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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.

• fruition^†  (FR8)
• fount  (FO5)
• four  (FO4)
• froufrou  (FR8)
• fruit  (FR5)
• furor  (FU5)
• futon  (FU5)
• intuit  (IN6)
• intuition  (IN9)
• inurn  (IN5)
• nonunion  (NO8)
• noun  (NO4)
• nutrition  (NU9)
• outfit  (OU6)
• outro  (OU5)
• outrun  (OU6)
• rout  (RO4)
• ruff  (RU4)
• ruin  (RU4)
• runoff  (RU6)
• runout  (RU6)
• runt  (RU4)
• tofu  (TO4)
• tour  (TO4)
• tout  (TO4)
• trout  (TR5)
• tuft  (TU4)
• tuition  (TU7)
• turf  (TU4)
• turn  (TU4)
• turnoff  (TU7)
• turnout  (TU7)
• tutor  (TU5)
• tutti  (TU5)
• tutu  (TU4)
• unfit  (UN5)
• union  (UN5)
• unit  (UN4)
• unto  (UN4)

Answer Definitions

• fruition^† (noun): The fulfillment of something worked for.
• fount (noun): Something from which water flows.
• four (numeral): NATO & ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the numeral 4.
• froufrou (noun): Alternative spelling of frou-frou
• fruit (noun): In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.
• furor (noun): A general uproar or commotion.
• futon (noun): A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed.
• intuit (verb): To know intuitively or by immediate perception.
• intuition (noun): Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
• inurn (verb): To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.
• nonunion (adjective): Not part of a labor union; not unionized.
• 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.
• nutrition (noun): The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
• outfit (noun): A set of clothing (with accessories).
• 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.
• rout (noun): A group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular , a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.
• ruff (noun): A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
• ruin (noun): The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
• runoff (noun): That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
• runout (noun): Something that has been run out.
• runt (noun): The smallest animal of a litter.
• tofu (noun): A protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk.
• tour (noun): A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
• tout (noun): Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
• trout (noun): Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
• tuft (noun): A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
• tuition (noun): A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).
• turf (noun): A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
• turn (verb): To make a non-linear physical movement. Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
• turnoff (noun): A road or path that branches off from a main one.
• 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.
• tutti (adverb): All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices.
• tutu (noun): A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
• unfit (adjective): Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
• union (noun): The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
• unit (noun): Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
• unto (conjunction): Up to the time or degree that; until.