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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.

• caboodle^†  (CA8)
• codable^†  (CO7)
• accede  (AC6)
• acceded  (AC7)
• accolade  (AC8)
• aced  (AC4)
• allocable  (AL9)
• bloc  (BL4)
• bocce  (BO5)
• cabal  (CA5)
• cabala  (CA6)
• cabbed  (CA6)
• cable  (CA5)
• cabled  (CA6)
• cacao  (CA5)
• call  (CA4)
• calla  (CA5)
• callable  (CA8)
• callaloo  (CA8)
• called  (CA6)
• cede  (CE4)
• ceded  (CE5)
• celeb  (CE5)
• cell  (CE4)
• celled  (CE6)
• cello  (CE5)
• clad  (CL4)
• clade  (CL5)
• cloaca  (CL6)
• clod  (CL4)
• coal  (CO4)
• cobble  (CO6)
• cobbled  (CO7)
• coca  (CO4)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• coda  (CO4)
• coddle  (CO6)
• coddled  (CO7)
• code  (CO4)
• coded  (CO5)
• coed  (CO4)
• cola  (CO4)
• cold  (CO4)
• collab  (CO6)
• cooed  (CO5)
• cool  (CO4)
• cooled  (CO6)
• dace  (DA4)
• debacle  (DE7)
• decade  (DE6)
• decal  (DE5)
• deco  (DE4)
• decode  (DE6)
• decoded  (DE7)
• lace  (LA4)
• laced  (LA5)
• local  (LO5)
• locale  (LO6)
• loco  (LO4)

Answer Definitions

• caboodle^† (noun): Any large collection of things or people.
• codable^† (adjective): Capable of being coded.
• accede (verb): To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
• acceded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of accede
• accolade (noun): An expression of approval; praise.
• aced (verb): simple past tense and past participle of ace
• allocable (adjective): Able to be allocated.
• bloc (noun): A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
• bocce (noun): A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court
• cabal (noun): A secret political clique or faction.
• cabala (proper noun): Alternative spelling of Kabballah
• cabbed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of cab
• cable (noun): A long object used to make a physical connection. A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope. An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes. An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated. A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
• cabled (verb): simple past and past participle of cable
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• call (noun): A telephone conversation; a phone call.
• calla (noun): A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.
• callable (adjective): That can be called.
• callaloo (noun): Any of various tropical plants grown in the Americas, especially of the genera Amaranthus and Xanthosoma, cultivated for their edible leaves.
• called (verb): simple past tense and past participle of call
• cede (verb): To give up; yield to another.
• ceded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of cede
• celeb (noun): A celebrity; a famous person.
• cell (noun): A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
• celled (adjective): Containing cells; cellular.
• cello (noun): A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
• clad (verb): simple past tense and past participle of clothe
• clade (noun): A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
• cloaca (noun): A sewer.
• clod (noun): A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
• coal (noun): A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
• cobble (noun): A cobblestone.
• cobbled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of cobble
• 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.
• coda (noun): A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
• coddle (verb): To treat gently or with great care.
• coddled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of coddle
• code (noun): A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
• coded (adjective): Encoded; written in code or cipher.
• coed (adjective): Alternative form of co-ed
• cola (noun): The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
• cold (adjective): Having a low temperature.
• collab (noun): A collaboration, especially a work produced by several musicians who do not usually work together.
• cooed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of coo
• cool (adjective): Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
• cooled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of cool
• dace (noun): The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
• debacle (noun): An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
• decade (noun): A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:
• decal (noun): A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily.
• deco (noun): Decompression.
• decode (verb): To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
• decoded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of decode
• lace (noun): A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
• laced (adjective): Fastened or adorned with lace.
• local (adjective): From or in a nearby location.
• locale (noun): The place where something happens.
• loco (adverb): A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.