Wednesday, July 24, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 87

Number of Answers: 21

Points Needed for Genius: 61

Genius requires between 9 and 19 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 85% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 64% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 87 was in the 7th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on July 16, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 21 possible answers rank it in the 2nd 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on July 16, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
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 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 88,354 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*:

  • dinkly
  • dunlin
  • indulin
  • inly
  • inulin
  • kinin
  • kylin
  • lindy
  • linin
  • linky
  • linn
  • linny
  • liny
  • luny
  • nidi
  • nill
  • undy

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

dink

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A soft drop shot.
  2. A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
verb
  1. To play a soft drop shot.
  2. To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.
verb
  1. To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A North Vietnamese soldier.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Double Income No Kids - a childless couple with two jobs.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
  2. A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.
adjective
  1. Honest, fair, true.
  2. Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.
adverb
  1. Honestly, truly.

Etymology 6

noun
  1. A penis.
  2. A foolish person, a despised person.

Etymology 7

adjective
  1. Finely dressed, elegant; neat.

Etymology 8

adjective
  1. Not making a requisite amount of progress in one's qualifications.

dinky

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Tiny and cute; small and attractive.
  2. Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A person in a relationship with double income and no kids

dunk

No Definition Found.

inky

adjective
  1. Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
  2. Spattered or stained with ink.
  3. Dark-skinned; black.

kiln

noun
  1. An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
verb
  1. To bake in a kiln.

kind

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
  2. A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
  3. One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
  4. Family, lineage.
  5. Manner.
  6. Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
  7. Equivalent means used as response to an action.
  8. Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
  2. Affectionate.
  3. Favorable.
  4. Mild, gentle, forgiving
  5. Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
  6. Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

kindly

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic.
  2. Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent.
  3. Lawful.
  4. Natural; inherent to the kind or race.

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. In a kind manner, out of kindness.
  2. In a favourable way.
  3. Used to make a polite request: please.
  4. With kind acceptance; used with take.
  5. Kind of, somewhat.
  6. Readily.
  7. Naturally.

kink

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
verb
  1. To laugh loudly.
  2. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
  2. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
  3. An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
  4. Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
  5. A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation
verb
  1. To form a kink or twist.
  2. To be formed into a kink or twist.

kinkily

No Definition Found.

kinky

adjective
  1. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
  2. Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.
  3. Queer; eccentric; crotchety.

lunk

noun
  1. A fool; an idiot; a lunkhead.

ninny

noun
  1. A silly or foolish person.

nudnik

noun
  1. A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk. (Also used attributively.)

null

noun
  1. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  2. Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
  3. Something that has no force or meaning.
  4. The ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  5. The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  6. One of the beads in nulled work.
  7. Null hypothesis.
verb
  1. To nullify; to annul.
  2. To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
  3. To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).
adjective
  1. Having no validity; "null and void"
  2. Insignificant.
  3. Absent or non-existent.
  4. Of the null set.
  5. Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
  6. (of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.

undid

verb
  1. To reverse the effects of an action.
  2. To unfasten.
  3. To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.

unduly

adverb
  1. Undeservedly; in a way that is not warranted.

unkind

adjective
  1. Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
  2. Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
  3. Having no race or kindred; childless.

unkindly

No Definition Found.

unkink

verb
  1. To remove the kinks from.