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Table of Contents

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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.

• dormant^†  (DO7)
• mordant^†  (MO7)
• adamant  (AD7)
• adman  (AD5)
• ammo  (AM4)
• armada  (AR6)
• armor  (AR5)
• aroma  (AR5)
• atom  (AT4)
• damn  (DA4)
• doom  (DO4)
• doorman  (DO7)
• doormat  (DO7)
• dorm  (DO4)
• dram  (DR4)
• drama  (DR5)
• madam  (MA5)
• madman  (MA6)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mammon  (MA6)
• manna  (MA5)
• manor  (MA5)
• manta  (MA5)
• mantra  (MA6)
• marm  (MA4)
• marmot  (MA6)
• maroon  (MA6)
• mart  (MA4)
• matador  (MA7)
• matron  (MA6)
• moan  (MO4)
• moat  (MO4)
• momma  (MO5)
• monad  (MO5)
• mondo  (MO5)
• mono  (MO4)
• monodrama  (MO9)
• mood  (MO4)
• moon  (MO4)
• moor  (MO4)
• moot  (MO4)
• morn  (MO4)
• moron  (MO5)
• mortar  (MO6)
• motor  (MO5)
• motto  (MO5)
• nomad  (NO5)
• nonrandom  (NO9)
• norm  (NO4)
• ottoman  (OT7)
• ramada  (RA6)
• ramrod  (RA6)
• random  (RA6)
• roam  (RO4)
• room  (RO4)
• tomato  (TO6)
• tram  (TR4)

Answer Definitions

• dormant^† (adjective): Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
• mordant^† (adjective): Having or showing a sharp or critical quality
• adamant (adjective): Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
• adman (noun): A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• armada (noun): A fleet of warships, especially with reference to the Spanish Armada.
• armor (noun): A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
• aroma (noun): A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.
• atom (noun): The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
• damn (verb): To condemn to hell.
• doom (noun): Destiny, especially terrible.
• doorman (noun): A person who holds open the door at the entryway (entrance) to a building, summons taxicabs, and provides an element of security; in apartment buildings, he also accepts deliveries and may perform certain concierge type services.
• doormat (noun): A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
• dorm (noun): Clipping of dormitory.
• dram (noun): A small unit of weight, variously: One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (approximately 1.77 g). Alternative form of drachm (“⁄8 ounce apothecary (3.89 g) (symbol: ℨ)”). Synonym of dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g). Synonym of drachma: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).
• drama (noun): A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue
• madam (noun): A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
• madman (noun): A male who is insane or mentally disturbed.
• 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.
• mammon (proper noun): Alternative letter-case form of Mammon (wealth, material avarice).
• manna (noun): Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
• manor (noun): A landed estate.
• manta (noun): A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
• mantra (noun): The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer.
• marm (noun): madam; a polite term of address for a lady.
• marmot (noun): Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
• maroon (noun): An escaped negro of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
• mart (noun): A shop, store.
• matador (noun): The person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight.
• matron (noun): A mature or elderly woman.
• moan (noun): a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
• moat (noun): A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
• momma (noun): mother
• monad (noun): An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
• mondo (noun): A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.
• mono (noun): Clipping of mononucleosis.
• monodrama (noun): A play in the form of a monologue
• mood (noun): A mental or emotional state, composure.
• moon (proper noun): Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”).
• moor (noun): An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
• moot (adjective): Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
• morn (noun): Morning.
• moron (noun): A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.
• mortar (noun): A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
• motor (noun): A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
• motto (noun): A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
• nomad (noun): A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
• nonrandom (adjective): Not random; caused or manipulated; arranged.
• norm (noun): That which is normal or typical.
• ottoman (noun): An upholstered sofa, without arms or a back, sometimes with a compartment for storing linen etc.
• ramada (noun): A simple arbour or open porch, typically roofed with branches.
• ramrod (noun): Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
• random (noun): A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
• roam (verb): To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
• room (noun): Opportunity or scope (to do something).
• tomato (noun): A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
• tram (noun): A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America).