NYT Spelling Bee Answers for September 27, 2021
Game Summary
| Center Letter | T |
|---|---|
| Outer Letters | a, e, h, m, p, y |
| # of Pangrams | 1 (Perfect: 1) |
| Total Words | 54 words |
| Total Points | 182 points |
| Genius Level | 127 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 | Σ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| E | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| H | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 6 |
| M | 8 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 12 |
| P | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | 7 |
| T | 13 | 7 | 3 | - | 1 | 24 |
| Y | - | - | - | - | - | - | Σ | 28 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 54 |
Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints
The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding two letters.
| A | AP×1 AT×1 |
|---|---|
| E | EM×2 EY×1 |
| H | HA×4 HE×2 |
| M | MA×5 ME×6 MY×1 |
| P | PA×3 PE×3 PH×1 |
| T | TA×5 TE×11 TH×7 TY×1 |
| Y |
Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints
The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding three letters.
| A | APA×1 ATT×1 |
|---|---|
| E | EMP×2 EYE×1 |
| H | HAM×1 HAT×3 HEA×2 |
| M | MAH×1 MAT×4 MEA×2 MEE×1 MET×3 MYT×1 |
| P | PAT×3 PEA×2 PET×1 PHA×1 |
| T | TAM×2 TAP×2 TAT×1 TEA×3 TEE×4 TEM×3 TEP×1 THA×1 THE×5 THY×1 TYP×1 |
| Y |
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.... | AP6 | Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something). |
| at..... | AT7 | To try. |
| em..... † | EM7 | Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person. |
| em... | EM5 | Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant. |
| ey...... | EY8 | plural of eyetooth |
| ha.... | HA6 | Hooked at the end. |
| ha.. | HA4 | An object of hatred. |
| ha.. | HA4 | third-person singular simple present indicative form of have |
| ha... | HA5 | The fundamental form of yoga that focuses on asanas |
| he.. | HE4 | Thermal energy. |
| he... | HE5 | A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland. |
| ma..... | MA7 | An epithet granted in India and Tibet to people thought to have great knowledge and love of humanity |
| ma.. | MA4 | A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate. |
| ma... | MA5 | Sociable or friendly. |
| ma.. | MA4 | Clipping of mathematics. |
| ma... | MA5 | A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame. |
| me.. | ME4 | The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. |
| me... | ME5 | Of, relating to, or containing meat. |
| me.. | ME4 | To make contact (with) while in proximity. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. |
| me.. | ME4 | Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level. |
| me.. | ME4 | To measure. |
| me.. | ME4 | Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride. |
| my.. | MY4 | A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc. |
| pa.. | PA4 | The head, particularly the top or crown. |
| 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. |
| pe.. | PE4 | Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. |
| pe... | PE5 | Of or resembling peat; peatlike. |
| pe... | PE5 | Having little or no importance. |
| ph.. | PH4 | Excellent; cool; very good. |
| ta.. | TA4 | Not or no longer wild; domesticated. |
| ta.. | TA4 | To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock. |
| ta.. | TA4 | A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry. |
| ta.. | TA4 | Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. |
| ta... | TA5 | worn and shabby; in poor condition. |
| te.. | TE4 | A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. |
| te...... | TE8 | One who is on the same team. |
| te.. | TE4 | The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted. |
| te.. | TE4 | To be stocked to overflowing. |
| te.... | TE6 | A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America. |
| te... | TE5 | plural of tooth |
| te.... | TE6 | To grow teeth. |
| te.. | TE4 | Abbreviation of temperature. |
| te.... | TE6 | An Indonesian food made from partially-cooked fermented soybeans, mixed with a fungus (Rhizopus oligosporus). |
| te... | TE5 | To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice. |
| te... | TE5 | Alternative form of teepee |
| th.. | TH4 | Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement. |
| th.. | TH4 | Objective and reflexive case of thou. |
| th.. | TH4 | Those ones. Used as the direct object of a verb. |
| th... | TH5 | A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic. |
| th... | TH5 | The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ. |
| th.. | TH4 | A group of entities previously mentioned. |
| th... | TH5 | Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as the garden thyme, Thymus vulgaris, a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups. |
| ty.. | TY4 | A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. |
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.
- apathy (AP6)
- attempt (AT7)
- empathy† (EM7)
- empty (EM5)
- eyeteeth (EY8)
- hamate (HA6)
- hate (HA4)
- hath (HA4)
- hatha (HA5)
- heat (HE4)
- heath (HE5)
- mahatma (MA7)
- mate (MA4)
- matey (MA5)
- math (MA4)
- matte (MA5)
- meat (ME4)
- meaty (ME5)
- meet (ME4)
- meta (ME4)
- mete (ME4)
- meth (ME4)
- myth (MY4)
- pate (PA4)
- path (PA4)
- patty (PA5)
- peat (PE4)
- peaty (PE5)
- petty (PE5)
- phat (PH4)
- tame (TA4)
- tamp (TA4)
- tapa (TA4)
- tape (TA4)
- tatty (TA5)
- team (TE4)
- teammate (TE8)
- teat (TE4)
- teem (TE4)
- teepee (TE6)
- teeth (TE5)
- teethe (TE6)
- temp (TE4)
- tempeh (TE6)
- tempt (TE5)
- tepee (TE5)
- that (TH4)
- thee (TH4)
- them (TH4)
- theme (TH5)
- theta (TH5)
- they (TH4)
- thyme (TH5)
- type (TY4)
Answer Definitions
- apathy (noun): Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
- attempt (verb): To try.
- empathy† (noun): Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
- empty (adjective): Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- eyeteeth (noun): plural of eyetooth
- hamate (adjective): Hooked at the end.
- hate (noun): An object of hatred.
- hath (verb): third-person singular simple present indicative form of have
- hatha (noun): The fundamental form of yoga that focuses on asanas
- heat (noun): Thermal energy.
- heath (noun): A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
- mahatma (noun): An epithet granted in India and Tibet to people thought to have great knowledge and love of humanity
- mate (noun): A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
- matey (adjective): Sociable or friendly.
- math (noun): Clipping of mathematics.
- matte (noun): A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
- meat (noun): The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
- meaty (adjective): Of, relating to, or containing meat.
- meet (verb): To make contact (with) while in proximity. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- meta (adjective): Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.
- mete (verb): To measure.
- meth (noun): Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride.
- myth (noun): A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
- pate (noun): The head, particularly the top or crown.
- 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.
- peat (noun): Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
- peaty (adjective): Of or resembling peat; peatlike.
- petty (adjective): Having little or no importance.
- phat (adjective): Excellent; cool; very good.
- tame (adjective): Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
- tamp (verb): To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.
- tapa (noun): A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
- tape (noun): Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
- tatty (noun): worn and shabby; in poor condition.
- team (noun): A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
- teammate (noun): One who is on the same team.
- teat (noun): The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
- teem (verb): To be stocked to overflowing.
- teepee (noun): A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America.
- teeth (noun): plural of tooth
- teethe (verb): To grow teeth.
- temp (noun): Abbreviation of temperature.
- tempeh (noun): An Indonesian food made from partially-cooked fermented soybeans, mixed with a fungus (Rhizopus oligosporus).
- tempt (verb): To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
- tepee (noun): Alternative form of teepee
- that (conjunction): Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
- thee (pronoun): Objective and reflexive case of thou.
- them (pronoun): Those ones. Used as the direct object of a verb.
- theme (noun): A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- theta (noun): The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
- they (pronoun): A group of entities previously mentioned.
- thyme (noun): Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as the garden thyme, Thymus vulgaris, a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.
- type (noun): A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.