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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 364

Number of Answers: 66

Points Needed for Genius: 255

Genius requires between 35 and 55 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 77% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 364 was in the 99th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 2, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 66 possible answers rank it in the 96th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on October 16, 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 21, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.9.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 219
  • loll 206
  • toot 200
  • naan 181
  • nana 181
  • lilt 146
  • till 146
  • tilt 146
  • nene 141
  • tint 141
  • mama 139
  • mamma 139
  • acacia 134
  • acai 134
  • onto 133
  • toon 133
  • onion 130
  • anal 123
  • anon 121
  • dodo 119
  • olio 119
  • tact 118
  • baba 116
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • papa 114
  • poop 114
  • lull 112
  • lulu 112
  • call 110
  • calla 110
  • cocci 109
  • mitt 109
  • mono 109
  • moon 109
  • ratatat 108
  • tart 108
  • tartar 108
  • tutu 108
  • attar 107
  • loon 107
  • allay 106
  • ally 106
  • tattoo 106
  • tatty 106
  • ammo 105
  • momma 105
  • epee 102
  • peep 102
  • coot 100


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 108,509 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,846 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*:

  • dipeptide
  • dipnet
  • dipnetted
  • dipt
  • imped
  • impendent
  • impi
  • neep
  • pedimented
  • peened
  • pein
  • peined
  • penni
  • pennine
  • pentene
  • pentimenti
  • peptid
  • petti
  • piemen
  • pinene
  • pinite
  • pipetted
  • pipped
  • pitmen

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

deep

noun
  1. (with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
  2. (with "the") A silent time; quiet isolation.
  3. A deep shade of colour.
  4. The profound part of a problem.
  5. (with "the") The sea, the ocean.
  6. A fielding position near the boundary.
adjective
  1. (of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards.
  2. (intellectual, social) Complex, involved.
  3. (sound, voice) Low in pitch.
  4. (of a color) Highly saturated.
  5. (sleep) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
  6. Immersed, submerged (in).
  7. Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
  8. (of time) Distant in the past, ancient.
adverb
  1. Deeply.

deepen

verb
  1. To make deep or deeper
  2. To make darker or more intense; to darken
  3. To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
  4. To make lower in tone
  5. To make more thorough or extensive.
  6. To make more intimate.
  7. To make more sound or heavy.
  8. To become deeper
  9. To become darker or more intense
  10. To become lower in tone
  11. To become more thorough or extensive.
  12. To become more intimate.
  13. To become more sound or heavy.

deepened

verb
  1. To make deep or deeper
  2. To make darker or more intense; to darken
  3. To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
  4. To make lower in tone
  5. To make more thorough or extensive.
  6. To make more intimate.
  7. To make more sound or heavy.
  8. To become deeper
  9. To become darker or more intense
  10. To become lower in tone
  11. To become more thorough or extensive.
  12. To become more intimate.
  13. To become more sound or heavy.

depend

verb
  1. (followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.
  2. (followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
  3. To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
  4. To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.

depended

verb
  1. (followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.
  2. (followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
  3. To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
  4. To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.

dependent

noun
  1. One who relies on another for support
  2. (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
  3. (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
adjective
  1. Relying upon; depending upon.
  2. Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
  3. (of Scottish Gaelic, Manx and Irish verb forms) Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions.
  4. Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
  5. Hanging down.

dipped

verb
  1. To lower into a liquid.
  2. To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
  3. (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
  4. To lower a light's beam.
  5. To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
  6. To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
  7. To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
  8. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
  9. To immerse for baptism.
  10. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
  11. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
  12. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
  13. To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
  14. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
  15. To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
  16. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
  17. To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
  18. To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
  19. To leave.
  20. To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
adjective
  1. That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
  2. Of headlights: lowered.
  3. Caught up in debt; mortgaged.

emptied

verb
  1. To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
  2. Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.

epee

noun
  1. A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.

impede

verb
  1. To get in the way of; to hinder.

impeded

verb
  1. To get in the way of; to hinder.

impediment

noun
  1. A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress.
  2. A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.
  3. (chiefly in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.

