Monday, November 3, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 265

Number of Answers: 58

Points Needed for Genius: 186

Genius requires between 26 and 50 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 265 was in the 87th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 1, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 58 possible answers rank it in the 89th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 1, 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 November 1, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
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 220
  • loll 206
  • toot 201
  • naan 181
  • nana 181
  • lilt 147
  • till 147
  • tilt 147
  • nene 142
  • tint 142
  • mama 140
  • mamma 140
  • acacia 134
  • acai 134
  • onto 133
  • toon 133
  • onion 131
  • anal 124
  • anon 121
  • olio 120
  • dodo 119
  • tact 118
  • baba 116
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • papa 114
  • poop 114
  • lull 113
  • lulu 113
  • call 110
  • calla 110
  • mitt 110
  • cocci 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
  • meme 101


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 108,971 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,852 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*:

  • dene
  • denned
  • depone
  • deponed
  • donne
  • donnee
  • dudeen
  • duende
  • endopod
  • exon
  • neep
  • neoned
  • peened
  • pennon
  • pennoned
  • ponded
  • poon
  • unde
  • undee
  • unended
  • unexpended

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

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.

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

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.

done

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
  2. To perform; to execute.
  3. To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  4. To suffice.
  5. To be reasonable or acceptable.
  6. (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
  7. To fare, perform (well or poorly).
  8. (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  9. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
  10. To cook.
  11. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  12. To treat in a certain way.
  13. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
  14. To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  15. To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
  16. To impersonate or depict.
  17. (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
  18. To kill.
  19. To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  20. To punish for a misdemeanor.
  21. To have sex with. (See also do it)
  22. To cheat or swindle.
  23. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  24. To finish.
  25. To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  26. (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  27. To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  28. (ditransitive) To make or provide.
  29. To injure (one's own body part).
  30. To take drugs.
  31. (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
adjective
  1. (of food) Ready, fully cooked.
  2. Having completed or finished an activity.
  3. Being exhausted or fully spent.
  4. Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
  5. Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A synthetic opioid analgesic, used to wean addicts off heroin or other opiate based narcotics, and in chronic pain management.

donee

noun
  1. Someone who receives a gift from a donor.

donned

verb
  1. (clothing) To put on, to dress in.

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.

dunno

noun
  1. An utterance of the word dunno.

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.

expend

verb
  1. To consume, exhaust (some resource)
  2. (of money) to spend, disburse

expended

verb
  1. To consume, exhaust (some resource)
  2. (of money) to spend, disburse
adjective
  1. Spent; used up; exhausted.

expound

verb
  1. To set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length
  2. To make a statement, especially at length.

expounded

verb
  1. To set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length
  2. To make a statement, especially at length.

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.

neon

noun
  1. The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The lightest of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
  2. A form or sample of the element.
  3. Neon signs or lights, collectively.
  4. A neon tetra fish.
adjective
  1. (of a color) That resembles a neon light; extremely bright; fluorescent

nodded

verb
  1. To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
  2. To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
  3. To sway, move up and down.
  4. To gradually fall asleep.
  5. To signify by a nod.
  6. To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
  7. To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
  8. To allude to something.
  9. To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.

node

noun
  1. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
  2. The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
  3. A leaf node.
  4. A computer or other device attached to a network.
  5. The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
  6. The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
  7. A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
  8. A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
  9. A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
  10. A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
  11. The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
  12. A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
  13. The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

none

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person without religious affiliation.
adverb
  1. To no extent, in no way.
  2. Not at all, not very.
  3. No, not.
pronoun
  1. Not any of a given number or group.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion.
noun
  1. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
  2. A break in play between the first and second sessions.
  3. (Minnesota) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
noun
  1. The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm.
noun
  1. (often capitalized) The notional first-quarter day of a Roman month, occurring on the 7th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 5th day of all other months.
  2. (sometimes capitalized) The ninth hour after dawn (about 3 pm).
  3. The divine office appointed to the hour.
noun
  1. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  2. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. The highest point; culmination.
noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

noon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  2. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. The highest point; culmination.
verb
  1. To relax or sleep around midday

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

nope

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A negative reply, no.
  2. An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (except near Staffordshire) A bullfinch

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A blow to the head.
verb
  1. To hit someone on the head.

noun

noun
  1. (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
  2. (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
verb
  1. To convert a word to a noun.

