Tuesday, June 17, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 125

Number of Answers: 30

Points Needed for Genius: 88

Genius requires between 13 and 26 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.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 125 was in the 27th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on June 10, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 30 possible answers rank it in the 25th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on June 10, 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on June 14, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 203
  • loll 198
  • toot 189
  • naan 173
  • nana 173
  • lilt 140
  • till 140
  • tilt 140
  • tint 137
  • mama 133
  • mamma 133
  • nene 133
  • onto 125
  • toon 125
  • acacia 124
  • acai 124
  • onion 122
  • anal 118
  • anon 116
  • olio 116
  • boob 112
  • booboo 112
  • dodo 112
  • baba 109
  • papa 109
  • poop 109
  • tact 109
  • call 106
  • calla 106
  • lull 106
  • lulu 106
  • mitt 105
  • ratatat 105
  • tart 105
  • tartar 105
  • attar 104
  • tatty 104
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • allay 102
  • ally 102
  • tattoo 102
  • ammo 101
  • cocci 101
  • momma 101
  • tutu 101
  • epee 99
  • loon 99
  • peep 99
  • roar 96


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 102,760 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,627 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*:

  • amain
  • amarna
  • amia
  • amin
  • amir
  • amnia
  • animi
  • firman
  • immy
  • inarm
  • maar
  • maffia
  • mair
  • mammy
  • mana
  • manana
  • mannan
  • mara
  • maria
  • marram
  • maya
  • mayan
  • miffy
  • mina
  • minify
  • minny
  • minyan
  • minyanim
  • miri
  • miry
  • rami
  • ramin
  • rammy
  • rimy

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

affirm

verb
  1. To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
  2. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
  3. To support or encourage.
  4. To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

airman

noun
  1. A pilot of an aircraft.
  2. A member of an air force.
  3. A person of a rank in the U.S. Air Force above airman basic and below airman first class.
  4. A naval seaman, especially one in the U.S. Navy, who works on and/or handles aircraft.

anima

noun
  1. The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
  2. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.
  3. (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.

army

noun
  1. A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
  2. The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.
  3. A large group of people working toward the same purpose.
  4. A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.
  5. Any multitude.

farm

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
  2. A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
  3. (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures
  4. A group of coordinated servers.
  5. Food; provisions; a meal.
  6. A banquet; feast.
  7. A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
  8. A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
  9. The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
  10. The body of farmers of public revenues.
  11. The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
verb
  1. To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
  2. To devote (land) to farming.
  3. To grow (a particular crop).
  4. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
  5. To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
  6. To take at a certain rent or rate.
  7. To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out

firm

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
  2. A business enterprise, however organized.
  3. A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make firm or strong; fix securely.
  2. To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
  3. To become firm; stabilise.
  4. To improve after decline.
  5. To shorten (of betting odds).
  6. To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.
adjective
  1. Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
  2. Fixed (in opinion)
  3. Durable, rigid (material state)

imam

noun
  1. (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
  2. One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

infamy

noun
  1. The state of being infamous.
  2. A reputation as being evil.
  3. A reprehensible occurrence or situation.
  4. A stigma attaching to a person's character that disqualifies them from being a witness.

infirm

verb
  1. To contradict, to provide proof that something is not.
adjective
  1. Weak or ill, not in good health.
  2. Irresolute; weak of mind or will.
  3. Frail; unstable; insecure.

infirmary

noun
  1. A place where sick or injured people are cared for, especially a small hospital; sickhouse.
  2. A clinic or dispensary within another institution.

mafia

noun
  1. A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.
  2. A crime syndicate.
  3. A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.
  4. (in compound terms such as "moral mafia") An entity which attempts to control a specified arena.

maim

noun
  1. A serious wound
verb
  1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

main

Etymology 1

verb
  1. Short for mainline.
  2. To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game.
  3. Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road.
adjective
  1. Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
  2. Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
  3. (of force, strength, etc.) Full, sheer, undivided.
  4. Big; angry.
  5. Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
  6. Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
adverb
  1. Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
  2. A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
  3. Short for main course.
  4. The high seas.
  5. The mainland.
  6. Short for mainsail.
  7. (except in might and main) Force, power, strength, violent effort.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A hand or match in a game of dice.
  2. The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.
  3. A stake played for at dice.
  4. A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
  5. A banker's shovel for coins.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A basket for gathering grapes.

mama

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mamma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
  2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mammary

noun
  1. A mamma (milk-secreting organ of a woman or a female animal).
adjective
  1. Of or relating to mamma or breast (of a woman or a female animal).

mania

noun
  1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
  3. The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

manna

noun
  1. Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
  2. (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
  3. The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

many

noun
  1. A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
  2. A considerable number.
adjective
  1. A large number of; numerous.
pronoun
  1. An indefinite large number of people or things.

marina

noun
  1. A harbour for small boats.

marinara

noun
  1. A marinara sauce.
adjective
  1. Prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce.
  2. Of pasta: In a seafood sauce. Of pizza: With seafood topping.

marry

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
  2. (in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom.
  3. To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
  4. To take as husband or wife.
  5. To unite; to join together into a close union.
  6. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
  7. To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
  8. To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. Indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.

miff

noun
  1. A small argument; a quarrel.
  2. A state of being offended.
verb
  1. (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly.
  2. To become slightly offended.

mini

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Miniature, tiny, small.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A miniskirt.
  2. A minicomputer.

minim

noun
  1. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
  3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
  5. The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
  7. A small fish; a minnow.
  8. A short poetical encomium.

minima

noun
  1. The lowest limit.
  2. The smallest amount.
  3. A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
  4. A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
  5. The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

mirin

noun
  1. A form of Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake.

myna

noun
  1. One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.

ramify

verb
  1. To divide into branches or subdivisions.
  2. To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.

marm

noun
  1. Madam; a polite term of address for a lady.