Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • coefficient
  • coffee
  • coffin
  • coif
  • confect
  • confection
  • confetti
  • confine
  • confit
  • effect
  • effete
  • efficient
  • feet
  • feint
  • fence
  • fete
  • fiction
  • fief
  • fife
  • fifteen
  • fine
  • finite
  • finito
  • foci
  • font
  • foot
  • footie
  • footnote
  • inefficient
  • infect
  • infection
  • infinite
  • info
  • nonfiction
  • nonfinite
  • office
  • often
  • tiff
  • toffee


Number of Pangrams: 4

Maximum Puzzle Score: 241

Number of Answers: 39

Points Needed for Genius: 169

Genius requires between 18 and 35 words. You need at least a 9-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 97% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 59% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 241 was in the 85th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on April 20, 2022.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.

This puzzle's 39 possible answers rank it in the 57th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on April 26, 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 9-letter word for genius. The last time that happened was on DATE.



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

  • loll 122
  • noon 121
  • toot 114
  • naan 101
  • nana 101
  • lilt 90
  • till 90
  • tilt 90
  • tint 77
  • dodo 71
  • onto 71
  • ratatat 71
  • tart 71
  • tartar 71
  • toon 71
  • attar 70
  • mama 70
  • mamma 70
  • anal 68
  • array 67
  • loon 67
  • lull 67
  • lulu 67
  • olio 67
  • tatty 67
  • call 66
  • calla 66
  • nene 66
  • root 64
  • rotor 64
  • toro 64
  • tort 64
  • trot 64
  • allay 63
  • ally 63
  • boob 62
  • booboo 62
  • loom 62
  • loot 62
  • lotto 62
  • moll 62
  • mono 62
  • moon 62
  • poop 62
  • toll 62
  • tool 62
  • papa 61
  • radar 61
  • tact 61
  • tall 60


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • coeffect
  • coff
  • coft
  • coiffe
  • coinfect
  • coinfection
  • confetto
  • coof
  • enfeoff
  • fennec
  • feoff
  • feoffee
  • fice
  • ficin
  • fico
  • finfoot
  • fino
  • foin
  • infeoff
  • neif
  • niff
  • offence
  • teff
  • tiffin
  • toff
  • toft

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