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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.

• aground^†  (AG7)
• adorn  (AD5)
• agar  (AG4)
• agora  (AG5)
• angora  (AN6)
• ardor  (AR5)
• argon  (AR5)
• around  (AR6)
• augur  (AU5)
• aura  (AU4)
• aurora  (AU6)
• darn  (DA4)
• donor  (DO5)
• door  (DO4)
• dorado  (DO6)
• dour  (DO4)
• drag  (DR4)
• dragon  (DR6)
• dragoon  (DR7)
• drug  (DR4)
• durag  (DU5)
• gorgon  (GO6)
• gourd  (GO5)
• grad  (GR4)
• gran  (GR4)
• grand  (GR5)
• grandad  (GR7)
• granddad  (GR8)
• groan  (GR5)
• grog  (GR4)
• ground  (GR6)
• guar  (GU4)
• guard  (GU5)
• guru  (GU4)
• odor  (OD4)
• orang  (OR5)
• organ  (OR5)
• radar  (RA5)
• radon  (RA5)
• raga  (RA4)
• rand  (RA4)
• rang  (RA4)
• road  (RO4)
• roan  (RO4)
• roar  (RO4)
• rondo  (RO5)
• rood  (RO4)
• round  (RO5)
• runaround  (RU9)
• rung  (RU4)
• unground  (UN8)

Answer Definitions

• aground^† (adjective): Resting on the bottom.
• adorn (verb): To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
• agar (noun): A gelatinous material obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive.
• agora (noun): A place for gathering.
• angora (noun): An angora cat.
• ardor (noun): Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
• argon (noun): The chemical element (symbol Ar) with an atomic number of 18. The third most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, it is a colourless, odourless, inert noble gas.
• around (preposition): Forming a circle or closed curve containing (something).
• augur (noun): A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences.
• aura (noun): Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something.
• 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.
• darn (adjective): Damn.
• donor (noun): One who makes a donation.
• door (noun): A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
• dorado (noun): Coryphaena hippurus, the mahi-mahi or dolphin, a species of fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.
• dour (adjective): Stern, harsh and forbidding.
• drag (noun): Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
• dragon (noun): A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature. In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath. In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
• dragoon (noun): A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
• drug (noun): A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
• durag (noun): Alternative spelling of do-rag
• gorgon (noun): A vicious female monster from Greek mythology with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. One of the three sisters: Medusa, Stheno and Euryale
• gourd (noun): Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
• grad (noun): Abbreviation of graduate.
• gran (noun): A grandmother.
• grand (adjective): Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional Of a large size or extent; great.
• grandad (noun): Alternative spelling of granddad
• granddad (noun): grandfather
• groan (noun): A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.
• grog (noun): An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
• ground (noun): The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
• guar (noun): An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.
• guard (noun): A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
• guru (noun): A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher.
• odor (noun): Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
• orang (noun): An orangutan.
• organ (noun): The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
• radar (noun): A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces
• radon (noun): The chemical element (symbol Rn, formerly Ro) with atomic number 86. It is an odorless, colorless, chemically inert but radioactive noble gas.
• raga (noun): Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
• rand (noun): The border of an area of land, especially marshland.
• rang (verb): simple past tense of ring
• road (noun): A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
• roan (adjective): Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
• roar (verb): To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
• rondo (noun): A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
• rood (noun): A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
• round (adjective): Of shape: Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
• runaround (noun): An evasive explanation in the form of multiple excuses.
• rung (noun): A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
• unground (adjective): Not having been ground; unpulverized.