Saturday, February 07, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 189

Number of Answers: 39

Points Needed for Genius: 132

Genius requires between 18 and 34 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 85% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 63% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 189 was in the 59th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on February 06, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 39 possible answers rank it in the 49th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on February 06, 2026.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 08, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on January 25, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 229
  • loll 212
  • toot 209
  • nana 190
  • naan 190
  • tilt 151
  • till 151
  • lilt 151
  • nene 150
  • tint 145
  • mamma 142
  • mama 142
  • onion 138
  • toon 137
  • onto 137
  • acai 137
  • acacia 137
  • anal 130
  • anon 129
  • olio 124
  • dodo 123
  • tact 121
  • papa 121
  • baba 119
  • poop 118
  • lulu 117
  • lull 117
  • booboo 117
  • boob 117
  • cocci 114
  • moon 113
  • mono 113
  • mitt 113
  • calla 113
  • call 113
  • tutu 112
  • tattoo 111
  • tartar 111
  • tart 111
  • ratatat 111
  • tatty 110
  • loon 110
  • attar 110
  • ally 110
  • allay 110
  • momma 107
  • ammo 107
  • meme 105
  • roar 104
  • peep 104


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 113,089 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,907 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*:

  • apriority
  • ariary
  • atopy
  • ayaya
  • parroty
  • paty
  • payor
  • pipy
  • piraya
  • pitaya
  • poopy
  • potatory
  • raya
  • rooty
  • ryot
  • tarty
  • tayra
  • titty
  • tory
  • totty
  • toyo
  • trappy
  • typp
  • typy
  • tyropita
  • yirr
  • yttria

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

airy

adjective
  1. Consisting of air.
  2. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
  3. Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
  4. Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
  5. Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
  6. Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
  7. Light-hearted; vivacious
  8. Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
  9. Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.

apiary

noun
  1. A place where bees and their hives are kept.

array

noun
  1. Clothing and ornamentation.
  2. A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
  3. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
  4. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
  5. A large collection.
  6. Common name for matrix.
  7. Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
  8. A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  9. A militia.
  10. A group of hedgehogs.
  11. A microarray.
verb
  1. To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
  2. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
  3. To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.

arroyo

noun
  1. A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
  2. Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).

arty

adjective
  1. Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.

oaty

No Definition Found.

oratory

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A private chapel or prayer room.
  2. A large Roman Catholic church.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner.
  2. Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.

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

papyri

noun
  1. (usually uncountable) A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley.
  2. (usually uncountable) A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.
  3. A scroll or document written on papyrus.

parity

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
  2. Senses related to classification into two sets.
  3. (games) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
  4. Resemblance; analogy.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks
  2. The number of times a sow has farrowed.

parry

noun
  1. A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
  2. A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
  3. (combat sports and martial arts) A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion.
verb
  1. To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).

party

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
  2. A person.
  3. A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
  4. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
  5. A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
  6. A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
  7. A part or division.
verb
  1. To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
  2. To take recreational drugs.
  3. To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
  4. To form a party (with).

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. (except in compounds) Divided; in part.
  2. Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.

patty

noun
  1. (US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
  2. A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric.

pity

noun
  1. A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
  2. Something regrettable.
  3. Piety.
verb
  1. To feel pity for (someone or something).
  2. To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.
interjection
  1. Short form of what a pity.

poppy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially the common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
  2. A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.
  3. A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Sunday.
adjective
  1. Of a bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower (Papaver rhoeas).

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Having a popping or bursting sound.
  2. Of a beverage: resembling soda pop; effervescent, fizzy.
  3. Of eyes: protruding, sticking out.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Popular.
  2. Typical, or in the style, of pop music.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.

portray

verb
  1. To paint or draw the likeness of.
  2. To describe in words; to convey.
  3. To play a role; to depict a character, person, situation, or event.
  4. To adorn.

potty

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To go and use the potty: to leave in order to urinate or defecate.
verb
  1. To go crazy: to become insane.
noun
  1. (diminutive) A chamber pot, particularly (children) the pot used when toilet-training children.
  2. (diminutive) Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an outhouse.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Insane.
  2. Easy to pot the ball on.

pray

verb
  1. To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
  2. To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
  3. To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
  4. To implore, to entreat, to request.
adverb
  1. Please; used to make a polite request.

priority

noun
  1. An item's relative importance.
  2. A goal of a person or an organisation.
  3. The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
  4. (of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
  5. Precedence; superior rank.

priory

noun
  1. A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.

propitiatory

No Definition Found.

pyro

noun
  1. A pyromaniac
  2. Pyrocellulose
  3. Pyrotechnician
  4. Pyrotechnics
  5. Pyrogallic acid
adjective
  1. Pyromaniac, pyromaniacal
  2. Pyrotechnic

rarity

noun
  1. A measure of the scarcity of an object.
  2. (of a gas) Thinness; the property of having low density
  3. A rare object.

ratty

adjective
  1. Similar to a rat; ratlike.
  2. Infested with rats.
  3. In poor condition or repair
  4. Irritable, annoyed, bad-tempered.

ropy

adjective
  1. Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
  2. Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
  3. Of poor quality; in poor health.
  4. (of milk or another liquid) Slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.

rotary

noun
  1. A traffic circle.
  2. (chiefly with initial capital) Any of the clubs making up the international Rotary International movement for community service.
adjective
  1. Capable of rotation.

rotatory

No Definition Found.

tarry

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sojourn.
verb
  1. To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
  2. To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
  3. To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
  4. To stay somewhere temporarily.
  5. To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Resembling tar.
  2. Covered with tar.

tatty

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Potato

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

tippy

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A dandy.
adjective
  1. Fashionable, tip-top.
  2. (absolute, with the) In the height of fashion, excellent, cool.
  3. Clever, neat, smart.
  4. Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tending to tip or tilt over; unstable.

topiary

noun
  1. Art or practice of trimming shrubs or trees in artistic or ornamental shapes, e.g. of animals.
  2. A garden decorated with such art.
  3. One such shrub or tree.
adjective
  1. Of, or relating to art of topiaries.
  2. Of a tree or shrub, trimmed in artistic shape.

tray

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
  2. A flat carrier for items being transported.
  3. The items on a full tray.
  4. A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
  5. A notification area used for icons and alerts.
  6. A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
  7. (pickup) truck bed
verb
  1. To place (items) on a tray
  2. To slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Trouble; annoyance; anger

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To grieve; to annoy

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To betray

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A playing card or die with the rank of three.
  2. A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes.
  3. A three-pointer.
  4. The third bearer of the same personal name in a family, often denoted by suffixed Roman numeral III.
  5. The third branch of a deer's antler.

trippy

adjective
  1. Strange, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen.

troy

adjective
  1. Of, or relating to, troy weight.

typo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A typographical error.
verb
  1. To make a typographical error.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A compositor; a typographer.

tyro

noun
  1. A beginner; a novice.

yappy

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

itty

No Definition Found.