Wednesday, June 10, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 133

Number of Answers: 25

Points Needed for Genius: 93

Genius requires between 13 and 21 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 133 was in the 30th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on June 07, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 25 possible answers rank it in the 11th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on June 07, 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 June 09, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.8.
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 244
  • loll 225
  • toot 217
  • nana 201
  • naan 201
  • nene 158
  • tilt 156
  • till 156
  • lilt 156
  • mamma 154
  • mama 154
  • tint 151
  • onion 150
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • acai 145
  • acacia 145
  • olio 136
  • anon 136
  • anal 134
  • papa 128
  • tact 127
  • baba 126
  • lulu 125
  • lull 125
  • dodo 124
  • loon 122
  • mitt 121
  • poop 120
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • cocci 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • calla 118
  • call 118
  • tattoo 117
  • tartar 117
  • tart 117
  • ratatat 117
  • attar 116
  • tutu 114
  • ally 113
  • allay 113
  • tatty 111
  • momma 111
  • aria 111
  • ammo 111
  • cancan 110
  • roar 109


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 118,942 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,045 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*:

  • chico
  • chinch
  • chinching
  • ching
  • chining
  • choc
  • chon
  • cinchonic
  • cochin
  • cohog
  • concho
  • cooch
  • ginch
  • gonch
  • hmmm
  • hogg
  • hominin
  • homo
  • honchoing
  • hong
  • hongi
  • hongiing
  • miching
  • moho
  • niching
  • nighing
  • nonohmic
  • ohing
  • ohmic
  • oohing

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

chic

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Good form; style.
  2. A person with (a particular type of) chic.
adjective
  1. Elegant, stylish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A kind of ritual buffoon or clown in Yucatec Maya culture.

chichi

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (Latin America, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.

chignon

noun
  1. A roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun.
  2. A temporary swelling on a neonate's head after a ventouse-assisted delivery.

chiming

verb
  1. To make the sound of a chime.
  2. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
  3. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
  4. To agree; to correspond.
  5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
noun
  1. An instance of chiming; a sound that chimes.

chin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
  2. Talk.
  3. A lie, a falsehood.
  4. The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
  5. The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
  6. The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.
verb
  1. To talk.
  2. To talk to or with (someone).
  3. To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
  4. To punch or hit (someone)'s chin (part of the body).
  5. To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
  6. To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
  7. To put one's chin on (something).
  8. To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A chinchilla.

chinning

verb
  1. To talk.
  2. To talk to or with (someone).
  3. To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
  4. To punch or hit (someone)'s chin (part of the body).
  5. To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
  6. To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
  7. To put one's chin on (something).
  8. To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.

chino

noun
  1. A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.

cinch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
  2. Something that is very easy to do.
  3. A firm hold.
verb
  1. To bring to certain conclusion.
  2. To tighten down.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
verb
  1. In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.

cinching

verb
  1. To bring to certain conclusion.
  2. To tighten down.
verb
  1. In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
noun
  1. A fastening.

coho

noun
  1. An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean, used as a symbol by several Native American tribes.

conch

noun
  1. A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
  2. The shell of this sea animal.
  3. A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
  4. The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
verb
  1. To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
  2. To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
noun
  1. A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding.
  2. A person who operates such a machine.

gnocchi

noun
  1. Italian pasta-like dumplings made of potato or semolina.

high

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A high point or position, literally or figuratively; an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
  2. A point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best.
  3. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
  4. A drug that gives such a high.
  5. A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
  6. The maximum value attained by some quantity within a specified period.
  7. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
  8. The highest card dealt or drawn.
verb
  1. To rise.
adjective
  1. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
  2. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
  3. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
  4. Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character.
  5. Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
  6. Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
  7. (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.
  8. (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.
  9. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
  10. (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
  11. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
  12. (with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused.
  13. (of a body of water) With tall waves.
  14. Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
  15. (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
  16. Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
  17. Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
  18. (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
  19. Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
  20. (of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
adverb
  1. In or to an elevated position.
  2. In or at a great value.
  3. At a pitch of great frequency.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Thought; intention; determination; purpose.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To hie; to hasten.

hinging

verb
  1. To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
  2. (with on or upon) To depend on something.
  3. The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
  4. To bend.

hogging

verb
  1. To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
  2. To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
  3. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  4. To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
verb
  1. To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
noun
  1. The targeting by men of overweight or obese women for sexual encounters, not due to sexual attraction but for amusement, or to take advantage of low self-esteem.
  2. Taking up too much of something so others cannot use it.
adjective
  1. Drooping at the ends; arching; in distinction from sagging.

homing

verb
  1. (of animals) To return to its owner.
  2. (always with "in on") To seek or aim for something.

honcho

noun
  1. Boss, leader
verb
  1. To lead or manage.

honing

verb
  1. To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
  2. To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  3. To refine or master (a skill).
  4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.
verb
  1. To grumble.
  2. To pine, lament, or long.
noun
  1. The process by which something is honed.

hooch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.

inch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.
  2. The amount of water which would cover a surface to the depth of an inch, used as a measurement of rainfall.
  3. The amount of an alcoholic beverage which would fill a glass or bottle to the depth of an inch.
  4. A very short distance.
verb
  1. (followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
  2. To drive by inches, or small degrees.
  3. To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small island

inching

verb
  1. (followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
  2. To drive by inches, or small degrees.
  3. To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
noun
  1. Very gradual movement.

mochi

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mooch

noun
  1. An aimless stroll.
  2. One who mooches; a moocher.
  3. A unit of time comprising ten days, used to measure how long someone holds a job.
verb
  1. To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
  2. To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
  3. To steal or filch.

mooching

verb
  1. To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
  2. To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
  3. To steal or filch.
noun
  1. An idle stroll.

nigh

verb
  1. To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near
adjective
  1. Near, close by
  2. Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.
adverb
  1. Almost, nearly.
preposition
  1. Near; close to