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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.

• ably  (AB4)
• allay  (AL5)
• alloy  (AL5)
• ally  (AL4)
• anal  (AN4)
• anally  (AN6)
• annal  (AN5)
• balcony^†  (BA7)
• ball  (BA4)
• ballboy  (BA7)
• balloon  (BA7)
• banal  (BA5)
• banally  (BA7)
• blab  (BL4)
• blabby  (BL6)
• blob  (BL4)
• blobby  (BL6)
• bloc  (BL4)
• bola  (BO4)
• boll  (BO4)
• bolo  (BO4)
• cabal  (CA5)
• cabala  (CA6)
• call  (CA4)
• calla  (CA5)
• callaloo  (CA8)
• canal  (CA5)
• cannonball  (CA10)
• canola  (CA6)
• clan  (CL4)
• clay  (CL4)
• cloaca  (CL6)
• clonal  (CL6)
• cloy  (CL4)
• coal  (CO4)
• cola  (CO4)
• colcannon  (CO9)
• colon  (CO5)
• colony  (CO6)
• cool  (CO4)
• coolly  (CO6)
• coyly  (CO5)
• lacy  (LA4)
• llano  (LL5)
• loan  (LO4)
• lobby  (LO5)
• lobo  (LO4)
• local  (LO5)
• locally  (LO7)
• loco  (LO4)
• loll  (LO4)
• loon  (LO4)
• loony  (LO5)
• loyal  (LO5)
• loyally  (LO7)
• nobly  (NO5)
• nonlocal  (NO8)
• nylon  (NY5)
• onlay  (ON5)
• only  (ON4)

Answer Definitions

• ably (adverb): In an able manner; with great ability.
• allay (verb): To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
• alloy (noun): A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal.
• ally (verb): To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.
• anal (adjective): of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
• anally (adverb): Involving the anus.
• annal (noun): The record of a single event or item.
• balcony^† (noun): An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
• ball (noun): A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
• ballboy (noun): Alternative spelling of ball boy
• balloon (noun): An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
• banal (adjective): Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
• banally (adverb): In a banal, trite or boring manner.
• blab (verb): To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
• blabby (adjective): Tending to blab or gossip a lot.
• blob (noun): A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
• blobby (adjective): Similar in shape to blobs; amorphous in appearance; partially irregular in appearance like bubbles.
• bloc (noun): A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
• bola (noun): A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.
• boll (noun): The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
• bolo (noun): A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
• cabal (noun): A secret political clique or faction.
• cabala (proper noun): Alternative spelling of Kabballah
• call (noun): A telephone conversation; a phone call.
• calla (noun): A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.
• callaloo (noun): Any of various tropical plants grown in the Americas, especially of the genera Amaranthus and Xanthosoma, cultivated for their edible leaves.
• canal (noun): An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
• cannonball (noun): A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.
• canola (noun): Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and closely related field mustard (Brassica rapa), which have a lower erucic acid and glucosinolate content than traditional rapeseed.
• clan (noun): A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
• clay (noun): A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
• cloaca (noun): A sewer.
• clonal (adjective): Relating to, or created by asexual reproduction (cloning)
• cloy (verb): To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
• coal (noun): A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
• cola (noun): The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
• colcannon (noun): A traditional Irish dish made from mashed potatoes and cabbage or kale, with scallions, butter, salt and pepper added.
• colon (noun): The punctuation mark ":".
• colony (noun): An area under the political control of another country and typically occupied by settlers (colonists) from it, or by their descendants.
• cool (adjective): Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
• coolly (adverb): In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
• coyly (adverb): In a coy manner.
• lacy (adjective): Made of lace or decorated with it.
• llano (noun): A plain or steppe in parts of Latin America.
• loan (noun): An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
• lobby (noun): An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
• lobo (noun): A wolf.
• local (adjective): From or in a nearby location.
• locally (adverb): With respect to place; in place.
• loco (adverb): A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
• loll (verb): To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
• loon (noun): An idler, a lout.
• loony (adjective): Insane.
• loyal (adjective): Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.
• loyally (adverb): In a loyal manner, faithfully.
• nobly (adverb): In a noble manner.
• nonlocal (adjective): Not local; not specific to a location
• nylon (noun): Originally, the DuPont company trade name for polyamide, a copolymer whose molecules consist of alternating diamine and dicarboxylic acid monomers bonded together; now generically used for this type of polymer.
• onlay (verb): To lay or place something on a surface.
• only (adjective): Alone in a category.