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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.

• demonize^†  (DE8)
• demonized^†  (DE9)
• demimonde  (DE9)
• demo  (DE4)
• demoed  (DE6)
• demon  (DE5)
• dino  (DI4)
• diode  (DI5)
• dodo  (DO4)
• dome  (DO4)
• domed  (DO5)
• dominion  (DO8)
• domino  (DO6)
• done  (DO4)
• donee  (DO5)
• donned  (DO6)
• doom  (DO4)
• doomed  (DO6)
• doozie  (DO6)
• doze  (DO4)
• dozed  (DO5)
• dozen  (DO5)
• idiom  (ID5)
• iodide  (IO6)
• iodine  (IO6)
• iodize  (IO6)
• iodized  (IO7)
• ionize  (IO6)
• ionized  (IO7)
• memo  (ME4)
• mezzo  (ME5)
• mimeo  (MI5)
• minion  (MI6)
• mode  (MO4)
• modem  (MO5)
• mondo  (MO5)
• monied  (MO6)
• mono  (MO4)
• mood  (MO4)
• mooed  (MO5)
• moon  (MO4)
• mooned  (MO6)
• neon  (NE4)
• nodded  (NO6)
• node  (NO4)
• nominee  (NO7)
• none  (NO4)
• noon  (NO4)
• odeon  (OD5)
• omen  (OM4)
• onion  (ON5)
• ooze  (OO4)
• oozed  (OO5)
• ozone  (OZ5)
• zone  (ZO4)
• zoned  (ZO5)
• zoom  (ZO4)
• zoomed  (ZO6)

Answer Definitions

• demonize^† (verb): To turn into a demon.
• demonized^† (verb): simple past tense and past participle of demonize
• demimonde (noun): A class of women maintained by wealthy protectors; female courtesans or prostitutes as a group.
• demo (noun): A demonstration or visual explanation.
• demoed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of demo
• demon (noun): An evil supernatural spirit. An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil. A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity. A very wicked or malevolent person; also a mischievous person, especially a child. A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
• dino (noun): dinosaur.
• diode (noun): An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.
• dodo (noun): A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
• dome (noun): A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
• domed (adjective): In the form of a dome.
• dominion (noun): Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
• domino (noun): A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes.
• done (adjective): Having completed or finished an activity.
• donee (noun): Someone who receives a gift from a donor.
• donned (verb): simple past tense and past participle of don
• doom (noun): Destiny, especially terrible.
• doomed (adjective): Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
• doozie (noun): Alternative spelling of doozy
• doze (verb): To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
• dozed (verb): simple past and past participle of doze
• dozen (noun): A set of twelve.
• idiom (noun): A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.
• iodide (noun): A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical.
• iodine (noun): A chemical element (symbol: I) with an atomic number of 53; one of the halogens.
• iodize (verb): To treat or react with iodine.
• iodized (adjective): Treated with iodine or an iodide.
• ionize (verb): To dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged species; to be thus dissociated.
• ionized (verb): simple past tense and past participle of ionize
• memo (noun): A short note; a memorandum.
• mezzo (noun): mezzo-soprano
• mimeo (noun): A mimeograph.
• minion (noun): A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
• mode (noun): One of several ancient Greek scales.
• modem (noun): A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line.
• mondo (noun): A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.
• monied (adjective): affluent; rich
• mono (noun): Clipping of mononucleosis.
• mood (noun): A mental or emotional state, composure.
• mooed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of moo
• moon (proper noun): Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”).
• mooned (verb): simple past tense and past participle of moon
• neon (noun): The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The second of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
• nodded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of nod
• node (noun): A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
• nominee (noun): A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.
• none (pronoun): Not any of a given number or group.
• noon (noun): The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
• odeon (noun): An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry.
• omen (noun): Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
• onion (noun): A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
• ooze (noun): Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
• oozed (verb): simple past and past participle of ooze
• ozone (noun): An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O₃) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a toxic gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.
• zone (noun): Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
• zoned (verb): simple past and past participle of zone
• zoom (noun): A humming noise from something moving very fast.
• zoomed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of zoom