Tuesday, June 30, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 124

Number of Answers: 32

Points Needed for Genius: 87

Genius requires between 13 and 29 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 81% 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 124 was in the 24th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on July 08, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 32 possible answers rank it in the 29th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on July 09, 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 July 14, 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 245
  • loll 226
  • toot 219
  • nana 204
  • naan 204
  • tilt 159
  • till 159
  • lilt 159
  • nene 158
  • mamma 158
  • mama 158
  • tint 153
  • onion 150
  • acai 148
  • acacia 148
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • anon 138
  • olio 137
  • anal 136
  • papa 129
  • tact 128
  • baba 127
  • dodo 126
  • lulu 125
  • lull 125
  • mitt 123
  • loon 122
  • poop 121
  • calla 121
  • call 121
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • moon 119
  • mono 119
  • cocci 119
  • tattoo 117
  • tartar 117
  • tart 117
  • ratatat 117
  • attar 116
  • tutu 115
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • momma 113
  • cancan 113
  • aria 113
  • ammo 113
  • tatty 111
  • roar 111


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 120,434 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,058 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*:

  • adown
  • ammono
  • annona
  • anoa
  • dado
  • dahoon
  • dhow
  • dona
  • donna
  • doodah
  • doodoo
  • hodad
  • homa
  • homo
  • honan
  • honda
  • madonna
  • mano
  • moho
  • nano
  • noma
  • nona
  • nonman
  • odah
  • whamo
  • woad
  • woodman

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

adwoman

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ammo

noun
  1. Ammunition.
verb
  1. To load up on ammunition.

anon

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. Straight away; at once.
  2. Soon; in a little while.
  3. At another time; then; again.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An anonymous person, especially an author.
  2. A work with an unknown author.
  3. A work without a title.
adjective
  1. Anonymous

dodo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
  2. A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Fried plantain.

doodad

noun
  1. A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part.

doom

noun
  1. Destiny, especially terrible.
  2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
  3. A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
  4. A law.
  5. A judgment or decision.
  6. A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
  7. Death.
  8. (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
verb
  1. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
  2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
  3. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
  4. To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  5. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

down

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A negative aspect; a downer.
  2. A grudge (on someone).
  3. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
  4. A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
  5. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
  6. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
  7. Down payment.
verb
  1. To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell.
  2. To lower; to put (something) down.
  3. To defeat; to overpower.
  4. To disparage, to put down.
  5. To go or come down; to descend.
  6. To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
  7. To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
  8. (pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
adjective
  1. Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
  2. (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
  3. At a lower level than before.
  4. Having a lower score than an opponent.
  5. (following the noun modified) Out.
  6. (with "on") Negative about, hostile to.
  7. Comfortable with, accepting of, approachable.
  8. Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
  9. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
  10. (police, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
  11. (of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
  12. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
  13. Downright; absolute; positive.
  14. Accepted or respected, especially in the black or thug community.
  15. Facing downwards.
adverb
  1. From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
  2. At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
  3. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
  4. Away from the city (regardless of direction).
  5. At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
  6. Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
  7. Into a state of non-operation.
  8. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
  9. In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
  10. (sentence substitute) Get down.
  11. (academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
  12. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
  13. So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
  14. So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
  15. From less to greater detail.
  16. So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
  17. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb.
  18. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather than being of indefinite duration.
preposition
  1. From the higher end to the lower of.
  2. From nouth to south of.
  3. From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
  4. At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
  2. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
  3. (chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
  2. The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
  3. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
  4. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
verb
  1. To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

hood

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
  2. A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
  3. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
  4. A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
  5. The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle: known as a bonnet in other countries.
  6. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
verb
  1. To cover something with a hood.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Gangster, thug.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Neighborhood.
adjective
  1. Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Person wearing a hoodie.

hoodoo

noun
  1. A practitioner of voodoo.
  2. Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
  3. A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
verb
  1. To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.

howdah

noun
  1. A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel.
  2. An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant.

madwoman

noun
  1. A woman who is insane.

mammon

noun
  1. The desire for wealth personified as an evil spirit or a malign influence.
  2. Often mammon: wealth, material avarice, profit.

