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Table of Contents

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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.

• rowdily^†  (RO7)
• wordily^†  (WO7)
• dolor  (DO5)
• door  (DO4)
• dory  (DO4)
• dowry  (DO5)
• drill  (DR5)
• droid  (DR5)
• droll  (DR5)
• drolly  (DR6)
• drool  (DR5)
• drooly  (DR6)
• dryly  (DR5)
• lord  (LO4)
• lordly  (LO6)
• lordy  (LO5)
• lorry  (LO5)
• odor  (OD4)
• rill  (RI4)
• roil  (RO4)
• roll  (RO4)
• rood  (RO4)
• rowdy  (RO5)
• wiry  (WI4)
• word  (WO4)
• wordy  (WO5)
• world  (WO5)
• worldly  (WO7)
• worry  (WO5)
• wryly  (WR5)

Answer Definitions

• rowdily^† (adverb): In a rowdy manner.
• wordily^† (adverb): In a wordy manner; using too many words.
• dolor (noun): Alternative spelling of dolour
• door (noun): A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
• dory (noun): A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
• dowry (noun): Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
• drill (verb): To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
• droid (noun): A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
• droll (adjective): Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.
• drolly (adverb): In a droll, odd or humorous manner.
• drool (verb): To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
• drooly (adjective): Producing an excess of drool.
• dryly (adverb): In a dry manner.
• lord (noun): The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor The male head of a household, a father or husband. The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession
• lordly (adjective): Of or relating to a lord.
• lordy (interjection): Alternative letter-case form of Lordy
• lorry (noun): A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods
• odor (noun): Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
• rill (noun): A very small brook; a streamlet; a creek, rivulet.
• roil (verb): To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
• roll (verb): To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
• rood (noun): A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
• rowdy (adjective): Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.
• wiry (adjective): Thin, muscular and flexible.
• word (noun): The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
• wordy (adjective): Using an excessive number of words.
• world (noun): The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general.
• worldly (adjective): Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
• worry (verb): To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
• wryly (adverb): In a wry manner.