Monday, September 29, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 114

Number of Answers: 30

Points Needed for Genius: 80

Genius requires between 12 and 27 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 81% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 114 was in the 20th 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 30 possible answers rank it in the 25th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 27, 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 26, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
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 214
  • loll 203
  • toot 197
  • naan 180
  • nana 180
  • lilt 144
  • till 144
  • tilt 144
  • mama 139
  • mamma 139
  • nene 139
  • tint 139
  • acacia 133
  • acai 133
  • onto 131
  • toon 131
  • onion 127
  • anal 122
  • anon 121
  • dodo 119
  • tact 118
  • olio 116
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • baba 114
  • papa 114
  • poop 114
  • lull 111
  • lulu 111
  • call 109
  • calla 109
  • mitt 108
  • mono 107
  • moon 107
  • ratatat 107
  • tart 107
  • tartar 107
  • tutu 107
  • allay 106
  • ally 106
  • attar 106
  • cocci 106
  • tattoo 106
  • ammo 105
  • loon 105
  • momma 105
  • tatty 105
  • epee 101
  • peep 101
  • roar 100


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 107,406 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,801 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*:

  • atap
  • caponata
  • capot
  • captan
  • caput
  • coapt
  • napa
  • nappa
  • paan
  • paca
  • panto
  • pataca
  • patoot
  • paua
  • poco
  • ponton
  • poon
  • popout
  • potto
  • puccoon
  • puna
  • puncta
  • punto
  • pupu
  • puton
  • putto
  • topo

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

atop

adverb
  1. On, to, or at the top.
preposition
  1. On the top of.
  2. On the top, with "of".

capo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
  2. A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches.

capon

noun
  1. A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
verb
  1. To castrate; to make a capon of.

catnap

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A brief, light sleep.
verb
  1. To take a catnap, to take a short sleep or nap.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To kidnap a cat.

coop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
  2. A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
  3. A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
  4. A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
verb
  1. To keep in a coop.
  2. To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
  3. To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
  4. (law enforcement) Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
  5. To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.
  2. A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small heap.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A unit of a housing co-operative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.
  2. Any co-operative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.
  3. Any shop owned by a co-operative.
  4. A co-operative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.

coopt

verb
  1. To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee.
  2. To commandeer, appropriate or take over.
  3. To absorb or assimilate into an established group.

copout

noun
  1. Avoidance or inadequate performance of a task or duty; the action of copping out.
  2. An excuse made in order to avoid performing a task or duty; a reason offered when someone cops out.
  3. A person who cops out.

coup

noun
  1. A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
  2. (of Native Americans) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.
  3. A coup d'état.
  4. (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
  5. A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
  6. One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
verb
  1. To make a coup.

coupon

noun
  1. A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc.
  2. A voucher issued by a manufacturer or retailer which offers a discount on a particular product.
  3. A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
  4. Any interest payment made or due on a bond, debenture or similar (no longer by a physical coupon).
  5. The letter sent to parliamentary candidates at the 1918 general election, endorsing them as official representatives of the coalition government.
  6. A person's face.
verb
  1. To use coupons to a such extent that makes the user actively looking for coupons in magazines, online and whatever they can be found.

cuppa

noun
  1. (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada) A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
  2. (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada) Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea.
  3. Pronunciation spelling of cup of.

cutup

noun
  1. Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.

occupant

noun
  1. A person who occupies an office or a position.
  2. A person who occupies a place.
  3. The owner or tenant of a property.

output

noun
  1. Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
  2. Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.
  3. The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
verb
  1. To produce, create, or complete.
  2. To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.

pact

noun
  1. An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
  2. An agreement between two or more nations
verb
  1. To form a pact; to agree formally.

pant

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
  2. Eager longing.
  3. A violent palpitation of the heart.
verb
  1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
  2. To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  3. To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
  4. Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
  5. To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
  6. To heave, as the breast.
  7. To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
  2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

pontoon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge.
  2. A floating structure supporting a bridge or dock.
  3. A box used to raise a sunken vessel.
  4. A float of a seaplane.
  5. A lighter or barge used for loading or unloading ships.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.

poop

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Fecal matter, feces.
  2. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch.
verb
  1. To make a short blast on a horn
  2. To break wind.
  3. To defecate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stern of a ship.
  2. The poop deck.
verb
  1. To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
  2. To embark a ship over the stern.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A slothful person.

poppa

noun
  1. (sometimes childish) father, papa.

potato

noun
  1. The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
  2. A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
  3. A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
  4. A mentally handicapped person.
  5. An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.

pout

Etymology 1

noun
  1. One's facial expression when pouting.
  2. A fit of sulking or sullenness.
verb
  1. To push out one's lips.
  2. To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
  3. To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
  4. To say while pouting.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.).
verb
  1. To shoot poults.

punt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.
verb
  1. To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.
verb
  1. To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
  2. To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
  3. To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
  4. To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A point in the game of faro.
  2. The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
  3. A bet or wager.
  4. Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs.
  5. A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
  6. A wild guess.
  7. An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
  8. A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
verb
  1. To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
  2. To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
  3. To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.

pupa

noun
  1. An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.

putout

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putt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
verb
  1. To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
  2. A motorcycle.
verb
  1. To make a putting sound.
  2. To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
  3. To move along slowly.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To place something somewhere.
  2. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
  3. To exercise a put option.
  4. To express something in a certain manner.
  5. To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
  6. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
  7. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
  8. To attach or attribute; to assign.
  9. To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
  10. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
  11. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
  12. To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

tapa

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine.

topcoat

noun
  1. A light overcoat.
  2. A layer of paint or varnish etc. applied after the undercoat.
verb
  1. To apply a topcoat to.

unapt

adjective
  1. Not apt, inappropriate, unsuited.
  2. Unaccustomed.

uncap

verb
  1. To remove a cap or cover from.
  2. To take off one's cap.

upon

adverb
  1. Being the target of an action.
preposition
  1. Physically above and in contact with.
  2. Physically directly supported by.
  3. Being followed by another so as to form a series.
  4. At (a prescribed point in time).
  5. On.