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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.

• bigoted^†  (BI7)
• beige  (BE5)
• betide  (BE6)
• betided  (BE7)
• bide  (BI4)
• bided  (BI5)
• bidet  (BI5)
• biggie  (BI6)
• bigot  (BI5)
• bite  (BI4)
• bodied  (BO6)
• boogie  (BO6)
• boogied  (BO7)
• bootie  (BO6)
• debit  (DE5)
• debited  (DE7)
• died  (DI4)
• diet  (DI4)
• dieted  (DI6)
• digit  (DI5)
• diode  (DI5)
• ditto  (DI5)
• doggie  (DO6)
• dogie  (DO5)
• doobie  (DO6)
• eddied  (ED6)
• edit  (ED4)
• edited  (ED6)
• geoid  (GE5)
• gibe  (GI4)
• gibed  (GI5)
• gigged  (GI6)
• goodie  (GO6)
• idiot  (ID5)
• iodide  (IO6)
• obit  (OB4)
• tidbit  (TI6)
• tide  (TI4)
• tided  (TI5)
• tidied  (TI6)
• tied  (TI4)

Answer Definitions

• bigoted^† (adjective): Having the characteristics of a bigot; strongly prejudiced; forming opinions without just cause
• beige (noun): A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
• betide (verb): Often used in a prediction (chiefly in woe betide) or a wish: to happen to (someone or something); to befall.
• betided (verb): simple past tense and past participle of betide
• bide (verb): To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
• bided (verb): simple past tense and past participle of bide
• bidet (noun): a low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.
• biggie (noun): Alternative spelling of biggy
• bigot (noun): One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.
• bite (verb): To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
• bodied (adjective): Having a specified form of body.
• boogie (noun): A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.
• boogied (verb): simple past tense and past participle of boogie
• bootie (noun): Alternative spelling of bootee
• debit (noun): In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
• debited (verb): simple past tense and past participle of debit
• died (verb): simple past tense and past participle of die
• diet (noun): The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
• dieted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of diet
• digit (noun): The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined to represent base-ten numbers.
• diode (noun): An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.
• ditto (noun): That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
• doggie (noun): Alternative spelling of doggy
• dogie (noun): A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.
• doobie (noun): A marijuana cigarette.
• eddied (verb): simple past tense and past participle of eddy
• edit (noun): A change to the text of a document.
• edited (verb): simple past tense and past participle of edit
• geoid (noun): The shape, extending through landmasses (continents, etc.), that the surface of the oceans of the Earth would take under the influence of the Earth's gravity and rotation alone, disregarding other factors such as winds and tides; that is, a surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation.
• gibe (noun): Alternative spelling of gybe
• gibed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of gibe
• gigged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of gig
• goodie (interjection): Expression of pleasure; yippee.
• idiot (noun): A person of low general intelligence.
• iodide (noun): A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical.
• obit (noun): Death of a person.
• tidbit (noun): A tasty morsel (of food).
• tide (noun): The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
• tided (adjective): Affected by the tide; having a tide.
• tidied (verb): simple past tense and past participle of tidy
• tied (adjective): Closely connected or associated.