NYT Spelling Bee Answers for June 22, 2021
Game Summary
| Center Letter | B |
|---|---|
| Outer Letters | a, d, i, l, o, r |
| # of Pangrams | 1 (Perfect: none) |
| Total Words | 61 words |
| Total Points | 256 points |
| Genius Level | 179 points |
| Bingo? | No |
Table of Contents
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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</th><th>8</th><th>9 | Σ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | - | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 8 |
| B | 21 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 39 |
| D | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| I | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| L | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 6 |
| O | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| R | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | Σ | 24 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 61 |
Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints
The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding two letters.
| A | AB×3 AD×1 AI×1 AL×1 AR×2 |
|---|---|
| B | BA×10 BI×6 BL×3 BO×12 BR×8 |
| D | DR×2 |
| I | |
| L | LA×4 LI×1 LO×1 |
| O | OD×1 |
| R | RA×3 RI×1 RO×1 |
Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints
The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding three letters.
| A | ABO×2 ABR×1 ADO×1 AIR×1 ALI×1 ARB×2 |
|---|---|
| B | BAB×1 BAI×2 BAL×3 BAO×1 BAR×3 BIL×4 BIR×2 BLA×1 BLO×2 BOA×2 BOB×1 BOI×1 BOL×5 BOO×3 BRA×2 BRI×3 BRO×3 |
| D | DRA×1 DRI×1 |
| I | |
| L | LAB×3 LAR×1 LIB×1 LOB×1 |
| O | ODD×1 |
| R | RAB×2 RAI×1 RIB×1 ROL×1 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| ab.... | AB6 | On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. |
| ab... | AB5 | In a boil; boiling. |
| ab.... | AB6 | Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. |
| ad... | AD5 | A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic. |
| ai..... | AI7 | A shot that misses the backboard, rim and net entirely. |
| al... | AL5 | The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed. |
| ar... | AR5 | A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation. |
| ar..... | AR7 | A variety of short-grained starchy rice with a white dot at the center of each grain, commonly used in risotto. |
| ba.. | BA4 | A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup. |
| ba.. | BA4 | Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial. |
| ba.... | BA6 | One who bails property; one who places property in the hands of another (called a bailee) for safekeeping. |
| ba.. | BA4 | Having no hair, fur or feathers. |
| ba.. | BA4 | A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. |
| ba.... | BA6 | A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas. |
| ba.... | BA6 | A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits. |
| ba.. | BA4 | 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. |
| ba.. | BA4 | 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. |
| ba.... | BA6 | A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city. |
| bi...... | BI8 | Articulated with both lips. |
| bi.. | BI4 | Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff. |
| bi....... † | BI9 | A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising. |
| bi...... | BI8 | A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom. |
| bi...... | BI8 | Both radial and bilateral |
| bi.. | BI4 | A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs. |
| bl.. | BL4 | To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion. |
| bl.. | BL4 | 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. |
| bl... | BL5 | 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. |
| bo.. | BO4 | A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. |
| bo... | BO5 | A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making. |
| bo.. | BO4 | Synonym of tapioca pearl. |
| bo.. | BO4 | A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection. |
| bo.. | BO4 | A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord. |
| bo.. | BO4 | A dwelling; habitation; building. |
| bo.. | BO4 | The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant. |
| bo..... | BO7 | 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. |
| bo.. | BO4 | A long, heavy, single-edged machete. |
| bo.. | BO4 | An idiot; a fool. |
| bo.... | BO6 | Alternative spelling of boo-boo |
| bo.. | BO4 | A peasant. |
| br.. | BR4 | 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. |
| br... | BR5 | To make a sudden movement with, to jerk. |
| br... | BR5 | Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera. |
| br.... | BR6 | A wedding feast or festival; a wedding. |
| br.. | BR4 | Vigour or vivacity. |
| br... | BR5 | Wide in extent or scope. |
| br... | BR5 | To cook by direct, radiant heat. |
| br... | BR5 | The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. |
| dr.. | DR4 | A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour. |
| dr.. | DR4 | To cut off; chop off. |
| la... | LA5 | The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina. |
| la.... | LA6 | Of or pertaining to the lips or labia. |
| la... | LA5 | Alternative spelling of labour |
| la...... | LA8 | The left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side. |
| li.... | LI6 | Sexual urges or drives. |
| lo.. | LO4 | A wolf. |
| od..... | OD7 | An eccentric or unusual person. |
| ra... | RA5 | A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions. |
| ra... | RA5 | Affected with rabies. |
| ra...... | RA8 | A rail or similar bird |
| ri.... | RI6 | Coarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way. |
| ro..... | RO7 | Alternative form of roll bar (“an anti-roll bar”) |
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.
