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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.

• alga  (AL4)
• algal  (AL5)
• alpha  (AL5)
• alum  (AL4)
• amalgam  (AM7)
• appall  (AP6)
• gala  (GA4)
• gall  (GA4)
• galumph^†  (GA7)
• glam  (GL4)
• glum  (GL4)
• gulag  (GU5)
• gull  (GU4)
• gulp  (GU4)
• halal  (HA5)
• hall  (HA4)
• haul  (HA4)
• hula  (HU4)
• hull  (HU4)
• lama  (LA4)
• lamp  (LA4)
• laugh  (LA5)
• llama  (LL5)
• luau  (LU4)
• lull  (LU4)
• lulu  (LU4)
• lump  (LU4)
• mall  (MA4)
• mammal  (MA6)
• maul  (MA4)
• mull  (MU4)
• mullah  (MU6)
• pall  (PA4)
• palm  (PA4)
• palp  (PA4)
• papal  (PA5)
• plug  (PL4)
• plum  (PL4)
• plump  (PL5)
• pull  (PU4)
• pulp  (PU4)
• pupal  (PU5)

Answer Definitions

• alga (noun): Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
• algal (adjective): Pertaining to, or like, algae.
• alpha (noun): The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α,  α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.
• alum (noun): An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O).
• amalgam (noun): An alloy containing mercury.
• appall (verb): To fill with horror; to dismay.
• gala (adjective): Celebratory; festive.
• gall (noun): Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
• galumph^† (verb): To move heavily and clumsily, or with a sense of prancing and triumph.
• glam (noun): Glamour.
• glum (adjective): despondent; moody; sullen
• gulag (noun): Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
• gull (noun): A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
• gulp (noun): The usual amount swallowed.
• halal (adjective): Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
• hall (noun): A corridor; a hallway.
• haul (verb): To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
• hula (noun): A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
• hull (noun): The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
• lama (noun): A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
• lamp (noun): A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
• laugh (noun): An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
• llama (noun): A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
• luau (noun): An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.
• lull (noun): A period of rest or soothing.
• lulu (noun): A remarkable person, object or idea.
• lump (noun): Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
• mall (noun): A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
• mammal (noun): An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and producing milk with which to feed its young.
• maul (noun): A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
• mull (verb): (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
• mullah (noun): A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law.
• pall (noun): Senses relating to cloth. Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes. A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse. A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist. A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).
• palm (noun): Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
• palp (noun): Synonym of pedipalp.
• papal (adjective): Having to do with the pope or the papacy.
• plug (noun): A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
• plum (noun): The fruit and its tree. The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour. The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica. The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow. Prunus sect. Prunus Prunus cerasifera, the cherry plum or myrobalan Prunus salicina the Chinese plum or Japanese plum Prunus spinosa, the sloe Prunus ursina the bear's plum Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums Prunus americana, the American plum Prunus angustifolia, the Chickasaw plum or sand plum Prunus hortulana, the hortulan plum Prunus nigra, the Canadian plum or black plum Prunus rivularis, the creek plum or hog plum Prunus subcordata, the Klamath plum or Oregon plum Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots) Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume. A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.
• plump (adjective): Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
• pull (verb): To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
• pulp (noun): A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper. A mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose). A suspension of mineral particles, typically achieved by some form of agitation. The soft center of a fruit.
• pupal (adjective): Of or pertaining to the pupa stage of insect metamorphosis.