Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 273

Number of Answers: 55

Points Needed for Genius: 191

Genius requires between 27 and 47 words. You need at least a 6-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 273 was in the 89th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 15, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 55 possible answers rank it in the 85th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 15, 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 18, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.5.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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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 109,654 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*:

  • aahed
  • aggada
  • aggadah
  • ahed
  • bedad
  • beedi
  • begad
  • bibbed
  • bidi
  • dada
  • dagga
  • dahabeah
  • dahabiah
  • dahabieh
  • debag
  • debagged
  • degage
  • dibbed
  • didie
  • digged
  • eide
  • gaddi
  • gadi
  • gadid
  • gaed
  • gaged
  • geed
  • gibbed
  • giddied
  • gied
  • hade
  • haded
  • haed
  • haggada
  • haggadah
  • hagged
  • hided
  • hied
  • igged

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

abed

adverb
  1. In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
  2. To childbed

abide

verb
  1. To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
  2. To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
  3. To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
  4. To wait in expectation.
  5. To pause; to delay.
  6. To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
  7. To have one's abode; to dwell; to reside; to sojourn.
  8. To endure; to remain; to last.
  9. To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
  10. To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
  11. To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.

abided

verb
  1. To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
  2. To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
  3. To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
  4. To wait in expectation.
  5. To pause; to delay.
  6. To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
  7. To have one's abode; to dwell; to reside; to sojourn.
  8. To endure; to remain; to last.
  9. To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
  10. To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
  11. To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.

adage

noun
  1. An old saying which has obtained credit by long use
  2. An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim

added

verb
  1. To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.
  2. To sum up; to put together mentally.
  3. To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
  4. To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).
  5. To append (e,g, a statement); to say further information.
  6. To make an addition; to augment; to increase.
  7. To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
  8. To summon minions or reinforcements.

aged

verb
  1. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
  2. To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
  3. To categorize by age.
  4. To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
noun
  1. Old people, collectively.
adjective
  1. Old.
  2. (chiefly non-US) Having the age of.
  3. Having undergone the improving effects of time; matured.

ahead

adverb
  1. In or to the front; in advance; onward.
  2. In the direction one is facing or moving.
  3. In or for the future.
  4. At an earlier time.
  5. Having progressed more.

aide

noun
  1. An assistant.
  2. An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

aided

verb
  1. To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
  2. To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.

baaed

verb
  1. To make the characteristic cry of a sheep.

babied

adjective
  1. Spoiled or coddled.
verb
  1. To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.
  2. To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over.

baddie

noun
  1. A person of bad character in a work of fiction.

bade

verb
  1. To issue a command; to tell.
  2. To invite; to summon.
  3. To utter a greeting or salutation.

badge

noun
  1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
  2. A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.
  3. A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.
  4. Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
  5. (thieves' cant) A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.
  6. A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
  7. A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings.
  8. A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages.
  9. An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.
verb
  1. To mark or distinguish with a badge.
  2. To show a badge to.
  3. To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.

badged

verb
  1. To mark or distinguish with a badge.
  2. To show a badge to.
  3. To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.

bagged

verb
  1. To put into a bag.
  2. To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
  3. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
  4. To furnish or load with a bag.
  5. (African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
  6. (African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
  7. To criticise sarcastically.
  8. To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
  9. To fit with a bag to collect urine.
  10. To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
  11. To hang like an empty bag.
  12. To drop away from the correct course.
  13. To swell with arrogance.
  14. To become pregnant.
adjective
  1. Having been placed in a bag.
  2. Having been caught or successfully hunted.

bead

noun
  1. Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
  2. Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
  3. A small, round object.
  4. (heading) A ridge, band, or molding.
  5. Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
  6. A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
  7. Front sight of a gun.
verb
  1. To form into a bead.
  2. To apply beads to.
  3. To form into a bead.
  4. To cause beads to form on (something).

beaded

verb
  1. To form into a bead.
  2. To apply beads to.
  3. To form into a bead.
  4. To cause beads to form on (something).
adjective
  1. Made from, or decorated with, beads.
  2. Having formed in beads or a bead-like shape.

bedded

verb
  1. Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
  2. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

bedhead

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The condition of having unkempt hair, generally as a result of having just woken up from sleep.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A vertical panel or board at the end of a bed where the pillow is placed.
  2. The end of a bed where the pillow is placed, the head of the bed.

begged

verb
  1. To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
  2. To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
  3. In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
  4. In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
  5. To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

behead

verb
  1. To remove the head of; to cut someone's head off.

beheaded

verb
  1. To remove the head of; to cut someone's head off.
adjective
  1. Having had one's head cut off.

bide

verb
  1. To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
  2. To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
  3. To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
  4. To wait for; to await.

bided

verb
  1. To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
  2. To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
  3. To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
  4. To wait for; to await.

bighead

noun
  1. (especially used by children) A person having an inflated opinion of himself; a conceited or arrogant person.
  2. One of several species of fish having a large head.
  3. One of several animal diseases that cause swelling of the head.

bigheaded

adjective
  1. Arrogant, having an exaggerated perception of one's positive qualities.

dabbed

verb
  1. To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
  2. To apply a substance in this way.
  3. To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
  4. To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.
  5. To perform the dab dance move, by moving both arms to one side of the body parallel with your head.

dead

noun
  1. (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.
noun
  1. (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
noun
  1. (usually plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
verb
  1. To prevent by disabling; stop.
  2. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
  3. To kill.
adjective
  1. No longer living.
  2. Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
  3. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
  4. Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
  5. Without emotion.
  6. Stationary; static.
  7. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
  8. Unproductive.
  9. (of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
  10. (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
  11. Broken or inoperable.
  12. No longer used or required.
  13. Not imparting motion or power by design.
  14. Not in play.
  15. (of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
  16. (1800s) Tagged out.
  17. Full and complete.
  18. Exact.
  19. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
  20. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
  21. Bringing death; deadly.
  22. Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
  23. (often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
adverb
  1. (degree) Exactly.
  2. (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely.
  3. Suddenly and completely.
  4. As if dead.

