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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.

• accede  (AC6)
• acceded  (AC7)
• aced  (AC4)
• acne  (AC4)
• anaconda  (AN8)
• cacao  (CA5)
• cadence  (CA7)
• cadge  (CA5)
• cadged  (CA6)
• cage  (CA4)
• caged  (CA5)
• cancan  (CA6)
• cane  (CA4)
• caned  (CA5)
• canna  (CA5)
• canned  (CA6)
• cannon  (CA6)
• cannonade  (CA9)
• canoe  (CA5)
• canoed  (CA6)
• canon  (CA5)
• cede  (CE4)
• ceded  (CE5)
• coca  (CO4)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• cocoon  (CO6)
• cocooned  (CO8)
• coda  (CO4)
• code  (CO4)
• coded  (CO5)
• codon  (CO5)
• coed  (CO4)
• cognac  (CO6)
• concede  (CO7)
• conceded  (CO8)
• condo  (CO5)
• condone  (CO7)
• condoned  (CO8)
• cone  (CO4)
• coned  (CO5)
• conga  (CO5)
• congaed^†  (CO7)
• conned  (CO6)
• cooed  (CO5)
• dace  (DA4)
• dance  (DA5)
• danced  (DA6)
• deacon  (DE6)
• decade  (DE6)
• decadence  (DE9)
• decagon^†  (DE7)
• deco  (DE4)
• decode  (DE6)
• decoded  (DE7)
• dodecagon^†  (DO9)
• encage  (EN6)
• encaged  (EN7)
• encode  (EN6)
• encoded  (EN7)
• neocon  (NE6)
• nonce  (NO5)
• ocean  (OC5)
• once  (ON4)

Answer Definitions

• accede (verb): To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
• acceded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of accede
• aced (verb): simple past tense and past participle of ace
• 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.
• anaconda (noun): Any of various large nonvenomous snakes of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. Their length can grow to as much as 5 m (15 ft).
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• cadence (noun): The act or state of declining or sinking.
• cadge (noun): A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
• cadged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of cadge
• cage (noun): An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
• caged (adjective): Confined in a cage.
• cancan (noun): A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
• 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
• caned (verb): simple past tense and past participle of cane
• canna (noun): Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
• canned (adjective): Preserved in cans.
• cannon (noun): A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
• cannonade (noun): The firing of artillery for a length of time.
• canoe (noun): A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.
• canoed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of canoe
• canon (noun): A generally accepted principle; a rule.
• cede (verb): To give up; yield to another.
• ceded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of cede
• coca (noun): Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
• cocoa (noun): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
• cocoon (noun): The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
• cocooned (verb): simple past tense and past participle of cocoon
• coda (noun): A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
• code (noun): A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
• coded (adjective): Encoded; written in code or cipher.
• codon (noun): A handbell used for summoning monks.
• coed (adjective): Alternative form of co-ed
• cognac (noun): A brandy distilled from white wine in the region around Cognac in France.
• concede (verb): To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
• conceded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of concede
• condo (noun): Clipping of condominium.
• condone (verb): To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
• condoned (verb): simple past tense and past participle of condone
• cone (noun): A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
• coned (adjective): segregated or delineated by traffic cones
• conga (noun): A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin.
• congaed^† (verb): simple past tense and past participle of conga
• conned (verb): simple past tense and past participle of con
• cooed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of coo
• dace (noun): The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
• dance (noun): A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
• danced (verb): simple past tense and past participle of dance
• deacon (noun): A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
• decade (noun): A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:
• decadence (noun): A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
• decagon^† (noun): A polygon with ten sides and ten angles.
• deco (noun): Decompression.
• decode (verb): To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
• decoded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of decode
• dodecagon^† (noun): A polygon with twelve edges and twelve angles.
• encage (verb): To lock inside a cage; to imprison.
• encaged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of encage
• encode (verb): To convert (plain text) into code.
• encoded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of encode
• neocon (noun): A neoconservative.
• nonce (noun): The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).
• ocean (noun): One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
• once (adverb): One and only one time.