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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.

• filename^†  (FI8)
• inflame^†  (IN7)
• aflame  (AF6)
• amen  (AM4)
• anemia  (AN6)
• anima  (AN5)
• animal  (AN6)
• anime  (AN5)
• email  (EM5)
• enamel  (EN6)
• enema  (EN5)
• fame  (FA4)
• familial  (FA8)
• famine  (FA6)
• female  (FE6)
• feminine  (FE8)
• femme  (FE5)
• film  (FI4)
• flame  (FL5)
• flimflam  (FL8)
• imam  (IM4)
• lama  (LA4)
• lame  (LA4)
• lamina  (LA6)
• laminae  (LA7)
• laminal  (LA7)
• lemma  (LE5)
• lima  (LI4)
• lime  (LI4)
• liminal  (LI7)
• limn  (LI4)
• lineman  (LI7)
• linemen  (LI7)
• llama  (LL5)
• mafia  (MA5)
• mail  (MA4)
• mailman  (MA7)
• mailmen  (MA7)
• maim  (MA4)
• main  (MA4)
• mainline  (MA8)
• male  (MA4)
• mall  (MA4)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mammal  (MA6)
• mammalian  (MA9)
• mane  (MA4)
• mania  (MA5)
• manila  (MA6)
• manna  (MA5)
• meal  (ME4)
• mean  (ME4)
• meanie  (ME6)
• melanin  (ME7)
• melee  (ME5)
• meme  (ME4)
• menial  (ME6)
• mien  (MI4)
• miff  (MI4)
• mile  (MI4)
• mill  (MI4)
• millennia  (MI9)
• millennial  (MI10)
• mime  (MI4)
• mine  (MI4)
• mini  (MI4)
• minim  (MI5)
• minima  (MI6)
• minimal  (MI7)
• name  (NA4)

Answer Definitions

• filename^† (noun): The name assigned to a file in a file system.
• inflame^† (verb): To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
• aflame (adjective): in flames, on fire, flaming, with flames coming from it
• amen (adverb): At the end of religious prayers: so be it.
• anemia (noun): A medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue.
• anima (noun): The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
• animal (noun): A eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
• anime (noun): An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.
• email (noun): A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.
• enamel (noun): An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.
• enema (noun): An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes.
• fame (noun): What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
• familial (adjective): Of or pertaining to a human family.
• famine (noun): Extreme shortage of food in a region.
• female (adjective): Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
• feminine (adjective): Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
• femme (noun): A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl.
• film (noun): A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
• flame (noun): The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
• flimflam (noun): Alternative form of flim-flam
• imam (noun): One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
• lama (noun): A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
• lame (adjective): Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
• lamina (noun): a thin layer, plate, or scale of material
• laminae (noun): plural of lamina
• laminal (adjective): laminar
• lemma (noun): A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
• lima (noun): lima bean
• lime (noun): Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
• liminal (adjective): Of or pertaining to an entrance or threshold.
• limn (verb): To draw or paint; to delineate.
• lineman (noun): A person who installs and repairs overhead cables (either power or telephone); a linesman.
• linemen (noun): plural of lineman
• llama (noun): A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
• mafia (noun): A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.
• mail (noun): A bag or wallet.
• mailman (noun): someone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes
• mailmen (noun): plural of mailman
• maim (verb): To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
• main (adjective): Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
• mainline (adjective): Normal, principal or standard.
• male (adjective): Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
• mall (noun): A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
• 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.
• mammal (noun): An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and producing milk with which to feed its young.
• mammalian (adjective): of, or pertaining to, mammals
• mane (noun): Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion
• mania (noun): Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
• manila (adjective): Made of manila paper or material like it.
• manna (noun): Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
• meal (noun): Correct quotes
• mean (verb): To intend. To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention.
• meanie (noun): A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy.
• melanin (noun): Any of a group of naturally occurring dark pigments, especially the pigment found in skin, hair, fur, and feathers.
• melee (noun): A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
• meme (noun): Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
• menial (adjective): Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
• mien (noun): Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
• miff (noun): A small argument; a quarrel.
• mile (noun): The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
• mill (noun): A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
• millennia (noun): plural of millennium
• millennial (adjective): Thousand-year-old; also thousands of years old.
• mime (noun): A form of acting without words; pantomime.
• mine (pronoun): That which belongs to me. Used predicatively.
• mini (adjective): Miniature, tiny, small.
• minim (noun): A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
• minima (noun): plural of minimum
• minimal (adjective): The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
• name (noun): Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.