Thursday, June 25, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 151

Number of Answers: 35

Points Needed for Genius: 106

Genius requires between 16 and 30 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 151 was in the 38th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on June 23, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 35 possible answers rank it in the 38th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on June 23, 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on June 23, 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 244
  • loll 225
  • toot 218
  • nana 203
  • naan 203
  • nene 158
  • tilt 157
  • till 157
  • lilt 157
  • mamma 156
  • mama 156
  • tint 152
  • onion 150
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • acai 147
  • acacia 147
  • olio 136
  • anon 136
  • anal 135
  • tact 128
  • papa 128
  • baba 126
  • lulu 125
  • lull 125
  • dodo 124
  • loon 122
  • mitt 121
  • poop 120
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • cocci 119
  • calla 119
  • call 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • tattoo 117
  • tartar 117
  • tart 117
  • ratatat 117
  • attar 116
  • tutu 114
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • aria 112
  • tatty 111
  • momma 111
  • cancan 111
  • ammo 111
  • roar 110


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 119,611 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,050 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*:

  • adit
  • axite
  • defi
  • dexie
  • didie
  • diff
  • dita
  • dite
  • dixit
  • eide
  • fixatif
  • fixit
  • fixt
  • ixia
  • taffia
  • tafia
  • tattie
  • taxite
  • teiid
  • tiffed
  • titi
  • tittie

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

affix

noun
  1. That which is affixed; an appendage.
  2. A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end.
  3. (broadly) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; a prefix, suffix etc.
  4. The complex number a+bi associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates (a,b).
  5. (decorative art) Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature.
verb
  1. To attach.
  2. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
  3. To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon.

affixed

verb
  1. To attach.
  2. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
  3. To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon.
adjective
  1. Enduringly stuck to, or attached to, something.
  2. With an affix.

aide

noun
  1. An assistant.
  2. An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

aided

verb
  1. To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
  2. To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.

ataxia

noun
  1. Lack of coordination while performing voluntary movements, which may appear to be clumsiness, inaccuracy, or instability.
  2. The condition of a polymer in which the orientation of the subunits is random
  3. Disorder; irregularity.

defied

verb
  1. To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition).
  2. To refuse to obey.
  3. To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.
  4. To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.

deified

verb
  1. To make a god of (something or someone).
  2. To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.

died

verb
  1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  2. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
  3. To yearn intensely.
  4. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
  5. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  6. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  7. To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
  8. (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
  9. (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
  10. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
  11. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  12. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
  13. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  14. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  15. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
verb
  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

diet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
  2. A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  3. (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
adjective
  1. (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
  2. Having certain traits subtracted.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  2. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  3. To eat; to take one's meals.
  4. To cause to take food; to feed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
  2. A session of exams
  3. The proceedings under a criminal libel.
  4. A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.

dieted

verb
  1. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  2. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  3. To eat; to take one's meals.
  4. To cause to take food; to feed.

eddied

verb
  1. To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

edified

adjective
  1. Furnished with buildings.
verb
  1. To build, construct.
  2. To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

edit

noun
  1. A change to the text of a document.
  2. A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
  3. An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
  4. An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
verb
  1. To change a text, or a document.
  2. To be the editor of a publication.
  3. To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
  4. To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
  5. To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.
  6. To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
  7. To lend itself to editing in a certain way.

edited

verb
  1. To change a text, or a document.
  2. To be the editor of a publication.
  3. To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
  4. To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
  5. To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.
  6. To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
  7. To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
adjective
  1. Having been altered from the original version.

exit

noun
  1. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
  2. A way out.
  3. The act of departing from life; death.
verb
  1. To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
  2. To depart from life; to die.
  3. To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
  4. (originally United States) To depart from or leave (a place or situation).

exited

verb
  1. To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
  2. To depart from life; to die.
  3. To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
  4. (originally United States) To depart from or leave (a place or situation).

fetid

noun
  1. The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.
adjective
  1. Foul-smelling, stinking.

fiat

noun
  1. An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
  2. Authorization, permission or (official) sanction.
  3. (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
  4. (English law) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
verb
  1. (used in academic debate and role-playing games) To make (something) happen.

fief

noun
  1. An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior.
  2. Something over which one has rights or exercises control.
  3. An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.

fife

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
verb
  1. To play this instrument.

Etymology 2

numeral
  1. Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion.

fifed

verb
  1. To play this instrument.

fitted

verb
  1. To be suitable for.
  2. To conform to in size and shape.
  3. To be of the right size and shape
  4. (with to) To make conform in size and shape.
  5. To be in agreement with.
  6. To adjust.
  7. To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
  8. To equip or supply.
  9. To make ready.
  10. To be seemly.
  11. To be proper or becoming.
  12. To be in harmony.
verb
  1. To suffer a fit.
adjective
  1. (of a kitchen, bathroom, etc.) Incorporating all of the fittings into connected units.

fixate

verb
  1. To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
  2. To stare fixedly at something.
  3. To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on.
  4. To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological or neurotic manner; used with on.

fixated

verb
  1. To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
  2. To stare fixedly at something.
  3. To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on.
  4. To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological or neurotic manner; used with on.
adjective
  1. Attached to someone or something in a neurotic or pathological manner

fixed

verb
  1. To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
  2. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
  3. To mend, to repair.
  4. To prepare (food or drink).
  5. To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion
  6. To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
  7. (sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
  8. To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
  9. To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
  10. To convert into a stable or available form.
  11. To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
  12. To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
adjective
  1. Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
  2. Stationary.
  3. Attached; affixed.
  4. Chemically stable.
  5. Supplied with what one needs.
  6. Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
  7. Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
  8. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
  9. (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
  10. Repaired

idea

noun
  1. An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
  2. The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.
  3. The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.
  4. An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
  5. More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
  6. A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
  7. A purposeful aim or goal; intent
  8. A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
  9. A musical theme or melodic subject.

ideate

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
  2. To generate an idea.
adjective
  1. Produced by an idea.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

ideated

verb
  1. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
  2. To generate an idea.

taxi

noun
  1. A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver.
  2. A share taxi.
verb
  1. To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power.
  2. To travel by taxicab.

taxied

verb
  1. To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power.
  2. To travel by taxicab.

tide

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
  2. A stream, current or flood.
  3. (chronology, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
  4. A time.
  5. A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
  6. The period of twelve hours.
  7. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
  8. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
  9. Violent confluence
verb
  1. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  2. To pour a tide or flood.
  3. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To happen, occur.

tided

verb
  1. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  2. To pour a tide or flood.
  3. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
verb
  1. To happen, occur.
adjective
  1. Affected by the tide; having a tide.

tidied

verb
  1. To make tidy; to neaten.

tied

verb
  1. To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
  2. To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
  3. To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
  4. To secure (something) by string or the like.
  5. To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
  6. To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
  7. To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
  8. To believe; to credit.
  9. In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
adjective
  1. Closely connected or associated.
  2. Restricted.
  3. Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
  4. That resulted in a tie.
  5. Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
  6. Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.

tiff

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small argument; a petty quarrel.
  2. Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
verb
  1. To quarrel.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To deck out; to dress.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. (British India) To have lunch.