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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.

• ammo  (AM4)
• amok  (AM4)
• arco  (AR4)
• armor  (AR5)
• aroma  (AR5)
• cacao  (CA5)
• camo  (CA4)
• campo  (CA5)
• capo  (CA4)
• carom  (CA5)
• coca  (CO4)
• cock  (CO4)
• cockapoo  (CO8)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• coma  (CO4)
• comma  (CO5)
• comp  (CO4)
• cook  (CO4)
• coop  (CO4)
• cork  (CO4)
• croak  (CR5)
• croc  (CR4)
• crock  (CR5)
• crook  (CR5)
• crop  (CR4)
• kapok  (KA5)
• kook  (KO4)
• macro  (MA5)
• mako  (MA4)
• mock  (MO4)
• momma  (MO5)
• moor  (MO4)
• okra  (OK4)
• orca  (OR4)
• pock  (PO4)
• pockmark^†  (PO8)
• pomp  (PO4)
• pompom  (PO6)
• poop  (PO4)
• poor  (PO4)
• poppa  (PO5)
• pork  (PO4)
• prom  (PR4)
• promo  (PR5)
• prop  (PR4)
• roam  (RO4)
• roar  (RO4)
• rock  (RO4)
• rococo  (RO6)
• romcom  (RO6)
• romp  (RO4)
• rook  (RO4)
• room  (RO4)

Answer Definitions

• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• amok (adverb): Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.
• 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.
• armor (noun): A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
• aroma (noun): A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• camo (noun): A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
• campo (noun): A police officer assigned to a university campus.
• capo (noun): A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
• carom (noun): A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
• coca (noun): Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
• cock (noun): A male bird, especially: A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). A cock pigeon.
• cockapoo (noun): A cross between an American cocker spaniel and a miniature poodle.
• cocoa (noun): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
• coma (noun): A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
• comma (noun): English Wikipedia has an article on:commaWikipedia The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
• comp (adjective): Clipping of complimentary.
• cook (noun): A person who prepares food.
• coop (noun): A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
• cork (noun): The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
• croak (noun): A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
• croc (noun): A crocodile.
• crock (noun): A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
• crook (noun): A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
• crop (noun): A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
• kapok (noun): A silky fibre obtained from seed pods of the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) used for insulation and stuffing for mattresses, pillows, etc.
• kook (noun): An eccentric, strange or crazy person.
• macro (adjective): Very large in scope or scale.
• mako (noun): mako shark
• mock (noun): An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
• momma (noun): mother
• 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
• okra (noun): The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
• orca (noun): A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.
• pock (noun): A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
• pockmark^† (noun): A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
• pomp (noun): Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
• pompom (noun): A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric bound at the centre, most notably used in cheerleading.
• poop (verb): To make a short blast on a horn.
• poor (adjective): With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• poppa (noun): father, papa.
• pork (noun): The meat of a pig; swineflesh.
• prom (noun): A promenade concert.
• promo (noun): Clipping of promotion.
• prop (noun): An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
• roam (verb): To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
• roar (verb): To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
• rock (noun): A formation of minerals, specifically: The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
• rococo (noun): A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
• romcom (noun): Clipping of romantic comedy.
• romp (verb): To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
• rook (noun): A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
• room (noun): Opportunity or scope (to do something).