Tuesday, August 04, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 185

Number of Answers: 42

Points Needed for Genius: 130

Genius requires between 21 and 35 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 76% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 185 was in the 56th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on August 02, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 42 possible answers rank it in the 55th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on August 02, 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 August 03, 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 247
  • loll 228
  • toot 220
  • nana 205
  • naan 205
  • tilt 160
  • till 160
  • lilt 160
  • nene 159
  • mamma 159
  • mama 159
  • tint 156
  • onion 153
  • acai 150
  • acacia 150
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • olio 140
  • anon 138
  • anal 137
  • tact 130
  • papa 129
  • dodo 128
  • baba 128
  • mitt 126
  • lulu 126
  • lull 126
  • loon 123
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • booboo 122
  • boob 122
  • poop 121
  • cocci 120
  • tartar 119
  • tart 119
  • ratatat 119
  • moon 119
  • mono 119
  • tattoo 118
  • attar 118
  • tutu 115
  • momma 114
  • cancan 114
  • aria 114
  • ammo 114
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • meme 112
  • tatty 111


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 121,342 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,076 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*:

  • dhow
  • donne
  • donnee
  • doodoo
  • doody
  • dowed
  • dyewood
  • dynode
  • eddo
  • enow
  • hodden
  • hoodooed
  • hoody
  • howe
  • hoyden
  • hoydened
  • neoned
  • noddy
  • nonwoody
  • ohed
  • oohed
  • wonned
  • woodhen
  • wowee
  • yeow
  • yodh
  • yowe
  • yowed

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

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.

done

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
  2. To perform; to execute.
  3. To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  4. To suffice.
  5. To be reasonable or acceptable.
  6. (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
  7. To fare, perform (well or poorly).
  8. (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  9. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
  10. To cook.
  11. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  12. To treat in a certain way.
  13. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
  14. To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  15. To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
  16. To impersonate or depict.
  17. (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
  18. To kill.
  19. To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  20. To punish for a misdemeanor.
  21. To have sex with. (See also do it)
  22. To cheat or swindle.
  23. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  24. To finish.
  25. To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  26. (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  27. To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  28. (ditransitive) To make or provide.
  29. To injure (one's own body part).
  30. To take drugs.
  31. (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
adjective
  1. (of food) Ready, fully cooked.
  2. Having completed or finished an activity.
  3. Being exhausted or fully spent.
  4. Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
  5. Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A synthetic opioid analgesic, used to wean addicts off heroin or other opiate based narcotics, and in chronic pain management.

donee

No Definition Found.

donned

No Definition Found.

dowdy

noun
  1. A plain or shabby person
adjective
  1. Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
  2. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.

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.

downed

No Definition Found.

downy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.
  2. Sharp-witted, perceptive.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A blanket filled with down; a duvet.

doyen

No Definition Found.

doyenne

noun
  1. A female doyen.
  2. The senior or eldest female member of a group, especially one who is most or highly respected.
  3. A woman who is highly experienced and knowledgeable in a particular field, subject, or line of work; expert

endow

No Definition Found.

endowed

verb
  1. To provide with a dower or a dowry.
  2. To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
  3. Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
  4. Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).
adjective
  1. Provided or furnished with something.
  2. Founded by an endowment.

hoed

No Definition Found.

hoedown

No Definition Found.

hone

No Definition Found.

honed

No Definition Found.

honey

noun
  1. A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods.
  2. A variety of this substance.
  3. Nectar.
  4. Something sweet or desirable.
  5. A term of affection.
  6. A woman, especially an attractive one.
  7. A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
verb
  1. To sweeten; to make agreeable.
  2. To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.
  3. To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
adjective
  1. Involving or resembling honey.
  2. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like most types of honey.

honeydew

No Definition Found.

honeyed

verb
  1. To sweeten; to make agreeable.
  2. To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.
  3. To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
adjective
  1. Sweetened, with, or as if with, honey.
  2. Sugary, syrupy.
  3. Dulcet or mellifluous.

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.

hooded

No Definition Found.

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.

hooey

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hog-tie performed in a rodeo show.

howdy

noun
  1. A wife, a midwife.
verb
  1. To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"
interjection
  1. An informal greeting used in the South of the USA.

neon

noun
  1. The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The lightest of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
  2. A form or sample of the element.
  3. Neon signs or lights, collectively.
  4. A neon tetra fish.
adjective
  1. (of a color) That resembles a neon light; extremely bright; fluorescent

nodded

verb
  1. To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
  2. To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
  3. To sway, move up and down.
  4. To gradually fall asleep.
  5. To signify by a nod.
  6. To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
  7. To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
  8. To allude to something.
  9. To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.

node

noun
  1. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
  2. The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
  3. A leaf node.
  4. A computer or other device attached to a network.
  5. The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
  6. The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
  7. A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
  8. A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
  9. A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
  10. A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
  11. The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
  12. A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
  13. The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

nohow

No Definition Found.

none

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person without religious affiliation.
adverb
  1. To no extent, in no way.
  2. Not at all, not very.
  3. No, not.
pronoun
  1. Not any of a given number or group.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion.
noun
  1. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
  2. A break in play between the first and second sessions.
  3. (Minnesota) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
noun
  1. The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm.
noun
  1. (often capitalized) The notional first-quarter day of a Roman month, occurring on the 7th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 5th day of all other months.
  2. (sometimes capitalized) The ninth hour after dawn (about 3 pm).
  3. The divine office appointed to the hour.
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.
noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

noon

No Definition Found.

odeon

No Definition Found.

owed

verb
  1. To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
  2. To have debt; to be in debt.
adjective
  1. That owes.

owned

No Definition Found.

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.

wooded

No Definition Found.

wooden

adjective
  1. Made of wood.
  2. As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

woody

noun
  1. An early station wagon or estate car in which the rear portion of the car's bodywork is made of wood, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
  2. A wooden rollercoaster; an amusement ride whose rails are overlaid upon a wooden track.
  3. An erection of the penis.
adjective
  1. Covered in woods; wooded.
  2. Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
  3. Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
  4. Non-herbaceous.
  5. Lignified.

wooed

verb
  1. To endeavor to gain someone's support.
  2. (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with
  3. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.

wowed

No Definition Found.

yond

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Further; more distant
  2. Yonder
adverb
  1. Yonder

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Furious; mad; angry; fierce.

yoohoo

No Definition Found.

woohoo

No Definition Found.