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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.

• guilted^†  (GU7)
• delete  (DE6)
• deleted  (DE7)
• delt  (DE4)
• diet  (DI4)
• dieted  (DI6)
• digit  (DI5)
• dilute  (DI6)
• diluted  (DI7)
• duet  (DU4)
• duetted  (DU7)
• edit  (ED4)
• edited  (ED6)
• elite  (EL5)
• etude  (ET5)
• gelt  (GE4)
• gilt  (GI4)
• glut  (GL4)
• glute  (GL5)
• glutei  (GL6)
• glutted  (GL7)
• guilt  (GU5)
• gullet  (GU6)
• gutted  (GU6)
• legit  (LE5)
• lilt  (LI4)
• lilted  (LI6)
• lite  (LI4)
• little  (LI6)
• lute  (LU4)
• teed  (TE4)
• tell  (TE4)
• tide  (TI4)
• tided  (TI5)
• tidied  (TI6)
• tied  (TI4)
• tilde  (TI5)
• tile  (TI4)
• tiled  (TI5)
• till  (TI4)
• tilled  (TI6)
• tilt  (TI4)
• tilted  (TI6)
• title  (TI5)
• titled  (TI6)
• tittle  (TI6)
• tugged  (TU6)
• tulle  (TU5)
• tutee  (TU5)
• tutted  (TU6)
• tutti  (TU5)
• tutu  (TU4)
• utile  (UT5)

Answer Definitions

• guilted^† (verb): simple past tense and past participle of guilt
• delete (verb): To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
• deleted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of delete
• delt (noun): The deltoid muscle.
• diet (noun): The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
• dieted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of diet
• digit (noun): The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined to represent base-ten numbers.
• dilute (verb): To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
• diluted (verb): simple past and past participle of dilute
• duet (noun): A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
• duetted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of duet
• edit (noun): A change to the text of a document.
• edited (verb): simple past tense and past participle of edit
• elite (adjective): Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
• etude (noun): A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill.
• gelt (noun): A lunatic.
• gilt (noun): Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding. Gold-colored paint or other coating.
• glut (noun): An excess, too much.
• glute (noun): A gluteal muscle.
• glutei (noun): plural of gluteus
• glutted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of glut
• guilt (noun): Responsibility for wrongdoing.
• gullet (noun): The throat or esophagus.
• gutted (adjective): Eviscerated.
• legit (noun): A legitimate; a legitimate actor.
• lilt (verb): To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
• lilted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of lilt
• lite (adjective): Abridged; refers to a simpler or unpaid version of a product.
• little (adjective): Small in size.
• lute (noun): A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
• teed (verb): past participle of tee
• tell (verb): To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• tide (noun): The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
• tided (adjective): Affected by the tide; having a tide.
• tidied (verb): simple past tense and past participle of tidy
• tied (adjective): Closely connected or associated.
• tilde (noun): The grapheme of character ~. A diacritical mark (˜) placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words. A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number). May be used to represent approximation (mathematics).
• 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.
• tiled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of tile
• till (preposition): Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
• tilled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of till
• tilt (verb): To slope or incline (something); to slant.
• tilted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of tilt
• 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
• titled (adjective): Bearing a title.
• 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.
• tugged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of tug
• tulle (noun): A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.
• tutee (noun): A student of a tutor.
• tutted (verb): simple past tense and past participle of tut
• tutti (adverb): All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices.
• tutu (noun): A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
• utile (adjective): Useful.