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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.

• impatient^†  (IM9)
• apeman  (AP6)
• apemen  (AP6)
• apian  (AP5)
• apnea  (AP5)
• appetite  (AP8)
• attempt  (AT7)
• epee  (EP4)
• impenitent  (IM10)
• inapt  (IN5)
• inept  (IN5)
• inpatient  (IN9)
• nametape  (NA8)
• nape  (NA4)
• neap  (NE4)
• ninepin  (NI7)
• paean  (PA5)
• pain  (PA4)
• paint  (PA5)
• pampa  (PA5)
• panama  (PA6)
• pane  (PA4)
• panini  (PA6)
• pant  (PA4)
• pantie  (PA6)
• papa  (PA4)
• pate  (PA4)
• patent  (PA6)
• patentee  (PA8)
• patient  (PA7)
• patina  (PA6)
• peat  (PE4)
• peen  (PE4)
• peep  (PE4)
• penitent  (PE8)
• penman  (PE6)
• penmen  (PE6)
• pennant  (PE7)
• penne  (PE5)
• pent  (PE4)
• pentane  (PE7)
• pepita  (PE6)
• petit  (PE5)
• petite  (PE6)
• pimp  (PI4)
• pinata  (PI6)
• pine  (PI4)
• pint  (PI4)
• pipe  (PI4)
• pipet  (PI5)
• pipette  (PI7)
• pipit  (PI5)
• pippin  (PI6)
• pita  (PI4)
• pitapat  (PI7)
• tamp  (TA4)
• tapa  (TA4)
• tape  (TA4)
• teepee  (TE6)
• temp  (TE4)
• tempi  (TE5)
• tempt  (TE5)
• tenpin  (TE6)
• tepee  (TE5)
• tiepin  (TI6)
• timpani  (TI7)
• tippet  (TI6)

Answer Definitions

• impatient^† (adjective): Restless and intolerant of delays.
• apeman (noun): A prehistoric man resembling an ape, especially one held to be a precursor to modern humans; a non-human australopithecine.
• apemen (noun): plural of apeman
• apian (adjective): Relating to bees.
• apnea (noun): The cessation of breathing, most often in reference to transient instances thereof during sleep.
• appetite (noun): Desire to eat food or consume drink.
• attempt (verb): To try.
• epee (noun): A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.
• impenitent (adjective): Not penitent; specifically , not repenting of one's sins; unrepentant.
• inapt (adjective): Unapt
• inept (adjective): Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
• inpatient (noun): A patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient.
• nametape (noun): A kind of nametag that can be sewn onto clothing.
• nape (noun): The back part of the neck.
• neap (noun): The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
• ninepin (noun): The wooden pin used in the game of ninepins; a skittle.
• paean (noun): A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.
• pain (noun): An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
• paint (noun): A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
• pampa (noun): singular of pampas
• panama (noun): a lightweight hat of natural-colored straw hand-plaited of narrow strips from the young leaves of the jipijapa
• pane (noun): An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
• panini (noun): A type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.
• pant (noun): A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
• pantie (noun): Alternative form of panty
• papa (noun): Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
• pate (noun): The head, particularly the top or crown.
• patent (noun): An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent. A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods. A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period. A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.
• patentee (noun): One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.
• patient (adjective): Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
• patina (noun): A paten, flat type of dish.
• peat (noun): Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
• peen (noun): The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.
• peep (noun): A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.
• penitent (adjective): Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt.
• penman (noun): A scribe, or person who copies texts.
• penmen (noun): plural of penman
• pennant (noun): A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition. The broad pennant flown by commodores. The church pennant indicating religious services are taking place aboard ship. The commissioning pennant flown on ceremonial occasions.
• penne (noun): A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.
• pent (noun): Confinement; concealment.
• pentane (noun): An aliphatic hydrocarbon of chemical formula C5H12; either of the three isomers n-pentane, methyl-butane (isopentane), and di-methyl-propane (neopentane); volatile liquids under normal conditions.
• pepita (noun): An edible seed from a pumpkin or similar squash, which may - after being roasted (and, if needed, shelled) - be eaten as a snack or used as an ingredient in cooking.
• petit (adjective): Petite: small, little.
• petite (adjective): fairly short and of slim build.
• pimp (noun): Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
• pinata (noun): Alternative form of piñata
• pine (noun): Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
• pint (noun): A unit of volume, equivalent to: one eighth of a gallon, specifically: 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint) : one half quart 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or approximately 18.62 fluid ounces [551 millilitres] for dry goods (a US dry pint). 1.696 liters 12 fluid ounces
• 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.
• pipet (noun): Alternative form of pipette
• pipette (noun): A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
• pipit (noun): Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.
• pippin (noun): A seed
• pita (noun): A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.
• pitapat (verb): Alternative spelling of pit-a-pat
• tamp (verb): To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.
• tapa (noun): A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
• tape (noun): Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
• teepee (noun): A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America.
• temp (noun): Abbreviation of temperature.
• tempi (noun): plural of tempo
• tempt (verb): To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
• tenpin (noun): Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling.
• tepee (noun): Alternative form of teepee
• tiepin (noun): A tie tack, a pin or stud used to secure a tie to the shirt.
• timpani (noun): The set of precision kettledrums in an orchestra.
• tippet (noun): A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.