NYT Spelling Bee Answers for April 18, 2025
Game Summary
| Center Letter | O |
|---|---|
| Outer Letters | i, l, m, n, t, u |
| # of Pangrams | 1 (Perfect: none) |
| Total Words | 48 words |
| Total Points | 176 points |
| Genius Level | 123 points |
| Bingo? | Yes |
Table of Contents
As you scroll down this page, the clues get progressively more revealing. So scroll slowly!
- Spelling Bee Grid
- Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints
- Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints
- Extra Letter Hints (Incrementally Revealing) 🤯
- Today's Complete Solution
- 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.
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 |
| L | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 |
| M | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 16 |
| N | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 |
| O | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| T | 6 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 8 |
| U | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Σ | 27 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 48 |
Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints
The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding two letters.
| I | IN×2 |
|---|---|
| L | LI×2 LO×8 |
| M | MI×2 MO×10 MU×4 |
| N | NO×5 |
| O | OL×1 OM×1 ON×2 |
| T | TO×7 TU×1 |
| U | UN×3 |
Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints
The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding three letters.
| I | INT×2 |
|---|---|
| L | LIM×1 LIO×1 LOI×1 LOL×1 LOO×3 LOT×2 LOU×1 |
| M | MIL×1 MIN×1 MOI×1 MOL×2 MON×1 MOO×3 MOT×2 MOU×1 MUL×2 MUN×1 MUT×1 |
| N | NON×2 NOO×1 NOT×1 NOU×1 |
| O | OLI×1 OMI×1 ONI×1 ONT×1 |
| T | TOI×1 TOL×1 TOM×1 TOO×3 TOU×1 TUI×1 |
| U | UNI×1 UNM×1 UNT×1 |
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 (†).
| Word | 2L Ref | Definition (click to reveal) |
|---|---|---|
| mu.......... † | MU12 | Having several millions; costing or worth many millions of dollars, pounds, euros or some other currency. |
| in.. | IN4 | To or towards the inside of. |
| in....... | IN9 | Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes. |
| li.. | LI4 | Clipping of limousine. |
| li.. | LI4 | A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe. |
| lo.. | LO4 | The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips |
| lo.. | LO4 | To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease. |
| lo.. | LO4 | A utensil; tool; a weapon; an article in general. |
| lo.. | LO4 | An idler, a lout. |
| lo.. | LO4 | A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks. |
| lo.... | LO6 | A low- to medium-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to unbroken skin. |
| lo... | LO5 | a game of chance similar to bingo |
| lo.. | LO4 | A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob. |
| mi..... | MI7 | The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10; a thousand thousand. |
| mi.... | MI6 | A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being. |
| mo.. | MO4 | To toil, to work hard. |
| mo.. | MO4 | A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute. |
| mo.. | MO4 | US standard spelling of moult. |
| mo.. | MO4 | Clipping of mononucleosis. |
| mo.. | MO4 | Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”). |
| mo..... | MO7 | Lit by moonlight. |
| mo.. | MO4 | Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve. |
| mo.... | MO6 | A state of progression from one place to another. |
| mo... | MO5 | A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement. |
| mo... | MO5 | A hill or mountain. |
| mu..... | MU7 | A vertical bar between the panes of glass or casements of a window or the panels of a screen. |
| mu...... | MU8 | Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition. |
| mu.... | MU6 | The flesh of sheep used as food. |
| no....... | NO9 | 10. |
| no...... | NO8 | Not part of a labor union; not unionized. |
| no.. | NO4 | The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday. |
| no.... | NO6 | Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept. |
| no.. | NO4 | A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. |
| ol.. | OL4 | A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables. |
| om.. | OM4 | To leave out or exclude. |
| on... | ON5 | A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. |
| on.. | ON4 | Upon; on top of. |
| to.. | TO4 | Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature. |
| to.. | TO4 | Loss or damage incurred through a disaster. |
| to.... | TO6 | Alternative spelling of tom-tit |
| to.. | TO4 | A mechanical device intended to make a task easier. |
| to.. | TO4 | A cartoon, especially an animated television show. |
| to.. | TO4 | The noise of a horn or whistle. |
| to.. | TO4 | Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. |
| tu..... | TU7 | A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college). |
| un... | UN5 | The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one. |
| un..... | UN7 | To reverse a mount operation; to instruct the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible. |
| un.. | UN4 | Up to the time or degree that; until. |
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.
- multimillion† (MU12)
- into (IN4)
- intuition (IN9)
- limo (LI4)
- lion (LI4)
- loin (LO4)
- loll (LO4)
- loom (LO4)
- loon (LO4)
- loot (LO4)
- lotion (LO6)
- lotto (LO5)
- lout (LO4)
- million (MI7)
- minion (MI6)
- moil (MO4)
- moll (MO4)
- molt (MO4)
- mono (MO4)
- moon (MO4)
- moonlit (MO7)
- moot (MO4)
- motion (MO6)
- motto (MO5)
- mount (MO5)
- mullion (MU7)
- munition (MU8)
- mutton (MU6)
- nonillion (NO9)
- nonunion (NO8)
- noon (NO4)
- notion (NO6)
- noun (NO4)
- olio (OL4)
- omit (OM4)
- onion (ON5)
- onto (ON4)
- toil (TO4)
- toll (TO4)
- tomtit (TO6)
- tool (TO4)
- toon (TO4)
- toot (TO4)
- tout (TO4)
- tuition (TU7)
- union (UN5)
- unmount (UN7)
- unto (UN4)
Answer Definitions
- multimillion† (adjective): Having several millions; costing or worth many millions of dollars, pounds, euros or some other currency.
- into (preposition): To or towards the inside of.
- intuition (noun): Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
- limo (noun): Clipping of limousine.
- lion (noun): A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe.
- loin (noun): The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips
- loll (verb): To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
- loom (noun): A utensil; tool; a weapon; an article in general.
- loon (noun): An idler, a lout.
- loot (noun): A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.
- lotion (noun): A low- to medium-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to unbroken skin.
- lotto (noun): a game of chance similar to bingo
- lout (noun): A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
- million (numeral): The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10; a thousand thousand.
- minion (noun): A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
- moil (verb): To toil, to work hard.
- moll (noun): A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
- molt (verb): US standard spelling of moult.
- mono (noun): Clipping of mononucleosis.
- moon (proper noun): Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”).
- moonlit (adjective): Lit by moonlight.
- moot (adjective): Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
- motion (noun): A state of progression from one place to another.
- motto (noun): A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
- mount (noun): A hill or mountain.
- mullion (noun): A vertical bar between the panes of glass or casements of a window or the panels of a screen.
- munition (noun): Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
- mutton (noun): The flesh of sheep used as food.
- nonillion (numeral): 10.
- nonunion (adjective): Not part of a labor union; not unionized.
- noon (noun): The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
- notion (noun): Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
- noun (noun): A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
- olio (noun): A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables.
- omit (verb): To leave out or exclude.
- onion (noun): A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
- onto (preposition): Upon; on top of.
- toil (noun): Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
- toll (noun): Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- tomtit (noun): Alternative spelling of tom-tit
- tool (noun): A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- toon (noun): A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
- toot (noun): The noise of a horn or whistle.
- tout (noun): Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
- tuition (noun): A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).
- union (noun): The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- unmount (verb): To reverse a mount operation; to instruct the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible.
- unto (conjunction): Up to the time or degree that; until.