Monday, November 24, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 180

Number of Answers: 45

Points Needed for Genius: 126

Genius requires between 20 and 38 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 76% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 180 was in the 55th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 23, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 45 possible answers rank it in the 64th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 23, 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 19, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
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 224
  • loll 208
  • toot 202
  • naan 184
  • nana 184
  • lilt 147
  • till 147
  • tilt 147
  • nene 143
  • tint 143
  • mama 141
  • mamma 141
  • onto 135
  • toon 135
  • acacia 134
  • acai 134
  • onion 134
  • anal 126
  • anon 125
  • olio 121
  • dodo 120
  • tact 118
  • baba 116
  • boob 116
  • booboo 116
  • papa 116
  • poop 115
  • lull 114
  • lulu 114
  • mitt 112
  • mono 112
  • moon 112
  • cocci 111
  • call 110
  • calla 110
  • ratatat 109
  • tart 109
  • tartar 109
  • tutu 109
  • attar 108
  • loon 108
  • allay 107
  • ally 107
  • ammo 107
  • momma 107
  • tattoo 106
  • tatty 106
  • epee 102
  • meme 102
  • peep 102


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 109,884 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,867 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*:

  • aboon
  • annona
  • anoa
  • araroba
  • arroba
  • baboo
  • biro
  • bobo
  • bora
  • boronia
  • broo
  • inion
  • inro
  • nano
  • naoi
  • ninon
  • nona
  • noniron
  • nonwar
  • noria
  • obia
  • oribi
  • orra
  • rabboni
  • robbin
  • robinia
  • ronin
  • ronion
  • wanion
  • warworn
  • woorari

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

anion

noun
  1. A negatively charged ion.

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

arbor

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
  2. A grove of trees.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  2. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
  3. A spindle of a wheel.

arrow

noun
  1. A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
  2. A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. โ†’).
  3. A directed edge.
  4. A dart.
  5. The -> symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
  6. The inflorescence or tassel of a mature sugar cane plant.
verb
  1. To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow)
  2. To let fly swiftly and directly
  3. (of a sugar cane plant) To develop an inflorescence.
  4. To navigate using the arrow keys.

baboon

noun
  1. An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
  2. A foolish or boorish person.

baobab

noun
  1. A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.

baron

noun
  1. The male ruler of a barony.
  2. A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord).
  3. A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin.
  4. A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
  5. A prisoner who gains power and influence by lending or selling tobacco.
  6. A husband.
  7. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euthalia.

barrio

noun
  1. (in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.
  2. (in some Spanish-speaking countries) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.
  3. (in the Philippines) A barangay.
  4. An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.

barrow

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A mountain.
  2. A hill.
  3. A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
  4. A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
  2. (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A castrated boar.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.

boar

noun
  1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
  2. A male pig.
  3. A male boar (sense 1).
  4. A male bear.
  5. A male guinea pig.

bobbin

noun
  1. A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
  2. In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
  3. The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
  4. (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.

bonbon

noun
  1. A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
  2. A small, spherical savory snack or canapรฉ.
  3. A Christmas cracker.

bonobo

noun
  1. The pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.

boob

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Idiot, fool.
verb
  1. To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
  2. To make a mistake
adjective
  1. Idiotic, foolish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A prison; jail.

booboo

noun
  1. A mistake or error.
  2. (by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
  3. (by or to young children) Feces.

boon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A prayer; petition.
  2. That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
  3. A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
  4. An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Good; prosperous.
  2. Kind; bountiful; benign.
  3. (Now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

boor

noun
  1. A peasant.
  2. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
  3. A yokel, country bumpkin.
  4. An uncultured person.

born

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
  2. To support, sustain, or endure.
  3. To support, keep up, or maintain.
  4. To press or impinge upon.
  5. To produce, yield, give birth to.
  6. (originally nautical) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
  7. To gain or win.
adjective
  1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
  2. A sensation resembling such an injury.
  3. The act of burning something with fire.
  4. An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
  5. An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
  6. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
  7. Tobacco.
  8. The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
  9. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
  10. A disease in vegetables; brand.
verb
  1. To cause to be consumed by fire.
  2. To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
  3. To overheat so as to make unusable.
  4. To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
  5. To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
  6. To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
  7. To cauterize.
  8. To sunburn.
  9. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
  10. To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
  11. To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
  12. To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
  13. To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
  14. To betray.
  15. To insult or defeat.
  16. To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
  17. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
  18. To accidentally touch a moving stone.
  19. In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
  20. To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
  21. (of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
  22. To discard.
  23. To shoot someone with a firearm.
noun
  1. A stream.

boron

noun
  1. The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid found in its pure form as a dark amorphous powder.
  2. A single atom of this element.

borrow

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
  2. A borrow pit.
  3. In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
verb
  1. To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
  2. To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
  3. To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
  4. To adopt a word from another language.
  5. In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
  6. (Upper Midwestern United States) To lend.
  7. To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
  8. To feign or counterfeit.
  9. (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
  10. To receive (something) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
  2. A surety; someone standing bail.

