Friday, June 6, 2025

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • aglow
  • allow
  • allowing
  • awing
  • awning
  • glow
  • glowing
  • gnaw
  • gnawing
  • gown
  • gowning
  • lawn
  • lowing
  • owing
  • owning
  • wagging
  • waggling
  • waging
  • wagon
  • wail
  • wailing
  • wall
  • walling
  • wallow
  • wallowing
  • wangling
  • waning
  • wanna
  • wigging
  • wiggling
  • wigwag
  • wigwagging
  • will
  • willing
  • willow
  • wing
  • winging
  • wining
  • winning
  • winnow
  • winnowing
  • wino
  • wooing
  • wool
  • wowing


Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 256

Number of Answers: 45

Points Needed for Genius: 179

Genius requires between 23 and 38 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 80% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 256 was in the 85th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on June 5, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 45 possible answers rank it in the 65th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on June 5, 2025.
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. 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

  • noon 200
  • loll 197
  • toot 187
  • naan 172
  • nana 172
  • lilt 139
  • till 139
  • tilt 139
  • tint 136
  • nene 133
  • mama 132
  • mamma 132
  • acacia 123
  • acai 123
  • onto 123
  • toon 123
  • onion 120
  • anal 117
  • olio 116
  • anon 113
  • boob 112
  • booboo 112
  • dodo 109
  • baba 108
  • papa 108
  • poop 108
  • tact 108
  • lull 106
  • lulu 106
  • ratatat 105
  • tart 105
  • tartar 105
  • attar 104
  • call 104
  • calla 104
  • mitt 104
  • tatty 104
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • allay 102
  • ally 102
  • ammo 101
  • cocci 101
  • momma 101
  • tattoo 101
  • tutu 101
  • epee 99
  • peep 99
  • loon 98
  • roar 96


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • alow
  • awol
  • gnawn
  • golliwog
  • golliwogg
  • gowan
  • inwall
  • inwalling
  • lawing
  • lawning
  • lown
  • nonwinning
  • nonwool
  • waggon
  • waggoning
  • wagoning
  • wain
  • wali
  • waling
  • walla
  • wangan
  • wanigan
  • wanion
  • wannigan
  • wanning
  • wawl
  • wawling
  • wigan
  • wiling
  • williwaw
  • willowing
  • wonning

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