Friday, April 03, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 143

Number of Answers: 34

Points Needed for Genius: 100

Genius requires between 15 and 29 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 78% 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 143 was in the 35th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on April 01, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 34 possible answers rank it in the 35th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on April 01, 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 April 01, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
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 236
  • loll 217
  • toot 213
  • nana 195
  • naan 195
  • nene 155
  • tilt 153
  • till 153
  • lilt 153
  • mamma 149
  • mama 149
  • tint 148
  • toon 143
  • onto 143
  • onion 143
  • acai 140
  • acacia 140
  • anon 132
  • anal 131
  • olio 128
  • papa 124
  • lulu 124
  • lull 124
  • baba 124
  • dodo 123
  • tact 122
  • poop 119
  • booboo 119
  • boob 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • mitt 117
  • cocci 117
  • calla 115
  • call 115
  • tartar 114
  • tart 114
  • ratatat 114
  • loon 114
  • tattoo 113
  • attar 113
  • tutu 112
  • momma 111
  • ammo 111
  • ally 111
  • allay 111
  • tatty 109
  • meme 109
  • roar 108
  • aria 108


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 115,871 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,954 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*:

  • akee
  • akela
  • akene
  • alkane
  • alkene
  • ananke
  • ankled
  • ekka
  • flanken
  • kaka
  • kana
  • kanaka
  • kane
  • keef
  • keek
  • keeked
  • kenaf
  • kenned
  • kennelled
  • laked
  • lakeland
  • leke
  • lekked
  • nakfa

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

ankle

noun
  1. The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.
verb
  1. To walk.
  2. To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution.

dank

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Moisture; humidity; water.
adjective
  1. Dark, damp and humid.
  2. (of marijuana) Highly potent.
  3. (often ironic) Great, awesome.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.

deke

noun
  1. A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman.
  2. As in hockey, a fake or other move to confuse other players on a team.
  3. A quick detour.
verb
  1. To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
  2. To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports.

deked

verb
  1. To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
  2. To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports.

eked

verb
  1. Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.

fake

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
  2. A trick; a swindle.
  3. A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
verb
  1. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  2. To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
  3. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
  4. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
adjective
  1. Not real; false, fraudulent.
  2. (of people) Insincere.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
verb
  1. To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

faked

verb
  1. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  2. To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
  3. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
  4. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
verb
  1. To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

flak

noun
  1. Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
  2. Anti-aircraft shell fire.
  3. Adverse criticism.
  4. A public-relations spokesperson.

flake

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
  2. A scale of a fish or similar animal
  3. A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  4. A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
  5. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  6. A flat turn or tier of rope.
verb
  1. To break or chip off in a flake.
  2. To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  3. To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
  4. To hit (another person).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Dogfish.
  2. The meat of the gummy shark.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
  2. A trick; a swindle.
  3. A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
noun
  1. One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
noun
  1. A paling; a hurdle.
  2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
  3. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.

flaked

verb
  1. To break or chip off in a flake.
  2. To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  3. To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
  4. To hit (another person).

flank

noun
  1. The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side.
  2. A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
  3. The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.
  4. The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.
  5. The side of something, in general senses.
  6. The outermost strip of a road.
  7. The wing, one side of the pitch.
  8. That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
verb
  1. To attack the flank(s) of.
  2. To defend the flank(s) of.
  3. To place to the side(s) of.
  4. To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side).
adjective
  1. (of speed) Maximum. Historically faster than full speed (the most a vessel can sustain without excessive engine wear or risk of damage), now frequently used interchangeably. Typically used in an emergency or during an attack.

flanked

verb
  1. To attack the flank(s) of.
  2. To defend the flank(s) of.
  3. To place to the side(s) of.
  4. To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side).

kale

noun
  1. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
  2. Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.
  3. Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient.
  4. Money.

