Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 206

Number of Answers: 46

Points Needed for Genius: 144

Genius requires between 20 and 40 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 75% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 206 was in the 67th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 3, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 46 possible answers rank it in the 66th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 3, 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 4, 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 221
  • loll 206
  • toot 201
  • naan 182
  • nana 182
  • lilt 147
  • till 147
  • tilt 147
  • nene 142
  • tint 142
  • mama 140
  • mamma 140
  • acacia 134
  • acai 134
  • onto 134
  • toon 134
  • onion 131
  • anal 124
  • anon 122
  • olio 120
  • dodo 119
  • tact 118
  • baba 116
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • lull 114
  • lulu 114
  • papa 114
  • poop 114
  • call 110
  • calla 110
  • mitt 110
  • mono 110
  • moon 110
  • cocci 109
  • tutu 109
  • ratatat 108
  • tart 108
  • tartar 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 109,059 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*:

  • ammono
  • anatto
  • anna
  • annona
  • anoa
  • anomy
  • anonym
  • anta
  • anyon
  • ataman
  • atman
  • atony
  • automan
  • autonym
  • mana
  • manana
  • manat
  • mannan
  • mano
  • mantua
  • maun
  • mayan
  • monty
  • mony
  • mouton
  • muon
  • muton
  • muttony
  • nanna
  • nano
  • noma
  • nona
  • nonman
  • nonmutant
  • nota
  • notum
  • noyau
  • nummy
  • nutant
  • tannoy
  • tanto
  • tauon
  • tautonym
  • tautonymy
  • toman
  • touton
  • toyon
  • tunny
  • unau
  • yamun

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

amount

noun
  1. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
  2. A quantity or volume.
  3. (sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
verb
  1. (followed by to) To total or evaluate.
  2. (followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
  3. To go up; to ascend.

anatomy

noun
  1. The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
  2. The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
  3. A treatise or book on anatomy.
  4. (by extension) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.
  5. The form of an individual.
  6. The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.
  7. A skeleton, or dead body.
  8. The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.

annatto

noun
  1. A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.
  2. The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.
  3. An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.

annoy

noun
  1. A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
  2. That which causes such a feeling.
verb
  1. To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
  2. To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
  3. To molest; to harm; to injure.

anon

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. Straight away; at once.
  2. Soon; in a little while.
  3. At another time; then; again.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An anonymous person, especially an author.
  2. A work with an unknown author.
  3. A work without a title.
adjective
  1. Anonymous

antonym

noun
  1. A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.

antonymy

No Definition Found.

aunt

noun
  1. The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
  2. The female cousin of one’s parent.
  3. A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
  4. Any elderly woman.
  5. A procuress or bawd.

aunty

noun
  1. The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
  2. The female cousin of one’s parent.
  3. A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
  4. Any elderly woman.
  5. A procuress or bawd.
noun
  1. Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.

automaton

noun
  1. A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
  2. A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
  3. A formal system, such as finite automaton.
  4. A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
  5. The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.

autonomy

noun
  1. Self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
  2. The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
  3. The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
  4. The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.

autumn

noun
  1. Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 24 to December 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
  2. (by extension) The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
  3. A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to autumn; autumnal

mammon

noun
  1. The desire for wealth personified as an evil spirit or a malign influence.
  2. Often mammon: wealth, material avarice, profit.

manna

noun
  1. Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
  2. (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
  3. The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

manta

noun
  1. A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
noun
  1. Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.

many

noun
  1. A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
  2. A considerable number.
adjective
  1. A large number of; numerous.
pronoun
  1. An indefinite large number of people or things.

moan

noun
  1. A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
verb
  1. To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
  2. To grieve.
  3. To distress (someone); to sadden.
  4. To make a moan or similar sound.
  5. To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
  6. To complain; to grumble.

mono

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

Etymology 4

adjective
  1. Monochrome.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. An injective homomorphism
  2. The absence of sexual dimorphism
  3. A morphism n such that for any other morphisms f and g, if n \circ f = n \circ g then f = g.

Etymology 6

noun
  1. A monogamous person.
adjective
  1. Monoamorous, monogamous.