bowwow

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brio

noun
  1. Vigour or vivacity.

brow

noun
  1. The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
  2. The first tine of an antler's beam.
  3. The forehead.
  4. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
  5. A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
  6. Aspect; appearance.
  7. The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
  8. The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
verb
  1. To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

brown

noun
  1. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
  2. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
  3. Black tar heroin.
  4. A copper coin.
  5. A brown horse or other animal.
  6. (sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
  7. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
  8. Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
  9. A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
verb
  1. To become brown.
  2. To cook something until it becomes brown.
  3. To tan.
  4. To make brown or dusky.
  5. To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
  6. (usually derogatory) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
  7. To treat with deference, or respect.
adjective
  1. Having a brown colour.
  2. Gloomy.
  3. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

inborn

adjective
  1. Innate, possessed by an organism at birth.
  2. Inherited or hereditary.

iron

noun
  1. A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.
  2. A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.
  3. Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
  4. A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.
  5. (usually plural, irons) Shackles.
  6. A firearm, either a long gun or a handgun.
  7. A dark shade of the colour/color silver.
  8. (shortened from iron hoof, rhyming with poof; countable) A male homosexual.
  9. A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
  10. Used as a symbol of great strength or toughness, or to signify a very strong or tough material.
  11. Weight used as resistance for the purpose of strength training.
  12. A safety curtain in a theatre.
  13. Dumb bombs, those without guidance systems.
verb
  1. To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
  2. To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
  3. To furnish or arm with iron.
adjective
  1. Made of the metal iron.
  2. Strong (as of will), inflexible.

nabob

noun
  1. An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire.
  2. (by extension) Someone of great wealth or importance.
  3. (by extension) A person with a grandiose style or manner.

narrow

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
adjective
  1. Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
  2. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
  3. Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
  4. Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
  5. Having a small margin or degree.
  6. Limited as to means; straitened
  7. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
  8. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
  9. Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
  2. To get narrower.
  3. (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
  4. To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
  5. To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.

noir

noun
  1. Film noir.
  2. A production in the style of film noir.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre

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 ู† in the Arabic script.

nori

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A type of seaweed, a red alga, laver (genus Pyropia, including species P. yezoensis and P. tenera).
  2. The seaweed, chopped and formed into sheets, used in the preparation of sushi.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An improvised rail vehicle from Cambodia; a bamboo train.

onion

noun
  1. A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
  2. The bulb of such a plant.
  3. The genus as a whole.
  4. A ball.
  5. A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

rainbow

noun
  1. A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
  2. Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
  3. (often used with โ€œofโ€) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
  4. An illusion, mirage.
  5. A curveball, particularly a slow one.
  6. In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
  7. Rainbow trout.
verb
  1. To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
  2. To take the appearance of a rainbow.
adjective
  1. Multicolored.
  2. Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
  3. LGBT.
  4. (chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.

ribbon

noun
  1. A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position and give rigidity to the framework.
noun
  1. A ribbon.
noun
  1. A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
  2. An awareness ribbon.
  3. An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
  4. A narrow strip or shred.
  5. A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
  6. A watchspring.
  7. A bandsaw.
  8. (in the plural) Reins for a horse.
  9. A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
  10. (spinning) A sliver.
  11. A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
  12. A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
verb
  1. To decorate with ribbon.
  2. To stripe or streak.

roan

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
  2. The color of such an animal.
  3. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
adjective
  1. Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
  2. Made of the leather called roan.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.
  2. Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus Sorbus, belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries.

roar

noun
  1. A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
  2. The cry of the lion.
  3. The deep cry of the bull.
  4. A loud resounding noise.
  5. A show of strength or character.
verb
  1. To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
  2. To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
  3. Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
  4. Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
  5. To proceed vigorously.
  6. To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
  7. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
  8. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
  9. (North Midlands) to cry

robin

noun
  1. Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
  2. A trimming in front of a dress.

rowan

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.
  2. Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus Sorbus, belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A second crop of hay; aftermath.
  2. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.

warrior

noun
  1. A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
  2. A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.

winnow

noun
  1. That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.
verb
  1. To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
  2. To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.
  3. To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
  4. To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

wino

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; a drunk or drunkard.
  2. A wine enthusiast; an oenophile.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.

worn

verb
  1. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
  2. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
  3. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
  4. (with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
  5. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
  6. To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
  7. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
  8. To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
  9. (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
  10. (of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
  11. To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
verb
  1. To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
  2. To defend; protect.
  3. To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
  4. To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
adjective
  1. Damaged and shabby as a result of much use

boba

noun
  1. Short for boba tea.
noun
  1. A small edible ball made primarily from tapioca starch; used in bubble tea.

noob

noun
  1. (often pejorative) A newb or newbie; refers to the idea that someone is new to a game, concept, or idea; implying a lack of experience. Also, in some areas the word noob can mean someone is obsessed with things.

arborio

noun
  1. A variety of short-grained starchy rice with a white dot at the center of each grain, commonly used in risotto.