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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.

• excitement^†  (EX10)
• cement  (CE6)
• cent  (CE4)
• cite  (CI4)
• emcee  (EM5)
• emetic  (EM6)
• eminence  (EM8)
• eminent  (EM7)
• emit  (EM4)
• entente  (EN7)
• entice  (EN6)
• enticement  (EN10)
• excite  (EX6)
• exec  (EX4)
• exit  (EX4)
• extent  (EX6)
• extinct  (EX7)
• icemen  (IC6)
• imminence  (IM9)
• imminent  (IM8)
• incite  (IN6)
• incitement  (IN10)
• innie  (IN5)
• intent  (IN6)
• item  (IT4)
• meet  (ME4)
• meme  (ME4)
• memetic  (ME7)
• mentee  (ME6)
• mete  (ME4)
• mice  (MI4)
• mien  (MI4)
• mime  (MI4)
• mimetic  (MI7)
• mince  (MI5)
• mine  (MI4)
• mite  (MI4)
• mitten  (MI6)
• nene  (NE4)
• next  (NE4)
• nice  (NI4)
• niece  (NI5)
• nine  (NI4)
• nineteen  (NI8)
• nite  (NI4)
• teem  (TE4)
• teen  (TE4)
• tenement  (TE8)
• tenet  (TE5)
• tent  (TE4)
• text  (TE4)
• time  (TI4)
• tine  (TI4)
• titmice  (TI7)

Answer Definitions

• excitement^† (noun): the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
• cement (noun): A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.
• cent (noun): A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
• cite (verb): to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
• emcee (noun): Alternative form of MC in its senses as Master of ceremonies. A rapper.
• emetic (adjective): Causing nausea and vomiting.
• eminence (noun): Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
• eminent (adjective): Noteworthy, remarkable, great.
• emit (verb): to send out or give off
• entente (noun): An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.
• entice (verb): To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
• enticement (noun): The act or practice of enticing, of alluring or tempting
• excite (verb): To stir the emotions of.
• exec (noun): executive, executive officer
• exit (noun): An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
• extent (noun): A range of values or locations.
• extinct (adjective): Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
• icemen (noun): plural of iceman
• imminence (noun): The state or condition of being about to happen; imminent quality.
• imminent (adjective): about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.
• incite (verb): To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.
• incitement (noun): A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.
• innie (noun): A navel that is formed of a hollow in the abdomen (as opposed to one that protrudes from the abdomen).
• intent (noun): Something that is intended.
• item (noun): A distinct physical object.
• meet (verb): To make contact (with) while in proximity. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
• 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.
• memetic (adjective): Of, being, containing, or pertaining to memes; pertaining to replication of concepts.
• mentee (noun): A person who is being mentored
• mete (verb): To measure.
• mice (noun): plural of mouse
• mien (noun): Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
• mime (noun): A form of acting without words; pantomime.
• mimetic (adjective): Exhibiting mimesis.
• mince (noun): Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
• mine (pronoun): That which belongs to me. Used predicatively.
• mite (noun): Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).
• mitten (noun): A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered.
• nene (noun): The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
• next (adjective): Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
• nice (adjective): Pleasant, satisfactory.
• niece (noun): A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").
• nine (numeral): NATO & ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the numeral 9.
• nineteen (numeral): The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".
• nite (noun): Informal spelling of night.
• teem (verb): To be stocked to overflowing.
• teen (noun): Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old.
• 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.
• text (noun): A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
• time (noun): The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
• tine (noun): A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
• titmice (noun): plural of titmouse