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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.

• probiotic^†  (PR9)
• boor  (BO4)
• boric  (BO5)
• brio  (BR4)
• cirri  (CI5)
• citric  (CI6)
• coir  (CO4)
• crib  (CR4)
• critic  (CR6)
• croc  (CR4)
• croci  (CR5)
• crop  (CR4)
• orbit  (OR5)
• poor  (PO4)
• port  (PO4)
• portico  (PO7)
• prior  (PR5)
• proctor  (PR7)
• prop  (PR4)
• ribbit  (RI6)
• riot  (RI4)
• robot  (RO5)
• robotic  (RO7)
• rococo  (RO6)
• root  (RO4)
• roti  (RO4)
• rotor  (RO5)
• tori  (TO4)
• toric  (TO5)
• torii  (TO5)
• toro  (TO4)
• torpor  (TO6)
• tort  (TO4)
• tricot  (TR6)
• trio  (TR4)
• trip  (TR4)
• troop  (TR5)
• tropic  (TR6)
• trot  (TR4)

Answer Definitions

• probiotic^† (noun): A food or dietary supplement, such as a yogurt, containing live bacteria for therapeutic reasons.
• boor (noun): A peasant.
• boric (adjective): Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron.
• brio (noun): Vigour or vivacity.
• cirri (noun): plural of cirrus Tendrils or claspers.
• citric (adjective): Of, pertaining to, or derived from, citrus fruit.
• coir (noun): The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.
• crib (noun): A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
• critic (noun): A person who appraises the works of others.
• croc (noun): A crocodile.
• croci (noun): plural of crocus
• crop (noun): A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
• orbit (noun): A circular or elliptical path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, moon, or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
• poor (adjective): With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• port (noun): A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
• portico (noun): A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
• prior (adjective): Advance; previous; coming before.
• proctor (noun): A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.
• prop (noun): An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
• ribbit (interjection): The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.
• riot (noun): A tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by a large group of people, often involving violence or damage to property.
• robot (noun): A system of serfdom used in Central Europe, under which a tenant's rent was paid in forced labour.
• robotic (adjective): Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.
• rococo (noun): A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
• root (noun): The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
• roti (noun): A kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean.
• rotor (noun): A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump.
• tori (noun): plural of torus
• toric (adjective): Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal.
• torii (noun): A traditional Japanese gate at Shinto shrines, symbolically marking the transition from the profane to the sacred.
• toro (noun): A traditional Japanese lantern.
• torpor (noun): A state of being inactive or stuporous.
• tort (noun): An injury or wrong.
• tricot (noun): A soft knit fabric.
• trio (noun): A group of three people or things.
• trip (noun): A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
• troop (noun): A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
• tropic (noun): Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°27′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.
• trot (noun): An ugly old woman, a hag.