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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.

• packable^†  (PA8)
• able  (AB4)
• allele  (AL6)
• apace  (AP5)
• appeal  (AP6)
• appealable  (AP10)
• appellee  (AP8)
• apple  (AP5)
• babble  (BA6)
• babe  (BA4)
• babel  (BA5)
• bake  (BA4)
• bale  (BA4)
• beak  (BE4)
• beck  (BE4)
• beep  (BE4)
• bell  (BE4)
• belle  (BE5)
• bleak  (BL5)
• bleep  (BL5)
• cable  (CA5)
• cackle  (CA6)
• cake  (CA4)
• callable  (CA8)
• capable  (CA7)
• cape  (CA4)
• celeb  (CE5)
• cell  (CE4)
• epee  (EP4)
• kale  (KA4)
• kebab  (KE5)
• keel  (KE4)
• keep  (KE4)
• keepable  (KE8)
• kelp  (KE4)
• label  (LA5)
• lace  (LA4)
• lake  (LA4)
• lapel  (LA5)
• leak  (LE4)
• leap  (LE4)
• leek  (LE4)
• pace  (PA4)
• paella  (PA6)
• palace  (PA6)
• pale  (PA4)
• palpable  (PA8)
• peace  (PE5)
• peaceable  (PE9)
• peak  (PE4)
• peal  (PE4)
• pebble  (PE6)
• peck  (PE4)
• peek  (PE4)
• peel  (PE4)
• peelable  (PE8)
• peep  (PE4)
• peke  (PE4)
• place  (PL5)
• plea  (PL4)
• pleb  (PL4)
• plebe  (PL5)

Answer Definitions

• packable^† (adjective): Capable of being packed.
• able (adjective): Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
• allele (noun): One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.
• apace (adverb): Quickly, rapidly, with speed.
• appeal (noun): An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned. The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued. A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
• appealable (adjective): That may be appealed, or sent to a higher court for judgement.
• appellee (noun): A respondent.
• apple (noun): A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
• babble (verb): To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
• babe (noun): A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
• babel (noun): Alternative form of Babel
• bake (verb): To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
• bale (noun): Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
• beak (noun): Anatomical uses. A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc. A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
• beck (noun): A stream or small river.
• beep (noun): The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
• 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.
• bleak (adjective): Without color; pale; pallid.
• bleep (noun): A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
• 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.
• cackle (noun): The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
• cake (noun): A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
• callable (adjective): That can be called.
• capable (adjective): Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
• cape (noun): A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
• celeb (noun): A celebrity; a famous person.
• cell (noun): A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
• epee (noun): A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.
• kale (noun): An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
• kebab (noun): A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
• keel (noun): A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
• keep (verb): To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
• keepable (adjective): That can be kept or is worth keeping.
• kelp (noun): Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).
• label (noun): A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
• lace (noun): A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
• lake (noun): A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
• lapel (noun): Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat that are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between.
• leak (noun): A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
• leap (verb): To jump.
• leek (noun): The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
• pace (noun): Step. A step taken with the foot. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
• paella (noun): A savory Valencian dish made of rice, cooked in a frying pan with vegetables and meat or shellfish.
• palace (noun): Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.
• pale (adjective): Light in color.
• palpable (adjective): Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
• peace (noun): A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance.
• peaceable (adjective): Favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.).
• peak (noun): A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
• peal (noun): A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
• pebble (noun): A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
• peck (verb): To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
• peek (verb): To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
• peel (verb): To remove the skin or outer covering of.
• peelable (adjective): Capable of being peeled.
• peep (noun): A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.
• peke (noun): Alternative letter-case form of Peke (“Pekinese dog”)
• place (noun): An area; somewhere within an area. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard. A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
• plea (noun): An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
• pleb (noun): A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society.
• plebe (noun): A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.