Wednesday, October 8, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 195

Number of Answers: 42

Points Needed for Genius: 137

Genius requires between 20 and 36 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 76% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% 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 195 was in the 62nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 7, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 42 possible answers rank it in the 57th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on October 7, 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 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on October 4, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.5.
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 216
  • loll 203
  • toot 197
  • naan 181
  • nana 181
  • lilt 146
  • till 146
  • tilt 146
  • nene 141
  • tint 140
  • mama 139
  • mamma 139
  • acacia 133
  • acai 133
  • onto 132
  • toon 132
  • onion 128
  • anal 123
  • 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
  • mono 108
  • moon 108
  • ratatat 108
  • tart 108
  • tartar 108
  • attar 107
  • cocci 107
  • tutu 107
  • allay 106
  • ally 106
  • tattoo 106
  • tatty 106
  • ammo 105
  • loon 105
  • momma 105
  • epee 101
  • peep 101
  • roar 100


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 107,818 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,825 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*:

  • adnexa
  • ananda
  • anna
  • annexe
  • awned
  • daneweed
  • dawen
  • deaned
  • dedenda
  • deewan
  • dene
  • denned
  • dewan
  • dudeen
  • duende
  • duenna
  • nanna
  • unadded
  • unannexed
  • unau
  • unawed
  • unaxed
  • unde
  • undee
  • unended
  • wanned
  • ween
  • weened

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

addend

noun
  1. Any one of two or more numbers or other terms that are to be added together.
  2. A moiety added to another molecule.
verb
  1. To furnish with an addendum.
  2. To furnish with an addend.

addenda

noun
  1. Something to be added; especially text added as an appendix or supplement to a document.
  2. A postscript.
  3. The height by which the tooth of a gear projects beyond (outside for external, or inside for internal) the standard pitch circle or pitch line.

anew

adverb
  1. Again, once more; afresh, in a new way, newly.

annex

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An addition, an extension.
  2. An appendix to a book or document.
  3. An addition or extension to a building.
  4. An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.
  2. To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.
  3. To join; to be united.

annexed

verb
  1. To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.
  2. To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.
  3. To join; to be united.

dawn

noun
  1. The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
  2. The rising of the sun.
  3. The time when the sun rises.
  4. The earliest phase of something.
verb
  1. To begin to brighten with daylight.
  2. To start to appear or be realized.
  3. To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

dawned

verb
  1. To begin to brighten with daylight.
  2. To start to appear or be realized.
  3. To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

deaden

verb
  1. To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
  2. To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).
  3. To make soundproof.

deadened

verb
  1. To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
  2. To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).
  3. To make soundproof.

dean

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).
  2. A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
  3. The senior member of some group of people.
verb
  1. To serve as a dean.
  2. To send (a student) to see the dean of a university.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (chiefly in place names) A hill.

denude

verb
  1. To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.

denuded

verb
  1. To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.
adjective
  1. Exposed by erosion

dune

noun
  1. A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind.

dunned

verb
  1. To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
  2. To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
verb
  1. To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.

ended

verb
  1. To come to an end
  2. To finish, terminate.
adjective
  1. (in combination) Having (a specified kind or number of) ends.

endue

verb
  1. To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.
  2. To take on, to take the form of.
  3. To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something).
  4. To invest (someone) with a given quality, property etc.; to endow.

endued

verb
  1. To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.
  2. To take on, to take the form of.
  3. To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something).
  4. To invest (someone) with a given quality, property etc.; to endow.

ennead

noun
  1. The number nine.
  2. Any grouping or system containing nine objects.

naan

noun
  1. A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

nada

pronoun
  1. Nothing.

nana

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A banana
  2. A fool

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (term of endearment) one's grandmother
  2. A nanny

need

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A requirement for something; something needed.
  2. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To have an absolute requirement for.
  2. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
  3. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
  4. To be required; to be necessary.
  5. To be necessary (to someone).

needed

verb
  1. To have an absolute requirement for.
  2. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
  3. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
  4. To be required; to be necessary.
  5. To be necessary (to someone).
adjective
  1. Necessary; being required.

nene

noun
  1. The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

nude

noun
  1. A painting, sculpture, photograph or other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress.
  2. (with article, "the nude") The state of total nudity.
  3. A color that resembles or evokes bare flesh; a paint, dye, etc. of such color.
adjective
  1. Without clothing or other covering of the skin; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.
  2. Characterized by the nudity of people concerned or to whom the described noun is attributed.
  3. (of clothing, makeup, etc) Of a color (such as beige or tan) that evokes bare flesh.
  4. Not valid; void.

undead

noun
  1. (horror fiction) A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.
noun
  1. (horror fiction) Those creatures which are undead; that is, dead yet still animate.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
  2. (horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living.

undue

adjective
  1. Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.
  2. That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified.
  3. (of a payment etc) Not owing or payable.

unneeded

adjective
  1. Not needed.

unwaxed

adjective
  1. Not waxed.

unweaned

adjective
  1. (especially of an animal) Not yet weaned; still being suckled.
  2. Naive, wet behind the ears, green, inexperienced.

unwed

noun
  1. One who is not married; a bachelor or a spinster.
verb
  1. To annul the marriage of.
  2. To separate.
adjective
  1. Not married.

unwedded

adjective
  1. Not wedded.
  2. Not united together; poorly matched or discordant.

unweeded

verb
  1. To remove weeds from; to weed.
adjective
  1. Not weeded

wand

noun
  1. A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
  2. (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
  3. A magic wand.
  4. A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
  5. A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
verb
  1. To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.

wane

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
  2. The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
  3. The end of a period.
  4. A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
verb
  1. To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
  2. Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
  3. Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
  4. Said of a time period that comes to an end.
  5. To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
  6. To cause to decrease.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A child.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A house or dwelling.

waned

verb
  1. To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
  2. Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
  3. Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
  4. Said of a time period that comes to an end.
  5. To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
  6. To cause to decrease.
adjective
  1. Having wanes, i.e. rounded corners caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.

waxen

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Grown.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
  2. To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
  3. To defeat utterly.
  4. To kill, especially to murder a person.
  5. (usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
verb
  1. To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
  2. To grow.
  3. (of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
  4. (of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Made of wax; covered with wax.
  2. Of or pertaining to wax.
  3. Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
  4. Easily effaced, as if written in wax.

wean

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weaned

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wend

noun
  1. A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
verb
  1. To turn; change.
  2. To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
  3. To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
  4. To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

wended

verb
  1. To turn; change.
  2. To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
  3. To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
  4. To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

wanna

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