deadhead

noun
  1. A fan of the rock band The Grateful Dead.
noun
  1. A person either admitted to a theatrical or musical performance without charge, or paid to attend.
  2. An employee of a transportation company, especially a pilot, traveling as a passenger for logistical reasons, for example to return home or travel to their next assignment.
  3. Anyone traveling for free.
  4. A train or truck moved between cities with no passengers or freight, in order to make it available for service.
  5. A person staying at a lodging, such as a hotel or boarding house, without paying rent; freeloader.
  6. A stupid or boring person; dullard.
  7. A tree or tree branch fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable body of water, partially submerged or rising nearly the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk; snag.
  8. Driftwood.
  9. A zombie.
verb
  1. To admit to a performance without charge.
  2. To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger.
  3. To drive an empty vehicle.
  4. To send (a person or message) for free.
  5. To remove spent or dead blossoms from a plant.

deadheaded

verb
  1. To admit to a performance without charge.
  2. To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger.
  3. To drive an empty vehicle.
  4. To send (a person or message) for free.
  5. To remove spent or dead blossoms from a plant.

deed

noun
  1. An action or act; something that is done.
  2. A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
  3. Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
  4. A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before witnesses.
verb
  1. To transfer real property by deed.

deeded

verb
  1. To transfer real property by deed.

died

verb
  1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  2. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
  3. To yearn intensely.
  4. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
  5. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  6. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  7. To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
  8. (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
  9. (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
  10. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
  11. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  12. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
  13. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  14. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  15. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
verb
  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

ebbed

verb
  1. To flow back or recede
  2. To fall away or decline
  3. To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
  4. To cause to flow back.

eddied

verb
  1. To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

edge

noun
  1. The boundary line of a surface.
  2. A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
  3. An advantage.
  4. The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
  5. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
  6. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  7. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
  8. A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
  9. A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
  10. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
verb
  1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  8. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  9. To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

edged

verb
  1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  8. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  9. To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
adjective
  1. That has a sharp planar surface.
  2. Followed by with: Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.

egad

interjection
  1. A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc.

egged

verb
  1. To throw eggs at.
  2. To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
  3. To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
verb
  1. To encourage, incite.

egghead

noun
  1. A bald person, especially a man.
  2. A bald head.
  3. A coldly out of personal touch intellectual.

eggheaded

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gabbed

verb
  1. To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
  2. To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
  3. To speak or tell falsely.

gadded

verb
  1. To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.

gagged

verb
  1. To experience the vomiting reflex.
  2. To cause to heave with nausea.
  3. To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
  4. To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
  5. To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
  6. To choke; to retch.
  7. To deceive (someone); to con.

gibed

verb
  1. Alternative spelling of gybe
  2. Alternative spelling of jibe

gigged

verb
  1. To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
  2. To engage in musical performances.
  3. To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
  4. To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
verb
  1. To engender.

head

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
  2. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
  3. (social, metonymy) A leader or expert.
  4. A significant or important part.
  5. Headway; progress.
  6. Topic; subject.
  7. Denouement; crisis.
  8. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
  9. Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
  10. The glans penis.
  11. A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
  12. Power; armed force.
verb
  1. To be in command of. (See also head up.)
  2. To come at the beginning of; to commence.
  3. To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
  4. To move in a specified direction.
  5. To remove the head from a fish.
  6. To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
  7. To form a head.
  8. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
  9. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
  10. To behead; to decapitate.
  11. To go in front of.
  12. To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
  13. (by extension) To check or restrain.
  14. To set on the head.
adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Foremost in rank or importance.
  2. Placed at the top or the front.
  3. Coming from in front.

headed

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. pre-printed at the top.
  2. (in combination) Having a head with specified characteristics.
  3. (in combination) Heading in a certain direction.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To be in command of. (See also head up.)
  2. To come at the beginning of; to commence.
  3. To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
  4. To move in a specified direction.
  5. To remove the head from a fish.
  6. To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
  7. To form a head.
  8. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
  9. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
  10. To behead; to decapitate.
  11. To go in front of.
  12. To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
  13. (by extension) To check or restrain.
  14. To set on the head.

hedge

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
  2. A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
  3. A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
  4. A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
  5. Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
  6. (noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
  2. To obstruct or surround.
  3. To offset the risk associated with.
  4. To avoid verbal commitment.
  5. To construct or repair a hedge.
  6. To reduce one's exposure to risk.

hedged

verb
  1. To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
  2. To obstruct or surround.
  3. To offset the risk associated with.
  4. To avoid verbal commitment.
  5. To construct or repair a hedge.
  6. To reduce one's exposure to risk.
adjective
  1. Offset by another financial asset.

heed

noun
  1. Careful attention.
verb
  1. To guard, protect.
  2. To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
  3. To pay attention, care.

heeded

verb
  1. To guard, protect.
  2. To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
  3. To pay attention, care.

hide

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
  2. To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The skin of an animal.
  2. The human skin.
  3. (usually United States) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
  4. (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
  5. A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway.
  6. A covered structure to which a pet animal can retreat, as is recommended for snakes.
verb
  1. To beat with a whip made from hide.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents.

idea

noun
  1. An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
  2. The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.
  3. The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.
  4. An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
  5. More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
  6. A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
  7. A purposeful aim or goal; intent
  8. A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
  9. A musical theme or melodic subject.