NYT Spelling Bee Answers for June 23, 2021
Game Summary
| Center Letter | P |
|---|---|
| Outer Letters | a, h, o, r, t, y |
| # of Pangrams | 1 (Perfect: 1) |
| Total Words | 55 words |
| Total Points | 218 points |
| Genius Level | 153 points |
| Bingo? | Yes |
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 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 6 |
| H | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 7 |
| O | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| P | 12 | 8 | 3 | 3 | - | 1 | 27 |
| R | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 5 |
| T | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 8 |
| Y | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Σ | 23 | 15 | 8 | 8 | - | 1 | 55 |
Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints
The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding two letters.
| A | AP×4 AT×2 |
|---|---|
| H | HA×3 HO×3 HY×1 |
| O | OP×1 |
| P | PA×11 PH×3 PO×9 PR×3 PY×1 |
| R | RA×4 RO×1 |
| T | TA×3 TO×1 TR×3 TY×1 |
| Y | YA×1 |
Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints
The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding three letters.
| A | APA×2 APO×1 APP×1 ATO×1 ATR×1 |
|---|---|
| H | HAP×1 HAR×2 HOO×1 HOP×1 HOT×1 HYP×1 |
| O | OPA×1 |
| P | PAP×3 PAR×6 PAT×2 PHA×2 PHO×1 POO×3 POP×2 POR×2 POT×2 PRA×2 PRO×1 PYR×1 |
| R | RAP×3 RAT×1 ROP×1 |
| T | TAP×2 TAR×1 TOR×1 TRA×1 TRO×2 TYP×1 |
| Y | YAP×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) |
|---|---|---|
| ap... | AP5 | Placed separately (in regard to space or time). |
| ap.... | AP6 | Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something). |
| ap... | AP5 | on the left side of the boat |
| ap..... | AP7 | The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure. |
| at.. | AT4 | On the top of. |
| at..... † | AT7 | A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use. |
| ha... | HA5 | Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous. |
| ha.. | HA4 | A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body Any instrument of the same musicological type. |
| ha... | HA5 | A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds. |
| ho.. | HO4 | A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel. |
| ho... | HO5 | Having a taste of hops; heavily flavoured with hops. |
| ho.... | HO6 | Alternative spelling of hot pot. |
| hy.. | HY4 | Melancholy; a fit of hypochondria; a morbid depression. |
| op.. | OP4 | Any of various large, colourful, deep-bodied pelagic fish of the family Lamprididae. |
| pa.. | PA4 | Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father. |
| pa.... | PA6 | A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit |
| pa... | PA5 | Like pap; soft; mushy. |
| pa..... | PA7 | an Indian bread with a texture somewhat resembling puff pastry; sometimes stuffed with vegetables etc. |
| pa....... | PA9 | A company of paratroopers. |
| pa.... | PA6 | A kind of bird, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae. |
| pa... | PA5 | To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.). |
| pa.. | PA4 | A portion; a component. A fraction of a whole. |
| pa... | PA5 | A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. |
| pa.. | PA4 | A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians. |
| pa... | PA5 | A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape. |
| ph..... | PH7 | The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty |
| ph.. | PH4 | Excellent; cool; very good. |
| ph... | PH5 | A photograph. |
| po.. | PO4 | Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc. |
| po.. | PO4 | To make a short blast on a horn. |
| po.. | PO4 | With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. |
| po... | PO5 | father, papa. |
| po... | PO5 | Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially the common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant. |
| po.. | PO4 | A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. |
| po..... | PO7 | To paint or draw the likeness of. |
| po.... | PO6 | The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant. |
| po... | PO5 | A chamber pot, particularly the pot used when toilet-training children. |
| pr.. | PR4 | A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. |
| pr.. | PR4 | To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. |
| pr.. | PR4 | An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports. |
| py.. | PY4 | A pyromaniac. |
| ra..... | RA7 | A relationship of mutual trust and respect. A close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well. |
| ra.. | RA4 | Snatched, taken away; abducted. |
| ra.... | RA6 | A bird of prey. |
| ra..... | RA7 | A device (trap) used to catch rats. |
| ro.. | RO4 | Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch. |
| ta.. | TA4 | A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry. |
| ta..... | TA7 | A long, tapering root possessed by many plants (such as carrots and dandelions). |
| ta.. | TA4 | A tarpaulin. |
| to.... | TO6 | A state of being inactive or stuporous. |
| tr.. | TR4 | A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. |
| tr... | TR5 | A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general). |
| tr.... | TR6 | An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement. |
| ty.. | TY4 | A typographical error. |
| ya... | YA5 | Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner. |
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.
