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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.

• formula^†  (FO7)
• afoul  (AF5)
• afro  (AF4)
• aloof  (AL5)
• ammo  (AM4)
• amoral  (AM6)
• amour  (AM5)
• armor  (AR5)
• aroma  (AR5)
• aurora  (AU6)
• auroral  (AU7)
• falloff  (FA7)
• farro  (FA5)
• floor  (FL5)
• flora  (FL5)
• floral  (FL6)
• flour  (FL5)
• foal  (FO4)
• foam  (FO4)
• fool  (FO4)
• fora  (FO4)
• form  (FO4)
• formal  (FO6)
• forum  (FO5)
• foul  (FO4)
• four  (FO4)
• from  (FR4)
• froufrou  (FR8)
• furor  (FU5)
• loaf  (LO4)
• loam  (LO4)
• loll  (LO4)
• loofa  (LO5)
• loom  (LO4)
• molar  (MO5)
• moll  (MO4)
• momma  (MO5)
• moola  (MO5)
• moor  (MO4)
• moral  (MO5)
• offal  (OF5)
• oral  (OR4)
• roam  (RO4)
• roar  (RO4)
• roll  (RO4)
• roof  (RO4)
• room  (RO4)
• roomful  (RO7)
• rumor  (RU5)

Answer Definitions

• formula^† (noun): Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
• afoul (adverb): In a state of collision or entanglement.
• afro (noun): hairstyle characterized by tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.
• aloof (adverb): At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• amoral (adjective): Neither moral nor immoral.
• amour (noun): Love, affection.
• 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.
• aurora (noun): An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.
• auroral (adjective): Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.
• falloff (noun): A reduction or decline.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• furor (noun): A general uproar or commotion.
• loaf (noun): (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
• loam (noun): A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
• loll (verb): To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
• loofa (noun): Alternative form of loofah
• loom (noun): A utensil; tool; a weapon; an article in general.
• molar (noun): A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
• moll (noun): A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
• momma (noun): mother
• moola (noun): Money, cash.
• 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
• moral (adjective): Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
• offal (noun): The internal organs of an animal, used as animal food.
• oral (adjective): Relating to the mouth.
• roam (verb): To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
• roar (verb): To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
• roll (verb): To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
• roof (noun): The external covering at the top of a building.
• room (noun): Opportunity or scope (to do something).
• roomful (noun): The amount that a room can hold, especially the number of people that can fit into a room.
• rumor (noun): A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.