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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 213

Number of Answers: 47

Points Needed for Genius: 149

Genius requires between 22 and 40 words. You need at least a 7-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 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 213 was in the 72nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on July 20, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 47 possible answers rank it in the 71st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on July 20, 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 21, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
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 176
  • loll 170
  • toot 159
  • naan 158
  • nana 158
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 118
  • mama 112
  • mamma 112
  • nene 107
  • acacia 106
  • acai 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
  • mono 89
  • moon 89
  • radar 89
  • tutu 89
  • loon 88
  • array 87
  • epee 87
  • peep 87
  • tattoo 87


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 88,284 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,167 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*:

  • dene
  • denned
  • donne
  • donnee
  • dynode
  • eyen
  • eyne
  • hodden
  • hoyden
  • hoydened
  • hymned
  • hymnody
  • meno
  • monde
  • monody
  • mony
  • mooneye
  • neddy
  • neem
  • neoned
  • noddy
  • nome
  • nomen
  • nonheme
  • nonhome
  • nonmen
  • nonmoney
  • omened

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

demon

noun
  1. An evil supernatural spirit.
  2. A neutral supernatural spirit.
  3. Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
  4. A form of patience (known as Canfield in the US).
  5. Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.

deny

verb
  1. To disallow or reject.
  2. To assert that something is not true.
  3. (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
  4. To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
  5. To prevent from scoring.
  6. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
  7. To refuse (to do or accept something).

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

noun
  1. Someone who receives a gift from a donor.

donned

verb
  1. (clothing) To put on, to dress in.

doyen

noun
  1. A commander in charge of ten men.
  2. The senior, or eldest male member of a group.
  3. A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.

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

dyne

noun
  1. A unit of force in the CGS system; the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram by one centimetre per second per second. Symbol: dyn.

emend

verb
  1. To correct and revise (text or a document).

emended

verb
  1. To correct and revise (text or a document).

ended

verb
  1. To come to an end
  2. To finish, terminate.
adjective
  1. (in combination) Having (a specified kind or number of) ends.

enemy

noun
  1. Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
  2. A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
  3. Something harmful or threatening to another
verb
  1. To make an enemy of.
adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy

homonym

noun
  1. (strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
  2. A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling).
  3. A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.

homonymy

No Definition Found.

hone

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
  2. A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
verb
  1. To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
  2. To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  3. To refine or master (a skill).
  4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A kind of swelling in the cheek.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To grumble.
  2. To pine, lament, or long.

honed

verb
  1. To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
  2. To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  3. To refine or master (a skill).
  4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.
verb
  1. To grumble.
  2. To pine, lament, or long.
adjective
  1. Made sharp.
  2. Made more accurate or precise.

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.

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.

honeymoon

noun
  1. The period of time immediately following a marriage.
  2. A trip taken by a newly married couple during this period.
  3. A period of goodwill at the beginning of a new term or relationship (e.g. towards a newly elected politician or in respect of a new business arrangement).
verb
  1. To have a honeymoon (a trip taken by a couple after wedding).

honeymooned

verb
  1. To have a honeymoon (a trip taken by a couple after wedding).

hymen

noun
  1. A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females.
  2. Marriage.

hymn

noun
  1. A song of praise or worship.
verb
  1. To sing a hymn.
  2. To praise or extol in hymns.

mend

noun
  1. A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
  2. The act of repairing.
verb
  1. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement.
  2. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
  3. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
  4. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

mended

verb
  1. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement.
  2. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
  3. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
  4. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

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.

money

noun
  1. A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
  2. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
  3. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
  4. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
  5. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
  6. Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth
  7. An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
  8. A person who funds an operation.

moneyed

adjective
  1. Affluent; rich
  2. Paid for; funded

moneymen

noun
  1. Someone tasked with handling money, often specifically a financier

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.

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.

mooned

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.
adjective
  1. Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon.

moony

noun
  1. The act of mooning, flashing the buttocks.
  2. A silly person.
adjective
  1. Resembling the moon.
  2. Moonlit.
  3. Absent-minded.
  4. Silly.
  5. Sickly or tipsy.

need

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A requirement for something; something needed.
  2. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To have an absolute requirement for.
  2. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
  3. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
  4. To be required; to be necessary.
  5. To be necessary (to someone).

needed

verb
  1. To have an absolute requirement for.
  2. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
  3. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
  4. To be required; to be necessary.
  5. To be necessary (to someone).
adjective
  1. Necessary; being required.

needy

adjective
  1. In need; poor.
  2. Desiring constant affirmation; lacking self-confidence.
  3. Needful; necessary.

nene

noun
  1. The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

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.

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

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.

odeon

noun
  1. An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry.
  2. A theatre or concert hall.

omen

noun
  1. Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
  2. A thing of prophetic significance.
verb
  1. To be an omen of.
  2. To divine or predict from omens.

yenned

verb
  1. To have a strong desire for.

yeomen

noun
  1. An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a Yeoman of the Guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder).
  2. A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.
  3. A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
  4. A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
  5. A Yeoman Warder.
  6. A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
  7. In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
  8. A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
  9. A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
  10. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.

yond

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Furious; mad; angry; fierce.

mononym

noun
  1. A single name by which a person, thing etc is known.
  2. A single term for a thing or concept, allowing for no synonyms.