impend

verb
  1. To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
  2. Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
  3. To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
  4. To pay.

impended

verb
  1. To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
  2. Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
  3. To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
  4. To pay.

impenitent

noun
  1. One who is not penitent.
adjective
  1. Not penitent; not repent one's sins

independent

noun
  1. A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a freethinker, free of a party platform.
  2. A neutral or uncommitted person.
  3. A team not affiliated with any league or conference.
adjective
  1. Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.
  2. Not affiliated with any political party.
  3. Providing a comfortable livelihood.
  4. Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
  5. Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.

inept

adjective
  1. Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
  2. Unfit; unsuitable.

ninepin

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nipped

verb
  1. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
  2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
  3. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  4. To annoy, as by nipping.
  5. To taunt.
  6. To squeeze or pinch.
  7. To steal; especially to cut a purse.
verb
  1. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

pediment

noun
  1. A classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns; fronton.

peed

verb
  1. To urinate.
  2. (mildly vulgar) To drizzle.

peen

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.
verb
  1. To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Penis.

peep

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird.
  2. A feeble utterance or complaint.
  3. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
  4. A kind of bird; a sandpiper.
verb
  1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
  2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
  2. The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
verb
  1. To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
  2. To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spot on a die or domino.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Person.

peeped

verb
  1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
  2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.
verb
  1. To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
  2. To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

pend

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pended

No Definition Found.

pendent

noun
  1. A supporting post attached to the main rafter.
  2. A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck.
  3. The dangling part of an earring.
  4. A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant.
  5. One of a pair; a counterpart.
  6. An appendix or addition, as to a book.
  7. (in the plural) Testicles.
  8. A pendulum.
  9. The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
  10. A lamp hanging from the roof.
  11. An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
  12. A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
adjective
  1. Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
  2. Pending in various senses.
  3. (of a structure) either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
  4. (grammar, of a sentence) incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
  5. Projecting over something; overhanging.

penitent

noun
  1. One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his or her transgressions.
  2. One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
  3. One under the direction of a confessor.
adjective
  1. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt.
  2. Doing penance.

penmen

noun
  1. A scribe, or person who copies texts
  2. A journalist or other author

penne

noun
  1. A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.

penned

verb
  1. To enclose in a pen.
verb
  1. To write (an article, a book, etc.).
adjective
  1. Winged; having plumes

pent

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To enclose in a pen.
noun
  1. Confinement; concealment.
adjective
  1. Confined in a pen, imprisoned.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pentatonic scale.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A pentacle or pentagram.

pepped

verb
  1. To inject with energy and enthusiasm.

peptide

noun
  1. Any of a class of organic compounds consisting of various numbers of amino acids in which the amine of one is reacted with the carboxylic acid of the next to form an amide bond.
  2. The peptide bond itself.

petit

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy.
  2. A kind of pigeon.
adjective
  1. (of size) Petite: small, little.
  2. Petty, in its various senses:

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.

petite

adjective
  1. (especially of a woman) fairly short and of slim build.
  2. (clothing) of small size.
  3. Small, little; insignificant; petty.

petted

verb
  1. To stroke or fondle (an animal).
  2. To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
  3. Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously.
  4. To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
  5. To be a pet.
  6. To be peevish; to sulk.

pied

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Having two or more colors, especially black and white.
  2. Decorated or colored in blotches.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To spill or mix printing type.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
  2. To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
  3. (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.

pimp

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
  2. A man who can easily attract women.
verb
  1. To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  2. To prostitute someone.
  3. To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).
  4. To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
  5. To promote, to tout.
  6. To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
adjective
  1. Excellent, fashionable, stylish

Etymology 2

numeral
  1. Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

pimped

verb
  1. To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  2. To prostitute someone.
  3. To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).
  4. To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
  5. To promote, to tout.
  6. To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.

pine

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
  2. Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  3. The wood of this tree.
  4. (obsolete except South Africa) A pineapple.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A painful longing.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
  2. To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
  3. To grieve or mourn for.
  4. To inflict pain upon; to torment.

pined

verb
  1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
  2. To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
  3. To grieve or mourn for.
  4. To inflict pain upon; to torment.

