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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.

• beachcomb^†  (BE9)
• acme  (AC4)
• ahem  (AH4)
• ameba  (AM5)
• amebae  (AM6)
• ammo  (AM4)
• amoeba  (AM6)
• amoebae  (AM7)
• bamboo  (BA6)
• beam  (BE4)
• became  (BE6)
• become  (BE6)
• bomb  (BO4)
• bombe  (BO5)
• boom  (BO4)
• came  (CA4)
• cameo  (CA5)
• camo  (CA4)
• chemo  (CH5)
• coma  (CO4)
• comb  (CO4)
• combo  (CO5)
• come  (CO4)
• comma  (CO5)
• emcee  (EM5)
• heme  (HE4)
• home  (HO4)
• mace  (MA4)
• macho  (MA5)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamba  (MA5)
• mambo  (MA5)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mecca  (ME5)
• meme  (ME4)
• memo  (ME4)
• mocha  (MO5)
• momma  (MO5)
• mooch  (MO5)

Answer Definitions

• beachcomb^† (verb): To go beachcombing.
• acme (noun): A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.
• ahem (interjection): the sound of a quiet cough or of clearing one's throat
• ameba (noun): Alternative form of amoeba
• amebae (noun): plural of ameba, a variant of amoeba.
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• amoeba (noun): A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
• amoebae (noun): plural of amoeba
• bamboo (noun): A fast-growing grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
• beam (noun): Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• became (verb): simple past tense of become
• become (verb): begin to be; turn into.
• bomb (noun): An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, one dropped from an aircraft. The atomic bomb.
• bombe (noun): A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold.
• boom (verb): To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
• came (verb): simple past tense of come
• cameo (noun): A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
• camo (noun): A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
• chemo (noun): Clipping of chemotherapy.
• coma (noun): A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
• comb (noun): A toothed implement: A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. The notched scale of a wire micrometer. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis. A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
• combo (noun): A small musical group.
• come (verb): To move from further away to nearer to.
• comma (noun): English Wikipedia has an article on:commaWikipedia The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
• emcee (noun): Alternative form of MC in its senses as Master of ceremonies. A rapper.
• heme (noun): The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.
• home (noun): A dwelling. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace. The place where a person was raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
• mace (noun): A heavy fighting club.
• macho (adjective): Tending to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, bravado, etc., in ways that are showily and histrionically tough.
• mama (noun): Mother, female parent.
• mamba (noun): Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.
• mambo (noun): A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
• mamma (noun): The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
• mecca (noun): Alternative form of Mecca; a place to which a group of people (for example shoppers) are drawn.
• 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.
• memo (noun): A short note; a memorandum.
• mocha (noun): A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
• momma (noun): mother
• mooch (verb): To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.