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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)
• aboard  (AB6)
• abroad  (AB6)
• adobo  (AD5)
• adorably^†  (AD8)
• arbor  (AR5)
• baba  (BA4)
• baby  (BA4)
• badly  (BA5)
• bald  (BA4)
• baldly  (BA6)
• ball  (BA4)
• ballad  (BA6)
• balladry  (BA8)
• ballboy  (BA7)
• ballyard  (BA8)
• baobab  (BA6)
• barb  (BA4)
• bard  (BA4)
• blab  (BL4)
• blabby  (BL6)
• blob  (BL4)
• blobby  (BL6)
• blood  (BL5)
• bloody  (BL6)
• boar  (BO4)
• board  (BO5)
• boba  (BO4)
• body  (BO4)
• bodyboard  (BO9)
• bola  (BO4)
• bold  (BO4)
• boldly  (BO6)
• boll  (BO4)
• bollard  (BO7)
• bolo  (BO4)
• boob  (BO4)
• booboo  (BO6)
• booby  (BO5)
• boor  (BO4)
• brad  (BR4)
• bray  (BR4)
• broad  (BR5)
• broadly^†  (BR7)
• brood  (BR5)
• broody  (BR6)
• byroad  (BY6)
• drab  (DR4)
• drably  (DR6)
• labor  (LA5)
• larboard  (LA8)
• lobby  (LO5)
• loblolly  (LO8)
• lobo  (LO4)
• oddball  (OD7)
• rollbar  (RO7)

Answer Definitions

• ably (adverb): In an able manner; with great ability.
• aboard (adverb): On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
• abroad (adverb): Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
• adobo (noun): A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic.
• adorably^† (adverb): In an adorable manner.
• arbor (noun): A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
• baba (noun): A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
• baby (noun): A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
• badly (adverb): In a bad manner.
• bald (adjective): Having no hair, fur or feathers.
• baldly (adverb): In a bald (blunt, matter-of-fact, unembellished, or lacking supporting details) manner.
• ball (noun): A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
• ballad (noun): A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
• balladry (noun): ballads considered as a group; also, the sharing (transmission), making and performing of ballads, ballads as an activity, as a tradition, as a body of work, as a craft, as implying a community of singers, makers and lovers of ballads.
• ballboy (noun): Alternative spelling of ball boy
• ballyard (noun): A baseball field.
• baobab (noun): A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
• barb (noun): The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
• bard (noun): A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
• 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.
• blood (noun): A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
• bloody (adjective): Covered in blood.
• boar (noun): A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
• board (noun): A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
• boba (noun): Synonym of tapioca pearl.
• body (noun): Physical frame. The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
• bodyboard (noun): A piece of foam, usually rectangular in shape, upon which one sits or lies when bodyboarding.
• bola (noun): A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.
• bold (noun): A dwelling; habitation; building.
• boldly (adverb): In a bold manner; with confidence.
• boll (noun): The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
• bollard (noun): A strong vertical post of timber or iron, fixed to the ground and/or on the deck of a ship, to which the ship's mooring lines etc are secured.
• bolo (noun): A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
• boob (noun): An idiot; a fool.
• booboo (noun): Alternative spelling of boo-boo
• booby (noun): A stupid person.
• boor (noun): A peasant.
• brad (noun): A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
• bray (verb): Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.
• broad (adjective): Wide in extent or scope.
• broadly^† (adverb): Widely and openly.
• brood (noun): The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
• broody (noun): A female bird in the condition to incubate eggs; a broody hen, duck, etc.
• byroad (noun): A road less frequented than a highway; a byway.
• drab (noun): A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
• drably (adverb): In a drab manner.
• labor (noun): Alternative spelling of labour
• larboard (noun): The left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side.
• lobby (noun): An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
• loblolly (noun): Gruel.
• lobo (noun): A wolf.
• oddball (noun): An eccentric or unusual person.
• rollbar (noun): Alternative form of roll bar (“an anti-roll bar”)