Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 126

Number of Answers: 36

Points Needed for Genius: 88

Genius requires between 14 and 32 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 81% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 126 was in the 27th 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 17, 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on November 6, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.8.
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 222
  • loll 207
  • toot 201
  • naan 184
  • nana 184
  • lilt 147
  • till 147
  • tilt 147
  • tint 143
  • nene 142
  • mama 141
  • mamma 141
  • acacia 134
  • acai 134
  • onto 134
  • toon 134
  • onion 132
  • anal 126
  • anon 124
  • olio 121
  • dodo 120
  • tact 118
  • baba 116
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • papa 115
  • lull 114
  • lulu 114
  • poop 114
  • mitt 112
  • mono 112
  • moon 112
  • cocci 111
  • call 110
  • calla 110
  • ratatat 109
  • tart 109
  • tartar 109
  • tutu 109
  • attar 108
  • allay 107
  • ally 107
  • ammo 107
  • loon 107
  • momma 107
  • tattoo 106
  • tatty 106
  • epee 102
  • meme 102
  • peep 102


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 109,599 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,864 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*:

  • acmic
  • acromia
  • amia
  • amici
  • amir
  • camorra
  • carrom
  • comm
  • commo
  • corm
  • kami
  • kamik
  • kokam
  • maar
  • macaco
  • mack
  • mair
  • makar
  • mammock
  • mara
  • maraka
  • marc
  • maria
  • marka
  • markka
  • markkaa
  • marram
  • mick
  • micra
  • microcar
  • micrococci
  • mikra
  • miri
  • mirk
  • moira
  • moirai
  • momi
  • mook
  • moorcock
  • mora
  • morro
  • oomiac
  • oomiack
  • oomiak
  • rami
  • rimrock

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

ammo

noun
  1. Ammunition.
verb
  1. To load up on ammunition.

amok

No Definition Found.

armor

noun
  1. A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
  2. A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
  3. Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
  4. A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
  5. A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
  6. The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.
verb
  1. To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
  2. To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

aroma

noun
  1. A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.

cami

noun
  1. A camisole.

camo

noun
  1. A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
  2. Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
verb
  1. To camouflage.
  2. To put on camouflage clothing.

carom

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
  2. A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a (one meter by one meter square) board.
verb
  1. To make a carom (shot in billiards).
  2. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (spices) ajwain

coma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
  2. A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
  3. A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

comic

noun
  1. A comedian.
  2. A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
  3. A children's newspaper.
adjective
  1. Funny; amusing; comical.
  2. Relating to comedy.

comma

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.
verb
  1. To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

cram

noun
  1. The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
  2. Information hastily memorized.
  3. A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
  4. (British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
  5. A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
  6. A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
verb
  1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
  2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
  3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
  4. To study hard; to swot.
  5. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
  6. (British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
  7. (British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.

imam

noun
  1. (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
  2. One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

karma

noun
  1. The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
  2. A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate.
  3. A distinctive feeling, aura, or atmosphere.
  4. (Reddit) A score assigned to a user of a discussion forum, indicating the popularity of their posts with other users.

karmic

adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to karma.

korma

noun
  1. A curry made from various spices especially coriander and cumin; and often with yoghurt sauce or nuts.

macro

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Very large in scope or scale.
adjective
  1. Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.
  2. Long-lived.
noun
  1. The study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices.
noun
  1. Any of the elements required in large amounts by all living things.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Macro lens

maim

noun
  1. A serious wound
verb
  1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

maki

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A lemur.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Makizushi, a form of sushi that is rolled.

mako

noun
  1. Mako shark

mama

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mamma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
  2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

maraca

noun
  1. A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument.
  2. (in the plural) breasts

mark

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
  2. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
  3. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
  4. (heading) Attention.
verb
  1. To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
  2. To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
  3. To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
  4. To create an indication of (a location).
  5. To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
  6. To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
  7. To create (a mark) on a surface.
  8. To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
  9. (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
  10. (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
  11. (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
  12. To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
  13. To be typical or characteristic of (something).
  14. To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
  15. To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
  16. To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.
  17. To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
  18. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
  19. To record that (someone) has a particular status.
  20. To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
  21. To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
  22. To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
  23. To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
  24. To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
  2. An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver), equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence.
  3. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and 2002, equal to 100 pfennigs.
  4. A coin worth one mark.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
  2. To cause someone to walk somewhere.
  3. To go to war; to make military advances.
  4. To make steady progress.
verb
  1. To have common borders or frontiers

mica

noun
  1. Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.

micro

noun
  1. (gaming slang) micromanagement
verb
  1. (gaming slang) to micromanage
adjective
  1. Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.
noun
  1. A computer designed around a microprocessor, smaller than a minicomputer or a mainframe.
noun
  1. The field of economics that deals with small-scale economic activities such as those of an individual or company.

mimic

noun
  1. A person who practices mimicry, or mime.
  2. An imitation.
verb
  1. To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
  2. To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
  2. Mock, pretended.
  3. Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

mirror

noun
  1. A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
  2. An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
  3. A disk, website or other resource that contains replicated data.
  4. A mirror carp.
  5. A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.
verb
  1. Of an event, activity, behaviour, etc, to be identical to, to be a copy of.
  2. To create something identical to (a web site, etc.).
  3. To reflect, as in a mirror.

mock

noun
  1. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
  2. Mockery, the act of mocking.
  3. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
  4. A mockup or prototype.
verb
  1. To mimic, to simulate.
  2. To create an artistic representation of.
  3. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
  4. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
  5. To create a mockup or prototype of.
adjective
  1. Imitation, not genuine; fake.

momma

noun
  1. Mother
  2. A voluptuous woman.
  3. One's wife or girlfriend.

moor

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
  2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cast anchor or become fastened.
  2. To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like
  3. To secure or fix firmly.

morocco

noun
  1. A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
  2. A sheepskin leather in imitation of this.
  3. A very strong ale, anciently brewed in Cumberland.

roam

verb
  1. To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
  2. To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
  3. To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
  4. To range or wander over.

room

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Opportunity or scope (to do something).
  2. Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
  3. A particular portion of space.
  4. Sufficient space for or to do something.
  5. A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
  6. Place; stead.
  7. A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
  8. (with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
  9. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
  10. (always in the singular, metonymy) The people in a room.
  11. An area for working in a coal mine.
  12. A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
  13. A IRC or chat room.
  14. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
  15. Furniture sufficient to furnish a room.
verb
  1. To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
  2. To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Wide; spacious; roomy.

Etymology 3

adverb
  1. Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
  2. Off from the wind.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A deep blue dye.

marm

noun
  1. Madam; a polite term of address for a lady.

romcom

noun
  1. A genre of fiction, especially film, that presents love stories in a humorous and light-hearted way.
  2. Such a story.

microcrack

No Definition Found.