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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.

• paranoid^†  (PA8)
• raindrop^†  (RA8)
• adorn  (AD5)
• andiron  (AN7)
• android  (AN7)
• anion  (AN5)
• anon  (AN4)
• apian  (AP5)
• apron  (AP5)
• darn  (DA4)
• dinar  (DI5)
• dino  (DI4)
• donor  (DO5)
• drain  (DR5)
• indoor  (IN6)
• inroad  (IN6)
• iron  (IR4)
• naan  (NA4)
• nada  (NA4)
• nadir  (NA5)
• naiad  (NA5)
• nana  (NA4)
• noir  (NO4)
• nonpaid  (NO7)
• noon  (NO4)
• nori  (NO4)
• onion  (ON5)
• opinion  (OP7)
• ordain  (OR6)
• pain  (PA4)
• panda  (PA5)
• panini  (PA6)
• paranoia  (PA8)
• pardon  (PA6)
• piano  (PI5)
• pinion  (PI6)
• pippin  (PI6)
• pond  (PO4)
• porn  (PO4)
• porno  (PO5)
• prion  (PR5)
• radian  (RA6)
• radon  (RA5)
• rain  (RA4)
• rand  (RA4)
• rando  (RA5)
• rani  (RA4)
• rapini  (RA6)
• rind  (RI4)
• riparian  (RI8)
• roan  (RO4)
• rondo  (RO5)

Answer Definitions

• paranoid^† (adjective): Of, related to, or suffering from paranoia
• raindrop^† (noun): A single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.
• adorn (verb): To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
• andiron (noun): A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side
• android (noun): A robot that is designed to look and act like a human being (not necessarily a male one).
• anion (noun): A negatively charged ion.
• anon (adverb): Straight away; at once.
• apian (adjective): Relating to bees.
• apron (noun): An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.
• darn (adjective): Damn.
• dinar (noun): The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, North Macedonia, Serbia and Tunisia.
• dino (noun): dinosaur.
• donor (noun): One who makes a donation.
• drain (noun): A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole
• indoor (adjective): Situated in, or designed to be used in, or carried on within, the interior of a building.
• inroad (noun): An advance into enemy territory, an attempted invasion; an encroachment, an incursion.
• iron (noun): A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.
• naan (noun): A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
• nada (pronoun): Nothing.
• nadir (noun): The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
• naiad (noun): A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.
• nana (noun): A banana.
• noir (adjective): Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre
• nonpaid (adjective): For which no payment is levied.
• noon (noun): The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
• nori (noun): A type of seaweed, a red alga, laver (genus Pyropia, including species P. yezoensis and P. tenera).
• onion (noun): A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
• opinion (noun): A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
• ordain (verb): To prearrange unalterably.
• 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.
• panda (noun): The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail.
• 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.
• paranoia (noun): The obsolete name for a psychotic disorder, now called delusional disorder, often (in one of 6 subtypes) characterized by delusions of persecution and perceived threat against the individual affected with the disorder, and often associated with false accusations and general mistrust of others
• pardon (noun): Forgiveness for an offence.
• piano (noun): a percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings
• pinion (noun): A wing.
• pippin (noun): A seed
• pond (noun): An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
• porn (noun): Pornography.
• porno (adjective): Pornographic
• prion (noun): A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
• radian (noun): English Wikipedia has an article on:radianWikipedia In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angular measure of angle equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle. Symbol: rad
• radon (noun): The chemical element (symbol Rn, formerly Ro) with atomic number 86. It is an odorless, colorless, chemically inert but radioactive noble gas.
• rain (noun): Condensed water falling from a cloud.
• rand (noun): The border of an area of land, especially marshland.
• rando (adjective): Random; arbitrary.
• rani (noun): The wife of a rajah.
• rapini (noun): A vegetable native to China, Brassica rapa subsp. ruvo, with green spiky leaves and a bitter taste.
• rind (noun): tree bark
• riparian (adjective): Of or relating to the bank of a river or stream.
• roan (adjective): Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
• rondo (noun): A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.