Sunday, July 21, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 137

Number of Answers: 30

Points Needed for Genius: 96

Genius requires between 15 and 26 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 78% 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 137 was in the 36th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on July 18, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 30 possible answers rank it in the 27th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on July 16, 2024.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 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 20, 2024.

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 175
  • loll 170
  • toot 159
  • naan 158
  • nana 158
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 118
  • mama 112
  • mamma 112
  • acacia 106
  • acai 106
  • nene 106
  • anal 105
  • onto 103
  • toon 103
  • anon 101
  • boob 101
  • booboo 101
  • onion 100
  • lull 99
  • lulu 99
  • olio 99
  • papa 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • poop 94
  • allay 93
  • ally 93
  • dodo 93
  • mitt 93
  • tatty 93
  • baba 92
  • ratatat 91
  • tact 91
  • tart 91
  • tartar 91
  • attar 90
  • nanny 90
  • cocci 89
  • radar 89
  • tutu 89
  • loon 88
  • mono 88
  • moon 88
  • array 87
  • epee 87
  • peep 87
  • tattoo 87


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 88,237 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,165 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*:

  • agama
  • agamete
  • agee
  • agemate
  • aggie
  • agma
  • ambage
  • amiga
  • atigi
  • bigtime
  • gabba
  • gama
  • gamb
  • gamba
  • gambe
  • gambia
  • gemma
  • gemmae
  • gemmate
  • geta
  • gibbet
  • giga
  • gimmie
  • gite
  • magmata
  • megagamete
  • metage
  • metatag
  • migg
  • tagmeme
  • tegg

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

agate

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
  2. The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5 1/2-point.
  3. One fourteenth of an inch
  4. A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
  5. A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
  6. A marble made from agate.
  7. (usually in the plural) A testicle.

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. On the way; agoing.

agita

noun
  1. Dyspepsia
  2. Mental aggravation; annoyance

agitate

verb
  1. To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
  2. To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
  3. To set in motion; to actuate.
  4. To discuss or debate.
  5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to consider, to devise.

baggage

noun
  1. (usually uncountable) Luggage; traveling equipment
  2. Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.
  3. A woman.
  4. An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.

baggie

noun
  1. A small bag, especially a small, clear, plastic bag.

begat

noun
  1. An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible
verb
  1. To father; to sire; to produce (a child).
  2. To cause; to produce.
  3. To bring forth.
  4. To happen to; befall.

begem

No Definition Found.

beget

verb
  1. To father; to sire; to produce (a child).
  2. To cause; to produce.
  3. To bring forth.
  4. To happen to; befall.

beige

noun
  1. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
  2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
adjective
  1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
  2. Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

biggie

noun
  1. Something large in size in comparison to similar things.
  2. Something impressive in comparison to similar things.
  3. (chiefly in the negative) Big deal.
  4. (originally US) A person of importance or power, especially in the entertainment industry.

gaga

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Mentally senile.
  2. Crazy.
  3. Infatuated.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon.

gage

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
  2. Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
verb
  1. To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
  2. To wager, to bet.
  3. To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
  2. An act of measuring.
  3. An estimate.
  4. Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
  5. A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
  6. The distance between the rails of a railway.
  7. A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
  8. The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
  9. Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
  10. The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
  11. (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
  12. That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
  13. A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
  14. (by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
  15. A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
verb
  1. To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
  2. To estimate.
  3. To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
  4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
  5. To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
  6. To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A quart pot.
  2. A pint pot.
  3. (metonymically) A drink.
  4. A tobacco pipe.
  5. A chamberpot.
  6. A small quantity of anything.
  7. Marijuana

gait

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
  2. One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
verb
  1. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A sheaf of corn.
  2. A charge for pasturage.

gambit

noun
  1. An opening in chess, in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
  2. Any ploy or stratagem.
  3. A remark intended to open a conversation.
verb
  1. To sacrifice (a pawn or minor piece) to gain an advantage.

game

noun
  1. A playful or competitive activity.
  2. A video game.
  3. (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
  4. Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
  5. An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
  6. Wild animals hunted for food.
  7. (used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
  8. Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
  9. A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
verb
  1. To gamble.
  2. To play card games, board games, or video games.
  3. To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
  4. (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adjective
  1. Willing to participate.
  2. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
  3. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
  4. Injured, lame (of a limb).

gamete

noun
  1. A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.

gamma

noun
  1. The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
  2. The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
  3. A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
  4. A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
  5. (industries) slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
  6. A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change in delta with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
noun
  1. A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.

gate

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  2. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  3. Movable barrier.
  4. A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  5. The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
  6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  7. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  8. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  9. The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  10. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  11. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
  12. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  13. A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
  14. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
verb
  1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  2. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
  3. To open a closed ion channel.
  4. To furnish with a gate.
  5. To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A way, path.
  2. A journey.
  3. A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
  4. Manner; gait.

gibe

noun
  1. Alternative spelling of gybe
  2. Alternative spelling of jibe
verb
  1. Alternative spelling of gybe
  2. Alternative spelling of jibe

gigabit

noun
  1. 109 bits, a thousand million (1,000,000,000) bits.
  2. 230 (1,073,741,824) bits.

gimme

noun
  1. That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur.

image

noun
  1. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
  2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
  3. A statue or idol.
  4. A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
  5. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
  6. Something mapped to by a function.
  7. The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
  8. A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
  9. Show; appearance; cast.
verb
  1. To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
  2. To reflect, mirror.
  3. To create an image of.
  4. To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

mage

noun
  1. A magician, wizard or sorcerer.

magi

noun
  1. A magician, wizard or sorcerer.
noun
  1. (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan
  2. (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest

magma

noun
  1. The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
  2. A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
  3. Any soft doughy mass.
  4. The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.

mega

adjective
  1. Very large.
  2. Great; excellent

megabit

noun
  1. 106 = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes)
  2. 220 = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit
  3. One megabit per second

mitigate

verb
  1. To reduce, lessen, or decrease; to make less severe or easier to bear.
  2. To downplay.

taiga

noun
  1. A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.

teabag

noun
  1. A cloth or paper sachet containing tea leaves or herbal tea, designed to act as an infuser when submerged in hot water.
verb
  1. To lower one’s testicles into the mouth of another person, or onto the face or head of another person.
  2. To sit or crouch repeatedly on the head of another player's character after they are dead.