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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.

• kitchen^†  (KI7)
• kitchenette^†  (KI11)
• thicken^†  (TH7)
• cent  (CE4)
• check  (CH5)
• cheek  (CH5)
• chicken  (CH7)
• cite  (CI4)
• entente  (EN7)
• entice  (EN6)
• etch  (ET4)
• ethic  (ET5)
• ethnic  (ET6)
• heck  (HE4)
• hectic  (HE6)
• heinie  (HE6)
• hence  (HE5)
• hike  (HI4)
• hitchhike  (HI9)
• incite  (IN6)
• innie  (IN5)
• intent  (IN6)
• keen  (KE4)
• kente  (KE5)
• ketch  (KE5)
• kinetic  (KI7)
• kite  (KI4)
• kitten  (KI6)
• knee  (KN4)
• neck  (NE4)
• necktie  (NE7)
• nene  (NE4)
• nice  (NI4)
• niche  (NI5)
• niece  (NI5)
• nine  (NI4)
• nineteen  (NI8)
• nineteenth  (NI10)
• ninetieth  (NI9)
• nite  (NI4)
• tech  (TE4)
• techie  (TE6)
• teen  (TE4)
• teeth  (TE5)
• teethe  (TE6)
• tenet  (TE5)
• tent  (TE4)
• tenth  (TE5)
• thee  (TH4)
• then  (TH4)
• thence  (TH6)
• thicket  (TH7)
• thine  (TH5)
• ticket  (TI6)
• tine  (TI4)
• tithe  (TI5)

Answer Definitions

• kitchen^† (noun): A room or area for preparing food.
• kitchenette^† (noun): small kitchen or area for preparing food, often just a part of a room instead of a separate room
• thicken^† (verb): To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
• cent (noun): A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
• check (noun): A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
• cheek (noun): The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
• chicken (noun): A domesticated species of junglefowl (usually, Gallus gallus; sometimes, Gallus gallus domesticus or Gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.
• cite (verb): to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
• entente (noun): An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.
• entice (verb): To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
• etch (verb): To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
• ethic (adjective): Moral, relating to morals.
• ethnic (adjective): Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.
• heck (interjection): Hell.
• hectic (adjective): Very busy with activity and confusion.
• heinie (noun): The buttocks.
• hence (adverb): from here, from this place, away
• hike (noun): A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
• hitchhike (verb): To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road, generally by either sticking out one's finger or thumb or holding a sign with one's stated destination.
• incite (verb): To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.
• innie (noun): A navel that is formed of a hollow in the abdomen (as opposed to one that protrudes from the abdomen).
• intent (noun): Something that is intended.
• keen (adjective): Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
• kente (noun): A type of fabric made of interwoven cloth strips, native to Ghana.
• ketch (noun): A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
• kinetic (adjective): Relating to motion
• kite (noun): A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
• kitten (noun): A young cat, especially before sexual maturity (reached at about seven months).
• knee (noun): In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
• neck (noun): The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
• necktie (noun): A strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front. See also bowtie.
• nene (noun): The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
• nice (adjective): Pleasant, satisfactory.
• niche (noun): A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
• niece (noun): A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").
• nine (numeral): NATO & ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the numeral 9.
• nineteen (numeral): The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".
• nineteenth (adjective): The ordinal form of the number nineteen.
• ninetieth (adjective): The ordinal form of the number ninety.
• nite (noun): Informal spelling of night.
• tech (noun): Technology.
• techie (noun): One who works with, or has an interest in, technology or computers.
• teen (noun): Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old.
• teeth (noun): plural of tooth
• teethe (verb): To grow teeth.
• tenet (noun): An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
• tent (noun): A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
• tenth (adjective): The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
• thee (pronoun): Objective and reflexive case of thou.
• then (adverb): At that time.
• thence (adverb): From there, from that place or from that time.
• thicket (noun): A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
• thine (determiner): Singular second person prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
• ticket (noun): A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
• tine (noun): A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
• tithe (noun): A tenth.