Saturday, November 8, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 157

Number of Answers: 36

Points Needed for Genius: 110

Genius requires between 15 and 33 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 88% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 62% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 157 was in the 43rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on November 7, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 36 possible answers rank it in the 41st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on November 7, 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 7, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
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 207
  • 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 121
  • dodo 119
  • tact 118
  • baba 116
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • lull 114
  • lulu 114
  • papa 114
  • poop 114
  • mitt 111
  • call 110
  • calla 110
  • cocci 110
  • mono 110
  • moon 110
  • 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 109,150 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*:

  • chico
  • chiro
  • choc
  • choil
  • choli
  • cholo
  • choric
  • coccic
  • coco
  • cohog
  • colog
  • cooch
  • coocoo
  • criollo
  • crog
  • giro
  • glogg
  • gogo
  • hillo
  • hogg
  • hollo
  • holloo
  • holo
  • lilo
  • logoi
  • oologic
  • orchil
  • orgic

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

chloric

No Definition Found.

chocoholic

noun
  1. Someone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it.
adjective
  1. Addicted or seemingly addicted to chocolate; characteristic of a chocoholic.

choir

noun
  1. Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together.
  2. The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
  3. (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
  4. Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
verb
  1. To sing in concert.

choirgirl

noun
  1. A girl who sings in a choir.

clog

noun
  1. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
  2. A blockage.
  3. A shoe of any type.
  4. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
  5. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
verb
  1. To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
  2. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
  3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
  4. To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
  5. To perform a clog dance.

cocci

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any approximately spherical bacterium.
  2. One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Coccidioidomycosis

coho

noun
  1. An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean, used as a symbol by several Native American tribes.

coil

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
  2. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
  3. A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
  4. Entanglement; perplexity.
verb
  1. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
  2. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
  3. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
  4. To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.

coir

noun
  1. The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.

colic

noun
  1. Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).
  2. A medicinal plant used to relieve such symptoms.
adjective
  1. Relating to the colon; colonic.

color

noun
  1. The spectral composition of visible light
  2. A subset thereof:
  3. A paint.
  4. Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  5. Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
  6. A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
  7. Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
  8. A standard, flag, or insignia:
  9. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
  10. (in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
  11. A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
  12. A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
  13. The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color.)
  14. Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
  15. A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
  16. An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
verb
  1. To give something color.
  2. To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
  3. (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
  4. To affect without completely changing.
  5. To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
  6. To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
adjective
  1. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

cool

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
  2. A calm temperament.
  3. The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
adjective
  1. Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
  2. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
  3. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
  4. Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
  5. Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
  6. Calmly audacious.
  7. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
  8. Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
  9. In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
  10. Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
  11. Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
  12. Quietly impudent, defiant, or selfish; deliberately presuming: said of persons and acts.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To lose heat, to get colder.
  2. To make cooler, less warm.
  3. To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  4. To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  5. To kill.

corgi

noun
  1. A dog of a breed having a small body, short legs and fox-like features.

croc

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A crocodile.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A plastic slip-on shoe.

croci

noun
  1. A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
  2. Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
  3. A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
  4. A fraudulent doctor; a quack.

gigolo

noun
  1. A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman from whom he receives payment.
  2. A hired escort or dancing partner for a woman.

googol

numeral
  1. The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred.

grog

noun
  1. (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
  2. (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage.
  3. A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
  4. An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
  5. A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

hooch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.

horologic

No Definition Found.

horror

noun
  1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
  2. Something horrible; that which excites horror.
  3. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  4. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
  5. An individual work in this genre.
  6. A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
  7. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
  8. (plural) Delirium tremens.

ichor

noun
  1. The liquid that in Greek mythology was said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods
  2. Any bloodlike fluid
  3. A watery, fetid discharge from a sore
  4. Yellow bile

igloo

noun
  1. A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow.
  2. A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the sea ice.
  3. A reinforced bunker for the storage of nuclear weapons.
  4. (logistics) A kind of airfreight cargo container.

illogic

noun
  1. Lack of logic; unreasonableness; a fallacy.
adjective
  1. Contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning.

loch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A lake.
  2. A bay or arm of the sea.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A medicine in a soft form taken by licking; a lambative, a linctus.

loci

noun
  1. A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.
  2. The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.
  3. A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes.
  4. (chiefly in the plural) A passage in writing, especially in a collection of ancient sacred writings arranged according to a theme.

loco

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
verb
  1. To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
  2. (by extension) To render insane.
adjective
  1. Crazy.
  2. Intoxicated by eating locoweed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A locomotive.

logic

noun
  1. A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
  2. The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
  3. The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
  4. A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
  5. Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
  6. The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
verb
  1. To engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic.
  2. To apply logical reasoning to.
  3. To overcome by logical argument.
adjective
  1. Logical

logroll

No Definition Found.

loll

verb
  1. To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
  2. To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
  3. To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.

olio

noun
  1. A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables.
  2. A medley or mixture; a hotchpotch.
  3. A collection of various musical, theatrical or other artistic works; a miscellany.
  4. (by extension) Vaudeville or similar miscellaneous musical or theatrical entertainment skits presented between the main acts of burlesque or minstrel shows.

rigor

noun
  1. Short for rigor mortis.
noun
  1. Severity or strictness.
  2. Harshness, as of climate.
  3. A trembling or shivering response.
  4. Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
  5. Shrewd questioning.
  6. Higher level of difficulty.

rococo

noun
  1. A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to the rococo style.
  2. Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.
  3. Old-fashioned.

roil

verb
  1. To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
  2. To annoy; to make someone angry.
  3. To bubble, seethe.
  4. To wander; to roam.
  5. To romp.

roll

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
  2. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
  3. Something which rolls.
  4. A swagger or rolling gait.
  5. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
  6. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  7. The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
  8. The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
  9. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
  10. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
  11. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
  12. A training match for a fighting dog.
  13. (paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
  14. (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized.
verb
  1. To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
  2. To turn over and over.
  3. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
  4. To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
  5. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
  6. To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
  7. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
  8. To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
  9. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
  10. To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
  11. To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
  12. To leave or begin a journey.
  13. To compete, especially with vigor.
  14. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
  15. To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
  16. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
  17. To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
  18. To throw dice.
  19. To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
  20. To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
  21. To generate a random number.
  22. (of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
  23. (in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
  24. To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
  25. To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
  26. To betray secrets.
  27. To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
  28. (of a camera) To (cause to) film.
  29. To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
  30. To have a rolling aspect.
  31. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
  32. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
  33. To move and cause an effect on someone
  34. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
  35. To utter with an alveolar trill.
  36. To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
  37. To create a customized version of.
  38. To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. That which is rolled up.
  2. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
  3. An official or public document; a register; a record
  4. A catalogue or list
  5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
  6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  7. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
  8. Part; office; duty; rôle.
  9. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
  10. (paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.