Thursday, April 3, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 133

Number of Answers: 21

Points Needed for Genius: 93

Genius requires between 11 and 18 words. You need at least a 9-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 79% 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 133 was in the 32nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on March 26, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 21 possible answers rank it in the 2nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on February 21, 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 9-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on April 2, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.6.
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 193
  • loll 186
  • toot 183
  • naan 169
  • nana 169
  • lilt 136
  • till 136
  • tilt 136
  • tint 134
  • nene 129
  • mama 128
  • mamma 128
  • acacia 121
  • acai 121
  • onto 119
  • toon 119
  • onion 114
  • anal 113
  • anon 111
  • boob 110
  • booboo 110
  • baba 108
  • olio 107
  • tact 105
  • dodo 104
  • papa 104
  • call 103
  • calla 103
  • lull 103
  • lulu 103
  • mitt 102
  • poop 102
  • ratatat 102
  • tart 102
  • tartar 102
  • attar 101
  • tattoo 101
  • tatty 100
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • tutu 99
  • ammo 98
  • cocci 98
  • momma 98
  • mono 98
  • moon 98
  • epee 97
  • peep 97
  • nada 94
  • roar 94


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 99,322 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,552 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*:

  • hwyl
  • whig
  • whin
  • whingy
  • wilily
  • wiling
  • willy
  • willying
  • wingy
  • wyling
  • wynn

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

whiling

verb
  1. To pass (time) idly.
  2. To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.
  3. To loiter.

whinging

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To move with great force or speed.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
  2. To whine.

whining

noun
  1. A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound
  2. A complaint or criticism
verb
  1. To utter a high-pitched cry.
  2. To make a sound resembling such a cry.
  3. To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine.
  4. To move with a whining sound.
  5. To utter with the sound of a whine.

whiningly

No Definition Found.

whinny

noun
  1. A gentle neigh.
verb
  1. (of a horse) To make a gentle neigh.

whinnying

verb
  1. (of a horse) To make a gentle neigh.
noun
  1. A gentle neighing.

whiny

adjective
  1. Whining; tending to whine or complain.

wigging

verb
  1. To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
  2. To upbraid, reprimand.
  3. To become extremely emotional or excitable; to lose control of one's emotions.
noun
  1. The action of the verb to wig.
  2. A telling-off or reprimand.
  3. The practice of male stuntmen performing for actresses.

wiggling

verb
  1. To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle.
noun
  1. The motion of something that wiggles.

wiggly

No Definition Found.

wiggy

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Crazy.
  2. Uninhibited.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Wiglike.

will

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).
  2. (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
  3. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
  4. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation.
  5. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
  6. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
  7. (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".

Etymology 2

noun
  1. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
  2. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
  3. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
  4. Law A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
  5. That which is desired; one's wish.
  6. Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To wish, desire.
  2. To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
  3. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
  4. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

willing

verb
  1. To wish, desire.
  2. To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
  3. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
  4. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
noun
  1. The execution of a will.
adjective
  1. Ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course.

willingly

adverb
  1. Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.

wily

adjective
  1. Sly, cunning, full of tricks

wing

noun
  1. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
  2. Human arm.
  3. Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
  4. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
  5. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
  6. Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
  7. Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
  8. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
  9. Passage by flying; flight.
  10. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
  11. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
  12. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
  13. A protruding piece of material on a tampon to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
  14. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
  15. A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
  16. A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
  17. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
  18. A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
  19. A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
  20. That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
  21. A position in several field games on either side of the field.
  22. A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
  23. A háček.
  24. One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
  25. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
  26. A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
  27. On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype
verb
  1. To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
  2. To fly.
  3. (of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
  4. To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
  5. To throw.
  6. To furnish with wings.
  7. To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
  8. To traverse by flying.

winging

verb
  1. To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
  2. To fly.
  3. (of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
  4. To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
  5. To throw.
  6. To furnish with wings.
  7. To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
  8. To traverse by flying.

wining

verb
  1. To entertain with wine.
  2. To drink wine.
noun
  1. A session of drinking wine socially.

winning

verb
  1. To conquer, defeat.
  2. To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
  3. To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
  4. To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
  5. To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
  6. To achieve victory.
  7. To have power, coercion or control.
  8. To obtain (something desired).
  9. To cause a victory for someone.
  10. To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
noun
  1. The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.
  2. (chiefly in the plural) The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, especially in gambling.
  3. A new opening.
  4. The portion of a coalfield out for working.
adjective
  1. That constitutes a win.
  2. That leads to success.
  3. Attractive.

winningly

adverb
  1. In a winning manner.

winy

No Definition Found.