Saturday, September 6, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 156

Number of Answers: 26

Points Needed for Genius: 109

Genius requires between 13 and 23 words. You need at least a 9-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 89% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 61% 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 156 was in the 43rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 31, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 26 possible answers rank it in the 14th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 5, 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 September 2, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.2.
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 211
  • loll 203
  • toot 195
  • naan 179
  • nana 179
  • lilt 144
  • till 144
  • tilt 144
  • nene 138
  • tint 138
  • mama 136
  • mamma 136
  • acacia 132
  • acai 132
  • onto 129
  • toon 129
  • onion 125
  • anal 121
  • anon 121
  • tact 117
  • olio 116
  • dodo 115
  • boob 114
  • booboo 114
  • baba 113
  • 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
  • allay 105
  • ally 105
  • attar 105
  • tattoo 105
  • tatty 105
  • ammo 104
  • momma 104
  • loon 103
  • epee 100
  • peep 100
  • roar 99


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 106,427 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,777 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*:

  • coved
  • devel
  • develed
  • develope
  • developpe
  • leveed
  • levelled
  • levo
  • ovolo
  • poove
  • veepee
  • veloce
  • voled
  • voodooed

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

clove

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
  2. A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
  3. An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
  2. To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
  3. To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
  4. To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
  5. To split.
  6. Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch

codevelop

No Definition Found.

codeveloped

No Definition Found.

coevolve

verb
  1. To evolve, along with another organism, via coevolution.

coevolved

verb
  1. To evolve, along with another organism, via coevolution.
adjective
  1. That has evolved, along with another organism, via coevolution

cove

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
  2. A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
  3. A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
  4. A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
  5. A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
  6. The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
  7. A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
verb
  1. To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (thieves' cant) A fellow; a man.
  2. A friend; a mate.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.

delve

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
  2. To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
  3. To dig, to excavate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pit or den.

delved

verb
  1. To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
  2. To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
  3. To dig, to excavate.

develop

verb
  1. To change with a specific direction, progress.
  2. To progress through a sequence of stages.
  3. To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
  4. To create.
  5. To bring out images latent in photographic film.
  6. To acquire something usually over a period of time.
  7. To place one's pieces actively.
  8. To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
  9. To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

developed

verb
  1. To change with a specific direction, progress.
  2. To progress through a sequence of stages.
  3. To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
  4. To create.
  5. To bring out images latent in photographic film.
  6. To acquire something usually over a period of time.
  7. To place one's pieces actively.
  8. To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
  9. To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
adjective
  1. (said of a country) Not primitive; not third-world.
  2. Mature.
  3. Containing man-made structures such as roads, sewers, electric lines, buildings, and so on.
  4. Having useful or necessary infrastructure.
  5. Advanced, fully formed.

devolve

verb
  1. To roll (something) down; to unroll.
  2. To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.
  3. To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
  4. To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
  5. To degenerate; to break down.

devolved

verb
  1. To roll (something) down; to unroll.
  2. To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.
  3. To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
  4. To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
  5. To degenerate; to break down.

dove

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
  2. A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
  3. Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
  4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To swim under water.
  2. To jump into water head-first.
  3. To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
  4. To descend sharply or steeply.
  5. (especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
  6. To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
  7. To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
  8. To explore by diving; to plunge into.
  9. To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.

evolve

verb
  1. To move in regular procession through a system.
  2. To change; transform.
  3. To come into being; develop.
  4. Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
  5. To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
  6. To cause something to change or transform.

evolved

verb
  1. To move in regular procession through a system.
  2. To change; transform.
  3. To come into being; develop.
  4. Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
  5. To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
  6. To cause something to change or transform.
adjective
  1. Having arisen through a process of evolution or iterative development.
  2. Biologically gifted

levee

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
  2. The steep bank of a river.
  3. The border of an irrigated field.
  4. A pier or other landing place on a river.
verb
  1. To keep within a channel by means of levees.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
  2. A reception of visitors held after getting up.
  3. A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
verb
  1. To attend the levee or levees of.

level

noun
  1. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
  2. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
  3. Degree or amount.
  4. Achievement or qualification.
  5. Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
  6. One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
  7. A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
  8. A floor of a multi-storey building.
  9. An area of almost perfectly flat land.
  10. A school grade or year.
verb
  1. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
  2. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
  3. To progress to the next level.
  4. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
  5. To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
  6. To make the score of a game equal.
  7. To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
  8. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
  9. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.
adjective
  1. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
  2. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
  3. Unvaried in frequency.
  4. Unvaried in volume.
  5. Calm.
  6. In the same position or rank.
  7. Straightforward; direct; clear.
  8. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
  9. Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
  10. Perpendicular to a gravitational force.

leveled

verb
  1. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
  2. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
  3. To progress to the next level.
  4. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
  5. To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
  6. To make the score of a game equal.
  7. To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
  8. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
  9. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

love

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Strong affection.
  2. A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
  3. A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
  4. A thing, activity etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
  5. Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
  6. Sexual activity.
  7. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
  8. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
  9. Alternative letter-case form of Love.
  10. A thin silk material.
  11. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
verb
  1. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
  2. To need, thrive on.
  3. To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
  4. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
  5. To derive delight from a fact or situation.
  6. To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To praise; commend.
  2. To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (racquet sports) Zero, no score.

loved

verb
  1. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
  2. To need, thrive on.
  3. To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
  4. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
  5. To derive delight from a fact or situation.
  6. To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
verb
  1. To praise; commend.
  2. To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
adjective
  1. Being the object of love.

peeve

noun
  1. An annoyance or grievance.
verb
  1. To annoy; vex.

peeved

verb
  1. To annoy; vex.

veep

noun
  1. (US politics) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination.
  2. Any vice president (in a corporation, organization, etc.)

veld

noun
  1. The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries.

vole

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
verb
  1. To win all the tricks by a vole.

voodoo

noun
  1. Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.
  2. The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo.
  3. Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem.
  4. One who practices voodoo; a native sorcerer.
verb
  1. To bewitch someone or something using voodoo