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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.

• impartial^†  (IM9)
• apart  (AP5)
• appall  (AP6)
• apparat  (AP7)
• armpit  (AR6)
• impair  (IM6)
• impala  (IM6)
• impart  (IM6)
• lamp  (LA4)
• limp  (LI4)
• pail  (PA4)
• pair  (PA4)
• palapa  (PA6)
• palatal  (PA7)
• palatial  (PA8)
• pall  (PA4)
• palm  (PA4)
• palp  (PA4)
• pampa  (PA5)
• papa  (PA4)
• papal  (PA5)
• papilla  (PA7)
• part  (PA4)
• partial  (PA7)
• partita  (PA7)
• pill  (PI4)
• pillar  (PI6)
• pimp  (PI4)
• pipit  (PI5)
• pita  (PI4)
• pitapat  (PI7)
• plait  (PL5)
• plat  (PL4)
• pram  (PR4)
• prat  (PR4)
• prim  (PR4)
• primal  (PR6)
• primp  (PR5)
• ramp  (RA4)
• rampart  (RA7)
• rapt  (RA4)
• rattrap  (RA7)
• taillamp  (TA8)
• tamp  (TA4)
• tapa  (TA4)
• tapir  (TA5)
• tarp  (TA4)
• tilapia  (TI7)
• tipi  (TI4)
• tramp  (TR5)
• trap  (TR4)
• trip  (TR4)

Answer Definitions

• impartial^† (adjective): treating all parties, rivals, or disputants equally; not partial; not biased
• apart (adverb): Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
• appall (verb): To fill with horror; to dismay.
• apparat (noun): The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
• armpit (noun): The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
• impair (verb): To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
• impala (noun): An African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns.
• impart (verb): To give or bestow (e.g. a quality or property).
• lamp (noun): A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
• limp (verb): To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
• pail (noun): A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
• pair (noun): Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
• palapa (noun): An open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves.
• palatal (adjective): Pertaining to the palate.
• palatial (adjective): Of or relating to a palace.
• pall (noun): Senses relating to cloth. Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes. A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse. A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist. A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).
• palm (noun): Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
• palp (noun): Synonym of pedipalp.
• pampa (noun): singular of pampas
• papa (noun): Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
• papal (adjective): Having to do with the pope or the papacy.
• papilla (noun): A nipple-like protuberance on a part or organ of the body. A vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth. Any of the vascular protuberances of the dermal layer of the skin extending into the epidermal layer and often containing tactile corpuscles. Any of the small protuberances on the upper surface of the tongue often containing taste buds.
• part (noun): A portion; a component. A fraction of a whole.
• partial (adjective): existing as a part or portion; incomplete
• partita (noun): A type of instrumental suite popular in the 18th century
• pill (noun): A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
• pillar (noun): A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
• pimp (noun): Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
• 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
• plait (noun): A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
• plat (noun): A plot of land; a lot.
• pram (noun): A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position.
• prat (noun): A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
• prim (adjective): prudish, straight-laced
• primal (adjective): Being the first in time or in history.
• primp (verb): To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.
• ramp (noun): An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
• rampart (noun): A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
• rapt (adjective): Snatched, taken away; abducted.
• rattrap (noun): A device (trap) used to catch rats.
• taillamp (noun): A taillight.
• tamp (verb): To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.
• tapa (noun): A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
• tapir (noun): Any one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.
• tarp (noun): A tarpaulin.
• tilapia (noun): Any of various edible fish, formerly species of the genus Tilapia, but now placed in other cichlid genera (such as Oreochromis), native to Africa and the Middle East but cultivated worldwide.
• tipi (noun): Alternative form of teepee
• tramp (noun): A homeless person; a vagabond.
• trap (noun): A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
• trip (noun): A journey; an excursion or jaunt.