Etymology 7

adjective
  1. Monosexual.

monotony

noun
  1. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
  2. The property of a monotonic function.
  3. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

moon

proper noun
  1. The Earth's moon Luna; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
  2. The god of the Moon in Heathenry.
  3. A surname.
  4. The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun
  1. (by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
  2. A month, particularly a lunar month.
  3. A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
  4. The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
  5. The thirty-second Lenormand card.
  6. In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
verb
  1. To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
  2. (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
  3. To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
  4. To expose to the rays of the Moon.
  5. To adorn with moons or crescents.
  6. (cryptocurrency) Of a coin or token: to rise in price rapidly.
  7. To shoot the moon.

moony

noun
  1. The act of mooning, flashing the buttocks.
  2. A silly person.
adjective
  1. Resembling the moon.
  2. Moonlit.
  3. Absent-minded.
  4. Silly.
  5. Sickly or tipsy.

mount

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A hill or mountain.
  2. Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
  3. A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
  4. A bank; a fund.
  5. A green hillock in the base of a shield.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse
  2. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
  3. A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
  4. A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
  5. A signal for mounting a horse.
verb
  1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
  2. To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
  3. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
  4. To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
  5. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
  6. To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
  7. To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
  8. (sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
  9. To attain in value; to amount (to).
  10. To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
  11. To have sexual intercourse with someone.
  12. To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
  13. To deploy (cannon) for use.
  14. To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
  15. To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).

mutant

noun
  1. Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
  2. Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
adjective
  1. Of, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone mutation.
  2. Strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
noun
  1. An object in a program that serves as a lock, used to negotiate mutual exclusion among threads.

mutton

noun
  1. The flesh of sheep used as food.
  2. The flesh of goat used as food.
  3. A sheep.
  4. Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
  5. A prostitute.
  6. An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.
adjective
  1. Deaf.

myna

noun
  1. One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.

naan

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

nana

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A banana
  2. A fool

Etymology 2

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

nanny

noun
  1. A child's nurse.
  2. A grandmother.
  3. A godmother.
  4. A female goat.
verb
  1. To serve as a nanny.
  2. To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.

natant

adjective
  1. Floating or swimming (in water)
  2. In a horizontal position, as if swimming

natty

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Smart and fashionable.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Knotty.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Someone whose muscle gains are natural and not aided by the use of steroids.
  2. A national championship
adjective
  1. Natural, as opposed to steroid enhanced.
  2. National

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.

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.

nutty

adjective
  1. Containing nuts.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of nuts.
  3. Barmy, crazy, mad.
  4. Extravagantly fashionable

onto

adjective
  1. (of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.
preposition
  1. Upon; on top of.
  2. Aware of.
  3. Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).

ottoman

noun
  1. An upholstered sofa, without arms or a back, sometimes with a compartment for storing linen, etc.
  2. A low stool or thick cushion used to rest the feet or as a seat.
  3. A fabric with a pronounced ribbed or corded effect, often made of silk or a mixture of cotton and silk-like yarns.

outman

verb
  1. To have more people than (one's competitor); to outnumber in men.
  2. To outdo in manliness.

tantamount

noun
  1. Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below)
verb
  1. To amount to as much; to be equivalent.
adjective
  1. Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct.

taunt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery
verb
  1. To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Very high or tall.

tony

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Stylish, high-toned, upscale.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A simpleton.

toon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
  2. A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
  2. The wood of this tree.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A town.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A melody.
  2. A song, or short musical composition.
  3. The act of tuning or maintenance.
  4. The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
  5. Temper; frame of mind.
  6. A sound; a note; a tone.
  7. Order; harmony; concord.

tuna

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
  2. The edible flesh of the tuna.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
  2. The fruit of the cactus.

unman

verb
  1. To castrate; to remove the manhood of.
  2. To sap (a person) of the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation.
  3. To deprive of men.

unto

preposition
  1. Up to, indicating a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.
  2. To, indicating an indirect object.
conjunction
  1. Up to the time or degree that; until.

yuan

noun
  1. The basic unit of money in China.

mononym

noun
  1. A single name by which a person, thing etc is known.
  2. A single term for a thing or concept, allowing for no synonyms.

unmount

No Definition Found.