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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.

• eligibility^†  (EL11)
• illegibility^†  (IL12)
• legibility^†  (LE10)
• beet  (BE4)
• beetle  (BE6)
• beget  (BE5)
• beige  (BE5)
• belie  (BE5)
• belittle  (BE8)
• bell  (BE4)
• belle  (BE5)
• belly  (BE5)
• belt  (BE4)
• betel  (BE5)
• bible  (BI5)
• bigeye  (BI6)
• biggie  (BI6)
• bile  (BI4)
• bilge  (BI5)
• billet  (BI6)
• bite  (BI4)
• byte  (BY4)
• eely  (EE4)
• eggy  (EG4)
• elegy  (EL5)
• eligible  (EL8)
• eligibly  (EL8)
• elite  (EL5)
• eyelet  (EY6)
• gelee  (GE5)
• gelt  (GE4)
• gibe  (GI4)
• giblet  (GI6)
• giggle  (GI6)
• glee  (GL4)
• illegible  (IL9)
• illegibly  (IL9)
• leggy  (LE5)
• legible  (LE7)
• legibly  (LE7)
• legit  (LE5)
• libel  (LI5)
• libelee  (LI7)
• liege  (LI5)
• lite  (LI4)
• little  (LI6)
• tell  (TE4)
• tile  (TI4)
• title  (TI5)
• tittle  (TI6)
• yell  (YE4)
• yeti  (YE4)

Answer Definitions

• eligibility^† (noun): The state, quality, or the fact of being eligible.
• illegibility^† (noun): The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
• legibility^† (noun): The property of being legible or easily readable.
• beet (noun): Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
• beetle (noun): Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
• beget (verb): To father; to sire; to produce (a child).
• beige (noun): A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
• belie (verb): To lie around; encompass.
• belittle (verb): To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is, especially as a way of showing contempt or deprecation.
• 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.
• belly (noun): The abdomen, especially a fat one.
• belt (noun): A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
• betel (noun): Either of two plants often used in combination: an evergreen Indian creeping shrub, Piper betle, whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut: the betel pepper the seed of the betel palm, Areca catechu: the betel nut
• bible (noun): Alternative letter-case form of Bible (“a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of the Christian religious text”)
• bigeye (noun): Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes.
• biggie (noun): Alternative spelling of biggy
• bile (noun): A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
• bilge (noun): The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
• billet (noun): A short informal letter.
• bite (verb): To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
• byte (noun): A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
• eely (adjective): Resembling an eel: long, thin and slippery.
• eggy (adjective): Covered with or dipped in egg.
• elegy (noun): A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
• eligible (adjective): allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something
• eligibly (adverb): In an eligible manner.
• elite (adjective): Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
• eyelet (noun): An object that consists of a rim and small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.
• gelee (noun): Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.
• gelt (noun): A lunatic.
• gibe (noun): Alternative spelling of gybe
• giblet (noun): the edible viscera of a bird
• giggle (verb): To laugh gently in a nervous or affected manner.
• glee (noun): Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
• illegible (adjective): Not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable.
• illegibly (adverb): In a manner that produces illegible results.
• leggy (adjective): Having long, attractive legs; long-legged.
• legible (adjective): Clear enough to be read; readable, particularly of handwriting.
• legibly (adverb): In a manner that is legible, in a manner that is readable, readably.
• legit (noun): A legitimate; a legitimate actor.
• libel (noun): A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
• libelee (noun): The party against which a libel (hostile handbill) has been filed by a libelant.
• liege (noun): A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.
• lite (adjective): Abridged; refers to a simpler or unpaid version of a product.
• little (adjective): Small in size.
• tell (verb): To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• tile (noun): A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile etc.
• title (noun): An appellation given to a person or family to signify either veneration, official position, social rank, the possession of assets or properties, or a professional or academic qualification. See also Category:Titles
• tittle (noun): Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
• yell (verb): shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
• yeti (noun): An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.