NYT Spelling Bee Answers for January 27, 2023
Game Summary
| Center Letter | N |
|---|---|
| Outer Letters | a, i, j, o, r, t |
| # of Pangrams | 1 (Perfect: 1) |
| Total Words | 62 words |
| Total Points | 321 points |
| Genius Level | 225 points |
| Bingo? | Yes |
Table of Contents
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- Spelling Bee Grid
- Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints
- Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints
- Extra Letter Hints (Incrementally Revealing) 🤯
- Today's Complete Solution
- 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.
| 4</th><th>5</th><th>6</th><th>7</th><th>8</th><th>9</th><th>10 | Σ | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| I | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| J | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 5 |
| N | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 15 |
| O | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 |
| R | 4 | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | 8 |
| T | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | - | 2 | - | 14 | Σ | 19 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 62 |
Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints
The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding two letters.
| A | AN×6 AR×1 AT×2 |
|---|---|
| I | IN×5 IR×3 |
| J | JA×1 JI×2 JO×2 |
| N | NA×6 NI×2 NO×7 |
| O | ON×2 OR×1 |
| R | RA×5 RO×3 |
| T | TA×6 TI×3 TO×3 TR×2 |
Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints
The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding three letters.
| A | ANI×1 ANN×2 ANO×2 ANT×1 ARR×1 ATT×2 |
|---|---|
| I | INI×2 INT×3 IRO×1 IRR×2 |
| J | JAN×1 JIN×2 JOI×2 |
| N | NAA×1 NAN×1 NAR×2 NAT×2 NIN×1 NIT×1 NOI×1 NON×1 NOO×1 NOR×1 NOT×3 |
| O | ONI×1 ONT×1 ORA×1 |
| R | RAI×1 RAN×2 RAT×2 ROA×1 ROT×2 |
| T | TAI×1 TAN×3 TAR×2 TIN×1 TIT×2 TOO×1 TOR×2 TRA×1 TRI×1 |
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 (†).
| Word | 2L Ref | Definition (click to reveal) |
|---|---|---|
| ja..... † | JA7 | Someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building. A caretaker or custodian; someone who maintains a school building specifically and may serve other administrative roles. |
| an... | AN5 | A negatively charged ion. |
| an........ | AN10 | A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis. |
| an....... | AN9 | One who annotates. |
| an.... | AN6 | To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. |
| an.. | AN4 | Straight away; at once. |
| an.. | AN4 | Opposed to something. |
| ar.... | AR6 | Complete; downright; utter. |
| at.... | AT6 | To gain (an object or desired result). |
| at....... | AT9 | Grinding down or wearing away by friction. |
| in........ | IN10 | The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced |
| in....... | IN9 | One who initiates. |
| in.. | IN4 | To or towards the inside of. |
| in........ | IN10 | The rise and fall of the voice in speaking. |
| in... | IN5 | An introduction. |
| ir.. | IR4 | A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel. |
| ir...... | IR8 | Causing irritation or inflammation. |
| ir........ | IR10 | The act of irritating or annoying |
| ji.. | JI4 | A genie and descendant of the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form, equivalent to demons in Jewish demonology. |
| ji... | JI5 | Alternative form of jinn |
| jo.. | JO4 | An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect. |
| jo... | JO5 | Done by two or more people or organisations working together. |
| na.. | NA4 | A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine. |
| na.. | NA4 | A banana. |
| na....... | NA9 | The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating. |
| na...... | NA8 | One who narrates or tells stories. |
| na.... | NA6 | floating or swimming (in water) |
| na.... | NA6 | A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. |
| ni... | NI5 | A person trained in ninjutsu, especially one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period. |
| ni... | NI5 | the univalent NO2 functional group. |
| no.. | NO4 | Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre |
| no.... | NO6 | That which is not art |
| no.. | NO4 | The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday. |
| no.. | NO4 | A type of seaweed, a red alga, laver (genus Pyropia, including species P. yezoensis and P. tenera). |
| no...... | NO8 | The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters. |
| no..... | NO7 | One who notates; a writer of notation. |
| no.... | NO6 | Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept. |
| on... | ON5 | A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. |
| on.. | ON4 | Upon; on top of. |
| or..... | OR7 | A formal, often ceremonial speech. |
| ra.. | RA4 | Condensed water falling from a cloud. |
| ra.. | RA4 | The wife of a rajah. |
| ra.. | RA4 | To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger. |
| ra.... | RA6 | A portion of some limited resource allocated to a person or group. |
| ra.... | RA6 | Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus. |
| ro.. | RO4 | Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in |
| ro...... | RO8 | The act of turning around a centre or an axis. |
| ro.... | RO6 | A type of helix- or corkscrew-shaped pasta similar to fusilli. |
| ta... | TA5 | A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food. |
| ta.... | TA6 | Tannic acid or any of its derivatives. |
| ta..... | TA7 | a flourish on a trumpet |
| ta.... | TA6 | A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text. |
| ta....... | TA9 | The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell. |
| ta.... | TA6 | A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans and some Scottish families and institutions having their own distinctive patterns. |
| ti.. | TI4 | A slight coloring. |
| ti... | TI5 | Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness. |
| ti....... | TI9 | The determination of the concentration of some substance in a solution by slowly adding measured amounts of some other substance (normally using a burette) until a reaction is shown to be complete, for instance by the colour change of an indicator. |
| to.. | TO4 | A cartoon, especially an animated television show. |
| to.. | TO4 | past participle of tear (rip, rend, speed). |
| to..... | TO7 | Any of several sorts of ice-cream flavoured with rum or sherry, often containing chopped cherries and topped with almonds, crumbled macaroons, etc. |
| tr... | TR5 | Elongated or trailing portion. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground. |
| tr.... | TR6 | the atomic nucleus of a tritium atom, consisting of a proton and two neutrons |
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.
