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Table of Contents

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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.

• fill  (FI4)
• filly  (FI5)
• flog  (FL4)
• floor  (FL5)
• foggily  (FO7)
• foggy  (FO5)
• fogy  (FO4)
• foil  (FO4)
• folio  (FO5)
• folly  (FO5)
• fool  (FO4)
• forgo  (FO5)
• frill  (FR5)
• frilly  (FR6)
• frog  (FR4)
• froggy  (FR6)
• glorify^†  (GL7)
• golf  (GO4)
• goof  (GO4)
• goofily  (GO7)
• goofy  (GO5)
• iffy  (IF4)
• logoff  (LO6)
• riff  (RI4)
• roof  (RO4)

Answer Definitions

• fill (verb): To occupy fully, to take up all of.
• filly (noun): A young female horse.
• flog (verb): To whip or scourge as punishment.
• floor (noun): The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
• foggily (adverb): In a foggy manner
• foggy (adjective): Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy
• fogy (noun): Alternative spelling of fogey
• foil (noun): A very thin sheet of metal.
• folio (noun): a leaf of a book or manuscript
• folly (noun): Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
• fool (noun): A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
• forgo (verb): To let pass, to leave alone, to let go.
• frill (noun): A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
• frilly (adjective): Having frills; frilled.
• frog (noun): Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
• froggy (noun): A frog.
• glorify^† (verb): To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone).
• golf (noun): A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.
• goof (noun): A mistake or error.
• goofily (adverb): In a goofy manner.
• goofy (adjective): silly, quirky
• iffy (adjective): Of dubious authenticity, legitimacy or legality.
• logoff (noun): The process of logging off.
• riff (noun): A repeated instrumental melody line in a song.
• roof (noun): The external covering at the top of a building.