Monday, September 15, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 130

Number of Answers: 31

Points Needed for Genius: 91

Genius requires between 14 and 27 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 66% 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 130 was in the 29th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 12, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 31 possible answers rank it in the 28th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 12, 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 September 14, 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 212
  • loll 203
  • toot 196
  • naan 179
  • nana 179
  • lilt 144
  • till 144
  • tilt 144
  • nene 139
  • tint 138
  • mama 137
  • mamma 137
  • acacia 133
  • acai 133
  • onto 129
  • toon 129
  • onion 125
  • anal 121
  • anon 121
  • dodo 117
  • tact 117
  • olio 116
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • baba 114
  • papa 113
  • poop 113
  • lull 111
  • lulu 111
  • call 109
  • calla 109
  • mitt 108
  • mono 107
  • moon 107
  • ratatat 107
  • tart 107
  • tartar 107
  • tutu 107
  • attar 106
  • cocci 106
  • tattoo 106
  • allay 105
  • ally 105
  • tatty 105
  • ammo 104
  • loon 104
  • momma 104
  • epee 100
  • peep 100
  • cancan 99


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 106,818 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,784 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*:

  • awee
  • chawed
  • dawed
  • dawt
  • dawted
  • deathwatch
  • dewed
  • eeew
  • etwee
  • tawed
  • tewed
  • thew
  • twae
  • twat
  • waah
  • watcha
  • wecht
  • weet
  • weeted
  • weewee
  • weeweed
  • weta
  • whatcha

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

awed

verb
  1. To inspire fear and reverence in.
  2. To control by inspiring dread.
adjective
  1. Filled with awe.
  2. Having or showing awe.

cawed

verb
  1. To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven.

chaw

noun
  1. Chewing tobacco.
  2. A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
  3. The jaw.
verb
  1. To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud)
  2. To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider
  3. To steal.

chew

noun
  1. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
  2. Level of chewiness.
  3. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
  4. Chewing tobacco.
  5. A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
  6. The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
verb
  1. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
  2. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
  3. To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.

chewed

verb
  1. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
  2. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
  3. To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
adjective
  1. That has been chewed; masticated.

hawed

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heehaw

noun
  1. The cry of an ass or donkey.
  2. Nothing.
verb
  1. To utter the cry of an ass or donkey.
interjection
  1. The cry of an ass or donkey.

heehawed

verb
  1. To utter the cry of an ass or donkey.

hewed

verb
  1. To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
  2. To shape; to form.
  3. To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.

thaw

noun
  1. The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
  2. A warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen
verb
  1. To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen
  2. To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
  3. To grow gentle or genial.
  4. To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.

thawed

verb
  1. To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen
  2. To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
  3. To grow gentle or genial.
  4. To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.

twee

adjective
  1. Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.

tweed

noun
  1. A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.

tweet

noun
  1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
  2. An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
verb
  1. To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
  2. To post an update to Twitter.
interjection
  1. An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

tweeted

verb
  1. To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
  2. To post an update to Twitter.

wadded

verb
  1. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
  2. To wager.
  3. To insert or force a wad into.
  4. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

wade

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An act of wading.
  2. A ford; a place to cross a river.
verb
  1. To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
  2. To progress with difficulty
  3. To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
  4. To enter recklessly.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The plant Isatis tinctoria.
  2. The blue dye made from the leaves of the plant.

waded

verb
  1. To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
  2. To progress with difficulty
  3. To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
  4. To enter recklessly.

watch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A portable or wearable timepiece.
  2. The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
  3. A particular time period when guarding is kept.
  4. A person or group of people who guard.
  5. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
  6. A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
  7. A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
  8. The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
  2. To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
  3. To mind, attend, or guard.
  4. To be wary or cautious of.
  5. To attend to dangers to or regarding.
  6. To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
  7. To be vigilant or on one's guard.
  8. To act as a lookout.
  9. (of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
  10. To be awake.
  11. To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.

watched

verb
  1. To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
  2. To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
  3. To mind, attend, or guard.
  4. To be wary or cautious of.
  5. To attend to dangers to or regarding.
  6. To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
  7. To be vigilant or on one's guard.
  8. To act as a lookout.
  9. (of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
  10. To be awake.
  11. To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.

watt

noun
  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W

wedded

verb
  1. To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
  2. To take as one's spouse.
  3. To take a spouse.
  4. To join or commit to, more or less permanently, as if in marriage.
  5. To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
  6. To wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager.
adjective
  1. (of a couple) Joined in marriage.
  2. Joined as if in a marriage.

weed

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
  2. Short for duckweed.
  3. Underbrush; low shrubs.
  4. A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
  5. A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
  6. A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
  7. Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A garment or piece of clothing.
  2. Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
  3. An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
  4. (especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
  2. Lymphangitis in a horse.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To urinate.

weeded

verb
  1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

wetted

verb
  1. To cover or impregnate with liquid.
  2. To accidentally urinate in or on.
  3. To make or become wet.
  4. (soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
  5. To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
  6. To kill or seriously injure.

what

adverb
  1. (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor.
noun
  1. Something; thing; stuff.
  2. The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
  3. Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who.
adverb
  1. (usually followed by "with," but also sometimes "would" or "might," especially in finance) In some manner or degree; in part; partly. See also what with
  2. Such.
  3. Why.
  4. Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both…and.
pronoun
  1. (interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.
  2. That which; those that; the thing that.
  3. (relative) That; which; who.
  4. Whatever.
interjection
  1. An expression of surprise or disbelief.
  2. What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires.
  3. Clipping of what do you say?
  4. What did you say? I beg your pardon?
  5. (typically with a) An intensifier to an adjective phrase; used to begin a sentence.

wheat

noun
  1. Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
  2. A light brown colour, like that of wheat.
adjective
  1. Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

whee

interjection
  1. An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion.

whet

noun
  1. The act of whetting something.
  2. That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer.
verb
  1. To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.
  2. To stimulate or make more keen.
  3. To preen.

whetted

verb
  1. To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.
  2. To stimulate or make more keen.
  3. To preen.
adjective
  1. (of a surface) exposed to a working fluid

whew

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover.
interjection
  1. An expressive sound made indicating the release of one's inner tension; the release of breath; an expression of relief.
  2. An expression of amazement or surprise.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To bustle about.