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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.

• hangable^†  (HA8)
• able  (AB4)
• alga  (AL4)
• algae  (AL5)
• algal  (AL5)
• allege  (AL6)
• allele  (AL6)
• anal  (AN4)
• angel  (AN5)
• angle  (AN5)
• annal  (AN5)
• anneal  (AN6)
• babble  (BA6)
• babel  (BA5)
• bagel  (BA5)
• bale  (BA4)
• baleen  (BA6)
• ball  (BA4)
• banal  (BA5)
• bangle  (BA6)
• beagle  (BE6)
• beanball  (BE8)
• bell  (BE4)
• belle  (BE5)
• blab  (BL4)
• blah  (BL4)
• eagle  (EA5)
• elan  (EL4)
• enable  (EN6)
• gabble  (GA6)
• gable  (GA5)
• gaggle  (GA6)
• gala  (GA4)
• galangal  (GA8)
• gale  (GA4)
• gall  (GA4)
• gelee  (GE5)
• glean  (GL5)
• glee  (GL4)
• glen  (GL4)
• haggle  (HA6)
• halal  (HA5)
• hale  (HA4)
• hall  (HA4)
• heal  (HE4)
• healable  (HE8)
• heel  (HE4)
• hell  (HE4)
• label  (LA5)
• lane  (LA4)
• lean  (LE4)
• legal  (LE5)

Answer Definitions

• hangable^† (adjective): Able to be hung or suspended.
• able (adjective): Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
• alga (noun): Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
• algae (noun): plural of alga
• algal (adjective): Pertaining to, or like, algae.
• allege (verb): To state under oath, to plead.
• allele (noun): One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.
• anal (adjective): of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
• angel (noun): An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes.
• angle (noun): A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
• annal (noun): The record of a single event or item.
• anneal (verb): To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
• babble (verb): To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
• babel (noun): Alternative form of Babel
• bagel (noun): A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
• bale (noun): Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
• baleen (noun): The bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of the baleen whale, Mysticeti, which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry.
• ball (noun): A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
• banal (adjective): Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
• bangle (noun): A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
• beagle (noun): A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet.
• beanball (noun): A pitch deliberately thrown at the head of the batter.
• 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.
• blab (verb): To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
• blah (noun): Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
• eagle (noun): Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
• elan (noun): Uncommon spelling of élan.
• enable (verb): To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
• gabble (verb): To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
• gable (noun): The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).
• gaggle (noun): A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
• gala (adjective): Celebratory; festive.
• galangal (noun): Any of several east Asian plants of genera Alpinia and Kaempferia in the ginger family, used as a spice, but principally Alpinia galanga.
• gale (verb): To sing; charm; enchant.
• gall (noun): Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
• gelee (noun): Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.
• glean (verb): To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.
• glee (noun): Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
• glen (noun): A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.
• haggle (verb): To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
• halal (adjective): Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
• hale (adjective): Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
• hall (noun): A corridor; a hallway.
• heal (verb): To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
• healable (adjective): Receptive to treatment or cure.
• heel (noun): The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
• hell (proper noun): A place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death.
• label (noun): A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
• lane (noun): A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
• lean (verb): To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
• legal (adjective): Relating to the law or to lawyers.