pinned

verb
  1. To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.
verb
  1. (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
  2. (usually in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
  3. To pin down (someone).
  4. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  5. To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.
  6. To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
  7. To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
adjective
  1. Having (a specified kind or number of) pins.

pinniped

noun
  1. Any of various large marine mammals belonging to the superfamily (formerly considered a suborder) Pinnipedia comprising walruses, eared seals and earless seals.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to or similar to such a mammal.

pint

noun
  1. A unit of volume, equivalent to:
  2. (metonym) A pint of milk.
  3. (metonymy) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.

pipe

noun
  1. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
  2. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
  3. Meanings relating to a container.
  4. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
  5. Meanings relating to computing.
  6. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
verb
  1. To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
  2. To shout loudly and at high pitch.
  3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  4. Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
  5. To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
  6. To install or configure with pipes.
  7. To dab moisture away from.
  8. To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
  9. To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (pipe) at the command line.
  10. To create or decorate with piping (icing).
  11. To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
  12. (of a male) To have sexual intercourse with a female.
  13. To see.

piped

verb
  1. To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
  2. To shout loudly and at high pitch.
  3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  4. Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
  5. To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
  6. To install or configure with pipes.
  7. To dab moisture away from.
  8. To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
  9. To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (pipe) at the command line.
  10. To create or decorate with piping (icing).
  11. To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
  12. (of a male) To have sexual intercourse with a female.
  13. To see.
adjective
  1. Shaped like a pipe; tubular.

pipet

noun
  1. A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
verb
  1. To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.

pipette

noun
  1. A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
verb
  1. To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.

pipit

noun
  1. Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.

pippin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A seed

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red
  2. Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties
  3. An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted)

pitied

verb
  1. To feel pity for (someone or something).
  2. To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.

pitted

verb
  1. To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
  2. To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
  3. To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
  4. To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
verb
  1. To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
adjective
  1. Having a surface marked by pits; pockmarked or alveolate
  2. (of fruit) Having had the pits removed
  3. (of a maintenance area) Provided with one or more inspection pits.

teepee

verb
  1. To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.

temp

noun
  1. Abbreviation of tempore.
noun
  1. A temporary employee, usually in an office.
  2. A temporary storage location.
verb
  1. To work as a temporary employee.
noun
  1. A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
  2. An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
  3. A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. http//arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055
  4. The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
  5. The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
adjective
  1. Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
  2. Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

temped

verb
  1. To work as a temporary employee.

tempi

noun
  1. A frequency or rate.
  2. A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use for him (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another.
  3. The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side.
  4. The timing of a particular event – earlier or later than in an alternative situation (as in chess example)
  5. The number of beats per minute in a piece of music; also, an indicative term denoting approximate rate of speed in written music (examples: allegro, andante)
  6. The steady pace set by the frontmost riders.
  7. A small truck or cargo van with three or four wheels, commonly used for commercial transport and deliveries (particularly in Asian and African countries): a genericized trademark, originally associated with the manufacturer Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werke GmbH.
  8. A rapid rate of play by the offense resulting from reducing the amount of time which elapses after one play ends and the next starts.

tempt

verb
  1. To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
  2. To attract; to allure.
  3. To provoke something; to court.

tempted

verb
  1. To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
  2. To attract; to allure.
  3. To provoke something; to court.

tenpin

noun
  1. Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling.
  2. The game of ten-pin bowling.

tepee

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee

tepid

adjective
  1. Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
  2. Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness.

tiepin

noun
  1. A tie tack, a pin or stud used to secure a tie to the shirt.

tipi

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee

tipped

verb
  1. To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
verb
  1. (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
  2. (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
  3. To drink.
  4. To dump (refuse).
  5. To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
  6. To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
verb
  1. To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
verb
  1. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
  2. To give, pass.
verb
  1. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.

tippet

noun
  1. A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.
  2. A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen.
  3. A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.
  4. A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching.
  5. In fly fishing, the part of the leader that attaches to the fly.
  6. A bird's ruffle.
  7. One of the patagia, or pieces at the side of the pronotum of a moth.