Sunday, August 31, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 148

Number of Answers: 33

Points Needed for Genius: 104

Genius requires between 17 and 28 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 78% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

The button below will reveal a chart with the number of words by each letter. Red bars indicate that there is a pangram(s) starting with that letter.


How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 148 was in the 38th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 26, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 33 possible answers rank it in the 33rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 26, 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 August 25, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
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 210
  • loll 202
  • toot 195
  • naan 178
  • nana 178
  • lilt 144
  • till 144
  • tilt 144
  • nene 138
  • tint 138
  • mama 136
  • mamma 136
  • acacia 131
  • acai 131
  • onto 129
  • toon 129
  • onion 125
  • anal 120
  • anon 120
  • olio 116
  • tact 116
  • dodo 115
  • boob 113
  • booboo 113
  • baba 112
  • papa 112
  • poop 112
  • lull 111
  • lulu 111
  • call 108
  • calla 108
  • mitt 108
  • tutu 107
  • cocci 106
  • mono 106
  • moon 106
  • ratatat 106
  • tart 106
  • tartar 106
  • attar 105
  • tattoo 105
  • tatty 105
  • allay 104
  • ally 104
  • ammo 104
  • momma 104
  • loon 102
  • epee 100
  • peep 100
  • roar 99


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 106,162 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,746 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*:

  • chico
  • chirm
  • chiro
  • chirr
  • chiru
  • choc
  • choric
  • chromic
  • chromo
  • churr
  • coccic
  • coco
  • comm
  • commo
  • cooch
  • coocoo
  • corium
  • corm
  • cruor
  • curch
  • curr
  • huic
  • humic
  • micrococci
  • microhm
  • micromho
  • mouch
  • mouchoir
  • mucor
  • mucro
  • ohmic

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

chic

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Good form; style.
  2. A person with (a particular type of) chic.
adjective
  1. Elegant, stylish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A kind of ritual buffoon or clown in Yucatec Maya culture.

chichi

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (Latin America, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.

choir

noun
  1. Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together.
  2. The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
  3. (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
  4. Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
verb
  1. To sing in concert.

chromium

noun
  1. A chemical element (symbol Cr) with an atomic number of 24: a steely-grey, lustrous, hard and brittle transition metal.

chum

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A friend; a pal.
  2. A roommate, especially in a college or university.
verb
  1. To share rooms with someone; to live together.
  2. To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
  3. To make friends; to socialize.
  4. To accompany.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks
verb
  1. To cast chum into the water to attract fish.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.

church

noun
  1. A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
  2. Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.
  3. A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
  4. A particular denomination of Christianity.
  5. (as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
  6. Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
  7. Any religious group.
  8. Assembly.
verb
  1. To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
  2. To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.

churro

noun
  1. A fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage.

cirri

noun
  1. A tendril.
  2. A thin tendril-like appendage.
  3. A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres.

cocci

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any approximately spherical bacterium.
  2. One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Coccidioidomycosis

coho

noun
  1. An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean, used as a symbol by several Native American tribes.

coir

noun
  1. The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.

comic

noun
  1. A comedian.
  2. A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
  3. A children's newspaper.
adjective
  1. Funny; amusing; comical.
  2. Relating to comedy.

couch

noun
  1. Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.

croc

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A crocodile.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A plastic slip-on shoe.

croci

noun
  1. A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
  2. Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
  3. A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
  4. A fraudulent doctor; a quack.

crouch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A bent or stooped position.
verb
  1. To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.
  2. To bend servilely; to bow in reverence or humility.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cross.
verb
  1. To sign with the cross; bless.

curio

noun
  1. A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.

curium

noun
  1. A transuranic chemical element (symbol Cm) with an atomic number of 96.

hooch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.

ichor

noun
  1. The liquid that in Greek mythology was said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods
  2. Any bloodlike fluid
  3. A watery, fetid discharge from a sore
  4. Yellow bile

micro

noun
  1. (gaming slang) micromanagement
verb
  1. (gaming slang) to micromanage
adjective
  1. Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.
noun
  1. A computer designed around a microprocessor, smaller than a minicomputer or a mainframe.
noun
  1. The field of economics that deals with small-scale economic activities such as those of an individual or company.

mimic

noun
  1. A person who practices mimicry, or mime.
  2. An imitation.
verb
  1. To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
  2. To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
  2. Mock, pretended.
  3. Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

mochi

No Definition Found.

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.

morocco

noun
  1. A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
  2. A sheepskin leather in imitation of this.
  3. A very strong ale, anciently brewed in Cumberland.

much

adjective
  1. Large, great.
  2. Long in duration.
adverb
  1. To a great extent.
  2. Often; frequently.
  3. (in combinations such as 'as much', 'this much') Used to indicate or compare extent.
  4. Almost.
pronoun
  1. A large amount or great extent.

mucho

adjective
  1. Much; a great deal of

occur

verb
  1. To happen or take place.
  2. To present or offer itself.
  3. To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.
  4. To be present or found.

ouch

Etymology 1

interjection
  1. An expression of one's own physical pain.
  2. An expression in sympathy at another's pain.
  3. A reply to an insult seen as savage (frequently one that is tongue-in-cheek or joking).
  4. An expression of disappointment.
  5. Expressing surprise at the high price of something.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels.

rich

verb
  1. To enrich.
  2. To become rich.
adjective
  1. Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
  2. Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
  3. Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
  4. Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
  5. Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
  6. Not faint or delicate; vivid.
  7. Very amusing.
  8. Ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, preposterous.
  9. Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
  10. Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
  11. Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

rococo

noun
  1. A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to the rococo style.
  2. Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.
  3. Old-fashioned.

uric

adjective
  1. Pertaining to, contained in, or obtained from urine.

romcom

noun
  1. A genre of fiction, especially film, that presents love stories in a humorous and light-hearted way.
  2. Such a story.