Monday, October 13, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 104

Number of Answers: 23

Points Needed for Genius: 73

Genius requires between 11 and 20 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 83% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 104 was in the 15th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on October 10, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 23 possible answers rank it in the 7th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 18, 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 October 10, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.3.
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 217
  • loll 203
  • toot 198
  • 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 129
  • anal 123
  • anon 121
  • dodo 119
  • tact 118
  • olio 117
  • baba 115
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • papa 114
  • poop 114
  • lull 112
  • lulu 112
  • call 109
  • calla 109
  • mitt 109
  • mono 109
  • moon 109
  • ratatat 108
  • tart 108
  • tartar 108
  • attar 107
  • cocci 107
  • tutu 107
  • allay 106
  • ally 106
  • loon 106
  • tattoo 106
  • tatty 106
  • ammo 105
  • momma 105
  • epee 101
  • peep 101
  • meme 100


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 108,020 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,827 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*:

  • dicot
  • dicty
  • doit
  • dotcom
  • doty
  • ictic
  • miotic
  • mitotic
  • mity
  • motmot
  • mott
  • mycotic
  • myotic
  • ootid
  • otic
  • otitic
  • otto
  • tictoc
  • titi
  • titty
  • toco
  • tody
  • toit
  • tomcod
  • tommy
  • tommycod
  • toom
  • totty
  • toyo

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

city

noun
  1. A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
  2. A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
  3. The central business district; downtown.
  4. A large amount of something (used after the noun).

comity

noun
  1. Courtesy and considerate behaviour towards others; social harmony.
  2. Friendly understanding and mutual recognition between two entities, especially nations.

commit

noun
  1. The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
verb
  1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
  2. To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.
  3. To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
  4. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  5. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
  6. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
  7. To make a set of changes permanent.
  8. (Latinism) To confound.
  9. To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  10. To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

commodity

noun
  1. Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
  2. Something useful or valuable.
  3. Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.
  4. Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded products.
  5. Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value.
  6. Convenience; usefulness, suitability.
  7. Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage.

coot

noun
  1. Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
  2. A foolish or eccentric fellow
  3. (with the) A success; something excellent.
  4. Body louse (Pediculus humanus).

dimity

noun
  1. A light strong fabric with woven stripes or squares.

ditto

noun
  1. That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
  2. A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator.
  3. A copy; an imitation.
  4. A symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), when indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
  5. (in the plural) A suit of clothes of the same colour throughout.
verb
  1. To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
adverb
  1. As said before, likewise.
interjection
  1. Used as an expression of agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed.

ditty

noun
  1. A short verse or tune.
  2. A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated.
verb
  1. To sing; to warble a little tune.

dotty

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
  2. Having an unsteady gait.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A shotgun.
adjective
  1. Having many dots.

idiot

noun
  1. A person of low general intelligence.
  2. A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
  3. A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.
adjective
  1. Idiotic, stupid

idiotic

adjective
  1. (of a person or animal) Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; characterised with behaviour resembling idiocy.
  2. (of an action) Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish

mitt

noun
  1. A mitten
  2. An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
  3. (especially in plural) A hand.

moot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moot court.
  2. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
  3. A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  4. A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  5. An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
  6. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
adjective
  1. Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  2. Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  3. Having no practical impact or relevance.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
  2. (rural) Talk.
verb
  1. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  2. To discuss or debate.
  3. To make or declare irrelevant.
  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  5. To talk or speak.
  6. To say, utter, also insinuate.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Vagina.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
verb
  1. To take root and begin to grow.
  2. To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout.

motto

noun
  1. A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
  2. A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
  3. A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

oddity

noun
  1. An odd or strange thing or opinion.
  2. A strange person; an oddball.
  3. Strangeness.

omit

verb
  1. To leave out or exclude.
  2. To fail to perform.
  3. To neglect or take no notice of.

tidy

noun
  1. A tabletop container for pens and stationery.
  2. A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.
  3. A child's pinafore.
  4. The wren.
verb
  1. To make tidy; to neaten.
adjective
  1. Arranged neatly and in order.
  2. Not messy; neat and controlled.
  3. Satisfactory; comfortable.
  4. Generous, considerable.
  5. In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
  6. Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
  7. Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
interjection
  1. Expression of positive agreement, usually in reply to a question.

timid

adjective
  1. Lacking in courage or confidence.

timidity

noun
  1. Shyness

toddy

noun
  1. A drink made from alcoholic liquor mixed with sugar, spice and hot water.
noun
  1. The sweet sap from any of several tropical trees fermented to make an alcoholic drink.

tomtit

noun
  1. Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.

toot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The noise of a horn or whistle.
  2. (by extension) A fart; flatus.
  3. Cocaine.
  4. A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
  5. A spree of drunkness.
  6. (pronounced /tʊt/) Rubbish; tat.
  7. A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
verb
  1. To stand out, or be prominent.
  2. To peep; to look narrowly.
  3. To see; to spy.
  4. To flatulate.
  5. To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
  6. To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
  7. To go on a drinking binge.
  8. To snort (a recreational drug).
  9. To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A toilet.

itty

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