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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.

• mailbox^†  (MA7)
• abloom  (AB6)
• ammo  (AM4)
• axiom  (AX5)
• balm  (BA4)
• bamboo  (BA6)
• blam  (BL4)
• bloom  (BL5)
• bomb  (BO4)
• boom  (BO4)
• boombox  (BO7)
• iamb  (IA4)
• iambi  (IA5)
• imam  (IM4)
• lama  (LA4)
• lamb  (LA4)
• lima  (LI4)
• limb  (LI4)
• limbo  (LI5)
• limo  (LI4)
• llama  (LL5)
• loam  (LO4)
• loom  (LO4)
• mail  (MA4)
• maim  (MA4)
• mall  (MA4)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamba  (MA5)
• mambo  (MA5)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mammal  (MA6)
• maxi  (MA4)
• maxilla  (MA7)
• maxim  (MA5)
• maxima  (MA6)
• maximal  (MA7)
• mill  (MI4)
• moil  (MO4)
• moll  (MO4)
• momma  (MO5)
• moola  (MO5)

Answer Definitions

• mailbox^† (noun): A box into which mail is put. A collection point for mail intended for onward delivery, a secure box or receptacle for this purpose.
• abloom (adverb): In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• axiom (noun): A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
• balm (noun): Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America.
• bamboo (noun): A fast-growing grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
• blam (noun): A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot
• bloom (noun): A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
• bomb (noun): An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, one dropped from an aircraft. The atomic bomb.
• boom (verb): To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
• boombox (noun): Alternative spelling of boom box
• iamb (noun): A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
• iambi (noun): plural of iambus
• imam (noun): One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
• lama (noun): A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
• lamb (noun): A young sheep.
• lima (noun): lima bean
• limb (noun): A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
• limbo (noun): The place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, notably those of the saints who died before the advent of Christ (limbus patruum) and those of unbaptized but innocent children (limbus infantum).
• limo (noun): Clipping of limousine.
• llama (noun): A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
• loam (noun): A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
• loom (noun): A utensil; tool; a weapon; an article in general.
• mail (noun): A bag or wallet.
• maim (verb): To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
• mall (noun): A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
• mama (noun): Mother, female parent.
• mamba (noun): Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.
• mambo (noun): A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
• mamma (noun): The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
• mammal (noun): An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and producing milk with which to feed its young.
• maxi (adjective): Having a hemline at ankle length.
• maxilla (noun): Synonym of jaw.
• maxim (noun): A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
• maxima (noun): A music note equal to two (or sometimes three) longæ; in modern notation, this is typically equivalent to eight semibreves.
• maximal (adjective): Largest, greatest (in magnitude), highest, most.
• mill (noun): A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
• moil (verb): To toil, to work hard.
• moll (noun): A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
• momma (noun): mother
• moola (noun): Money, cash.