- janitor† (JA7)
- anion (AN5)
- annotation (AN10)
- annotator (AN9)
- anoint (AN6)
- anon (AN4)
- anti (AN4)
- arrant (AR6)
- attain (AT6)
- attrition (AT9)
- initiation (IN10)
- initiator (IN9)
- into (IN4)
- intonation (IN10)
- intro (IN5)
- iron (IR4)
- irritant (IR8)
- irritation (IR10)
- jinn (JI4)
- jinni (JI5)
- join (JO4)
- joint (JO5)
- naan (NA4)
- nana (NA4)
- narration (NA9)
- narrator (NA8)
- natant (NA6)
- nation (NA6)
- ninja (NI5)
- nitro (NI5)
- noir (NO4)
- nonart (NO6)
- noon (NO4)
- nori (NO4)
- notation (NO8)
- notator (NO7)
- notion (NO6)
- onion (ON5)
- onto (ON4)
- oration (OR7)
- rain (RA4)
- rani (RA4)
- rant (RA4)
- ration (RA6)
- rattan (RA6)
- roan (RO4)
- rotation (RO8)
- rotini (RO6)
- taint (TA5)
- tannin (TA6)
- tantara (TA7)
- tantra (TA6)
- tarnation (TA9)
- tartan (TA6)
- tint (TI4)
- titan (TI5)
- titration (TI9)
- toon (TO4)
- torn (TO4)
- tortoni (TO7)
- train (TR5)
- triton (TR6)
Answer Definitions
- janitor† (noun): Someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building. A caretaker or custodian; someone who maintains a school building specifically and may serve other administrative roles.
- anion (noun): A negatively charged ion.
- annotation (noun): A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.
- annotator (noun): One who annotates.
- anoint (verb): To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
- anon (adverb): Straight away; at once.
- anti (adjective): Opposed to something.
- arrant (adjective): Complete; downright; utter.
- attain (verb): To gain (an object or desired result).
- attrition (noun): Grinding down or wearing away by friction.
- initiation (noun): The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced
- initiator (noun): One who initiates.
- into (preposition): To or towards the inside of.
- intonation (noun): The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
- intro (noun): An introduction.
- iron (noun): A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.
- irritant (adjective): Causing irritation or inflammation.
- irritation (noun): The act of irritating or annoying
- jinn (noun): A genie and descendant of the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form, equivalent to demons in Jewish demonology.
- jinni (noun): Alternative form of jinn
- join (noun): An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
- joint (adjective): Done by two or more people or organisations working together.
- naan (noun): A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
- nana (noun): A banana.
- narration (noun): The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
- narrator (noun): One who narrates or tells stories.
- natant (adjective): floating or swimming (in water)
- nation (noun): A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
- ninja (noun): A person trained in ninjutsu, especially one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period.
- nitro (noun): the univalent NO2 functional group.
- noir (adjective): Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre
- nonart (noun): That which is not art
- noon (noun): The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
- nori (noun): A type of seaweed, a red alga, laver (genus Pyropia, including species P. yezoensis and P. tenera).
- notation (noun): The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
- notator (noun): One who notates; a writer of notation.
- notion (noun): Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
- onion (noun): A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
- onto (preposition): Upon; on top of.
- oration (noun): A formal, often ceremonial speech.
- rain (noun): Condensed water falling from a cloud.
- rani (noun): The wife of a rajah.
- rant (verb): To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
- ration (noun): A portion of some limited resource allocated to a person or group.
- rattan (noun): Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
- roan (adjective): Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
- rotation (noun): The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
- rotini (noun): A type of helix- or corkscrew-shaped pasta similar to fusilli.
- taint (noun): A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- tannin (noun): Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.
- tantara (noun): a flourish on a trumpet
- tantra (noun): A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text.
- tarnation (noun): The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell.
- tartan (noun): A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans and some Scottish families and institutions having their own distinctive patterns.
- tint (noun): A slight coloring.
- titan (noun): Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.
- titration (noun): The determination of the concentration of some substance in a solution by slowly adding measured amounts of some other substance (normally using a burette) until a reaction is shown to be complete, for instance by the colour change of an indicator.
- toon (noun): A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
- torn (verb): past participle of tear (rip, rend, speed).
- tortoni (noun): Any of several sorts of ice-cream flavoured with rum or sherry, often containing chopped cherries and topped with almonds, crumbled macaroons, etc.
- train (noun): Elongated or trailing portion. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
- triton (noun): the atomic nucleus of a tritium atom, consisting of a proton and two neutrons