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.

odeon

noun
  1. An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry.
  2. A theatre or concert hall.

open

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Not closed
  2. Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended
  3. Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
  4. Receptive.
  5. Public
  6. Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
  7. (of a formula) Having a free variable.
  8. (of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
  9. (of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
  10. (of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
  11. Not fulfilled.
  12. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
  13. (stringed instruments) Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
  14. (wind instruments) Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
  15. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
  16. (Of correspondence) Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement. (Opposite of "without prejudice")
  17. Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
  18. Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
  19. (of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
  20. Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
  21. Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
  2. To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
  3. To bring up, broach.
  4. To enter upon, begin.
  5. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
  6. To make accessible to customers or clients.
  7. To start (a campaign).
  8. To become open.
  9. To begin conducting business.
  10. To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
  11. To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
  12. To reveal one's hand.
  13. (of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
  14. To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
  2. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
  3. A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.
  4. A sports event in which anybody can compete

opened

verb
  1. To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
  2. To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
  3. To bring up, broach.
  4. To enter upon, begin.
  5. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
  6. To make accessible to customers or clients.
  7. To start (a campaign).
  8. To become open.
  9. To begin conducting business.
  10. To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
  11. To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
  12. To reveal one's hand.
  13. (of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
  14. To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.

oxen

noun
  1. An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus).
  2. Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or resembling an ox; oxlike

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.

pend

No Definition Found.

pended

No Definition Found.

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

peon

noun
  1. A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.
  2. A person of low rank or importance.
  3. A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman.

pond

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
  2. An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
  3. The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.
verb
  1. To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
  2. To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
  3. To form a pond; to pool.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To ponder.

pone

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
  2. A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The last player to bet or play in turn.

pound

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
  2. A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
  3. The symbol # (octothorpe, hash)
  4. The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
  5. Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.
  6. Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
  7. Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force is inaccurate and unscientific.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. An animal shelter.
  2. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Short form of impound.
  3. A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
  4. A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
verb
  1. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A hard blow.
verb
  1. To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
  2. To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
  3. To eat or drink very quickly.
  4. To pitch consistently to a certain location.
  5. (of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
  6. To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
  7. To advance heavily with measured steps.
  8. To make a jarring noise, as when running.
  9. To wager a pound on.

pounded

verb
  1. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
verb
  1. To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
  2. To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
  3. To eat or drink very quickly.
  4. To pitch consistently to a certain location.
  5. (of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
  6. To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
  7. To advance heavily with measured steps.
  8. To make a jarring noise, as when running.
  9. To wager a pound on.
adjective
  1. Having undergone pounding.
  2. Inebriated.

punned

verb
  1. To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
  2. To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

udon

noun
  1. A Japanese wheat noodle

undo

noun
  1. An operation that reverses a previous action.
verb
  1. To reverse the effects of an action.
  2. To unfasten.
  3. To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.

undone

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Not done.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To reverse the effects of an action.
  2. To unfasten.
  3. To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
adjective
  1. Not fastened.
  2. Ruined; brought to nought.

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.

unopen

No Definition Found.

unopened

adjective
  1. Not yet opened; still closed

unpen

No Definition Found.

unpenned

No Definition Found.

upend

verb
  1. To end up; to set on end.
  2. To tip or turn over.
  3. To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.

upended

verb
  1. To end up; to set on end.
  2. To tip or turn over.
  3. To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.

upon

adverb
  1. Being the target of an action.
preposition
  1. Physically above and in contact with.
  2. Physically directly supported by.
  3. Being followed by another so as to form a series.
  4. At (a prescribed point in time).
  5. On.

xenon

noun
  1. The chemical element (symbol Xe) with an atomic number of 54. It is a colorless, odorless, unreactive noble gas, used notably in camera flash technology.