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1. Spelling Bee Grid
2. Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints
3. Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints
4. Extra Letter Hints (Incrementally Revealing) 🤯
5. Today's Complete Solution
6. Answer Definitions

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Spelling Bee Grid

The following table shows the standard Spelling Bee summary grid, which lists word lengths across the top and letters down the left-hand side. The cell where the word lengths and letters intersect displays the number of words in today's puzzle with the corresponding first letter and word length.

Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints

The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding two letters.

Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints

The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding three letters.

Extra Letter Hints (Incrementally Revealing)

The table below lists all of the solutions to today's puzzle, but they're concealed. You can click the plus button (+) to reveal additional letters, one-by-one.

Concealed definitions are provided as additional clues. You can toggle concealment of the definitions by clicking on the concealer bar or the text that appears when the definition is visible.

Pangrams are marked with a dagger symbol (^†).

Today's Complete Solution

The words that follow are a complete listing of all acceptable words in today's New York Time Spelling Bee puzzle.

Next to the answer word you'll see the two-letter reference (2L Ref) in parentheses. We added that 2L Ref for easier translation of the spoiler-avoidant language you see on the Spelling Bee Forum and Twitter. The 2L Ref signifies a word's two start letters followed by the total number of letters in the word.

• element  (EL7)
• entente  (EN7)
• hone  (HO4)
• lemon  (LE5)
• lent  (LE4)
• lento  (LE5)
• lone  (LO4)
• loon  (LO4)
• melon  (ME5)
• memento  (ME7)
• mentee  (ME6)
• menthol^†  (ME7)
• molten  (MO6)
• moment  (MO6)
• mono  (MO4)
• monotone  (MO8)
• monte  (MO5)
• month  (MO5)
• moon  (MO4)
• nene  (NE4)
• neon  (NE4)
• nettle  (NE6)
• noel  (NO4)
• none  (NO4)
• nonet  (NO5)
• noon  (NO4)
• note  (NO4)
• omen  (OM4)
• onto  (ON4)
• teen  (TE4)
• telethon  (TE8)
• telnet  (TE6)
• tenement  (TE8)
• tenet  (TE5)
• tenon  (TE5)
• tent  (TE4)
• tenth  (TE5)
• then  (TH4)
• tone  (TO4)
• toneme  (TO6)
• tonne  (TO5)
• toon  (TO4)

Answer Definitions

• element (noun): One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
• entente (noun): An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.
• hone (noun): A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
• lemon (noun): A yellowish citrus fruit.
• lent (noun): Alternative letter-case form of Lent
• lento (adjective): Slow (45–60 bpm).
• lone (adjective): Solitary; having no companion.
• loon (noun): An idler, a lout.
• melon (noun): Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber. Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon. Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others Genus Benincasa, a winter melon Genus Momordica, the bitter melon
• memento (noun): A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.
• mentee (noun): A person who is being mentored
• menthol^† (noun): a cyclic monoterpene alcohol; the major component of the essential oil of peppermint; used in pharmaceutical preparations as an antitussive and antipruritic agent, as a nasal decongestant, and in menthol cigarettes
• molten (adjective): Melted.
• moment (noun): A brief, unspecified amount of time.
• mono (noun): Clipping of mononucleosis.
• monotone (adjective): Having a single unvaried pitch.
• monte (noun): A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.
• month (noun): A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
• moon (proper noun): Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”).
• nene (noun): The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
• neon (noun): The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The second of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
• nettle (noun): Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash. Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles: Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle), Urtica incisa (Australian nettle); Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis); Bull nettles and spurge nettles of genus Cnidoscolus: Cnidoscolus stimulosus, bull nettle, spurge nettle, Cnidoscolus texanus, Texas bull nettle, Cnidoscolus urens, bull nettle, Nettle trees or tree nettles: Various species of the genus Dendrocnide: Urera baccifera (scratchbush), Urtica ferox (tree nettle); rock nettle (Eucnide); small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla).
• noel (noun): A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.
• none (pronoun): Not any of a given number or group.
• nonet (noun): A composition for nine instruments or nine voices.
• noon (noun): The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
• note (noun): A symbol or annotation. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
• omen (noun): Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
• onto (preposition): Upon; on top of.
• teen (noun): Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old.
• telethon (noun): A televised fundraising event encouraging viewers to make donations via telephone.
• telnet (noun): A network protocol that enables one computer to communicate with another via the Internet; the program that acts as the client in this situation
• tenement (noun): A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
• tenet (noun): An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
• tenon (noun): A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame.
• tent (noun): A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
• tenth (adjective): The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
• then (adverb): At that time.
• tone (noun): A specific pitch.
• toneme (noun): A phoneme in a language that uses different tones for different meanings.
• tonne (noun): A metric unit of mass equal to a thousand kilograms. Symbol: t
• toon (noun): A cartoon, especially an animated television show.