- aboard (AB6)
- aboil (AB5)
- abroad (AB6)
- adobo (AD5)
- airball (AI7)
- alibi (AL5)
- arbor (AR5)
- arborio (AR7)
- baba (BA4)
- bail (BA4)
- bailor (BA6)
- bald (BA4)
- ball (BA4)
- ballad (BA6)
- baobab (BA6)
- barb (BA4)
- bard (BA4)
- barrio (BA6)
- bilabial (BI8)
- bill (BI4)
- billboard† (BI9)
- billiard (BI8)
- biradial (BI8)
- bird (BI4)
- blab (BL4)
- blob (BL4)
- blood (BL5)
- boar (BO4)
- board (BO5)
- boba (BO4)
- boil (BO4)
- bola (BO4)
- bold (BO4)
- boll (BO4)
- bollard (BO7)
- bolo (BO4)
- boob (BO4)
- booboo (BO6)
- boor (BO4)
- brad (BR4)
- braid (BR5)
- briar (BR5)
- bridal (BR6)
- brio (BR4)
- broad (BR5)
- broil (BR5)
- brood (BR5)
- drab (DR4)
- drib (DR4)
- labia (LA5)
- labial (LA6)
- labor (LA5)
- larboard (LA8)
- libido (LI6)
- lobo (LO4)
- oddball (OD7)
- rabbi (RA5)
- rabid (RA5)
- railbird (RA8)
- ribald (RI6)
- rollbar (RO7)
Answer Definitions
- aboard (adverb): On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
- aboil (adjective): In a boil; boiling.
- 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.
- airball (noun): A shot that misses the backboard, rim and net entirely.
- alibi (noun): The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.
- arbor (noun): A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
- arborio (noun): A variety of short-grained starchy rice with a white dot at the center of each grain, commonly used in risotto.
- baba (noun): A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
- bail (noun): Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- bailor (noun): One who bails property; one who places property in the hands of another (called a bailee) for safekeeping.
- bald (adjective): Having no hair, fur or feathers.
- 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.
- 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.
- barrio (noun): A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.
- bilabial (adjective): Articulated with both lips.
- bill (noun): Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- billboard† (noun): A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
- billiard (noun): A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
- biradial (adjective): Both radial and bilateral
- bird (noun): A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
- blab (verb): To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- boil (noun): A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- bola (noun): A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.
- bold (noun): A dwelling; habitation; building.
- 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
- 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.
- braid (verb): To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
- briar (noun): Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
- bridal (noun): A wedding feast or festival; a wedding.
- brio (noun): Vigour or vivacity.
- broad (adjective): Wide in extent or scope.
- broil (verb): To cook by direct, radiant heat.
- brood (noun): The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- drab (noun): A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
- drib (verb): To cut off; chop off.
- labia (noun): The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.
- labial (adjective): Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
- labor (noun): Alternative spelling of labour
- larboard (noun): The left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side.
- libido (noun): Sexual urges or drives.
- lobo (noun): A wolf.
- oddball (noun): An eccentric or unusual person.
- rabbi (noun): A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.
- rabid (adjective): Affected with rabies.
- railbird (noun): A rail or similar bird
- ribald (adjective): Coarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way.
- rollbar (noun): Alternative form of roll bar (“an anti-roll bar”)