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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.

• alarm  (AL5)
• ammo  (AM4)
• amoral  (AM6)
• anal  (AN4)
• annal  (AN5)
• anon  (AN4)
• apollo  (AP6)
• appall  (AP6)
• apron  (AP5)
• armor  (AR5)
• aroma  (AR5)
• lama  (LA4)
• lamp  (LA4)
• lampoon  (LA7)
• llama  (LL5)
• llano  (LL5)
• loam  (LO4)
• loan  (LO4)
• malaprop  (MA8)
• mall  (MA4)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mammal  (MA6)
• mammon  (MA6)
• manna  (MA5)
• manor  (MA5)
• marm  (MA4)
• maroon  (MA6)
• moan  (MO4)
• molar  (MO5)
• momma  (MO5)
• moola  (MO5)
• moral  (MO5)
• naan  (NA4)
• nana  (NA4)
• napalm  (NA6)
• nonpolar  (NO8)
• normal  (NO6)
• opal  (OP4)
• oral  (OR4)
• pall  (PA4)
• pallor  (PA6)
• palm  (PA4)
• palp  (PA4)
• pampa  (PA5)
• panama  (PA6)
• panorama  (PA8)
• papa  (PA4)
• papal  (PA5)
• paranormal^†  (PA10)
• parlor  (PA6)
• parol  (PA5)
• plan  (PL4)
• planar  (PL6)
• polar  (PO5)
• pompano  (PO7)
• poplar  (PO6)
• poppa  (PO5)
• pram  (PR4)
• ramp  (RA4)
• roam  (RO4)
• roan  (RO4)
• roar  (RO4)

Answer Definitions

• alarm (noun): A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• amoral (adjective): Neither moral nor immoral.
• anal (adjective): of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
• annal (noun): The record of a single event or item.
• anon (adverb): Straight away; at once.
• apollo (noun): A very handsome young man.
• appall (verb): To fill with horror; to dismay.
• apron (noun): An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.
• 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.
• lama (noun): A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
• lamp (noun): A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
• lampoon (noun): A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution.
• 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.
• llano (noun): A plain or steppe in parts of Latin America.
• loam (noun): A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
• loan (noun): An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
• malaprop (adjective): Characterized by the use of malapropisms.
• mall (noun): A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
• mama (noun): Mother, female parent.
• mamma (noun): The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
• mammal (noun): An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and producing milk with which to feed its young.
• mammon (proper noun): Alternative letter-case form of Mammon (wealth, material avarice).
• manna (noun): Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
• manor (noun): A landed estate.
• marm (noun): madam; a polite term of address for a lady.
• maroon (noun): An escaped negro of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
• moan (noun): a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
• molar (noun): A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
• momma (noun): mother
• moola (noun): Money, cash.
• moral (adjective): Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
• naan (noun): A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
• nana (noun): A banana.
• napalm (noun): A highly flammable, viscous substance, designed to stick to the body while burning, used in warfare as an incendiary especially in wooded areas.
• nonpolar (adjective): Not containing a dipole.
• normal (adjective): According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• opal (noun): A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO2·nH2O. A precious gem, an iridescent gemstone found in the opal-silica mineral substrate (potch)
• oral (adjective): Relating to the mouth.
• 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”).
• pallor (noun): Paleness; want of color; pallidity; wanness.
• 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.
• pampa (noun): singular of pampas
• panama (noun): a lightweight hat of natural-colored straw hand-plaited of narrow strips from the young leaves of the jipijapa
• panorama (noun): An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.
• papa (noun): Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
• papal (adjective): Having to do with the pope or the papacy.
• paranormal^† (adjective): That (ostensibly) cannot be explained by what scientists know; supernatural; especially of or pertaining to ghosts, spirits, and hypothesized abilities like telepathy.
• parlor (noun): The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room
• parol (adjective): Word of mouth.
• plan (noun): A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
• planar (adjective): Of or pertaining to a plane.
• polar (adjective): Of or having a pole or polarity.
• pompano (noun): Any of various carangid fish, of the genus Trachinotus or species Alectis ciliaris, the African pompano, from coastal parts of the North Atlantic.
• poplar (noun): Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus.
• poppa (noun): father, papa.
• pram (noun): A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position.
• ramp (noun): An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
• 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.