Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • cocci
  • comic
  • comity
  • commit
  • commodity
  • coot
  • ditto
  • dodo
  • doom
  • doomy
  • dotcom
  • dotty
  • idiocy
  • idiom
  • idiot
  • idiotic
  • mommy
  • mood
  • moody
  • moot
  • motto
  • oddity
  • omit
  • toddy
  • tomtit
  • toot


Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 121

Number of Answers: 26

Points Needed for Genius: 85

Genius requires between 14 and 22 words. You need at least a 6-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:

  • September 5, 2020 (Center Letter: I)



    • How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

    Today's score of 121 was in the 33rd percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there was a score this low was on March 21, 2022.
    The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
    The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.

    This puzzle's 26 possible answers rank it in the 19th percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there were fewer answers than this was on March 20, 2022.
    The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
    The lowest number of answers was 19 on October 3, 2021.

    It takes a 6-letter word for genius. This is pretty common.



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    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 120
    • noon 119
    • toot 112
    • naan 100
    • nana 100
    • lilt 89
    • till 89
    • tilt 89
    • tint 76
    • ratatat 70
    • tart 70
    • tartar 70
    • attar 69
    • mama 69
    • mamma 69
    • onto 69
    • toon 69
    • anal 68
    • array 67
    • dodo 67
    • loon 67
    • call 66
    • calla 66
    • lull 66
    • lulu 66
    • tatty 66
    • olio 65
    • nene 64
    • root 64
    • rotor 64
    • toro 64
    • tort 64
    • trot 64
    • allay 62
    • ally 62
    • loom 62
    • moll 62
    • loot 61
    • lotto 61
    • mono 61
    • moon 61
    • toll 61
    • tool 61
    • poop 60
    • radar 60
    • boob 59
    • booboo 59
    • itty 59
    • papa 59
    • tall 59


    Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

    • coccic
    • coccid
    • coccoid
    • coco
    • comm
    • commo
    • commy
    • coocoo
    • cymoid
    • dicot
    • dido
    • doit
    • domic
    • doodoo
    • doody
    • doty
    • imido
    • iodic
    • iodid
    • miotic
    • mitotic
    • modi
    • momi
    • motmot
    • mott
    • mycotic
    • myoid
    • myotic
    • odic
    • oidioid
    • ootid
    • otic
    • otitic
    • otto
    • tictoc
    • toco
    • tody
    • toit
    • tomcod
    • tommy
    • tommycod
    • toom
    • totty
    • toyo
    • yomim

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