Thursday, March 11, 2021

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • elite
  • evil
  • exile
  • expel
  • expellee
  • expletive
  • levee
  • level
  • lilt
  • lite
  • little
  • live
  • peel
  • pellet
  • pelt
  • pile
  • pill
  • pixel
  • plie
  • teletext
  • telex
  • tell
  • textile
  • tile
  • till
  • tilt
  • tipple
  • title
  • tittle
  • veil
  • velvet
  • vile


Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 124

Number of Answers: 32

Points Needed for Genius: 87

Genius requires between 13 and 29 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 81% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

  • April 14, 2019 (Center Letter: L)



    • How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

    Today's score of 124 was in the 40th percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there was a score this low was on March 10, 2021.
    The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
    The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.

    This puzzle's 32 possible answers rank it in the 42nd percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there were fewer answers than this was on March 10, 2021.
    The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
    The lowest number of answers was 21 on August 5, 2018.

    It takes a 7-letter word for genius. This is pretty common.



    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

    • loll 97
    • noon 87
    • toot 85
    • naan 79
    • nana 79
    • lilt 66
    • till 66
    • tilt 66
    • ratatat 58
    • tart 58
    • tartar 58
    • attar 57
    • anal 55
    • lull 55
    • lulu 55
    • root 55
    • roto 55
    • rotor 55
    • toro 55
    • tort 55
    • trot 55
    • tint 54
    • call 52
    • calla 52
    • loon 51
    • array 50
    • loot 50
    • lotto 50
    • radar 50
    • toll 50
    • tool 50
    • mono 49
    • moon 49
    • onto 49
    • tatty 49
    • toon 49
    • allay 48
    • ally 48
    • dodo 47
    • mama 47
    • mamma 47
    • coot 46
    • poop 46
    • illy 45
    • lily 45
    • natant 45
    • papa 45
    • roar 45
    • tact 45
    • tall 45


    Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

    You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

    • ilex
    • illite
    • ixtle
    • leet
    • lept
    • lieve
    • lipe
    • pele
    • pelite
    • pettle
    • pilei
    • pili
    • plex
    • teel
    • tele
    • tillite
    • vexil
    • vielle
    • vill
    • villi
    • vitelli
    • vittle
    • vlei

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