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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.

• acorn  (AC5)
• acronym^†  (AC7)
• arcana  (AR6)
• arco  (AR4)
• cacao  (CA5)
• camo  (CA4)
• canary  (CA6)
• cancan  (CA6)
• canna  (CA5)
• cannon  (CA6)
• canny  (CA5)
• canon  (CA5)
• canyon  (CA6)
• carny  (CA5)
• carom  (CA5)
• carry  (CA5)
• cayman  (CA6)
• coca  (CO4)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• cocoon  (CO6)
• coma  (CO4)
• comma  (CO5)
• common  (CO6)
• corn  (CO4)
• corny  (CO5)
• corona  (CO6)
• coronary  (CO8)
• cram  (CR4)
• cranny  (CR6)
• crayon  (CR6)
• croc  (CR4)
• crony  (CR5)
• croon  (CR5)
• cyan  (CY4)
• macaron  (MA7)
• macaroon  (MA8)
• macro  (MA5)
• macron  (MA6)
• maraca  (MA6)
• monocracy^†  (MO9)
• morocco  (MO7)
• narc  (NA4)
• narco  (NA5)
• noncom  (NO6)
• orca  (OR4)
• raccoon  (RA7)
• racy  (RA4)
• rancor  (RA6)
• rococo  (RO6)
• romcom  (RO6)

Answer Definitions

• acorn (noun): The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
• acronym^† (noun): An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words, sometimes exclusively such abbreviations when pronounced as a word (as "laser") rather than as individual letters (initialisms such as "TNT").
• arcana (noun): Specialized knowledge that is mysterious to the uninitiated.
• arco (adverb): A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• 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.
• canary (noun): A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
• cancan (noun): A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
• canna (noun): Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
• 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.
• canny (adjective): Careful, prudent, cautious.
• canon (noun): A generally accepted principle; a rule.
• canyon (noun): A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
• carny (noun): A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).
• carom (noun): A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
• carry (verb): To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
• cayman (noun): Alternative spelling of caiman
• 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.
• 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.
• common (adjective): Mutual; shared by more than one.
• corn (noun): Any cereal plant grown for its grain, or the grain thereof.
• corny (adjective): Boring and unoriginal.
• corona (noun): A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.
• coronary (adjective): Pertaining to a crown or garland.
• cram (verb): To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
• cranny (noun): A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
• crayon (noun): A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
• croc (noun): A crocodile.
• crony (noun): A close friend.
• croon (verb): To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
• cyan (noun): A vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.
• macaron (noun): Any of various pastries based on almond and egg white, traditionally made in France.
• macaroon (noun): A soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough.
• macro (adjective): Very large in scope or scale.
• macron (noun): A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long.
• maraca (noun): A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument.
• monocracy^† (noun): Synonym of autocracy
• morocco (noun): A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
• narc (noun): A police officer assigned to or engaging in illegal narcotics control.
• narco (noun): Narcotics.
• noncom (noun): A non-commissioned officer, such as a sergeant (army) or petty officer (navy).
• orca (noun): A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.
• raccoon (noun): A nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor.
• racy (adjective): Mildly risqué.
• rancor (noun): A feeling of long-lasting ire for another, sometimes to the point of hatred, over a perceived wrongdoing; bitterness.
• rococo (noun): A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
• romcom (noun): Clipping of romantic comedy.