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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.

• hormonal^†  (HO8)
• alarm  (AL5)
• aloha  (AL5)
• ammo  (AM4)
• amoral  (AM6)
• anal  (AN4)
• annal  (AN5)
• anon  (AN4)
• armor  (AR5)
• aroma  (AR5)
• halal  (HA5)
• hall  (HA4)
• halo  (HA4)
• haram  (HA5)
• harm  (HA4)
• hoar  (HO4)
• hoorah  (HO6)
• hora  (HO4)
• horal  (HO5)
• lama  (LA4)
• llama  (LL5)
• llano  (LL5)
• loam  (LO4)
• loan  (LO4)
• mall  (MA4)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mammal  (MA6)
• mammon  (MA6)
• manna  (MA5)
• manor  (MA5)
• marm  (MA4)
• maroon  (MA6)
• moan  (MO4)
• molar  (MO5)
• momma  (MO5)
• moola  (MO5)
• moolah  (MO6)
• moral  (MO5)
• naan  (NA4)
• nana  (NA4)
• normal  (NO6)
• oral  (OR4)
• roam  (RO4)
• roan  (RO4)
• roar  (RO4)

Answer Definitions

• hormonal^† (adjective): Pertaining to hormones.
• alarm (noun): A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
• aloha (noun): Good wishes, love.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• amoral (adjective): Neither moral nor immoral.
• anal (adjective): of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
• annal (noun): The record of a single event or item.
• anon (adverb): Straight away; at once.
• armor (noun): A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
• aroma (noun): A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.
• halal (adjective): Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
• hall (noun): A corridor; a hallway.
• halo (noun): A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
• haram (noun): A sin.
• harm (noun): physical injury; hurt; damage
• hoar (noun): A white or greyish-white colour.
• hoorah (interjection): Alternative form of hurrah
• hora (noun): A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.
• horal (adjective): Of or relating to an hour, or to hours.
• lama (noun): A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
• 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.
• llano (noun): A plain or steppe in parts of Latin America.
• loam (noun): A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
• loan (noun): An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
• mall (noun): A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
• 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.
• mammal (noun): An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and producing milk with which to feed its young.
• 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.
• 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.
• moan (noun): a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
• molar (noun): A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
• momma (noun): mother
• moola (noun): Money, cash.
• moolah (noun): Archaic form of mullah.
• moral (adjective): Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
• naan (noun): A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
• nana (noun): A banana.
• normal (adjective): According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• oral (adjective): Relating to the mouth.
• 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.