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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.

• canonization^†  (CA12)
• action  (AC6)
• anion  (AN5)
• annotation  (AN10)
• anoint  (AN6)
• anon  (AN4)
• cacao  (CA5)
• cannon  (CA6)
• cannot  (CA6)
• canon  (CA5)
• canonic  (CA7)
• canton  (CA6)
• catatonia  (CA9)
• catatonic  (CA9)
• cation  (CA6)
• ciao  (CI4)
• citation  (CI8)
• coat  (CO4)
• coati  (CO5)
• coca  (CO4)
• cocci  (CO5)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• cocoon  (CO6)
• coin  (CO4)
• concoct  (CO7)
• concoction  (CO10)
• conic  (CO5)
• connotation  (CO11)
• contact  (CO7)
• contain  (CO7)
• coot  (CO4)
• cotton  (CO6)
• icon  (IC4)
• iconic  (IC6)
• inaction  (IN8)
• incantation  (IN11)
• initiation  (IN10)
• into  (IN4)
• intonation  (IN10)
• ionic  (IO5)
• ionization  (IO10)
• iota  (IO4)
• nation  (NA6)
• noon  (NO4)
• notation  (NO8)
• notion  (NO6)
• octant  (OC6)
• onion  (ON5)
• onto  (ON4)
• taco  (TA4)
• tattoo  (TA6)
• toccata  (TO7)
• tonic  (TO5)
• toon  (TO4)
• toot  (TO4)

Answer Definitions

• canonization^† (noun): The final process or decree (following beatification) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
• action (noun): The effort of performing or doing something.
• anion (noun): A negatively charged ion.
• annotation (noun): A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.
• anoint (verb): To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
• anon (adverb): Straight away; at once.
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• cannon (noun): A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
• cannot (verb): Can not (be unable to).
• canon (noun): A generally accepted principle; a rule.
• canonic (adjective): canonical
• canton (noun): A division of a political unit. One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation. A subdivision of an arrondissement of France. A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc. A subdivision of a county, of Quebec, Canada; equivalent to a township.
• catatonia (noun): A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
• catatonic (adjective): Of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia; having a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
• cation (noun): a positively charged ion, i.e. one that would be attracted to the cathode in electrolysis
• ciao (interjection): hello, hi.
• citation (noun): An official summons or notice given to a person to appear.
• coat (noun): An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
• coati (noun): Any of several omnivorous mammals, of the genus Nasua or Nasuella, in order Carnivora, that live in the range from southern United States to northern Argentina.
• coca (noun): Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
• cocci (noun): plural of coccus
• cocoa (noun): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
• cocoon (noun): The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
• coin (noun): A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
• concoct (verb): To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
• concoction (noun): The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
• conic (adjective): Synonym of conical
• connotation (noun): A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
• contact (noun): The act of touching physically; being in close association.
• contain (verb): To hold inside.
• coot (noun): Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
• cotton (noun): Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
• icon (noun): An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
• iconic (adjective): Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.
• inaction (noun): Lack of action or activity or labor
• incantation (noun): The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
• initiation (noun): The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced
• into (preposition): To or towards the inside of.
• intonation (noun): The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
• ionic (adjective): of, relating to, or containing ions
• ionization (noun): Any process that leads to the dissociation of a neutral atom or molecule into charged particles ions; the state of being ionized.
• iota (noun): The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
• nation (noun): A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
• noon (noun): The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
• notation (noun): The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
• notion (noun): Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
• octant (noun): The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
• onion (noun): A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
• onto (preposition): Upon; on top of.
• taco (noun): A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables and salsa.
• tattoo (noun): An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
• toccata (noun): A piece of music (usually for a keyboard instrument) designed to emphasise the dexterity of the performer.
• tonic (adjective): Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
• toon (noun): A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
• toot (noun): The noise of a horn or whistle.