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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.

• admit  (AD5)
• admitted  (AD8)
• aimed  (AI5)
• amid  (AM4)
• dame  (DA4)
• dammed  (DA6)
• dammit  (DA6)
• deem  (DE4)
• deemed  (DE6)
• demit  (DE5)
• demitted  (DE8)
• diadem  (DI6)
• dime  (DI4)
• dimmed  (DI6)
• edamame  (ED7)
• edema  (ED5)
• emit  (EM4)
• emitted  (EM7)
• imam  (IM4)
• imitate  (IM7)
• imitated  (IM8)
• imitative  (IM9)
• immediate  (IM9)
• item  (IT4)
• madam  (MA5)
• madame  (MA6)
• made  (MA4)
• maid  (MA4)
• maim  (MA4)
• maimed  (MA6)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mate  (MA4)
• mated  (MA5)
• matte  (MA5)
• matted  (MA6)
• mead  (ME4)
• meat  (ME4)
• media  (ME5)
• mediate  (ME7)
• mediated  (ME8)
• meditate  (ME8)
• meditated  (ME9)
• meditative^†  (ME10)
• meet  (ME4)
• meme  (ME4)
• memed  (ME5)
• meta  (ME4)
• metadata  (ME8)
• mete  (ME4)
• meted  (ME5)
• midi  (MI4)
• mime  (MI4)
• mimed  (MI5)
• mite  (MI4)
• mitt  (MI4)
• tame  (TA4)
• tamed  (TA5)
• tatami  (TA6)
• team  (TE4)
• teamed  (TE6)
• teammate  (TE8)
• teatime  (TE7)
• teem  (TE4)
• teemed  (TE6)
• time  (TI4)
• timed  (TI5)
• timid  (TI5)

Answer Definitions

• admit (verb): To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration
• admitted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of admit
• aimed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of aim
• amid (preposition): In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by.
• dame (noun): Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
• dammed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of dam
• dammit (interjection): Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.
• deem (verb): To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
• deemed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of deem
• demit (verb): To let fall; to depress; to yield.
• demitted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of demit
• diadem (noun): An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty.
• dime (noun): A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.
• dimmed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of dim
• edamame (noun): Fresh green soybeans boiled as a vegetable.
• edema (noun): An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity.
• emit (verb): to send out or give off
• emitted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of emit
• imam (noun): One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
• imitate (verb): To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.
• imitated (verb): simple past tense and past participle of imitate
• imitative (adjective): Imitating; copying; not original.
• immediate (adjective): Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
• item (noun): A distinct physical object.
• madam (noun): A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
• madame (noun): Alternative form of madam
• made (noun): A grub or maggot.
• 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.
• maimed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of maim
• 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.
• mate (noun): A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
• mated (verb): simple past tense and past participle of mate
• matte (noun): A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
• matted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of mat
• mead (noun): An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
• meat (noun): The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
• media (noun): The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
• mediate (verb): To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
• mediated (verb): simple past tense and past participle of mediate
• meditate (verb): To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
• meditated (adjective): Planned.
• meditative^† (adjective): Of or pertaining to meditation.
• meet (verb): To make contact (with) while in proximity. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
• meme (noun): Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
• memed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of meme
• meta (adjective): Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.
• metadata (noun): Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
• mete (verb): To measure.
• meted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of mete
• midi (adjective): Having a hemline at mid-calf length.
• mime (noun): A form of acting without words; pantomime.
• mimed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of mime
• mite (noun): Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).
• mitt (noun): A mitten
• tame (adjective): Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
• tamed (adjective): domesticated; made tame
• tatami (noun): Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
• team (noun): A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
• teamed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of team
• teammate (noun): One who is on the same team.
• teatime (noun): The traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).
• teem (verb): To be stocked to overflowing.
• teemed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of teem
• time (noun): The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
• timed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of time
• timid (adjective): Lacking in courage or confidence.