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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.

• bulletin^†  (BU8)
• ebullient^†  (EB9)
• beeline  (BE7)
• been  (BE4)
• beet  (BE4)
• beetle  (BE6)
• belie  (BE5)
• belittle  (BE8)
• bell  (BE4)
• belle  (BE5)
• belt  (BE4)
• beltline  (BE8)
• bent  (BE4)
• betel  (BE5)
• bible  (BI5)
• bile  (BI4)
• bill  (BI4)
• billet  (BI6)
• bite  (BI4)
• bitten  (BI6)
• blin  (BL4)
• blini  (BL5)
• blue  (BL4)
• bluebell  (BL8)
• blunt  (BL5)
• bubble  (BU6)
• built  (BU5)
• bulb  (BU4)
• bull  (BU4)
• bullet  (BU6)
• bunt  (BU4)
• butt  (BU4)
• butte  (BU5)
• inbuilt  (IN7)
• libel  (LI5)
• libelee  (LI7)
• lube  (LU4)
• nibble  (NI6)
• nubbin  (NU6)
• nubble  (NU6)
• nubile  (NU6)
• tube  (TU4)
• tubule  (TU6)
• unbelt  (UN6)
• unbent  (UN6)
• unbuilt  (UN7)

Answer Definitions

• bulletin^† (noun): A short report, especially one released through official channels to be broadcast or publicized.
• ebullient^† (adjective): Enthusiastic; high-spirited.
• beeline (noun): A very direct or quick path or trip.
• been (verb): past participle of be.
• beet (noun): Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
• beetle (noun): Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
• belie (verb): To lie around; encompass.
• belittle (verb): To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is, especially as a way of showing contempt or deprecation.
• bell (noun): A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
• belle (noun): An attractive woman.
• belt (noun): A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
• beltline (noun): The imaginary line marking the upper end of the lower body of an automobile, running just below the bottoms of the windows
• bent (verb): simple past tense and past participle of bend
• betel (noun): Either of two plants often used in combination: an evergreen Indian creeping shrub, Piper betle, whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut: the betel pepper the seed of the betel palm, Areca catechu: the betel nut
• bible (noun): Alternative letter-case form of Bible (“a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of the Christian religious text”)
• bile (noun): A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
• bill (noun): Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
• billet (noun): A short informal letter.
• bite (verb): To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
• bitten (verb): past participle of bite
• blin (verb): To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
• blini (noun): A small pancake, of Russian origin, made from buckwheat flour; traditionally served with melted butter, sour cream and caviar or smoked salmon.
• blue (adjective): Having blue as its color.
• bluebell (noun): Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers. In genus Hyacinthoides common bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica) Italian bluebell (Hyacinthoides italica) In other genera genus Muscari, the grape hyacinth) Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica) Scottish bluebell (harebell) (Campanula rotundifolia) Australian royal bluebell (Wahlenbergia gloriosa) Texas bluebell (Eustoma russellianum) desert bluebell or California bluebell (Phacelia campanularia)
• blunt (adjective): Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
• bubble (noun): A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
• built (adjective): well-built, muscular or toned.
• bulb (noun): Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
• bull (noun): An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen. Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
• bullet (noun): A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
• bunt (noun): The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
• butt (noun): The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end The buttocks .
• butte (noun): An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
• inbuilt (adjective): Existing as an essential constituent; built-in; inherent; integral.
• libel (noun): A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
• libelee (noun): The party against which a libel (hostile handbill) has been filed by a libelant.
• lube (noun): Lubricant.
• nibble (noun): A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.
• nubbin (noun): A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.
• nubble (noun): A small knob or lump.
• nubile (adjective): Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman).
• tube (noun): Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
• tubule (noun): A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.
• unbelt (verb): To remove a belt
• unbent (verb): simple past tense and past participle of unbend
• unbuilt (adjective): Not built