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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.

• impalpable^†  (IM10)
• alibi  (AL5)
• amiable  (AM7)
• bail  (BA4)
• bailee  (BA6)
• belie  (BE5)
• bibimbap  (BI8)
• bible  (BI5)
• bilabial  (BI8)
• bile  (BI4)
• bill  (BI4)
• billable  (BI8)
• blimp  (BL5)
• blip  (BL4)
• email  (EM5)
• iamb  (IA4)
• iambi  (IA5)
• imam  (IM4)
• imbibe  (IM6)
• impala  (IM6)
• impale  (IM6)
• impel  (IM5)
• labia  (LA5)
• labial  (LA6)
• labile  (LA6)
• liable  (LI6)
• libel  (LI5)
• libelee  (LI7)
• lima  (LI4)
• limb  (LI4)
• lime  (LI4)
• limp  (LI4)
• mail  (MA4)
• mailable  (MA8)
• maim  (MA4)
• mile  (MI4)
• mill  (MI4)
• mime  (MI4)
• pail  (PA4)
• papilla  (PA7)
• papillae  (PA8)
• pile  (PI4)
• pill  (PI4)
• pimp  (PI4)
• pimple  (PI6)
• pipe  (PI4)
• pliable  (PL7)
• plie  (PL4)

Answer Definitions

• impalpable^† (adjective): Not able to be perceived by the senses (especially by touch); intangible or insubstantial; not easily grasped or understood.
• alibi (noun): The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.
• amiable (adjective): Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious
• bail (noun): Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
• bailee (noun): One who holds bailed property; one who takes possession of the property of another (called a bailor) in order to keep that property safe for the other.
• belie (verb): To lie around; encompass.
• bibimbap (noun): A Korean dish of white rice topped with vegetables, beef, a whole egg, and gochujang (chili pepper paste).
• bible (noun): Alternative letter-case form of Bible (“a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of the Christian religious text”)
• bilabial (adjective): Articulated with both lips.
• bile (noun): A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
• bill (noun): Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
• billable (adjective): Capable of being billed for.
• blimp (noun): An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
• blip (noun): A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
• email (noun): A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.
• 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.
• imbibe (verb): To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
• impala (noun): An African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns.
• impale (verb): To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
• impel (verb): To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation.
• labia (noun): The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.
• labial (adjective): Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
• labile (adjective): Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
• liable (adjective): bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
• libel (noun): A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
• libelee (noun): The party against which a libel (hostile handbill) has been filed by a libelant.
• lima (noun): lima bean
• limb (noun): A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
• lime (noun): Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
• limp (verb): To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
• mail (noun): A bag or wallet.
• mailable (adjective): That can be (physically and/or legally) sent by mail.
• maim (verb): To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
• mile (noun): The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
• mill (noun): A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
• mime (noun): A form of acting without words; pantomime.
• pail (noun): A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
• papilla (noun): A nipple-like protuberance on a part or organ of the body. A vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth. Any of the vascular protuberances of the dermal layer of the skin extending into the epidermal layer and often containing tactile corpuscles. Any of the small protuberances on the upper surface of the tongue often containing taste buds.
• papillae (noun): plural of papilla
• pile (noun): A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
• pill (noun): A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
• pimp (noun): Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
• pimple (noun): An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
• pipe (noun): Meanings relating to a wind instrument. A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. The key or sound of the voice. A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
• pliable (adjective): Soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded.
• plie (noun): Alternative spelling of plié