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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.

• littleneck^†  (LI10)
• telekinetic^†  (TE11)
• click  (CL5)
• clink  (CL5)
• keel  (KE4)
• keen  (KE4)
• kennel  (KE6)
• kente  (KE5)
• kettle  (KE6)
• kick  (KI4)
• kill  (KI4)
• kiln  (KI4)
• kilt  (KI4)
• kinetic  (KI7)
• kink  (KI4)
• kite  (KI4)
• kitten  (KI6)
• knee  (KN4)
• kneel  (KN5)
• knell  (KN5)
• knelt  (KN5)
• knit  (KN4)
• leek  (LE4)
• lick  (LI4)
• like  (LI4)
• liken  (LI5)
• link  (LI4)
• neck  (NE4)
• neckline  (NE8)
• necktie  (NE7)
• netlike  (NE7)
• nick  (NI4)
• nickel  (NI6)
• tick  (TI4)
• ticket  (TI6)
• tickle  (TI6)
• tiki  (TI4)
• tinkle  (TI6)

Answer Definitions

• littleneck^† (noun): A young quahog, or hard clam
• telekinetic^† (adjective): Of or pertaining to telekinesis.
• click (noun): A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
• clink (noun): The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
• keel (noun): A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
• keen (adjective): Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
• kennel (noun): A house or shelter for a dog.
• kente (noun): A type of fabric made of interwoven cloth strips, native to Ghana.
• kettle (noun): A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
• kick (verb): To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
• kill (verb): To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
• kiln (noun): An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
• kilt (verb): To gather up (skirts) around the body.
• kinetic (adjective): Relating to motion
• kink (verb): To laugh loudly.
• kite (noun): A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
• kitten (noun): A young cat, especially before sexual maturity (reached at about seven months).
• knee (noun): In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
• kneel (verb): To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.
• knell (verb): To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
• knelt (verb): simple past tense and past participle of kneel.
• knit (verb): To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
• leek (noun): The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
• lick (verb): To stroke with the tongue.
• like (verb): To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
• liken (verb): To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).
• link (noun): A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
• neck (noun): The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
• neckline (noun): The line formed by the edge of an article of clothing that surrounds the neck, especially as seen at the front.
• necktie (noun): A strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front. See also bowtie.
• netlike (adjective): Resembling or characteristic of a net, especially in having many small openings.
• nick (noun): A small cut in a surface. A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
• nickel (noun): A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
• tick (noun): A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
• ticket (noun): A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
• tickle (noun): The act of tickling.
• tiki (noun): Carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.
• tinkle (verb): To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.