Monday, January 26, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 186

Number of Answers: 43

Points Needed for Genius: 130

Genius requires between 20 and 37 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 186 was in the 57th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on January 25, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 43 possible answers rank it in the 59th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on January 25, 2026.
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 January 21, 2026.

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 228
  • loll 211
  • toot 207
  • naan 190
  • nana 190
  • lilt 151
  • till 151
  • tilt 151
  • nene 149
  • tint 145
  • mama 142
  • mamma 142
  • acacia 137
  • acai 137
  • onion 137
  • onto 136
  • toon 136
  • anal 130
  • anon 129
  • olio 124
  • dodo 122
  • papa 121
  • tact 121
  • baba 119
  • poop 118
  • boob 117
  • booboo 117
  • lull 116
  • lulu 116
  • cocci 114
  • call 113
  • calla 113
  • mitt 113
  • mono 112
  • moon 112
  • tutu 112
  • ratatat 111
  • tart 111
  • tartar 111
  • tattoo 111
  • allay 110
  • ally 110
  • attar 110
  • loon 110
  • tatty 109
  • ammo 107
  • momma 107
  • epee 104
  • meme 104
  • peep 104


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 112,823 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,903 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*:

  • bedotted
  • betted
  • boobed
  • boody
  • codded
  • codec
  • cooeed
  • cooeyed
  • coted
  • coyed
  • debye
  • deedy
  • deet
  • dobby
  • dobe
  • doby
  • doob
  • doodoo
  • doody
  • doty
  • eddo
  • obtected
  • tedded
  • tody
  • totted

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

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.

bobbed

verb
  1. To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
  2. To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
  3. To curtsy.
  4. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
verb
  1. To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
  2. To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop
  3. To bobsleigh.

bode

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An omen; a foreshadowing.
verb
  1. To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
  2. (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bid; an offer.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A messenger; a herald.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A stop; a halting; delay.

Etymology 5

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.

boded

verb
  1. To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
  2. (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.

body

noun
  1. Physical frame.
  2. Main section.
  3. Coherent group.
  4. Material entity.
  5. The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
  6. A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
verb
  1. To give body or shape to something.
  2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
  3. To embody.
  4. To murder someone.
  5. (by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
  6. To hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.

booed

verb
  1. To shout extended boos derisively.
  2. To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision.

booted

verb
  1. To kick.
  2. To put boots on, especially for riding.
  3. To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
  4. To forcibly eject.
  5. To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
  6. To vomit.
  7. (criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
verb
  1. To avail, benefit, profit.
  2. To benefit, to enrich; to give in addition.
verb
  1. To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
adjective
  1. Wearing a boot or boots.

boycotted

verb
  1. To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.

cede

verb
  1. To give up; yield to another.
  2. To give way.

ceded

verb
  1. To give up; yield to another.
  2. To give way.

code

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
  2. A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
  3. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
  4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
  5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
  6. A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
  7. Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
  8. (scientific programming) A program.
  9. A particular lect or language variety.
  10. An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
verb
  1. To write software programs.
  2. To add codes to a dataset.
  3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
  4. To encode.
  5. To encode a protein.
  6. To call a hospital emergency code.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

coded

verb
  1. To write software programs.
  2. To add codes to a dataset.
  3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
  4. To encode.
  5. To encode a protein.
  6. To call a hospital emergency code.
verb
  1. Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
adjective
  1. Encoded; written in code or cipher.

coed

noun
  1. A young woman who attends college.
  2. A (generally young) woman, especially on the campus of a college or other educational institute.
adjective
  1. Of an educational institution, that teaches both males and females.
  2. Of any location, that mixes males and females.

cooed

verb
  1. To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.
  2. To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.

debt

noun
  1. An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
  2. The state or condition of owing something to another.
  3. Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
  4. An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.

deco

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (underwater diving) Decompression.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A friendship book in which people add decorative elements such as drawings, stickers and sequins.

decoct

verb
  1. To make an infusion.
  2. To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
  3. To heat as if by boiling.
  4. To reduce or diminish.
  5. To digest in the stomach.
  6. To devise.

decocted

verb
  1. To make an infusion.
  2. To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
  3. To heat as if by boiling.
  4. To reduce or diminish.
  5. To digest in the stomach.
  6. To devise.

decode

noun
  1. A product of decoding
  2. Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols
verb
  1. To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
  2. To figure out something difficult to interpret.

decoded

verb
  1. To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
  2. To figure out something difficult to interpret.

decoy

noun
  1. A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
  2. A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
verb
  1. To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.
  2. To act as, or use, a decoy.

decoyed

verb
  1. To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.
  2. To act as, or use, a decoy.

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.

detect

verb
  1. To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
adjective
  1. Detected.

detected

verb
  1. To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
adjective
  1. Having been noticed.

dodo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
  2. A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Fried plantain.

dote

noun
  1. A darling, a cutie.
  2. An imbecile; a dotard.
verb
  1. (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
  2. To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.

doted

verb
  1. (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
  2. To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
adjective
  1. Stupid; foolish
  2. Half-rotten

dotted

verb
  1. To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
  2. To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
  3. To mark by means of dots or small spots.
  4. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
  5. To punch (a person).
adjective
  1. (of a line) Made up of a series of dots.
  2. (usually computing) That contains dots.
  3. (of notes and rests) With a dot after, increasing the value of the duration by half of the basic note.
  4. Covered with irregularly scattered objects.

dotty

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
  2. Having an unsteady gait.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A shotgun.
adjective
  1. Having many dots.

dyed

verb
  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
adjective
  1. Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.

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.

eddy

noun
  1. A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
  2. A circular current; a whirlpool.
verb
  1. To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

eyed

verb
  1. To observe carefully or appraisingly.
  2. To appear; to look.
adjective
  1. Having eyes.
  2. Having eye-like spots.
  3. (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.

obeyed

verb
  1. To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
  2. To do as one is told.
  3. To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).

teddy

noun
  1. By extension, any stuffed toy.
  2. A type of all-in-one piece of women's underwear.
noun
  1. A plush toy in the shape of a bear.
  2. A lovable, endearing, large, strong, hairy, or sweet man

teed

verb
  1. To draw; lead.
  2. To draw away; go; proceed.
verb
  1. To place a ball on a tee

toddy

noun
  1. A drink made from alcoholic liquor mixed with sugar, spice and hot water.
noun
  1. The sweet sap from any of several tropical trees fermented to make an alcoholic drink.

toed

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. (chiefly in combination) Having (a specified number or type of) toes.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe.
  2. To touch, tap or kick with the toes.
  3. To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to.
  4. To fasten (a piece) by driving a fastener at a near-45-degree angle through the side (of the piece) into the piece to which it is to be fastened.
  5. To mishit a golf ball with the toe of the club.
adjective
  1. Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely; said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.

tooted

verb
  1. To stand out, or be prominent.
  2. To peep; to look narrowly.
  3. To see; to spy.
  4. To flatulate.
  5. To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
  6. To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
  7. To go on a drinking binge.
  8. To snort (a recreational drug).
  9. To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).

toted

verb
  1. To carry or bear.
verb
  1. To add up; to calculate a total.

toyed

verb
  1. To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
  2. To ponder or consider.
  3. To stimulate with a sex toy.