Friday, October 17, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 139

Number of Answers: 38

Points Needed for Genius: 97

Genius requires between 13 and 35 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 91% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 61% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 139 was in the 34th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on October 13, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 38 possible answers rank it in the 47th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on October 14, 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 an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on October 6, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.9.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

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 218
  • loll 204
  • toot 199
  • naan 181
  • nana 181
  • lilt 146
  • till 146
  • tilt 146
  • nene 141
  • tint 140
  • mama 139
  • mamma 139
  • acacia 133
  • acai 133
  • onto 133
  • toon 133
  • onion 130
  • anal 123
  • anon 121
  • dodo 119
  • olio 118
  • tact 118
  • baba 115
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • papa 114
  • poop 114
  • lull 112
  • lulu 112
  • call 109
  • calla 109
  • mitt 109
  • mono 109
  • moon 109
  • cocci 108
  • ratatat 108
  • tart 108
  • tartar 108
  • tutu 108
  • attar 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 108,213 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,831 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*:

  • bezil
  • bilbo
  • billie
  • bleb
  • blooie
  • bole
  • elemi
  • emblemize
  • emboli
  • lezzie
  • libellee
  • lilo
  • limbi
  • looie
  • mell
  • mille
  • millieme
  • millime
  • millimole
  • milo
  • mizzle
  • mollie
  • mool
  • obeli
  • obelize
  • obol
  • obole
  • oboli
  • zill
  • zizzle

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