Thursday, April 24, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 100

Number of Answers: 29

Points Needed for Genius: 70

Genius requires between 11 and 26 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 82% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 100 was in the 14th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on April 14, 2025.
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 23rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on April 17, 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 April 20, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.8.
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 196
  • loll 191
  • toot 185
  • naan 170
  • nana 170
  • lilt 137
  • till 137
  • tilt 137
  • tint 134
  • nene 131
  • mama 129
  • mamma 129
  • acacia 122
  • acai 122
  • onto 121
  • toon 121
  • onion 116
  • anal 114
  • anon 111
  • boob 111
  • booboo 111
  • olio 111
  • baba 108
  • tact 107
  • papa 106
  • dodo 105
  • lull 105
  • lulu 105
  • call 104
  • calla 104
  • poop 104
  • ratatat 103
  • tart 103
  • tartar 103
  • attar 102
  • mitt 102
  • tattoo 101
  • tatty 101
  • allay 100
  • ally 100
  • mono 100
  • moon 100
  • tutu 100
  • ammo 99
  • momma 99
  • cocci 98
  • epee 98
  • peep 98
  • loon 95
  • loot 95


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 100,280 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,568 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*:

  • abeam
  • agama
  • agamete
  • agemate
  • agma
  • ambage
  • atma
  • beamy
  • bema
  • bemata
  • embay
  • emmet
  • emmy
  • etyma
  • eyebeam
  • gama
  • gamay
  • gamb
  • gamba
  • gambe
  • gamey
  • gammy
  • gemma
  • gemmae
  • gemmate
  • gemmy
  • mabe
  • magmata
  • mamee
  • mamey
  • mammae
  • mammate
  • mammee
  • mammet
  • mammey
  • mammy
  • matt
  • maya
  • megagamete
  • metage
  • metatag
  • metate
  • tagmeme
  • tammy

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

ameba

noun
  1. A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
  2. The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
  3. An asexual.

amebae

noun
  1. A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
  2. The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
  3. An asexual.

beam

noun
  1. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
  2. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
  3. The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam)
  4. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
  5. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
  6. The pole of a carriage or chariot.
  7. A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
  8. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
  9. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
  10. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
  11. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
  12. A ray; a gleam.
  13. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
  14. A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
  15. An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
verb
  1. To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
  2. To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
  3. To furnish or supply with beams
  4. To give the appearance of beams to.
  5. To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
  6. (currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
  7. To put (something) on a beam
  8. To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

begem

No Definition Found.

game

noun
  1. A playful or competitive activity.
  2. A video game.
  3. (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
  4. Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
  5. An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
  6. Wild animals hunted for food.
  7. (used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
  8. Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
  9. A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
verb
  1. To gamble.
  2. To play card games, board games, or video games.
  3. To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
  4. (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adjective
  1. Willing to participate.
  2. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
  3. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
  4. Injured, lame (of a limb).

gamete

noun
  1. A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.

gamma

noun
  1. The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
  2. The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
  3. A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
  4. A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
  5. (industries) slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
  6. A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change in delta with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
noun
  1. A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.

gamy

adjective
  1. Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat).
  2. Plucky, spirited or gritty
  3. Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive

mage

noun
  1. A magician, wizard or sorcerer.

magma

noun
  1. The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
  2. A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
  3. Any soft doughy mass.
  4. The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.

mama

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

mamba

noun
  1. Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.

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.

mate

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
  2. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
  3. A friend, usually of the same sex.
  4. Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age
  5. In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
  6. A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
  7. A first mate.
  8. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
  9. The other member of a matched pair of objects.
  10. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
verb
  1. To match, fit together without space between.
  2. To copulate.
  3. To pair in order to raise offspring
  4. To arrange in matched pairs.
  5. To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
  6. (of an animal) To copulate with.
  7. To marry; to match (a person).
  8. To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
  9. To fit (objects) together without space between.
  10. To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
  2. (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
verb
  1. To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
  2. (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
verb
  1. To confuse; to confound.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
noun
  1. An evergreen tree, Ilex paraquariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.
  2. A beverage, resembling tea, made from the dried leaves of this plant.
  3. A cup of this drink.

matey

noun
  1. The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
  2. (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
noun
  1. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
  2. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
  3. A friend, usually of the same sex.
  4. Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age
  5. In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
  6. A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
  7. A first mate.
  8. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
  9. The other member of a matched pair of objects.
  10. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
noun
  1. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
noun
  1. A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially as a pirate.
adjective
  1. Sociable or friendly.
noun
  1. An evergreen tree, Ilex paraquariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.
  2. A beverage, resembling tea, made from the dried leaves of this plant.
  3. A cup of this drink.

matte

noun
  1. A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
  2. A background, often painted or created with computers
  3. (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.
adjective
  1. Dull; not reflective of light.

maybe

noun
  1. Something that is possibly true.
  2. An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement.
  3. A future event that may or may not happen.
adjective
  1. Possible; uncertain.
adverb
  1. Modifies a verb, indicating a lack of certainty: it may be that...
  2. (as a pro-sentence) Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement).

meat

noun
  1. The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
  2. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
  3. Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
  4. A type of food, a dish.
  5. A meal.
  6. Meal; flour.
  7. Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
  8. A penis.
  9. The best or most substantial part of something.
  10. The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
  11. A meathead.
  12. (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

meaty

adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or containing meat.
  2. Resembling meat in flavour, etc.
  3. Of a person or a body part, large and solid.
  4. Substantial.

meet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).
  2. A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
  3. A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
  4. A meeting.
  5. The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
  6. An act of French kissing someone.
verb
  1. To make contact (with) while in proximity.
  2. (Of groups) To come together.
  3. To make physical or perceptual contact.
  4. To satisfy; to comply with.
  5. To balance or come out correct.
  6. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
  7. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Suitable; right; proper.

mega

adjective
  1. Very large.
  2. Great; excellent

megabyte

noun
  1. One million (106) bytes.
  2. 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte.

meme

noun
  1. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
  2. Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.
  3. A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.
verb
  1. To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.
  2. To create and use humorous memes.
  3. To joke around.

meta

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Self-referential; structured analogously, but at a higher level.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Boundary marker.
  2. Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game.
adjective
  1. Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Metoidioplasty.

mete

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To measure.
  2. (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Suitable; right; proper.

tame

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
  2. To become tame or domesticated.
  3. To make gentle or meek.
adjective
  1. Not or no longer wild; domesticated
  2. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
  3. Not exciting.
  4. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  5. (of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

team

noun
  1. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
  2. Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
  3. A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
  4. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
verb
  1. To form a group, as for sports or work.
  2. (by extension) To go together well; to harmonize.
  3. To convey or haul with a team.
  4. To form together into a team.
  5. To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.

teammate

noun
  1. One who is on the same team.

teem

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To be stocked to overflowing.
  2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
  3. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To empty.
  2. To pour (especially with rain)
  3. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To think fit.