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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.

• apathetic^†  (AP9)
• hepatic^†  (HE7)
• pathetic^†  (PA8)
• accept  (AC6)
• apace  (AP5)
• apiece  (AP6)
• appetite  (AP8)
• cape  (CA4)
• captcha  (CA7)
• chap  (CH4)
• chapati  (CH7)
• cheap  (CH5)
• cheapie  (CH7)
• cheep  (CH5)
• chip  (CH4)
• epee  (EP4)
• epic  (EP4)
• epitaph  (EP7)
• epithet  (EP7)
• haptic  (HA6)
• heap  (HE4)
• hepcat  (HE6)
• hippie  (HI6)
• ipecac  (IP6)
• pace  (PA4)
• pact  (PA4)
• papa  (PA4)
• patch  (PA5)
• pate  (PA4)
• path  (PA4)
• peace  (PE5)
• peach  (PE5)
• peat  (PE4)
• peep  (PE4)
• pepita  (PE6)
• peptic  (PE6)
• petit  (PE5)
• petite  (PE6)
• phat  (PH4)
• pica  (PI4)
• piccata  (PI7)
• piece  (PI5)
• pipe  (PI4)
• pipet  (PI5)
• pipette  (PI7)
• pipit  (PI5)
• pita  (PI4)
• pitapat  (PI7)
• pitch  (PI5)
• pith  (PI4)
• tapa  (TA4)
• tape  (TA4)
• teepee  (TE6)
• tepee  (TE5)
• tipi  (TI4)
• tippet  (TI6)

Answer Definitions

• apathetic^† (adjective): Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion.
• hepatic^† (adjective): Of or relating to the liver.
• pathetic^† (adjective): Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
• accept (verb): To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
• apace (adverb): Quickly, rapidly, with speed.
• apiece (adverb): Each by itself; for or to each one
• appetite (noun): Desire to eat food or consume drink.
• cape (noun): A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
• captcha (noun): Alternative letter-case form of CAPTCHA
• chap (noun): A man, a fellow.
• chapati (noun): A flat, unleavened bread from northern India and Pakistan.
• cheap (noun): Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
• cheapie (adjective): Cheap; inferior.
• cheep (verb): Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.
• chip (noun): A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
• epee (noun): A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.
• epic (noun): An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.
• epitaph (noun): An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
• epithet (noun): A term used to characterize a person or thing.
• haptic (adjective): Of or relating to the sense of touch.
• heap (noun): A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
• hepcat (noun): A jazz performer, especially one from the 1940s and 1950s.
• hippie (noun): A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
• ipecac (noun): The dried rhizome and roots of either of two tropical American plants (Cephaelis acuminata and Cephaelis ipecacuanha) of the madder family used especially as a source of emetine.
• pace (noun): Step. A step taken with the foot. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
• pact (noun): An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
• papa (noun): Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
• patch (noun): A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
• pate (noun): The head, particularly the top or crown.
• path (noun): A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
• peace (noun): A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance.
• peach (noun): A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
• peat (noun): Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
• peep (noun): A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.
• pepita (noun): An edible seed from a pumpkin or similar squash, which may - after being roasted (and, if needed, shelled) - be eaten as a snack or used as an ingredient in cooking.
• peptic (adjective): Of, pertaining to, capable of, or aiding digestion.
• petit (adjective): Petite: small, little.
• petite (adjective): fairly short and of slim build.
• phat (adjective): Excellent; cool; very good.
• pica (noun): A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
• piccata (adjective): Sliced, sautéed and served with lemon, parsley and butter sauce.
• piece (noun): A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
• pipe (noun): Meanings relating to a wind instrument. A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. The key or sound of the voice. A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
• pipet (noun): Alternative form of pipette
• pipette (noun): A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
• pipit (noun): Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.
• pita (noun): A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.
• pitapat (verb): Alternative spelling of pit-a-pat
• pitch (noun): A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• pith (noun): The soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees.
• tapa (noun): A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
• tape (noun): Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
• teepee (noun): A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America.
• tepee (noun): Alternative form of teepee
• tipi (noun): Alternative form of teepee
• tippet (noun): A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.