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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.

• topiary^†  (TO7)
• airport  (AI7)
• apart  (AP5)
• apiary  (AP6)
• apparat  (AP7)
• atop  (AT4)
• pair  (PA4)
• papa  (PA4)
• papaya  (PA6)
• pappy  (PA5)
• papyri  (PA6)
• paratroop  (PA9)
• parity  (PA6)
• parrot  (PA6)
• parry  (PA5)
• part  (PA4)
• partita  (PA7)
• party  (PA5)
• patio  (PA5)
• patriot  (PA7)
• patty  (PA5)
• pipit  (PI5)
• pita  (PI4)
• pitapat  (PI7)
• pity  (PI4)
• poop  (PO4)
• poor  (PO4)
• poppa  (PO5)
• poppy  (PO5)
• port  (PO4)
• portrait  (PO8)
• portray  (PO7)
• potato  (PO6)
• potty  (PO5)
• prat  (PR4)
• pray  (PR4)
• prior  (PR5)
• priority  (PR8)
• priory  (PR6)
• prop  (PR4)
• pyro  (PY4)
• rapport  (RA7)
• rapt  (RA4)
• raptor  (RA6)
• rattrap  (RA7)
• ropy  (RO4)
• tapa  (TA4)
• tapir  (TA5)
• taproot  (TA7)
• tarp  (TA4)
• tippy  (TI5)
• tiptop  (TI6)
• torpor  (TO6)
• trap  (TR4)
• trip  (TR4)
• trippy  (TR6)
• troop  (TR5)
• typo  (TY4)
• yappy  (YA5)

Answer Definitions

• topiary^† (adjective): Of, or relating to art of topiaries.
• airport (noun): An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger terminals.
• apart (adverb): Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
• apiary (noun): A place where bees and their hives are kept.
• apparat (noun): The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
• atop (preposition): On the top of.
• pair (noun): Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
• papa (noun): Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
• papaya (noun): A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
• pappy (adjective): Like pap; soft; mushy.
• papyri (noun): plural of papyrus
• paratroop (noun): A company of paratroopers.
• parity (noun): Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
• parrot (noun): A kind of bird, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.
• parry (verb): To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).
• part (noun): A portion; a component. A fraction of a whole.
• partita (noun): A type of instrumental suite popular in the 18th century
• party (noun): A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
• patio (noun): A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation.
• patriot (noun): A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
• patty (noun): A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
• pipit (noun): Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.
• pita (noun): A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.
• pitapat (verb): Alternative spelling of pit-a-pat
• pity (noun): A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
• poop (verb): To make a short blast on a horn.
• poor (adjective): With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• poppa (noun): father, papa.
• poppy (noun): Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially the common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
• port (noun): A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
• portrait (noun): A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
• portray (verb): To paint or draw the likeness of.
• potato (noun): The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
• potty (noun): A chamber pot, particularly the pot used when toilet-training children.
• prat (noun): A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
• pray (verb): To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
• prior (adjective): Advance; previous; coming before.
• priority (noun): An item's relative importance.
• priory (noun): A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.
• prop (noun): An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
• pyro (noun): A pyromaniac.
• rapport (noun): A relationship of mutual trust and respect. A close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.
• rapt (adjective): Snatched, taken away; abducted.
• raptor (noun): A bird of prey.
• rattrap (noun): A device (trap) used to catch rats.
• ropy (adjective): Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
• tapa (noun): A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
• tapir (noun): Any one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.
• taproot (noun): A long, tapering root possessed by many plants (such as carrots and dandelions).
• tarp (noun): A tarpaulin.
• tippy (adjective): Fashionable, tip-top.
• tiptop (noun): The very topmost point.
• torpor (noun): A state of being inactive or stuporous.
• trap (noun): A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
• trip (noun): A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
• trippy (adjective): Strange, surreal, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen.
• troop (noun): A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
• typo (noun): A typographical error.
• yappy (adjective): Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner.