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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.

• ejectable^†  (EJ9)
• abate  (AB5)
• abet  (AB4)
• abettal  (AB7)
• abject  (AB6)
• ablate  (AB6)
• acetal  (AC6)
• acetate  (AC7)
• ballet  (BA6)
• bate  (BA4)
• battle  (BA6)
• beat  (BE4)
• beatable  (BE8)
• beet  (BE4)
• beetle  (BE6)
• belate  (BE6)
• belt  (BE4)
• beta  (BE4)
• betel  (BE5)
• blat  (BL4)
• bleat  (BL5)
• catcall  (CA7)
• cattle  (CA6)
• cleat  (CL5)
• eatable  (EA7)
• eclat  (EC5)
• eject  (EJ5)
• ejecta  (EJ6)
• elate  (EL5)
• elect  (EL5)
• electable  (EL9)
• electee  (EL7)
• jete  (JE4)
• lactate  (LA7)
• lacteal  (LA7)
• late  (LA4)
• latte  (LA5)
• tabla  (TA5)
• table  (TA5)
• tablet  (TA6)
• tacet  (TA5)
• tact  (TA4)
• talc  (TA4)
• tale  (TA4)
• tall  (TA4)
• tattle  (TA6)
• tattletale  (TA10)
• teal  (TE4)
• teat  (TE4)
• tell  (TE4)
• telltale  (TE8)

Answer Definitions

• ejectable^† (adjective): Able to be ejected.
• abate (verb): To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
• abet (verb): To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
• abettal (noun): abetment
• abject (adjective): Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
• ablate (verb): To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
• acetal (noun): Any diether of a geminal diol, R2C(OR')2 (where R' is not H).
• acetate (noun): Any salt or ester of acetic acid.
• ballet (noun): A classical form of dance.
• bate (verb): To reduce the force of something; to abate.
• battle (noun): A contest, a struggle.
• beat (noun): A stroke; a blow.
• beatable (adjective): Able to be beaten.
• beet (noun): Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
• beetle (noun): Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
• belate (verb): To impede; cause something to be late; delay; benight.
• belt (noun): A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
• beta (noun): The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β,  β), preceded by alpha (Α,  α) and followed by gamma, (Γ,  γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
• betel (noun): Either of two plants often used in combination: an evergreen Indian creeping shrub, Piper betle, whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut: the betel pepper the seed of the betel palm, Areca catechu: the betel nut
• blat (verb): To cry, as a calf or sheep; bleat.
• bleat (noun): The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.
• catcall (noun): A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.
• cattle (noun): Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).
• cleat (noun): A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
• eatable (adjective): Able to be eaten; edible.
• eclat (noun): Alternative spelling of éclat
• eject (verb): To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
• ejecta (noun): Material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an impact crater.
• elate (verb): To make joyful or proud.
• elect (noun): One chosen or set apart.
• electable (adjective): able to be elected to office
• electee (noun): Someone who is elected.
• jete (noun): A leap from one foot to the other in which one leg appears to be "thrown" in the direction of the movement.
• lactate (verb): To secrete or produce milk
• lacteal (adjective): Relating to milk.
• late (adjective): Near the end of a period of time.
• latte (noun): A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
• tabla (noun): A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.
• table (noun): Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs. The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts. A flat tray which can be used as a table. A supply of food or entertainment.
• tablet (noun): A slab of clay used for inscription.
• tacet (verb): An instruction indicating silence on the part of the performers of a piece.
• tact (noun): The sense of touch; feeling.
• talc (noun): Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Mediaeval writers adopted the term from the Arabic.
• tale (noun): An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
• tall (adjective): Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.
• tattle (verb): To chatter; to gossip.
• tattletale (adjective): telltale; giveaway
• teal (noun): Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
• teat (noun): The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
• tell (verb): To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• telltale (noun): One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others.