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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.

• payment^†  (PA7)
• ante  (AN4)
• antenna  (AN7)
• antennae  (AN8)
• attempt  (AT7)
• eaten  (EA5)
• emanate  (EM7)
• empty  (EM5)
• entente  (EN7)
• manatee  (MA7)
• manta  (MA5)
• mate  (MA4)
• matey  (MA5)
• matte  (MA5)
• meant  (ME5)
• meat  (ME4)
• meaty  (ME5)
• meet  (ME4)
• mentee  (ME6)
• meta  (ME4)
• mete  (ME4)
• nametape  (NA8)
• natant  (NA6)
• natty  (NA5)
• neat  (NE4)
• neaten  (NE6)
• netty  (NE5)
• pant  (PA4)
• panty  (PA5)
• pate  (PA4)
• patent  (PA6)
• patentee  (PA8)
• patty  (PA5)
• peat  (PE4)
• peaty  (PE5)
• pennant  (PE7)
• pent  (PE4)
• pentane  (PE7)
• petty  (PE5)
• tame  (TA4)
• tamp  (TA4)
• tapa  (TA4)
• tape  (TA4)
• tatty  (TA5)
• team  (TE4)
• teammate  (TE8)
• teat  (TE4)
• teem  (TE4)
• teen  (TE4)
• teeny  (TE5)
• teepee  (TE6)
• temp  (TE4)
• tempt  (TE5)
• tenant  (TE6)
• tenement  (TE8)
• tenet  (TE5)
• tent  (TE4)
• tepee  (TE5)
• type  (TY4)
• yenta  (YE5)
• yente  (YE5)

Answer Definitions

• payment^† (noun): The act of paying.
• ante (noun): A price or cost, as in up the ante.
• antenna (noun): A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
• antennae (noun): plural of antenna
• attempt (verb): To try.
• eaten (verb): past participle of eat
• emanate (verb): To come from a source; issue from.
• empty (adjective): Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
• entente (noun): An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.
• manatee (noun): Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae, found in tropical regions.
• manta (noun): A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
• mate (noun): A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
• matey (adjective): Sociable or friendly.
• matte (noun): A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
• meant (verb): simple past tense and past participle of mean
• meat (noun): The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
• meaty (adjective): Of, relating to, or containing meat.
• meet (verb): To make contact (with) while in proximity. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
• mentee (noun): A person who is being mentored
• meta (adjective): Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.
• mete (verb): To measure.
• nametape (noun): A kind of nametag that can be sewn onto clothing.
• natant (adjective): floating or swimming (in water)
• natty (adjective): Smart and fashionable.
• neat (adjective): Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
• neaten (verb): To make (someone or something) neat; to arrange (people or things) in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.
• netty (adjective): Neat, well-groomed, natty.
• pant (noun): A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
• panty (noun): Short trousers for men, or more usually boys.
• pate (noun): The head, particularly the top or crown.
• patent (noun): An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent. A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods. A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period. A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.
• patentee (noun): One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.
• patty (noun): A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
• peat (noun): Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
• peaty (adjective): Of or resembling peat; peatlike.
• pennant (noun): A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition. The broad pennant flown by commodores. The church pennant indicating religious services are taking place aboard ship. The commissioning pennant flown on ceremonial occasions.
• pent (noun): Confinement; concealment.
• pentane (noun): An aliphatic hydrocarbon of chemical formula C5H12; either of the three isomers n-pentane, methyl-butane (isopentane), and di-methyl-propane (neopentane); volatile liquids under normal conditions.
• petty (adjective): Having little or no importance.
• tame (adjective): Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
• 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.
• tape (noun): Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
• tatty (noun): worn and shabby; in poor condition.
• team (noun): A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
• teammate (noun): One who is on the same team.
• teat (noun): The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
• teem (verb): To be stocked to overflowing.
• teen (noun): Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old.
• teeny (adjective): Very small; tiny.
• teepee (noun): A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America.
• temp (noun): Abbreviation of temperature.
• tempt (verb): To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
• tenant (noun): One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
• tenement (noun): A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
• tenet (noun): An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
• tent (noun): A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
• tepee (noun): Alternative form of teepee
• type (noun): A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
• yenta (noun): A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger.
• yente (noun): Alternative spelling of yenta