keel

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Red chalk; ruddle.
verb
  1. To mark with ruddle.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  2. To render inoperative.
  3. To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.
  4. To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.
  5. To cause great pain, discomfort or distress to.
  6. To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
  7. To use up or to waste.
  8. To exert an overwhelming effect on.
  9. To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.
  10. To force a company out of business.
  11. To produce intense pain.
  12. To punish severely.
  13. To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
  14. To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
  15. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
  16. To cause to assume the value zero.
  17. (IRC) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
  18. To deadmelt.

keeled

verb
  1. To mark with ruddle.
adjective
  1. Furnished with a keel, especially a keel of a specified type
verb
  1. To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  2. To render inoperative.
  3. To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.
  4. To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.
  5. To cause great pain, discomfort or distress to.
  6. To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
  7. To use up or to waste.
  8. To exert an overwhelming effect on.
  9. To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.
  10. To force a company out of business.
  11. To produce intense pain.
  12. To punish severely.
  13. To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
  14. To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
  15. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
  16. To cause to assume the value zero.
  17. (IRC) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
  18. To deadmelt.

keen

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To make cold, to sharpen.
adjective
  1. Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
  2. Fierce, intense, vehement.
  3. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
  4. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
  5. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
  6. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
  7. Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
  8. Marvelous.
  9. Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
verb
  1. To utter a keen.
  2. To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
  3. To mourn.

keened

verb
  1. To make cold, to sharpen.
verb
  1. To utter a keen.
  2. To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
  3. To mourn.

kennel

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A house or shelter for a dog.
  2. A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
  3. (collective) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
  4. The hole of a fox or other animal.
verb
  1. To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
  2. To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
  3. To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
  2. A puddle.

kenneled

verb
  1. To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
  2. To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
  3. To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.

knead

noun
  1. The act of kneading something.
verb
  1. To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
  2. To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
  3. (of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
  4. To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.

kneaded

verb
  1. To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
  2. To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
  3. (of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
  4. To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.

knee

noun
  1. In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
  2. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
  3. The part of a garment that covers the knee.
  4. A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
  5. An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.
  6. Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point.
  7. A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
verb
  1. To kneel to.
  2. To poke or strike with the knee.
  3. To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.

kneed

verb
  1. To kneel to.
  2. To poke or strike with the knee.
  3. To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.
adjective
  1. Having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or knees.
  2. Having angular joints like the knee.

kneel

verb
  1. To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.
  2. To cause to kneel.
  3. To rest on (one's) knees

kneeled

verb
  1. To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.
  2. To cause to kneel.
  3. To rest on (one's) knees

knell

noun
  1. The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death).
  2. A sign of the end or demise of something or someone.
verb
  1. To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
  2. To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.
  3. To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.

knelled

verb
  1. To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
  2. To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.
  3. To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.

lake

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
  2. A large, landlocked stretch of water.
  3. A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
  4. A pit, or ditch

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An offering, sacrifice, gift.
  2. Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
verb
  1. To present an offering.
  2. To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A kind of fine, white linen.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
  2. In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
verb
  1. To make lake-red.

lank

verb
  1. To become lank.
adjective
  1. Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
  2. Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
  3. (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)
  4. Languid; drooping, slack.

leak

noun
  1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
  2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
  3. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
  4. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
  5. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
  6. The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
  7. (especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
verb
  1. To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  2. (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  3. To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
adjective
  1. Leaky.

leaked

verb
  1. To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  2. (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  3. To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
adjective
  1. Of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.

leek

noun
  1. The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
  2. Any of several species of Allium, broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.

naked

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Bare, not covered by clothing.
  2. Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
  3. Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.
  4. Characterized by the nakedness of the people concerned or to whom the described noun is attributed.
  5. Unarmed.
  6. Unaided, unaccompanied.
  7. Unprotected, uncovered; (by extension) without a condom.
  8. (of a derivative contract) Where the writer (seller) does not own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
  9. Resourceless, poor, lacking means.
  10. (with “of”) Lacking or devoid of something.
  11. Blank, clean, empty.
  12. (of land, rocks, or plants) Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
  13. Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.
  14. (of food or other consumer products) Without any additives, or without some component that would usually be included.
  15. Of a singularity, not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make naked; to bare.

nankeen

noun
  1. A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.