- effect
- effecting
- effete
- efficient
- feet
- feign
- feigning
- feint
- feinting
- fence
- fencing
- fete
- feting
- fief
- fife
- fifing
- fifteen
- fine
- fining
- finite
- fitting
- gift
- gifting
- inefficient
- infect
- infecting
- infinite
- teff
- tiff
The official answers for today's puzzle are:
Genius requires between 14 and 26 words. You need at least a 9-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 86% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 63% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Today's score of 169 was in the
56th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high
was on May 8, 2023.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 29 possible answers rank it in the
27th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer
answers than this was on May 10, 2023.
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 9-letter word for genius. The last time that happened was on DATE.
Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!
The most common words in the Bee are
You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:
*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.