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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.

• acronym^†  (AC7)
• monocracy^†  (MO9)
• acorn  (AC5)
• ammo  (AM4)
• annoy  (AN5)
• anon  (AN4)
• arcana  (AR6)
• arco  (AR4)
• armor  (AR5)
• armory  (AR6)
• army  (AR4)
• aroma  (AR5)
• array  (AR5)
• arroyo  (AR6)
• cacao  (CA5)
• camo  (CA4)
• canary  (CA6)
• cancan  (CA6)
• canna  (CA5)
• cannon  (CA6)
• canny  (CA5)
• canon  (CA5)
• canyon  (CA6)
• carny  (CA5)
• carom  (CA5)
• carry  (CA5)
• cayman  (CA6)
• coca  (CO4)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• coma  (CO4)
• comma  (CO5)
• corona  (CO6)
• coronary  (CO8)
• cram  (CR4)
• cranny  (CR6)
• crayon  (CR6)
• cyan  (CY4)
• macaron  (MA7)
• macaroon  (MA8)
• macro  (MA5)
• macron  (MA6)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mammary  (MA7)
• mammon  (MA6)
• manna  (MA5)
• manor  (MA5)
• many  (MA4)
• maraca  (MA6)
• marm  (MA4)
• maroon  (MA6)
• marry  (MA5)
• mayo  (MA4)
• mayor  (MA5)
• moan  (MO4)
• momma  (MO5)
• moray  (MO5)
• myna  (MY4)
• naan  (NA4)
• nana  (NA4)
• nanny  (NA5)
• narc  (NA4)
• narco  (NA5)
• nary  (NA4)
• orca  (OR4)
• raccoon  (RA7)
• racy  (RA4)
• rancor  (RA6)
• rayon  (RA5)
• roam  (RO4)
• roan  (RO4)
• roar  (RO4)
• yarn  (YA4)

Answer Definitions

• acronym^† (noun): An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words, sometimes exclusively such abbreviations when pronounced as a word (as "laser") rather than as individual letters (initialisms such as "TNT").
• monocracy^† (noun): Synonym of autocracy
• acorn (noun): The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• annoy (verb): To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
• anon (adverb): Straight away; at once.
• arcana (noun): Specialized knowledge that is mysterious to the uninitiated.
• arco (adverb): A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.
• armor (noun): A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
• armory (noun): US standard spelling of armoury.
• army (noun): A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
• aroma (noun): A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.
• array (noun): an ordered series or arrangement.
• arroyo (noun): A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• camo (noun): A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
• canary (noun): A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
• cancan (noun): A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
• canna (noun): Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
• cannon (noun): A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
• canny (adjective): Careful, prudent, cautious.
• canon (noun): A generally accepted principle; a rule.
• canyon (noun): A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
• carny (noun): A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).
• carom (noun): A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
• carry (verb): To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
• cayman (noun): Alternative spelling of caiman
• coca (noun): Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
• cocoa (noun): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
• coma (noun): A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
• comma (noun): English Wikipedia has an article on:commaWikipedia The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
• corona (noun): A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.
• coronary (adjective): Pertaining to a crown or garland.
• cram (verb): To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
• cranny (noun): A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
• crayon (noun): A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
• cyan (noun): A vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.
• macaron (noun): Any of various pastries based on almond and egg white, traditionally made in France.
• macaroon (noun): A soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough.
• macro (adjective): Very large in scope or scale.
• macron (noun): A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long.
• mama (noun): Mother, female parent.
• 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.
• mammary (adjective): Of or relating to mamma or breast (of a woman or a female animal).
• mammon (proper noun): Alternative letter-case form of Mammon (wealth, material avarice).
• manna (noun): Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
• manor (noun): A landed estate.
• many (determiner): An indefinite large number of.
• maraca (noun): A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument.
• marm (noun): madam; a polite term of address for a lady.
• maroon (noun): An escaped negro of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
• marry (verb): To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
• mayo (noun): Clipping of mayonnaise.
• mayor (noun): The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, &c., formerly usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.
• moan (noun): a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
• momma (noun): mother
• moray (noun): Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
• myna (noun): One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.
• naan (noun): A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
• nana (noun): A banana.
• nanny (noun): A child's nurse.
• narc (noun): A police officer assigned to or engaging in illegal narcotics control.
• narco (noun): Narcotics.
• nary (adverb): Not, never.
• orca (noun): A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.
• raccoon (noun): A nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor.
• racy (adjective): Mildly risqué.
• rancor (noun): A feeling of long-lasting ire for another, sometimes to the point of hatred, over a perceived wrongdoing; bitterness.
• rayon (noun): A manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber.
• roam (verb): To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
• 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.
• yarn (noun): A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.