Wednesday, October 1, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 5

Maximum Puzzle Score: 199

Number of Answers: 30

Points Needed for Genius: 139

Genius requires between 13 and 27 words. You need at least a 10-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 123% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 47% 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 199 was in the 64th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on September 30, 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 30, 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 10-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on September 18, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.4.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



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 145
  • till 145
  • tilt 145
  • 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 117
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • baba 114
  • papa 114
  • poop 114
  • lull 111
  • lulu 111
  • call 109
  • calla 109
  • mitt 108
  • cocci 107
  • mono 107
  • moon 107
  • ratatat 107
  • tart 107
  • tartar 107
  • tutu 107
  • allay 106
  • ally 106
  • attar 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 107,482 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,806 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*:

  • antifat
  • caff
  • caitiff
  • coff
  • coft
  • coof
  • facia
  • facta
  • faff
  • fain
  • fanion
  • fano
  • fanon
  • fantoccini
  • ficin
  • fico
  • finca
  • finfoot
  • finnan
  • fino
  • foin
  • infanta
  • naff
  • niff
  • nonfact
  • nonfan
  • offa
  • taffia
  • tafia
  • tiffin
  • toff
  • toft

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

affiant

noun
  1. The individual witness whose statement is contained in an affidavit or sworn deposition.

afoot

adjective
  1. (predicative) That is on foot, in motion, in action, in progress.
adverb
  1. On foot. (means of locomotion, walking)
  2. On foot. (support of the body, standing)
  3. In motion; in action; astir; stirring; in progress.

caftan

noun
  1. A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.
  2. A long dress or shirt similar in style to those worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.

citification

No Definition Found.

coffin

noun
  1. A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
  2. The eighth Lenormand card.
  3. A basket.
  4. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
  5. A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
  6. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
  7. A storage container for nuclear waste.
verb
  1. To place in a coffin.

coif

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A hairdo.
  2. A hood; a close-fitting cap covering much of the head, widespread until the 18th century; after that worn only by small children and country women.
  3. An item of chain mail headgear.
  4. An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To style or arrange hair.

confit

noun
  1. Any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation.
verb
  1. To prepare (food) in this manner.

fact

noun
  1. Something actual as opposed to invented.
  2. Something which is real.
  3. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
  4. An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
  5. Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
  6. An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
  7. Action; the realm of action.
  8. A wrongful or criminal deed.
  9. A feat or meritorious deed.
interjection
  1. Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

faction

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
  2. Strife; discord.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction

faint

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act of fainting, syncope.
  2. The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.
adjective
  1. (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness
  2. Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected
  3. Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp
  4. Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy
  5. Slight; minimal.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).
  2. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
  3. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

fanatic

noun
  1. A person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause, especially in religion.
adjective
  1. Fanatical.
  2. Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.

fanfic

noun
  1. Fan fiction
  2. A work of fan fiction

fiat

noun
  1. An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
  2. Authorization, permission or (official) sanction.
  3. (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
  4. (English law) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
verb
  1. (used in academic debate and role-playing games) To make (something) happen.

fiction

noun
  1. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
  2. A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
  3. A legal fiction.

finito

adjective
  1. Finished; over with

focaccia

noun
  1. A flatbread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast.
  2. A sandwich made with this type of bread.

foci

noun
  1. A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
  2. A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
  3. The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
  4. The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
  5. Concentration of attention.
  6. The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath the epicentre).
  7. The indicator of the currently active element in a user interface.
  8. The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
  9. An object used in casting a magic spell.

font

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
  2. A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
  3. Spring, source, fountain.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
  2. A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
verb
  1. To overlay (text) on the picture.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A source, wellspring, fount.

fontina

noun
  1. A pale yellow cheese from Valle d'Aosta in Italy

foot

noun
  1. A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
  2. Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
  3. (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
  4. The base or bottom of anything.
  5. The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
  6. The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
  7. A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
  8. A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
  9. A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
  10. (collective) Foot soldiers; infantry.
  11. (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
  12. The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
  13. The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
  14. The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
  15. The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
  16. The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
  17. The bottom edge of a sail.
  18. The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
  19. In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
  20. The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
  21. The globular lower domain of a protein.
  22. The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
  23. Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
  24. Recognized condition; rank; footing.
verb
  1. To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
  2. To pay (a bill).
  3. To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
  4. To walk.
  5. To tread.
  6. To set on foot; to establish; to land.
  7. To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
  8. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.

infant

noun
  1. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
  2. A minor.
  3. A noble or aristocratic youth.
verb
  1. To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.

info

noun
  1. Information.

naif

noun
  1. One who is naive.
adjective
  1. Naive.

nonfat

adjective
  1. Containing no fat; fat-free.

nonfiction

noun
  1. Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.

notification

noun
  1. The act of notifying.
  2. A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
  3. A text message on a cell phone.

officiant

noun
  1. A person who officiates at a religious ceremony (other than the Eucharist)
  2. A person who officiates at a civil (non-religious) wedding ceremony.

officiation

No Definition Found.

tiff

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small argument; a petty quarrel.
  2. Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
verb
  1. To quarrel.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To deck out; to dress.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. (British India) To have lunch.

antifa

proper noun
  1. A decentralised, radical political movement that opposes fascism.
  2. A local instance of this movement.
noun
  1. Opposition to fascism
noun
  1. A person opposed to the tenets of fascism.
adjective
  1. Opposed to the tenets of fascism; antifa.