- apart (AP5)
- apathy (AP6)
- aport (AP5)
- apparat (AP7)
- atop (AT4)
- atrophy† (AT7)
- happy (HA5)
- harp (HA4)
- harpy (HA5)
- hoop (HO4)
- hoppy (HO5)
- hotpot (HO6)
- hypo (HY4)
- opah (OP4)
- papa (PA4)
- papaya (PA6)
- pappy (PA5)
- paratha (PA7)
- paratroop (PA9)
- parrot (PA6)
- parry (PA5)
- part (PA4)
- party (PA5)
- path (PA4)
- patty (PA5)
- pharaoh (PH7)
- phat (PH4)
- photo (PH5)
- pooh (PO4)
- poop (PO4)
- poor (PO4)
- poppa (PO5)
- poppy (PO5)
- port (PO4)
- portray (PO7)
- potato (PO6)
- potty (PO5)
- prat (PR4)
- pray (PR4)
- prop (PR4)
- pyro (PY4)
- rapport (RA7)
- rapt (RA4)
- raptor (RA6)
- rattrap (RA7)
- ropy (RO4)
- tapa (TA4)
- taproot (TA7)
- tarp (TA4)
- torpor (TO6)
- trap (TR4)
- troop (TR5)
- trophy (TR6)
- typo (TY4)
- yappy (YA5)
Answer Definitions
- apart (adverb): Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
- apathy (noun): Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
- aport (adverb): on the left side of the boat
- apparat (noun): The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
- atop (preposition): On the top of.
- atrophy† (noun): A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.
- happy (adjective): Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
- harp (noun): A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body Any instrument of the same musicological type.
- harpy (noun): A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.
- hoop (noun): A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
- hoppy (adjective): Having a taste of hops; heavily flavoured with hops.
- hotpot (noun): Alternative spelling of hot pot.
- hypo (noun): Melancholy; a fit of hypochondria; a morbid depression.
- opah (noun): Any of various large, colourful, deep-bodied pelagic fish of the family Lamprididae.
- papa (noun): Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
- papaya (noun): A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
- pappy (adjective): Like pap; soft; mushy.
- paratha (noun): an Indian bread with a texture somewhat resembling puff pastry; sometimes stuffed with vegetables etc.
- paratroop (noun): A company of paratroopers.
- parrot (noun): A kind of bird, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.
- parry (verb): To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).
- part (noun): A portion; a component. A fraction of a whole.
- party (noun): A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
- path (noun): A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- patty (noun): A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
- pharaoh (noun): The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
- phat (adjective): Excellent; cool; very good.
- photo (noun): A photograph.
- pooh (interjection): Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.
- poop (verb): To make a short blast on a horn.
- poor (adjective): With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- poppa (noun): father, papa.
- poppy (noun): Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially the common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
- port (noun): A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
- portray (verb): To paint or draw the likeness of.
- potato (noun): The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
- potty (noun): A chamber pot, particularly the pot used when toilet-training children.
- prat (noun): A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
- pray (verb): To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
- prop (noun): An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
- pyro (noun): A pyromaniac.
- rapport (noun): A relationship of mutual trust and respect. A close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.
- rapt (adjective): Snatched, taken away; abducted.
- raptor (noun): A bird of prey.
- rattrap (noun): A device (trap) used to catch rats.
- ropy (adjective): Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
- tapa (noun): A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
- taproot (noun): A long, tapering root possessed by many plants (such as carrots and dandelions).
- tarp (noun): A tarpaulin.
- torpor (noun): A state of being inactive or stuporous.
- trap (noun): A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
- troop (noun): A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
- trophy (noun): An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement.
- typo (noun): A typographical error.
- yappy (adjective): Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner.