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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.

• gamecock^†  (GA8)
• acme  (AC4)
• ammo  (AM4)
• amok  (AM4)
• came  (CA4)
• cameo  (CA5)
• camo  (CA4)
• coma  (CO4)
• come  (CO4)
• comma  (CO5)
• emcee  (EM5)
• game  (GA4)
• gamma  (GA5)
• mace  (MA4)
• mage  (MA4)
• magma  (MA5)
• make  (MA4)
• mako  (MA4)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mecca  (ME5)
• meek  (ME4)
• mega  (ME4)
• meme  (ME4)
• memo  (ME4)
• mock  (MO4)
• momma  (MO5)
• omega  (OM5)

Answer Definitions

• gamecock^† (noun): A fighting cock: a rooster used in cockfighting.
• acme (noun): A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• amok (adverb): Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.
• came (verb): simple past tense of come
• 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.
• coma (noun): A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
• 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.
• emcee (noun): Alternative form of MC in its senses as Master of ceremonies. A rapper.
• game (noun): A playful or competitive activity. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
• gamma (noun): The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
• mace (noun): A heavy fighting club.
• mage (noun): A magician, wizard or sorcerer.
• magma (noun): The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
• make (verb): To create. To build, construct, produce, or originate.
• mako (noun): mako shark
• mama (noun): Mother, female parent.
• mamma (noun): The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
• mecca (noun): Alternative form of Mecca; a place to which a group of people (for example shoppers) are drawn.
• meek (adjective): Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
• mega (adjective): Very large.
• meme (noun): Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
• memo (noun): A short note; a memorandum.
• mock (noun): An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
• momma (noun): mother
• omega (noun): The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.