Monday, February 2, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 159

Number of Answers: 38

Points Needed for Genius: 111

Genius requires between 18 and 32 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% 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 159 was in the 43rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on January 31, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 38 possible answers rank it in the 46th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on January 31, 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 28, 2026.

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 228
  • loll 213
  • toot 208
  • 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 122
  • tact 121
  • baba 120
  • boob 118
  • booboo 118
  • lull 118
  • lulu 118
  • poop 118
  • cocci 114
  • call 113
  • calla 113
  • mitt 113
  • mono 112
  • moon 112
  • tutu 112
  • loon 111
  • ratatat 111
  • tart 111
  • tartar 111
  • tattoo 111
  • allay 110
  • ally 110
  • attar 110
  • tatty 109
  • ammo 107
  • momma 107
  • epee 105
  • peep 105
  • roar 105


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 113,127 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,906 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*:

  • epha
  • ephah
  • happi
  • heapy
  • hypha
  • hyphae
  • napa
  • nappa
  • nappe
  • nappie
  • nappy
  • neep
  • nipa
  • paan
  • panne
  • panpipe
  • papain
  • papayan
  • paphian
  • pappi
  • pean
  • pein
  • penna
  • pennae
  • penni
  • pennia
  • pennine
  • pian
  • piani
  • pina
  • pinene
  • pinna
  • pinnae
  • piny
  • pinyin
  • pipa
  • pipy
  • pyin

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

apian

noun
  1. (very rare) A bee.
adjective
  1. Relating to bees.

apnea

noun
  1. The cessation of breathing.

epee

noun
  1. A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.

epiphany

noun
  1. The appearance of Jesus Christ to the Magi on the twelfth day after Christmas.
  2. An annual Christian feast celebrating this event.
  3. The day of the celebration, January 6th, or sometimes (in Western Christianity), the Sunday between January 2nd and 8th.
  4. The season or time of the Christian church year either from the Epiphany feast day to Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent) or from the Epiphany feast day to the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.
noun
  1. An illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.
  2. A manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being.

happen

verb
  1. To occur or take place.
  2. To happen to; to befall.
  3. (with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
  4. (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
adverb
  1. Maybe, perhaps.

happy

noun
  1. A happy event, thing, person, etc.
noun
  1. Preceded by the: happy people as a group.
verb
  1. Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
  2. Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
adjective
  1. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
  2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
  3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
  4. (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
  5. (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
  6. (of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.

heap

noun
  1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  3. A great number or large quantity of things.
  4. A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  5. Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  6. A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  7. A lot, a large amount
verb
  1. To pile in a heap.
  2. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  3. To supply in great quantity.
adverb
  1. (representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans; may be offensive) Very.

hippie

noun
  1. (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
  2. (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
  3. (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and wearing unusually long hair (for males), and because of it, often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
  4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
  5. One who is hip.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to hippies.
  2. Not conforming to generally accepted standards.

hippy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
  2. (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
  3. (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and wearing unusually long hair (for males), and because of it, often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
  4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
  5. One who is hip.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Having prominent or in any other way unusual hips.

hype

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims.
verb
  1. To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Hyped.
  2. Excellent, cool.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A drug addict.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.
verb
  1. To throw (an opponent) using this technique.

hyphen

noun
  1. The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
  2. Something that links two more consequential things.
  3. An enclosed walkway or passage that connects two buildings.
  4. Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc.
verb
  1. To separate or punctuate with a hyphen; to hyphenate.
conjunction
  1. Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-".

nape

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The back part of the neck.
  2. The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A tablecloth.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Napalm.
verb
  1. To bombard with napalm.

neap

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A neap tide.
verb
  1. To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
  2. To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail
adjective
  1. (of a tide) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
  2. Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland.

ninepin

No Definition Found.

nippy

adjective
  1. Fast; speedy
  2. Of the weather, rather cold.
  3. Inclined to nip; bitey.
  4. Annoying; irritating
  5. Sharp in taste
  6. Curt
  7. Parsimonious

paean

noun
  1. A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.
  2. (by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
  3. (by extension) An enthusiastic expression of praise.
verb
  1. To sing a paean; to praise.

pain

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
  2. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
  3. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
  4. Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  5. (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb
  1. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

pane

noun
  1. An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
  2. A layer in the build-up of a GUI.
  3. A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
  4. A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
  5. One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
  6. A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
  7. A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
  8. One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
  9. One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.
verb
  1. To fit with panes.
noun
  1. The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.

panini

noun
  1. A type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.

papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

papaya

noun
  1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
  2. The fruit of this tree.
  3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

pappy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Like pap; soft; mushy.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Father
  2. Grandfather

payee

noun
  1. One to whom money is paid.

peahen

noun
  1. A female peafowl.

peen

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.
verb
  1. To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Penis.

peep

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird.
  2. A feeble utterance or complaint.
  3. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
  4. A kind of bird; a sandpiper.
verb
  1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
  2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
  2. The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
verb
  1. To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
  2. To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spot on a die or domino.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Person.

penne

noun
  1. A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.

penny

noun
  1. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d.
  2. In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p.
  3. In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
  4. In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1/100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.
  5. In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
  6. A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
  7. Money in general.
verb
  1. To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
  2. To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.

peppy

adjective
  1. Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy

pine

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
  2. Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  3. The wood of this tree.
  4. (obsolete except South Africa) A pineapple.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A painful longing.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
  2. To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
  3. To grieve or mourn for.
  4. To inflict pain upon; to torment.

piney

adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or having many pines

pinny

noun
  1. A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over other clothes.
  2. A simple jersey worn to denote teams or groups.

pipe

noun
  1. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
  2. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
  3. Meanings relating to a container.
  4. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
  5. Meanings relating to computing.
  6. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
verb
  1. To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
  2. To shout loudly and at high pitch.
  3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  4. Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
  5. To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
  6. To install or configure with pipes.
  7. To dab moisture away from.
  8. To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
  9. To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (pipe) at the command line.
  10. To create or decorate with piping (icing).
  11. To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
  12. (of a male) To have sexual intercourse with a female.
  13. To see.

pippin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A seed

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red
  2. Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties
  3. An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted)

yappy

adjective
  1. Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner.
  2. Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.

yipe

interjection
  1. Used to express surprise, fear, or dismay.

yippee

interjection
  1. Used to express joy or elation.

yippie

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A member of the Youth International Party, a group of politically active hippies.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. Used to express joy or elation.