. Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
  9. A semicircular area in front of each goal.
  10. A high-performance phase or period.
  11. A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
  12. That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
  13. (Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
  14. A belt or girdle.
  15. The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
  16. (perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
  17. A circuit; a circumference.
verb
  1. To divide into or assign sections or areas.
  2. To define the property use classification of an area.
  3. To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
  4. To girdle or encircle.

zoom

verb
  1. To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software.
noun
  1. A humming noise from something moving very fast
  2. A quick ascent
  3. A big increase
  4. An augmentation of a view
verb
  1. To move fast with a humming noise
  2. To fly an airplane straight up
  3. To move rapidly
  4. To go up sharply
  5. To change the focal length of a zoom lens
  6. (used with in or out) to manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it
interjection
  1. Representing a humming sound
  2. Suggesting something moving quickly
  3. Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase

timezone

No Definition Found.