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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.

• apathy  (AP6)
• appellate  (AP9)
• applet  (AP6)
• aptly  (AP5)
• athlete  (AT7)
• elate  (EL5)
• ethyl  (ET5)
• eyelet  (EY6)
• eyeteeth  (EY8)
• halt  (HA4)
• hate  (HA4)
• hath  (HA4)
• hatha  (HA5)
• health  (HE6)
• healthy  (HE7)
• heat  (HE4)
• heath  (HE5)
• heeltap  (HE7)
• heptathlete  (HE11)
• late  (LA4)
• lately  (LA6)
• lath  (LA4)
• lathe  (LA5)
• latte  (LA5)
• layette  (LA7)
• leapt  (LE5)
• lethal  (LE6)
• lethally  (LE8)
• palatal  (PA7)
• palatally  (PA9)
• palate  (PA6)
• palette  (PA7)
• pallet  (PA6)
• palpate  (PA7)
• pate  (PA4)
• patella  (PA7)
• patellae  (PA8)
• path  (PA4)
• patly  (PA5)
• patty  (PA5)
• peat  (PE4)
• pellet  (PE6)
• pelt  (PE4)
• petal  (PE5)
• petty  (PE5)
• phat  (PH4)
• plat  (PL4)
• plate  (PL5)
• platelet  (PL8)
• playlet  (PL7)
• pleat  (PL5)
• tale  (TA4)
• tall  (TA4)
• tally  (TA5)
• tapa  (TA4)
• tape  (TA4)
• tattle  (TA6)
• tattletale  (TA10)
• tatty  (TA5)
• teal  (TE4)
• teat  (TE4)
• teepee  (TE6)
• teeth  (TE5)
• teethe  (TE6)
• telepath  (TE8)
• telepathy^†  (TE9)
• teleplay  (TE8)
• teletype  (TE8)
• tell  (TE4)
• telltale  (TE8)
• tepee  (TE5)
• that  (TH4)
• thee  (TH4)
• theta  (TH5)
• they  (TH4)
• type  (TY4)

Answer Definitions

• apathy (noun): Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
• appellate (adjective): That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
• applet (noun): a small program module that runs under the control of a larger application, typically a web browser
• aptly (adverb): In an apt or suitable manner; fittingly; appropriately; suitably
• athlete (noun): A participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
• elate (verb): To make joyful or proud.
• ethyl (noun): The univalent hydrocarbon radical, C2H5, formally derived from ethane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
• eyelet (noun): An object that consists of a rim and small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.
• eyeteeth (noun): plural of eyetooth
• halt (verb): To limp; move with a limping gait.
• hate (noun): An object of hatred.
• hath (verb): third-person singular simple present indicative form of have
• hatha (noun): The fundamental form of yoga that focuses on asanas
• health (noun): The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
• healthy (adjective): Enjoying good health; well; free from disease or disorder.
• heat (noun): Thermal energy.
• heath (noun): A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
• heeltap (noun): A piece or wedge that raises the heel of a shoe.
• heptathlete (noun): An athlete who competes in the heptathlon.
• late (adjective): Near the end of a period of time.
• lately (adverb): Recently; not long ago.
• lath (noun): A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
• lathe (verb): To invite; bid; ask.
• latte (noun): A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
• layette (noun): A complete set of clothing, bedding and toilet articles for a new baby.
• leapt (verb): simple past tense and past participle of leap
• lethal (adjective): Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
• lethally (adverb): In a lethal manner, in manner which is or will be fatal.
• palatal (adjective): Pertaining to the palate.
• palatally (adverb): With reference to the palate.
• palate (noun): The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.
• palette (noun): A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
• pallet (noun): A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
• palpate (verb): To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly in reference to an area or organ of the human body.
• pate (noun): The head, particularly the top or crown.
• patella (noun): The sesamoid bone of the knee; the kneecap.
• patellae (noun): plural of patella
• path (noun): A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
• patly (adverb): In a pat manner; fitly, seasonably, conveniently, appositely.
• patty (noun): A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
• peat (noun): Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
• pellet (noun): A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
• pelt (noun): The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it.
• petal (noun): One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
• petty (adjective): Having little or no importance.
• phat (adjective): Excellent; cool; very good.
• plat (noun): A plot of land; a lot.
• plate (noun): A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
• platelet (noun): A small colorless disk-shaped particle found in the blood of mammals, which plays an important role in the formation of blood clots.
• playlet (noun): A short play (dramatic work).
• pleat (noun): A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
• tale (noun): An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
• tall (adjective): Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.
• tally (interjection): Target sighted.
• tapa (noun): A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
• tape (noun): Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
• tattle (verb): To chatter; to gossip.
• tattletale (adjective): telltale; giveaway
• tatty (noun): worn and shabby; in poor condition.
• teal (noun): Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
• teat (noun): The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
• teepee (noun): A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America.
• teeth (noun): plural of tooth
• teethe (verb): To grow teeth.
• telepath (noun): A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them.
• telepathy^† (noun): The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
• teleplay (noun): A script formatted like a screenplay, but written to be made into an episode of a television show.
• teletype (noun): A telegraph that automatically prints transmited messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance.
• tell (verb): To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• telltale (noun): One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others.
• tepee (noun): Alternative form of teepee
• that (conjunction): Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
• thee (pronoun): Objective and reflexive case of thou.
• theta (noun): The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
• they (pronoun): A group of entities previously mentioned.
• type (noun): A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.