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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.

• ahoy  (AH4)
• ammo  (AM4)
• annoy  (AN5)
• anon  (AN4)
• anonym  (AN6)
• armor  (AR5)
• armory  (AR6)
• aroma  (AR5)
• arroyo  (AR6)
• harmony^†  (HA7)
• hoar  (HO4)
• hoary  (HO5)
• homonym  (HO7)
• homonymy  (HO8)
• honor  (HO5)
• honorary  (HO8)
• hoorah  (HO6)
• hooray  (HO6)
• hora  (HO4)
• horn  (HO4)
• horny  (HO5)
• horror  (HO6)
• mammon  (MA6)
• manor  (MA5)
• maroon  (MA6)
• mayo  (MA4)
• mayor  (MA5)
• moan  (MO4)
• momma  (MO5)
• mommy  (MO5)
• mono  (MO4)
• moon  (MO4)
• moony  (MO5)
• moor  (MO4)
• moray  (MO5)
• morn  (MO4)
• moron  (MO5)
• noon  (NO4)
• norm  (NO4)
• rayon  (RA5)
• roam  (RO4)
• roan  (RO4)
• roar  (RO4)
• room  (RO4)
• roomy  (RO5)
• yahoo  (YA5)
• yoohoo  (YO6)

Answer Definitions

• ahoy (interjection): Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• annoy (verb): To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
• anon (adverb): Straight away; at once.
• anonym (noun): An anonymous person.
• armor (noun): A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
• armory (noun): US standard spelling of armoury.
• aroma (noun): A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.
• arroyo (noun): A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
• harmony^† (noun): Agreement or accord.
• hoar (noun): A white or greyish-white colour.
• hoary (adjective): White, whitish, or greyish-white.
• homonym (noun): A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
• homonymy (noun): The property of being a homonym.
• honor (noun): recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration
• honorary (adjective): Given as an honor/honour, with no duties attached, and without payment.
• hoorah (interjection): Alternative form of hurrah
• hooray (interjection): Used to express approval, joy or victory.
• hora (noun): A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.
• horn (noun): A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
• horny (adjective): Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
• horror (noun): An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
• mammon (proper noun): Alternative letter-case form of Mammon (wealth, material avarice).
• manor (noun): A landed estate.
• maroon (noun): An escaped negro of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
• mayo (noun): Clipping of mayonnaise.
• mayor (noun): The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, &c., formerly usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.
• moan (noun): a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
• momma (noun): mother
• mommy (noun): Mother.
• mono (noun): Clipping of mononucleosis.
• moon (proper noun): Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”).
• moony (adjective): Resembling the moon.
• moor (noun): An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
• moray (noun): Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
• morn (noun): Morning.
• moron (noun): A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.
• noon (noun): The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
• norm (noun): That which is normal or typical.
• rayon (noun): A manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber.
• roam (verb): To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
• roan (adjective): Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
• roar (verb): To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
• room (noun): Opportunity or scope (to do something).
• roomy (adjective): Spacious, expansive, comfortable.
• yahoo (noun): A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person
• yoohoo (interjection): Used to get attention.