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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.

• abbot  (AB5)
• abhor  (AB5)
• abort  (AB5)
• ammo  (AM4)
• aorta  (AO5)
• arbor  (AR5)
• armor  (AR5)
• aroma  (AR5)
• athrob  (AT6)
• atom  (AT4)
• bamboo  (BA6)
• baobab  (BA6)
• barroom  (BA7)
• bathroom^†  (BA8)
• boar  (BO4)
• boat  (BO4)
• boba  (BO4)
• boho  (BO4)
• bomb  (BO4)
• boob  (BO4)
• booboo  (BO6)
• boohoo  (BO6)
• boom  (BO4)
• boor  (BO4)
• boot  (BO4)
• booth  (BO5)
• both  (BO4)
• bottom  (BO6)
• broom  (BR5)
• broth  (BR5)
• haboob  (HA6)
• harbor  (HA6)
• hoar  (HO4)
• hobo  (HO4)
• hoorah  (HO6)
• hoot  (HO4)
• hora  (HO4)
• horror  (HO6)
• mambo  (MA5)
• mammoth  (MA7)
• marmot  (MA6)
• moat  (MO4)
• momma  (MO5)
• moor  (MO4)
• moot  (MO4)
• mortar  (MO6)
• moth  (MO4)
• motor  (MO5)
• motorboat  (MO9)
• motto  (MO5)
• oath  (OA4)
• orator  (OR6)
• roam  (RO4)
• roar  (RO4)
• robot  (RO5)
• room  (RO4)
• root  (RO4)
• rotator  (RO7)
• rotor  (RO5)
• taboo  (TA5)
• tabor  (TA5)
• taro  (TA4)
• tarot  (TA5)
• tattoo  (TA6)
• throat  (TH6)
• throb  (TH5)
• tomato  (TO6)
• tomb  (TO4)
• toot  (TO4)
• tooth  (TO5)
• torah  (TO5)
• toro  (TO4)
• tort  (TO4)
• trot  (TR4)
• troth  (TR5)

Answer Definitions

• abbot (noun): The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
• abhor (verb): To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
• abort (noun): An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• aorta (noun): The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
• arbor (noun): A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
• 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.
• athrob (adjective): Throbbing.
• atom (noun): The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
• bamboo (noun): A fast-growing grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
• baobab (noun): A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
• barroom (noun): A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
• bathroom^† (noun): A room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and a toilet.
• boar (noun): A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
• boat (noun): A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
• boba (noun): Synonym of tapioca pearl.
• boho (noun): A bohemian.
• bomb (noun): An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, one dropped from an aircraft. The atomic bomb.
• boob (noun): An idiot; a fool.
• booboo (noun): Alternative spelling of boo-boo
• boohoo (verb): To cry, weep.
• boom (verb): To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
• boor (noun): A peasant.
• boot (noun): A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg. A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
• booth (noun): A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
• both (determiner): Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.
• bottom (noun): The lowest part of anything.
• broom (noun): A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
• broth (noun): Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.
• haboob (noun): A violent sandstorm or duststorm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America.
• harbor (noun): Any place of shelter.
• hoar (noun): A white or greyish-white colour.
• hobo (noun): A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum.
• hoorah (interjection): Alternative form of hurrah
• hoot (noun): A derisive cry or shout.
• hora (noun): A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.
• horror (noun): An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
• mambo (noun): A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
• mammoth (noun): Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
• marmot (noun): Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
• moat (noun): A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
• momma (noun): mother
• moor (noun): An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
• moot (adjective): Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
• mortar (noun): A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
• moth (noun): A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
• motor (noun): A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
• motorboat (noun): Any vessel driven by an engine (either inboard or outboard), but especially a small one.
• motto (noun): A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
• oath (noun): A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
• orator (noun): Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
• roam (verb): To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
• roar (verb): To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
• robot (noun): A system of serfdom used in Central Europe, under which a tenant's rent was paid in forced labour.
• room (noun): Opportunity or scope (to do something).
• root (noun): The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
• rotator (noun): One who or that which rotates.
• rotor (noun): A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump.
• taboo (noun): An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
• tabor (noun): A small drum. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.
• taro (noun): Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
• tarot (noun): A card game played in various different variations.
• tattoo (noun): An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
• throat (noun): The front part of the neck.
• throb (verb): To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
• tomato (noun): A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
• tomb (noun): A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
• toot (noun): The noise of a horn or whistle.
• tooth (noun): A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
• torah (noun): the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible
• toro (noun): A traditional Japanese lantern.
• tort (noun): An injury or wrong.
• trot (noun): An ugly old woman, a hag.
• troth (noun): An oath, pledge, or promise. A pledge or promise to marry someone. The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement.