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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.

• belittlement^†  (BE12)
• beeline  (BE7)
• beetle  (BE6)
• belie  (BE5)
• belittle  (BE8)
• bell  (BE4)
• belle  (BE5)
• bellmen  (BE7)
• belt  (BE4)
• beltline  (BE8)
• betel  (BE5)
• bible  (BI5)
• bile  (BI4)
• bill  (BI4)
• billet  (BI6)
• blin  (BL4)
• blini  (BL5)
• element  (EL7)
• elite  (EL5)
• emblem  (EM6)
• entitle  (EN7)
• entitlement  (EN11)
• inlet  (IN5)
• intel  (IN5)
• lenient  (LE7)
• lent  (LE4)
• lentil  (LE6)
• libel  (LI5)
• libelee  (LI7)
• lien  (LI4)
• lilt  (LI4)
• limb  (LI4)
• lime  (LI4)
• limit  (LI5)
• limn  (LI4)
• line  (LI4)
• linemen  (LI7)
• linen  (LI5)
• liniment  (LI8)
• linnet  (LI6)
• lint  (LI4)
• lintel  (LI6)
• lite  (LI4)
• little  (LI6)
• melee  (ME5)
• melt  (ME4)
• mettle  (ME6)
• mile  (MI4)
• mill  (MI4)
• millet  (MI6)
• nettle  (NE6)
• nibble  (NI6)
• nimble  (NI6)
• tell  (TE4)
• tile  (TI4)
• till  (TI4)
• tilt  (TI4)
• timeline  (TI8)
• title  (TI5)
• tittle  (TI6)

Answer Definitions

• belittlement^† (noun): an act of belittling
• beeline (noun): A very direct or quick path or trip.
• 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.
• belie (verb): To lie around; encompass.
• belittle (verb): To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is, especially as a way of showing contempt or deprecation.
• bell (noun): A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
• belle (noun): An attractive woman.
• bellmen (noun): plural of bellman
• 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.
• beltline (noun): The imaginary line marking the upper end of the lower body of an automobile, running just below the bottoms of the windows
• 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
• bible (noun): Alternative letter-case form of Bible (“a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of the Christian religious text”)
• 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.
• billet (noun): A short informal letter.
• blin (verb): To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
• blini (noun): A small pancake, of Russian origin, made from buckwheat flour; traditionally served with melted butter, sour cream and caviar or smoked salmon.
• element (noun): One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
• elite (adjective): Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
• emblem (noun): A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.
• entitle (verb): To give a title to. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
• entitlement (noun): The right to have something, whether actual or perceived.
• inlet (verb): To let in; admit.
• intel (noun): intelligence (secret information)
• lenient (adjective): Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation
• lent (noun): Alternative letter-case form of Lent
• lentil (noun): Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
• 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.
• lien (noun): A tendon.
• lilt (verb): To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
• 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).
• limit (noun): A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
• limn (verb): To draw or paint; to delineate.
• line (noun): A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
• linemen (noun): plural of lineman
• linen (noun): Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
• liniment (noun): A topical medical preparation intended to be rubbed into the skin with friction, as for example to relieve symptoms of arthritis.
• linnet (noun): A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.
• lint (noun): Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
• lintel (noun): A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
• lite (adjective): Abridged; refers to a simpler or unpaid version of a product.
• little (adjective): Small in size.
• melee (noun): A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
• melt (noun): Molten material, the product of melting.
• mettle (noun): A quality of endurance and courage.
• 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.
• millet (noun): Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
• nettle (noun): Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash. Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles: Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle), Urtica incisa (Australian nettle); Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis); Bull nettles and spurge nettles of genus Cnidoscolus: Cnidoscolus stimulosus, bull nettle, spurge nettle, Cnidoscolus texanus, Texas bull nettle, Cnidoscolus urens, bull nettle, Nettle trees or tree nettles: Various species of the genus Dendrocnide: Urera baccifera (scratchbush), Urtica ferox (tree nettle); rock nettle (Eucnide); small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla).
• nibble (noun): A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.
• nimble (adjective): Adept at taking or grasping
• tell (verb): To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• tile (noun): A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile etc.
• till (preposition): Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
• tilt (verb): To slope or incline (something); to slant.
• timeline (noun): A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future); a chronology.
• title (noun): An appellation given to a person or family to signify either veneration, official position, social rank, the possession of assets or properties, or a professional or academic qualification. See also Category:Titles
• tittle (noun): Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.