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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.

• arachnid^†  (AR8)
• acid  (AC4)
• acidic  (AC6)
• acrid  (AC5)
• arcadia  (AR7)
• arcadian  (AR8)
• arid  (AR4)
• canard  (CA6)
• candid  (CA6)
• canid  (CA5)
• card  (CA4)
• cardiac  (CA7)
• chad  (CH4)
• chard  (CH5)
• cicada  (CI6)
• circadian  (CI9)
• dacha  (DA5)
• darn  (DA4)
• dinar  (DI5)
• drain  (DR5)
• hand  (HA4)
• hard  (HA4)
• harridan  (HA8)
• hind  (HI4)
• indica  (IN6)
• indicia  (IN7)
• nada  (NA4)
• nadir  (NA5)
• naiad  (NA5)
• radar  (RA5)
• radian  (RA6)
• radii  (RA5)
• raid  (RA4)
• rancid  (RA6)
• rand  (RA4)
• rind  (RI4)

Answer Definitions

• arachnid^† (noun): Any of the eight-legged creatures, including spiders, mites, and scorpions, of the class Arachnida.
• acid (adjective): Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
• acidic (adjective): Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
• acrid (adjective): Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste.
• arcadia (noun): Alternative letter-case form of Arcadia
• arcadian (adjective): Pertaining to an arcade.
• arid (adjective): Very dry.
• canard (noun): A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
• candid (adjective): Impartial and free from prejudice.
• canid (noun): Any member of the family Canidae, including dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes and jackals.
• card (symbol): cardinality
• cardiac (adjective): Pertaining to the heart.
• chad (noun): Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
• chard (noun): An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.
• cicada (noun): Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings. The periodical cicada.
• circadian (adjective): of, relating to, or showing rhythmic behaviour with a period of 24 hours; especially of a biological process
• dacha (noun): A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.
• darn (adjective): Damn.
• dinar (noun): The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, North Macedonia, Serbia and Tunisia.
• drain (noun): A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole
• hand (noun): The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
• hard (adjective): Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. Resistant to pressure.
• harridan (noun): A vicious and scolding woman, especially an older one.
• hind (adjective): Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
• indica (noun): Any of the indica subspecies of the rice, Oryza sativa, which (unlike the japonica or sinica subspecies) are non-sticky and long-grained.
• indicia (noun): plural of indicium
• nada (pronoun): Nothing.
• nadir (noun): The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
• naiad (noun): A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.
• radar (noun): A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces
• radian (noun): English Wikipedia has an article on:radianWikipedia In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angular measure of angle equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle. Symbol: rad
• radii (noun): plural of radius
• raid (noun): A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
• rancid (adjective): Rank in taste or smell.
• rand (noun): The border of an area of land, especially marshland.
• rind (noun): tree bark