manhood

noun
  1. The state or condition of being a human being
  2. The state or condition of being an adult male human being, as distinguished from a child or a woman. Compare adulthood. Contrast womanhood and childhood.
  3. All of the adult male human beingss of a given locality, region, district, country, nation or state, or all of the adult male humans pertaining to a given human subgroup (culture, race, ethnicity, lineage, family, etc.), regarded collectively
  4. The idealized nature of an adult male human: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness, such as: courage, bravery, dominance, resolve, self-control, executive ability, physical/bodily strength, and sexual potency as regarded collectively
  5. The self-concept of a man (an adult male human being) with respect to his possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness; a man's sense or view of himself as being more or less manly
  6. The male genitalia, especially the penis

moan

noun
  1. A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
verb
  1. To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
  2. To grieve.
  3. To distress (someone); to sadden.
  4. To make a moan or similar sound.
  5. To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
  6. To complain; to grumble.

momma

noun
  1. Mother
  2. A voluptuous woman.
  3. One's wife or girlfriend.

monad

noun
  1. An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
  2. A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.
  3. A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.

mondo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Big, large; major, significant.
adverb
  1. Very, extremely, really.

mono

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

Etymology 4

adjective
  1. Monochrome.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. An injective homomorphism
  2. The absence of sexual dimorphism
  3. A morphism n such that for any other morphisms f and g, if n \circ f = n \circ g then f = g.

Etymology 6

noun
  1. A monogamous person.
adjective
  1. Monoamorous, monogamous.

Etymology 7

adjective
  1. Monosexual.

mood

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A mental or emotional state, composure.
  2. Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
  3. A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
  4. A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.
  5. A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
  6. A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.
  7. Courage, heart, valor; also vim and vigor.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

moon

proper noun
  1. The Earth's moon Luna; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
  2. The god of the Moon in Heathenry.
  3. A surname.
  4. The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun
  1. (by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
  2. A month, particularly a lunar month.
  3. A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
  4. The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
  5. The thirty-second Lenormand card.
  6. In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
verb
  1. To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
  2. (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
  3. To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
  4. To expose to the rays of the Moon.
  5. To adorn with moons or crescents.
  6. (cryptocurrency) Of a coin or token: to rise in price rapidly.
  7. To shoot the moon.

mown

verb
  1. To cut down grass or crops.
  2. To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.

nohow

adverb
  1. In no way; not at all; by no available means.

nomad

noun
  1. A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
  2. A person who changes residence frequently.
  3. A player who changes teams frequently.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to nomads, whether
noun
  1. One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
  2. Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
  3. The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.

noon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  2. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. The highest point; culmination.
verb
  1. To relax or sleep around midday

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

wahoo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The winged elm, Ulmus alata.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Euonymus atropurpureus, an eastern burning bush.

whammo

noun
  1. An action-packed scene in a film, etc.
interjection
  1. Used to emphasis the suddenness of an event.

whoa

verb
  1. To attempt to slow (an animal) by crying "whoa".
interjection
  1. Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
  2. An expression of surprise.
  3. Used as a meaningless filler in song lyrics.

whom

pronoun
  1. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people.
  2. (relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.
  3. (fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever.

woman

noun
  1. An adult female human.
  2. (collective) All females collectively; womankind.
  3. A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
  4. A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
  5. A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
  6. A female attendant or servant.
verb
  1. To staff with female labor.
  2. To make effeminate or womanish.
  3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
  4. To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.

womanhood

noun
  1. The state or condition of being an adult female human being, as distinguished from a child or a man Compare adulthood. Contrast manhood and childhood.
  2. All of the adult female human beingss of a given locality, region, district, country, nation or state, or all of the adult female humans pertaining to a given human subgroup (culture, ethnicity, race, etc.), regarded collectively
  3. The idealized nature of an adult female human: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness, as regarded collectively
  4. The self-concept of a woman (an adult female human being) with respect to her possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness; a woman's sense or view of herself as being more or less womanly.
  5. The female genitalia, especially the vulva

wood

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
  2. The wood of a particular species of tree.
  3. A forested or wooded area.
  4. Firewood.
  5. A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
  6. A woodwind instrument.
  7. An erection of the penis.
  8. Chess pieces.
verb
  1. To cover or plant with trees.
  2. To hide behind trees.
  3. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
  4. To take or get a supply of wood.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Mad, insane, crazed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (sometimes offensive, of a person) A peckerwood.

woohoo

No Definition Found.