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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.

• rotunda^†  (RO7)
• turnaround^†  (TU10)
• adorn  (AD5)
• annotator  (AN9)
• anon  (AN4)
• aorta  (AO5)
• ardor  (AR5)
• around  (AR6)
• aurora  (AU6)
• auto  (AU4)
• dodo  (DO4)
• donor  (DO5)
• donut  (DO5)
• doodad  (DO6)
• door  (DO4)
• dorado  (DO6)
• dotard  (DO6)
• dour  (DO4)
• dunno  (DU5)
• narrator  (NA8)
• nonart  (NO6)
• noon  (NO4)
• notator  (NO7)
• noun  (NO4)
• odor  (OD4)
• onto  (ON4)
• orator  (OR6)
• orotund  (OR7)
• outdo  (OU5)
• outdoor  (OU7)
• outran  (OU6)
• outro  (OU5)
• outrun  (OU6)
• radon  (RA5)
• rando  (RA5)
• road  (RO4)
• roan  (RO4)
• roar  (RO4)
• rondo  (RO5)
• rood  (RO4)
• root  (RO4)
• rotator  (RO7)
• rotor  (RO5)
• rotund  (RO6)
• round  (RO5)
• rout  (RO4)
• runaround  (RU9)
• runout  (RU6)
• tandoor  (TA7)
• taro  (TA4)
• tarot  (TA5)
• tattoo  (TA6)
• toad  (TO4)
• toon  (TO4)
• toot  (TO4)
• torn  (TO4)
• tornado  (TO7)
• toro  (TO4)
• tort  (TO4)
• tour  (TO4)
• tout  (TO4)
• trod  (TR4)
• trot  (TR4)
• trout  (TR5)
• turnout  (TU7)
• tutor  (TU5)
• udon  (UD4)
• undo  (UN4)
• unto  (UN4)

Answer Definitions

• rotunda^† (noun): A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
• turnaround^† (noun): The act of turning to face in the other direction.
• adorn (verb): To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
• annotator (noun): One who annotates.
• anon (adverb): Straight away; at once.
• aorta (noun): The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
• ardor (noun): Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
• around (preposition): Forming a circle or closed curve containing (something).
• aurora (noun): An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.
• auto (adjective): Clipping of automatic.
• dodo (noun): A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
• donor (noun): One who makes a donation.
• donut (noun): A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream.
• doodad (noun): Used to refer to something whose name one cannot recall: an unspecified device, gadget, part, or thing.
• door (noun): A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
• dorado (noun): Coryphaena hippurus, the mahi-mahi or dolphin, a species of fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.
• dotard (noun): An old person with impaired intellect; one in his or her dotage.
• dour (adjective): Stern, harsh and forbidding.
• dunno (contraction): Pronunciation spelling of do not know; pronunciation spelling of does not know.
• narrator (noun): One who narrates or tells stories.
• nonart (noun): That which is not art
• noon (noun): The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
• notator (noun): One who notates; a writer of notation.
• noun (noun): A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
• odor (noun): Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
• onto (preposition): Upon; on top of.
• orator (noun): Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
• orotund (adjective): Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound.
• outdo (verb): To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.
• outdoor (adjective): Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
• outran (verb): simple past tense of outrun
• outro (noun): A portion of music at the end of a song; like an intro, but at the end instead of the beginning.
• outrun (verb): To run faster than.
• radon (noun): The chemical element (symbol Rn, formerly Ro) with atomic number 86. It is an odorless, colorless, chemically inert but radioactive noble gas.
• rando (adjective): Random; arbitrary.
• road (noun): A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
• roan (adjective): Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
• roar (verb): To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
• rondo (noun): A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
• rood (noun): A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
• root (noun): The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
• rotator (noun): One who or that which rotates.
• rotor (noun): A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump.
• rotund (adjective): Having a round, spherical or curved shape; circular; orbicular.
• round (adjective): Of shape: Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
• rout (noun): A group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular , a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.
• runaround (noun): An evasive explanation in the form of multiple excuses.
• runout (noun): Something that has been run out.
• tandoor (noun): A cylindrical clay oven used, in the cuisine of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent, to make flat bread, or to cook meat.
• taro (noun): Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
• tarot (noun): A card game played in various different variations.
• tattoo (noun): An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
• toad (noun): An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
• toon (noun): A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
• toot (noun): The noise of a horn or whistle.
• torn (verb): past participle of tear (rip, rend, speed).
• tornado (noun): A violent windstorm characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
• toro (noun): A traditional Japanese lantern.
• tort (noun): An injury or wrong.
• tour (noun): A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
• tout (noun): Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
• trod (verb): simple past tense of tread
• trot (noun): An ugly old woman, a hag.
• trout (noun): Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
• turnout (noun): The act of coming forth.
• tutor (noun): One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
• udon (noun): a Japanese wheat noodle
• undo (verb): To reverse the effects of an action.
• unto (conjunction): Up to the time or degree that; until.