NYT Spelling Bee Answers for July 4, 2020

Jul 4, 2020 · 7 min read · spelling bee ·

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Spelling Bee "Hive" Board for July 4, 2020

Game Summary

Center Letter	E
Outer Letters	a, c, h, k, n, y
# of Pangrams	1 (Perfect: 1)
Total Words	26 words
Total Points	89 points
Genius Level	62 points
Bingo?	Yes

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Spelling Bee Grid
Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints
Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints
Extra Letter Hints (Incrementally Revealing) 🤯
Today's Complete Solution
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.

	4</th><th>5</th><th>6</th><th>7	Σ
A	2	-	-	-	2
C	2	3	2	1	8
E	1	-	-	1	2
H	2	3	-	1	6
K	2	-	-	-	2
N	2	-	-	-	2
Y	3	1	-	-	4
Σ	14	7	2	3	26

Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints

The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding two letters.

A	AC×2
C	CA×4 CH×4
E	EA×1 EN×1
H	HA×2 HE×3 HY×1
K	KE×1 KN×1
N	NE×2
Y	YE×4

Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints

The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding three letters.

A	ACH×1 ACN×1
C	CAC×1 CAK×1 CAN×1 CAY×1 CHA×1 CHE×3
E	EAC×1 ENH×1
H	HAC×1 HAK×1 HEC×1 HEN×2 HYE×1
K	KEE×1 KNE×1
N	NEC×1 NEN×1
Y	YEA×2 YEC×2

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 (^†).

Word	2L Ref	Definition (click to reveal)
ac..	AC4	To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
ac..	AC4	A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection.
ca...	CA5	A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
ca..	CA4	A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
ca..	CA4	A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
ca.....	CA7	Ellipsis of cayenne pepper.
ch....	CH6	An opportunity or possibility.
ch...	CH5	A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
ch...	CH5	The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
ch....	CH6	Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.
ea..	EA4	All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).
en.....	EN7	To lift, raise up.
ha..... ^†	HA7	An ordinary horse.
ha..	HA4	A hook; a pot-hook.
he..	HE4	Hell.
he...	HE5	from here, from this place, away
he...	HE5	A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers
hy...	HY5	Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.
ke..	KE4	Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
kn..	KN4	In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
ne..	NE4	The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
ne..	NE4	The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
ye..	YE4	yes.
ye..	YE4	To give birth to.
ye...	YE5	Alternative spelling of yech
ye..	YE4	An exclamation of disgust.

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.

ache (AC4)
acne (AC4)
cache (CA5)
cake (CA4)
cane (CA4)
cayenne (CA7)
chance (CH6)
check (CH5)
cheek (CH5)
cheeky (CH6)
each (EA4)
enhance (EN7)
hackney^† (HA7)
hake (HA4)
heck (HE4)
hence (HE5)
henna (HE5)
hyena (HY5)
keen (KE4)
knee (KN4)
neck (NE4)
nene (NE4)
yeah (YE4)
yean (YE4)
yecch (YE5)
yech (YE4)

Answer Definitions

ache (verb): To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
acne (noun): A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection.
cache (noun): A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
cake (noun): A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
cane (noun): A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
cayenne (noun): Ellipsis of cayenne pepper.
chance (noun): An opportunity or possibility.
check (noun): A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
cheek (noun): The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
cheeky (adjective): Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.
each (determiner): All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).
enhance (verb): To lift, raise up.
hackney^† (noun): An ordinary horse.
hake (noun): A hook; a pot-hook.
heck (interjection): Hell.
hence (adverb): from here, from this place, away
henna (noun): A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers
hyena (noun): Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.
keen (adjective): Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
knee (noun): In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
neck (noun): The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
nene (noun): The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
yeah (particle): yes.
yean (verb): To give birth to.
yecch (interjection): Alternative spelling of yech
yech (interjection): An exclamation of disgust.