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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.

• ammo  (AM4)
• amok  (AM4)
• armor  (AR5)
• aroma  (AR5)
• backcomb  (BA8)
• backroom^†  (BA8)
• bamboo  (BA6)
• barroom  (BA7)
• bomb  (BO4)
• bookmark  (BO8)
• boom  (BO4)
• broom  (BR5)
• camo  (CA4)
• carom  (CA5)
• coma  (CO4)
• comb  (CO4)
• combo  (CO5)
• comma  (CO5)
• cram  (CR4)
• karma  (KA5)
• korma  (KO5)
• macro  (MA5)
• mako  (MA4)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamba  (MA5)
• mambo  (MA5)
• mamma  (MA5)
• maraca  (MA6)
• mark  (MA4)
• marm  (MA4)
• mock  (MO4)
• momma  (MO5)
• moor  (MO4)
• morocco  (MO7)
• roam  (RO4)
• romcom  (RO6)
• room  (RO4)

Answer Definitions

• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• amok (adverb): Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.
• armor (noun): A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
• aroma (noun): A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.
• backcomb (verb): To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.
• backroom^† (noun): A room near the rear of a premises, especially one that is only accessible to a privileged few and can be used as an inconspicuous meeting place.
• bamboo (noun): A fast-growing grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
• barroom (noun): A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
• bomb (noun): An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, one dropped from an aircraft. The atomic bomb.
• bookmark (noun): A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
• boom (verb): To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
• broom (noun): A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
• 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.
• 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.
• coma (noun): A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
• comb (noun): A toothed implement: A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. The notched scale of a wire micrometer. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis. A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
• combo (noun): A small musical group.
• 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.
• cram (verb): To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
• karma (noun): The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
• korma (noun): A curry made from various spices especially coriander and cumin; and often with yoghurt sauce or nuts.
• macro (adjective): Very large in scope or scale.
• mako (noun): mako shark
• mama (noun): Mother, female parent.
• mamba (noun): Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.
• mambo (noun): A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
• 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.
• 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.
• mark (noun): Boundary, land within a boundary. A boundary; a border or frontier. A boundary-post or fence. A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers. A type of small region or principality. A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
• marm (noun): madam; a polite term of address for a lady.
• mock (noun): An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
• momma (noun): mother
• moor (noun): An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
• morocco (noun): A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
• roam (verb): To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
• romcom (noun): Clipping of romantic comedy.
• room (noun): Opportunity or scope (to do something).