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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.

• acrobat  (AC7)
• actor  (AC5)
• allocator  (AL9)
• arco  (AR4)
• attract  (AT7)
• attractor  (AT9)
• baccarat  (BA8)
• barbacoa  (BA8)
• bloc  (BL4)
• bobcat  (BO6)
• cabal  (CA5)
• cabala  (CA6)
• cacao  (CA5)
• call  (CA4)
• calla  (CA5)
• callaloo  (CA8)
• carat  (CA5)
• carb  (CA4)
• carob  (CA5)
• carol  (CA5)
• carrot  (CA6)
• cart  (CA4)
• cataract  (CA8)
• catboat  (CA7)
• catcall  (CA7)
• cloaca  (CL6)
• clot  (CL4)
• coact  (CO5)
• coactor  (CO7)
• coal  (CO4)
• coat  (CO4)
• cobalt  (CO6)
• cobra  (CO5)
• coca  (CO4)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• cola  (CO4)
• collaborator^†  (CO12)
• collar  (CO6)
• color  (CO5)
• colt  (CO4)
• cool  (CO4)
• coot  (CO4)
• coral  (CO5)
• corolla  (CO7)
• corral  (CO6)
• crab  (CR4)
• croc  (CR4)
• local  (LO5)
• locator  (LO7)
• loco  (LO4)
• octal  (OC5)
• orca  (OR4)
• robocall  (RO8)
• rococo  (RO6)
• taco  (TA4)
• tact  (TA4)
• talc  (TA4)
• tobacco  (TO7)
• toccata  (TO7)
• tract  (TR5)
• tractor  (TR7)

Answer Definitions

• acrobat (noun): An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
• actor (noun): Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.
• allocator (noun): One who, or that which, allocates.
• arco (adverb): A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.
• attract (verb): To pull toward without touching.
• attractor (noun): Something which attracts.
• baccarat (noun): A card game resembling chemin de fer with many forms - usually entailing the player(s) betting against two or three hands dealt - also bearing some similarities to blackjack.
• barbacoa (noun): Meat slow-cooked over an open fire, characteristic of Latin American cuisine.
• bloc (noun): A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
• bobcat (noun): A North American wild cat, Lynx rufus, having tufted ears and a short tail.
• cabal (noun): A secret political clique or faction.
• cabala (proper noun): Alternative spelling of Kabballah
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• call (noun): A telephone conversation; a phone call.
• calla (noun): A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.
• callaloo (noun): Any of various tropical plants grown in the Americas, especially of the genera Amaranthus and Xanthosoma, cultivated for their edible leaves.
• carat (noun): A unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams.
• carb (noun): Clipping of carbohydrate.
• carob (noun): An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.
• carol (noun): A round dance accompanied by singing.
• carrot (noun): A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae.
• cart (noun): A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
• cataract (noun): A waterspout.
• catboat (noun): A sailing boat with a single sail, usually rigged on a gaff spar, used for fishing in New England and later adapted for racing and cruising. It has a single mast set near to the bow and a long boom which may extend over the stern.
• catcall (noun): A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.
• cloaca (noun): A sewer.
• clot (noun): A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
• coact (verb): To compel, constrain, force.
• coactor (noun): An organism that participates in coaction
• coal (noun): A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
• coat (noun): An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
• cobalt (noun): A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
• cobra (noun): Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae.
• coca (noun): Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
• cocoa (noun): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
• cola (noun): The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
• collaborator^† (noun): A person who works with others towards a common goal.
• collar (noun): Clothes that encircle the neck. The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric. A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline. A chain worn around the neck. A similar detachable item. A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal. A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
• color (noun): The spectral composition of visible light.
• colt (noun): A young male horse.
• cool (adjective): Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
• coot (noun): Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
• coral (noun): Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
• corolla (noun): An outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.
• corral (noun): An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
• crab (noun): A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
• croc (noun): A crocodile.
• local (adjective): From or in a nearby location.
• locator (noun): One who, or that which, locates.
• loco (adverb): A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
• octal (noun): The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
• orca (noun): A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.
• robocall (noun): An automated phone call, commonly for telemarketing purposes, that uses both an autodialer and a recorded message.
• rococo (noun): A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
• taco (noun): A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables and salsa.
• tact (noun): The sense of touch; feeling.
• talc (noun): Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Mediaeval writers adopted the term from the Arabic.
• tobacco (noun): Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
• toccata (noun): A piece of music (usually for a keyboard instrument) designed to emphasise the dexterity of the performer.
• tract (noun): An area or expanse.
• tractor (noun): A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.