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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.

• companion^†  (CO9)
• acacia  (AC6)
• acai  (AC4)
• anionic  (AN7)
• cacao  (CA5)
• caiman  (CA6)
• cami  (CA4)
• camo  (CA4)
• camp  (CA4)
• campo  (CA5)
• cancan  (CA6)
• canna  (CA5)
• cannon  (CA6)
• canon  (CA5)
• canonic  (CA7)
• canopic  (CA7)
• capo  (CA4)
• capon  (CA5)
• ciao  (CI4)
• cinnamon  (CI8)
• cioppino  (CI8)
• coca  (CO4)
• cocci  (CO5)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• cocoon  (CO6)
• coin  (CO4)
• coma  (CO4)
• comic  (CO5)
• comma  (CO5)
• common  (CO6)
• comp  (CO4)
• conic  (CO5)
• coop  (CO4)
• icon  (IC4)
• iconic  (IC6)
• ionic  (IO5)
• maniac  (MA6)
• manic  (MA5)
• mica  (MI4)
• mimic  (MI5)
• minicam  (MI7)
• minicamp  (MI8)
• monomaniac  (MO10)
• niacin  (NI6)
• nincompoop  (NI10)
• noncom  (NO6)
• panic  (PA5)
• pica  (PI4)
• picnic  (PI6)
• poinciana  (PO9)

Answer Definitions

• companion^† (noun): A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
• acacia (noun): A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae.
• acai (noun): Any of several South American palms, of the genus Euterpe, having a dark purple drupe.
• anionic (adjective): Of or pertaining to an anion.
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• caiman (noun): Any of the relatively small crocodilians of the genus Caiman, within the family Alligatoridae.
• cami (noun): A camisole.
• 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.
• camp (noun): An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
• campo (noun): A police officer assigned to a university campus.
• cancan (noun): A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
• canna (noun): Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
• cannon (noun): A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
• canon (noun): A generally accepted principle; a rule.
• canonic (adjective): canonical
• canopic (adjective): Relating to a forest canopy.
• capo (noun): A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
• capon (noun): A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
• ciao (interjection): hello, hi.
• cinnamon (noun): A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae.
• cioppino (noun): An Italian-American shellfish and tomato stew.
• coca (noun): Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
• cocci (noun): plural of coccus
• cocoa (noun): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
• cocoon (noun): The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
• coin (noun): A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
• coma (noun): A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
• comic (adjective): Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
• 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.
• common (adjective): Mutual; shared by more than one.
• comp (adjective): Clipping of complimentary.
• conic (adjective): Synonym of conical
• coop (noun): A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
• icon (noun): An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
• iconic (adjective): Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.
• ionic (adjective): of, relating to, or containing ions
• maniac (noun): An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania.
• manic (adjective): Of or pertaining to someone who exhibits mania or craziness; wicked.
• mica (noun): Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.
• mimic (verb): To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
• minicam (noun): A small movie camera.
• minicamp (noun): A short training session for members of a professional sports team, held before the main preseason training
• monomaniac (noun): A person who is obsessed with a single thing, to the exclusion of other concerns.
• niacin (noun): A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.
• nincompoop (noun): A foolish or silly person.
• noncom (noun): A non-commissioned officer, such as a sergeant (army) or petty officer (navy).
• panic (adjective): Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”)
• pica (noun): A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
• picnic (noun): An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
• poinciana (noun): A tropical tree, Delonix regia, with bright red flowers, native to Madagascar and now widely cultivated as an ornamental; the royal poinciana or flamboyant.