Tuesday, August 26, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 147

Number of Answers: 28

Points Needed for Genius: 103

Genius requires between 13 and 26 words. You need at least a 9-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 93% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 60% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 147 was in the 38th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 20, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 28 possible answers rank it in the 20th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 21, 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 August 24, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.7.
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 202
  • toot 195
  • 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
  • baba 112
  • papa 112
  • poop 112
  • lull 111
  • lulu 111
  • call 108
  • calla 108
  • mitt 108
  • tutu 107
  • mono 106
  • moon 106
  • ratatat 106
  • tart 106
  • tartar 106
  • attar 105
  • cocci 105
  • tattoo 105
  • tatty 105
  • ammo 104
  • momma 104
  • allay 103
  • ally 103
  • loon 102
  • epee 100
  • peep 100
  • roar 99


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 105,903 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,736 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*:

  • deme
  • emeu
  • feme
  • hmmm
  • humified
  • idem
  • imid
  • imide
  • medii
  • meed
  • mudded
  • mumm
  • mummed
  • mummied
  • mumu
  • ummed

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

deem

noun
  1. An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.
verb
  1. To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
  2. To adjudge, to decree.
  3. To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
  4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
  5. To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

deemed

verb
  1. To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
  2. To adjudge, to decree.
  3. To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
  4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
  5. To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
adjective
  1. An accreditation awarded to higher educational institutions in India.

dehumidified

verb
  1. To reduce the moisture in a body of air; to lower the humidity.

dime

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.
  2. A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
  3. A small amount of money
  4. An assist
  5. A playing card with the rank of ten
  6. Ten dollars
  7. A thousand dollars
  8. A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
  9. Payment responsibility
  10. A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale)
  11. A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. (with "on") To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
  2. To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).

dimmed

verb
  1. To make something less bright.
  2. To become darker.
  3. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct
  4. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.

dumdum

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An ignorant person; an idiot.

dummied

verb
  1. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
  2. To feint.

femme

noun
  1. A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl.
  2. A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.
  3. A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.
adjective
  1. (entertainment) Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.
  2. Effeminate (of a man).
  3. Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman.

fume

noun
  1. A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
  2. A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
  3. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
  4. Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
  5. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
  6. A passionate person.
verb
  1. To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
  2. To apply or offer incense to.
  3. To emit fumes.
  4. To pass off in fumes or vapours.
  5. To express or feel great anger.
  6. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

fumed

verb
  1. To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
  2. To apply or offer incense to.
  3. To emit fumes.
  4. To pass off in fumes or vapours.
  5. To express or feel great anger.
  6. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

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.

hemmed

verb
  1. To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
verb
  1. (in sewing) To make a hem.
  2. : To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
  3. : To surround something or someone in a confining way.

humid

adjective
  1. Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery.

humidified

adjective
  1. Modified by humidification
verb
  1. To increase the humidity in the air.

hummed

verb
  1. To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
  2. To express by humming.
  3. To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
  4. To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
  5. To produce low sounds which blend continuously
  6. To reek, smell bad.
  7. To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.

medium

noun
  1. (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
  2. (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
  3. (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information.
  4. (plural media or mediums) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
  5. (plural media or mediums) A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
  6. (plural media or mediums) The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
  7. (plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
  8. (plural mediums or media) A tool used for painting or drawing.
  9. (plural mediums) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
  10. (plural mediums) Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
  11. (plural mediums) A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
  12. (plural mediums) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
  13. A middle place or degree.
  14. An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
  15. The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
adjective
  1. Arithmetically average.
  2. Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
  3. Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.
adverb
  1. To a medium extent

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.

midi

noun
  1. A native or inhabitant of Berlin.
  2. A doughnut with a sweet filling.
  3. A newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 315 by 470 millimetres (12.4 in × 18.5 inches), slightly taller and wider than a tabloid but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet.
noun
  1. A coat or skirt having such a hemline.
adjective
  1. Having a hemline at mid-calf length.

miff

noun
  1. A small argument; a quarrel.
  2. A state of being offended.
verb
  1. (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly.
  2. To become slightly offended.

miffed

verb
  1. (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly.
  2. To become slightly offended.
adjective
  1. Somewhat indignant, irritated, angry, put out or annoyed.

mime

noun
  1. A form of acting without words; pantomime.
  2. A pantomime actor.
  3. A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
  4. A performer of such a farce.
  5. A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
  6. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.
verb
  1. To mimic.
  2. To act without words.
  3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

mimed

verb
  1. To mimic.
  2. To act without words.
  3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

muddied

adjective
  1. Made dirty with mud.
  2. Made unclear, obfuscated (generally as part of the phrase muddied the water)
  3. Made muted of color.
verb
  1. To get mud on (something).
  2. To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle.

muff

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
  2. Female pubic hair; female genitals.
  3. A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
  4. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
  5. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
  2. An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
  3. A bird, the whitethroat.
verb
  1. To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
  2. To mishandle; to bungle.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A muffin.

muffed

verb
  1. To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
  2. To mishandle; to bungle.
adjective
  1. Wearing a muff.

mummified

adjective
  1. Preserved, for a dead body, by mummification.
verb
  1. To make into a mummy, by preserving a dead body.
  2. To become a mummy.

muumuu

noun
  1. A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches).

memed

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