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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.

• ache  (AC4)
• achy  (AC4)
• acme  (AC4)
• ahem  (AH4)
• alchemy^†  (AL7)
• allay  (AL5)
• allele  (AL6)
• alley  (AL5)
• ally  (AL4)
• amyl  (AM4)
• cache  (CA5)
• call  (CA4)
• calla  (CA5)
• calm  (CA4)
• calmly  (CA6)
• came  (CA4)
• camel  (CA5)
• challah  (CH7)
• clam  (CL4)
• clammy  (CL6)
• clay  (CL4)
• clayey  (CL6)
• each  (EA4)
• halal  (HA5)
• hale  (HA4)
• hall  (HA4)
• hammy  (HA5)
• heal  (HE4)
• lace  (LA4)
• lacy  (LA4)
• lama  (LA4)
• lame  (LA4)
• lamely  (LA6)
• leach  (LE5)
• lemma  (LE5)
• llama  (LL5)
• mace  (MA4)
• male  (MA4)
• mall  (MA4)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mammal  (MA6)
• mayhem  (MA6)
• meal  (ME4)
• mealy  (ME5)
• mecca  (ME5)
• yeah  (YE4)

Answer Definitions

• ache (verb): To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
• achy (adjective): Suffering from aches, sore.
• acme (noun): A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.
• ahem (interjection): the sound of a quiet cough or of clearing one's throat
• alchemy^† (noun): The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
• allay (verb): To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
• allele (noun): One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.
• alley (noun): A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.
• ally (verb): To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.
• amyl (noun): Synonym of pentyl
• cache (noun): A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
• call (noun): A telephone conversation; a phone call.
• calla (noun): A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.
• calm (adjective): Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
• calmly (adverb): In a calm manner.
• came (verb): simple past tense of come
• camel (noun): A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.
• challah (noun): A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for a yom tov.
• clam (noun): A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
• clammy (adjective): Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
• clay (noun): A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
• clayey (adjective): Composed of clay or containing (much) clay; clayish.
• each (determiner): All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).
• halal (adjective): Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
• hale (adjective): Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
• hall (noun): A corridor; a hallway.
• hammy (adjective): Resembling or characteristic of ham.
• heal (verb): To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
• lace (noun): A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
• lacy (adjective): Made of lace or decorated with it.
• lama (noun): A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
• lame (adjective): Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
• lamely (adverb): In the manner of one who is lame.
• leach (noun): A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
• lemma (noun): A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
• llama (noun): A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
• mace (noun): A heavy fighting club.
• male (adjective): Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
• mall (noun): A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
• 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.
• mammal (noun): An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and producing milk with which to feed its young.
• mayhem (noun): A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos.
• meal (noun): Correct quotes
• mealy (adjective): Resembling meal .
• mecca (noun): Alternative form of Mecca; a place to which a group of people (for example shoppers) are drawn.
• yeah (particle): yes.