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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.

• arability^†  (AR9)
• arbitrarily^†  (AR11)
• irritability^†  (IR12)
• irritably^†  (IR9)
• ratability^†  (RA10)
• tribally^†  (TR8)
• ability  (AB7)
• ably  (AB4)
• airball  (AI7)
• alibi  (AL5)
• arbitrary  (AR9)
• baba  (BA4)
• baby  (BA4)
• bail  (BA4)
• bait  (BA4)
• ball  (BA4)
• barb  (BA4)
• barbarity  (BA9)
• battily  (BA7)
• batty  (BA5)
• bialy  (BI5)
• bilabial  (BI8)
• biliary  (BI7)
• bill  (BI4)
• billy  (BI5)
• birria  (BI6)
• blab  (BL4)
• blabby  (BL6)
• blat  (BL4)
• brat  (BR4)
• bratty  (BR6)
• bray  (BR4)
• briar  (BR5)
• briary  (BR6)
• labia  (LA5)
• labial  (LA6)
• lability  (LA8)
• liability  (LI9)
• library  (LI7)
• rabbi  (RA5)
• rabbit  (RA6)
• ribbit  (RI6)
• ribby  (RI5)
• tabby  (TA5)
• tabla  (TA5)
• tibia  (TI5)
• tibial  (TI6)
• tribal  (TR6)
• trilby  (TR6)

Answer Definitions

• arability^† (noun): The capacity for land to produce or support vegetation.
• arbitrarily^† (adverb): In an arbitrary manner.
• irritability^† (noun): The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability.
• irritably^† (adverb): In an irritable manner.
• ratability^† (noun): The quality or state of being ratable.
• tribally^† (adverb): In a tribal manner or context.
• ability (noun): Suitableness.
• ably (adverb): In an able manner; with great ability.
• airball (noun): A shot that misses the backboard, rim and net entirely.
• alibi (noun): The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.
• arbitrary (adjective): Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.
• baba (noun): A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
• baby (noun): A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
• bail (noun): Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
• bait (noun): Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
• ball (noun): A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
• barb (noun): The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
• barbarity (noun): The state of being barbarous; brutality
• battily (adverb): In a batty manner.
• batty (adjective): Mad, crazy, silly.
• bialy (noun): A flat bread roll topped with onion flakes. Instead of a hole like a bagel, it has a depression in the middle.
• bilabial (adjective): Articulated with both lips.
• biliary (adjective): Of or pertaining to bile or the bile duct
• bill (noun): Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
• billy (noun): A billy club.
• birria (noun): A Mexican dish of stewed meat (usually goat, beef or lamb; sometimes pork or chicken) and spices, typically served like a soup with (or sometimes in) tortillas.
• blab (verb): To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
• blabby (adjective): Tending to blab or gossip a lot.
• blat (verb): To cry, as a calf or sheep; bleat.
• brat (noun): A human child. A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
• bratty (adjective): Characteristic of a brat; unruly and impolite.
• bray (verb): Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.
• briar (noun): Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
• briary (adjective): Like a briar; thorny.
• labia (noun): The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.
• labial (adjective): Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
• lability (noun): The state of being labile.
• liability (noun): An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
• library (noun): An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
• rabbi (noun): A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.
• rabbit (noun): A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
• ribbit (interjection): The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.
• ribby (adjective): Pertaining to or having ribs; ribbed.
• tabby (noun): A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
• tabla (noun): A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.
• tibia (noun): The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone
• tibial (adjective): Of or pertaining to a tibia or a structure associated with a tibia.
• tribal (adjective): Of or relating to tribes.
• trilby (noun): narrow-brimmed type of felt hat, described as having a "shorter brim which is angled down at the front and slightly turned up at the back" in comparison to the fedora