Tuesday, September 08, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 309

Number of Answers: 66

Points Needed for Genius: 216

Genius requires between 30 and 57 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 78% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

The button below will reveal a chart with the number of words by each letter. Red bars indicate that there is a pangram(s) starting with that letter.


How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 309 was in the 94th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on September 06, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 66 possible answers rank it in the 96th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on September 06, 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 September 05, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.5.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 249
  • loll 229
  • toot 223
  • nana 209
  • naan 209
  • tilt 162
  • till 162
  • lilt 162
  • nene 161
  • mamma 161
  • mama 161
  • tint 160
  • onion 153
  • acai 152
  • acacia 152
  • toon 150
  • onto 150
  • olio 140
  • anon 140
  • anal 140
  • tact 130
  • dodo 130
  • baba 130
  • papa 129
  • mitt 129
  • lulu 126
  • lull 126
  • loon 124
  • booboo 124
  • boob 124
  • poop 122
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • cocci 121
  • tattoo 120
  • tartar 120
  • tart 120
  • ratatat 120
  • moon 120
  • mono 120
  • attar 119
  • tutu 116
  • natant 115
  • cancan 115
  • aria 115
  • ally 115
  • allay 115
  • momma 114
  • meme 114
  • ammo 114


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 122,945 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,133 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*:

  • aalii
  • acatalectic
  • aecia
  • aecial
  • alcaic
  • alif
  • allelic
  • atactic
  • atelic
  • caitiff
  • calcic
  • calcific
  • calcitic
  • calicle
  • calif
  • califate
  • catalatic
  • catalectic
  • cattie
  • ceil
  • ceili
  • cicala
  • cicale
  • ciliate
  • cilice
  • clift
  • clit
  • clitella
  • clitic
  • ectatic
  • etic
  • facetiae
  • facia
  • faciae
  • factice
  • faille
  • fecial
  • felicific
  • felicitate
  • fetial
  • fice
  • fictile
  • fila
  • filiate
  • fille
  • flattie
  • flic
  • flite
  • ictic
  • ilea
  • ileac
  • ileal
  • ilia
  • ilial
  • illite
  • illitic
  • lati
  • latilla
  • lief
  • litai
  • taffia
  • tafia
  • taille
  • tattie
  • tectite
  • telia
  • telial
  • telic
  • tical
  • tictac
  • tillite
  • titi
  • tittie

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

acacia

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acai

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acetic

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affiliate

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afflict

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alit

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atilt

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attic

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cacti

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calcite

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cattail

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celiac

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celli

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cilia

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cite

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cliff

No Definition Found.

eclectic

No Definition Found.

elicit

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elite

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facelift

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facial

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facile

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facilitate

No Definition Found.

fail

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fiat

No Definition Found.

fief

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fife

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file

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filet

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filial

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fill

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fillet

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flail

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flit

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icefall

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icicle

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iliac

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illicit

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italic

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lactic

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laic

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laical

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lattice

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leftie

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lice

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licit

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life

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lift

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lilac

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lilt

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lite

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little

noun
  1. A small amount.
adjective
  1. Small in size.
  2. Insignificant, trivial.
  3. Very young.
  4. (of a sibling) Younger.
  5. (also Little) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
  6. Small in amount or number, having few members.
  7. Short in duration; brief.
  8. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
adverb
  1. Not much.
  2. Not at all.
pronoun
  1. Not much; not a large amount.

tacit

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tactic

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tactical

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tactile

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tail

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tali

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tallit

No Definition Found.

tiff

No Definition Found.

tile

No Definition Found.

till

No Definition Found.

tilt

No Definition Found.

titillate

No Definition Found.

title

No Definition Found.

tittle

No Definition Found.