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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.

• acacia  (AC6)
• acai  (AC4)
• acid  (AC4)
• acidic  (AC6)
• addict  (AD6)
• admit  (AD5)
• amid  (AM4)
• ammo  (AM4)
• atom  (AT4)
• atomic  (AT6)
• attic  (AT5)
• cacao  (CA5)
• cacti  (CA5)
• cami  (CA4)
• camo  (CA4)
• ciao  (CI4)
• cicada  (CI6)
• coact  (CO5)
• coat  (CO4)
• coati  (CO5)
• coca  (CO4)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• coda  (CO4)
• coma  (CO4)
• comma  (CO5)
• dammit  (DA6)
• data  (DA4)
• diatom  (DI6)
• diatomic^†  (DI8)
• dicta  (DI5)
• didact  (DI6)
• didactic  (DI8)
• doodad  (DO6)
• idiomatic^†  (ID9)
• imam  (IM4)
• iota  (IO4)
• macadam  (MA7)
• macadamia  (MA9)
• madam  (MA5)
• maid  (MA4)
• maim  (MA4)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mica  (MI4)
• moat  (MO4)
• momma  (MO5)
• octad  (OC5)
• tacit  (TA5)
• taco  (TA4)
• tact  (TA4)
• tactic  (TA6)
• tatami  (TA6)
• tattoo  (TA6)
• toad  (TO4)
• toccata  (TO7)
• tomato  (TO6)
• tomcat  (TO6)

Answer Definitions

• acacia (noun): A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae.
• acai (noun): Any of several South American palms, of the genus Euterpe, having a dark purple drupe.
• acid (adjective): Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
• acidic (adjective): Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
• addict (noun): A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug
• admit (verb): To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration
• amid (preposition): In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• 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.
• atomic (adjective): Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
• attic (noun): The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• cacti (noun): plural of cactus
• cami (noun): A camisole.
• camo (noun): A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
• ciao (interjection): hello, hi.
• cicada (noun): Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings. The periodical cicada.
• coact (verb): To compel, constrain, force.
• coat (noun): An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
• coati (noun): Any of several omnivorous mammals, of the genus Nasua or Nasuella, in order Carnivora, that live in the range from southern United States to northern Argentina.
• 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.
• coda (noun): A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
• coma (noun): A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
• comma (noun): English Wikipedia has an article on:commaWikipedia The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
• dammit (interjection): Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.
• data (noun): plural of datum
• diatom (noun): Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta.
• diatomic^† (adjective): Consisting of two atoms.
• dicta (noun): plural of dictum
• didact (noun): a didactic person
• didactic (adjective): Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
• doodad (noun): Used to refer to something whose name one cannot recall: an unspecified device, gadget, part, or thing.
• idiomatic^† (adjective): Pertaining or conforming to idiom, the natural mode of expression of a language.
• imam (noun): One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
• iota (noun): The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
• macadam (noun): The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic).
• macadamia (noun): An evergreen tree, of the genus Macadamia, native to Australia and cultivated in Hawaii.
• madam (noun): A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
• maid (noun): A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
• maim (verb): To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
• mama (noun): Mother, female parent.
• mamma (noun): The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
• mica (noun): Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.
• moat (noun): A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
• momma (noun): mother
• octad (noun): A group of eight things.
• tacit (adjective): Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.
• taco (noun): A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables and salsa.
• tact (noun): The sense of touch; feeling.
• tactic (noun): A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.
• tatami (noun): Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
• tattoo (noun): An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
• toad (noun): An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
• toccata (noun): A piece of music (usually for a keyboard instrument) designed to emphasise the dexterity of the performer.
• tomato (noun): A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
• tomcat (noun): A tom, an intact male cat.