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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.

• agleam  (AG6)
• alga  (AL4)
• algae  (AL5)
• algal  (AL5)
• allege  (AL6)
• amalgam  (AM7)
• angel  (AN5)
• angle  (AN5)
• bagel  (BA5)
• baggage  (BA7)
• bagman  (BA6)
• bagmen  (BA6)
• ballgame  (BA8)
• bang  (BA4)
• bangle  (BA6)
• beagle  (BE6)
• beanbag  (BE7)
• began  (BE5)
• begem  (BE5)
• eagle  (EA5)
• engage  (EN6)
• gabble  (GA6)
• gable  (GA5)
• gaga  (GA4)
• gage  (GA4)
• gaggle  (GA6)
• gagman  (GA6)
• gagmen  (GA6)
• gala  (GA4)
• gale  (GA4)
• galena  (GA6)
• gall  (GA4)
• gamble  (GA6)
• game  (GA4)
• gamma  (GA5)
• gang  (GA4)
• gelee  (GE5)
• gene  (GE4)
• glam  (GL4)
• gleam  (GL5)
• glean  (GL5)
• glee  (GL4)
• glen  (GL4)
• legal  (LE5)
• legman  (LE6)
• legmen  (LE6)
• mage  (MA4)
• magma  (MA5)
• manage  (MA6)
• manageable^†  (MA10)
• manga  (MA5)
• mange  (MA5)
• mangle  (MA6)
• mega  (ME4)
• melange  (ME7)
• menage  (ME6)

Answer Definitions

• agleam (adjective): Glowing with subdued light.
• 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.
• algae (noun): plural of alga
• algal (adjective): Pertaining to, or like, algae.
• allege (verb): To state under oath, to plead.
• amalgam (noun): An alloy containing mercury.
• angel (noun): An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes.
• angle (noun): A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
• bagel (noun): A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
• baggage (noun): Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling
• bagman (noun): A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments.
• bagmen (noun): plural of bagman
• ballgame (noun): Alternative spelling of ball game
• bang (noun): A sudden percussive noise.
• bangle (noun): A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
• beagle (noun): A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet.
• beanbag (noun): A piece of soft furniture consisting of a leather or vinyl covering stuffed with dry beans or other similar pellets.
• began (verb): simple past tense of begin
• begem (verb): To adorn (as if) with gems.
• eagle (noun): Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
• engage (verb): To interact socially. To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied. To draw into conversation. To attract, to please; to fascinate or win over (someone).
• gabble (verb): To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
• gable (noun): The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).
• gaga (adjective): Mentally senile.
• gage (verb): To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
• gaggle (noun): A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
• gagman (noun): A writer or performer of gags.
• gagmen (noun): plural of gagman
• gala (adjective): Celebratory; festive.
• gale (verb): To sing; charm; enchant.
• galena (noun): A mineral, lead sulphide (PbS), mined as an ore for lead.
• 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.
• gamble (noun): A bet or wager.
• game (noun): A playful or competitive activity. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
• gamma (noun): The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
• gang (verb): To go; walk; proceed.
• gelee (noun): Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.
• gene (noun): A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
• glam (noun): Glamour.
• gleam (noun): A small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.
• glean (verb): To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.
• glee (noun): Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
• glen (noun): A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.
• legal (adjective): Relating to the law or to lawyers.
• legman (noun): A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner.
• legmen (noun): plural of legman
• mage (noun): A magician, wizard or sorcerer.
• magma (noun): The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
• manage (verb): To direct or be in charge of.
• manageable^† (adjective): Capable of being managed or controlled.
• manga (noun): A comic originating in Japan.
• mange (noun): A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).
• mangle (verb): To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
• mega (adjective): Very large.
• melange (noun): A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.
• menage (noun): Alternative form of ménage