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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.

• beachcomb^†  (BE9)
• achoo  (AC5)
• ammo  (AM4)
• amoeba  (AM6)
• amoebae  (AM7)
• bamboo  (BA6)
• baobab  (BA6)
• become  (BE6)
• boba  (BO4)
• bocce  (BO5)
• boho  (BO4)
• bomb  (BO4)
• bombe  (BO5)
• boob  (BO4)
• booboo  (BO6)
• boohoo  (BO6)
• boom  (BO4)
• cacao  (CA5)
• cameo  (CA5)
• camo  (CA4)
• chemo  (CH5)
• coach  (CO5)
• coca  (CO4)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• coho  (CO4)
• coma  (CO4)
• comb  (CO4)
• combo  (CO5)
• come  (CO4)
• comma  (CO5)
• echo  (EC4)
• haboob  (HA6)
• hobo  (HO4)
• home  (HO4)
• hooch  (HO5)
• macho  (MA5)
• mambo  (MA5)
• memo  (ME4)
• mocha  (MO5)
• momma  (MO5)
• mooch  (MO5)
• oboe  (OB4)

Answer Definitions

• beachcomb^† (verb): To go beachcombing.
• achoo (interjection): The sound of a sneeze.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• amoeba (noun): A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
• amoebae (noun): plural of amoeba
• bamboo (noun): A fast-growing grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
• baobab (noun): A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
• become (verb): begin to be; turn into.
• boba (noun): Synonym of tapioca pearl.
• bocce (noun): A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court
• boho (noun): A bohemian.
• bomb (noun): An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, one dropped from an aircraft. The atomic bomb.
• bombe (noun): A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold.
• boob (noun): An idiot; a fool.
• booboo (noun): Alternative spelling of boo-boo
• boohoo (verb): To cry, weep.
• boom (verb): To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• cameo (noun): A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
• camo (noun): A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
• chemo (noun): Clipping of chemotherapy.
• coach (noun): A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
• coca (noun): Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
• cocoa (noun): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
• coho (noun): An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean, used as a symbol by several Native American tribes.
• coma (noun): A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
• comb (noun): A toothed implement: A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. The notched scale of a wire micrometer. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis. A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
• combo (noun): A small musical group.
• come (verb): To move from further away to nearer to.
• comma (noun): English Wikipedia has an article on:commaWikipedia The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
• echo (noun): A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
• haboob (noun): A violent sandstorm or duststorm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America.
• hobo (noun): A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum.
• home (noun): A dwelling. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace. The place where a person was raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
• hooch (noun): Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky.
• macho (adjective): Tending to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, bravado, etc., in ways that are showily and histrionically tough.
• mambo (noun): A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
• memo (noun): A short note; a memorandum.
• mocha (noun): A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
• momma (noun): mother
• mooch (verb): To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
• oboe (noun): A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.