Friday, October 23, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 88

Number of Answers: 29

Points Needed for Genius: 62

Genius requires between 9 and 27 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 89% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 63% 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 88 was in the 6th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on October 20, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 29 possible answers rank it in the 21st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on October 20, 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 October 22, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.8.
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 251
  • loll 230
  • toot 224
  • nana 214
  • naan 214
  • tilt 165
  • till 165
  • lilt 165
  • nene 164
  • tint 163
  • mamma 163
  • mama 163
  • onion 156
  • acai 156
  • acacia 156
  • toon 152
  • onto 152
  • anal 142
  • olio 141
  • anon 141
  • tact 132
  • baba 132
  • papa 131
  • mitt 131
  • dodo 131
  • lulu 127
  • lull 127
  • booboo 126
  • boob 126
  • poop 124
  • loon 124
  • cocci 123
  • calla 122
  • call 122
  • tattoo 120
  • tartar 120
  • tart 120
  • ratatat 120
  • moon 120
  • mono 120
  • cancan 119
  • attar 119
  • natant 118
  • tutu 117
  • aria 116
  • ally 116
  • allay 116
  • momma 115
  • meme 115
  • ammo 115


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 124,970 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,171 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*:

  • clit
  • clitic
  • cloot
  • colitic
  • colog
  • giglot
  • glogg
  • glottic
  • illitic
  • lilo
  • litotic
  • logoi
  • loti
  • lotic
  • loto
  • ocotillo
  • oolitic
  • oologic
  • otologic
  • tolt

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

clog

No Definition Found.

clot

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coil

No Definition Found.

colic

No Definition Found.

colt

No Definition Found.

cool

No Definition Found.

gigolo

No Definition Found.

gill

No Definition Found.

gilt

No Definition Found.

googol

No Definition Found.

igloo

No Definition Found.

illicit

No Definition Found.

illogic

No Definition Found.

licit

No Definition Found.

lilt

No Definition Found.

loci

No Definition Found.

loco

No Definition Found.

logic

No Definition Found.

loll

No Definition Found.

loot

No Definition Found.

lotto

No Definition Found.

olio

No Definition Found.

till

No Definition Found.

tilt

No Definition Found.

toil

No Definition Found.

toll

No Definition Found.

tool

No Definition Found.

toxicologic

No Definition Found.