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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.

• afar  (AF4)
• afoul  (AF5)
• afro  (AF4)
• alfalfa  (AL7)
• aloof  (AL5)
• armful  (AR6)
• fall  (FA4)
• falloff  (FA7)
• farm  (FA4)
• farro  (FA5)
• floor  (FL5)
• flora  (FL5)
• floral  (FL6)
• flour  (FL5)
• fluff  (FL5)
• foal  (FO4)
• foam  (FO4)
• fool  (FO4)
• fora  (FO4)
• form  (FO4)
• formal  (FO6)
• formula^†  (FO7)
• forum  (FO5)
• foul  (FO4)
• four  (FO4)
• from  (FR4)
• froufrou  (FR8)
• full  (FU4)
• furl  (FU4)
• furor  (FU5)
• loaf  (LO4)
• loofa  (LO5)
• muff  (MU4)
• offal  (OF5)
• roof  (RO4)
• roomful  (RO7)
• ruff  (RU4)

Answer Definitions

• afar (adverb): At, to, or from a great distance; far away.
• afoul (adverb): In a state of collision or entanglement.
• afro (noun): hairstyle characterized by tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.
• alfalfa (noun): A plant, principally of Medicago sativa, grown as a pasture crop.
• aloof (adverb): At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
• armful (noun): The amount an arm or arms can hold.
• fall (verb): To be moved downwards. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• falloff (noun): A reduction or decline.
• farm (noun): A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
• farro (noun): Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).
• floor (noun): The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
• flora (noun): Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• floral (adjective): Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.
• flour (noun): Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
• fluff (noun): Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
• foal (noun): A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
• foam (noun): A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:
• fool (noun): A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
• fora (noun): plural of forum (alternative form of forums).
• form (noun): To do with shape. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. Regularity, beauty, or elegance. The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists. Characteristics not involving atomic components. (Can we add an example for this sense?) A long bench with no back. The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
• formal (adjective): Being in accord with established forms.
• formula^† (noun): Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
• forum (noun): A place for discussion.
• foul (adjective): Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
• four (numeral): NATO & ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the numeral 4.
• from (preposition): Used to indicate source or provenance.
• froufrou (noun): Alternative spelling of frou-frou
• full (adjective): Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
• furl (verb): To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
• furor (noun): A general uproar or commotion.
• loaf (noun): (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
• loofa (noun): Alternative form of loofah
• muff (noun): A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
• offal (noun): The internal organs of an animal, used as animal food.
• roof (noun): The external covering at the top of a building.
• roomful (noun): The amount that a room can hold, especially the number of people that can fit into a room.
• ruff (noun): A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).