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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.

• accumulate^†  (AC10)
• acme  (AC4)
• alum  (AL4)
• amulet  (AM6)
• calm  (CA4)
• came  (CA4)
• camel  (CA5)
• cecum  (CE5)
• cellmate  (CE8)
• clam  (CL4)
• emcee  (EM5)
• emulate  (EM7)
• lama  (LA4)
• lame  (LA4)
• lemma  (LE5)
• llama  (LL5)
• mace  (MA4)
• macula  (MA6)
• malamute  (MA8)
• male  (MA4)
• mall  (MA4)
• mallet  (MA6)
• malt  (MA4)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamma  (MA5)
• mammal  (MA6)
• mate  (MA4)
• matte  (MA5)
• maul  (MA4)
• meal  (ME4)
• meat  (ME4)
• mecca  (ME5)
• meet  (ME4)
• melee  (ME5)
• melt  (ME4)
• meme  (ME4)
• meta  (ME4)
• metal  (ME5)
• mete  (ME4)
• mettle  (ME6)
• mule  (MU4)
• mull  (MU4)
• mullet  (MU6)
• mutate  (MU6)
• mute  (MU4)
• mutt  (MU4)
• mutual  (MU6)
• muumuu  (MU6)
• talcum  (TA6)
• tamale  (TA6)
• tame  (TA4)
• team  (TE4)
• teammate  (TE8)
• teem  (TE4)
• tumult  (TU6)
• umlaut  (UM6)

Answer Definitions

• accumulate^† (verb): To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively), often gradually and without active intent.
• 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.
• alum (noun): An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O).
• amulet (noun): A kind of protective charm or ornament, often bearing magical symbols, worn for protection against ill will, negative influences, or evil spirits.
• calm (adjective): Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
• came (verb): simple past tense of come
• camel (noun): A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.
• cecum (noun): Alternative form of caecum.
• cellmate (noun): A person with whom one shares a prison cell.
• clam (noun): A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
• emcee (noun): Alternative form of MC in its senses as Master of ceremonies. A rapper.
• emulate (verb): To attempt to equal or be the same as.
• lama (noun): A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
• lame (adjective): Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
• lemma (noun): A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
• llama (noun): A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
• mace (noun): A heavy fighting club.
• macula (noun): An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision.
• malamute (noun): An ancient northern breed of dog of the husky type, particularly used as a sled dog.
• male (adjective): Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
• mall (noun): A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
• mallet (noun): A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.
• malt (noun): Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
• mama (noun): Mother, female parent.
• 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.
• mammal (noun): An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and producing milk with which to feed its young.
• mate (noun): A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
• matte (noun): A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
• maul (noun): A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
• meal (noun): Correct quotes
• meat (noun): The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
• mecca (noun): Alternative form of Mecca; a place to which a group of people (for example shoppers) are drawn.
• meet (verb): To make contact (with) while in proximity. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
• melee (noun): A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
• melt (noun): Molten material, the product of melting.
• 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.
• meta (adjective): Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.
• metal (noun): Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from. Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity. Any material with similar physical properties, such as an alloy. An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium. Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road. The ore from which a metal is derived. A mine from which ores are taken.
• mete (verb): To measure.
• mettle (noun): A quality of endurance and courage.
• mule (noun): The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
• mull (verb): (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
• mullet (noun): A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (the red mullets or goatfish).
• mutate (verb): To undergo mutation.
• mute (adjective): Not having the power of speech; dumb.
• mutt (noun): A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
• mutual (adjective): Having the same relationship, each to each other.
• muumuu (noun): A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches).
• talcum (noun): Powdered and perfumed talc for toilet use.
• tamale (noun): Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.
• tame (adjective): Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
• team (noun): A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
• teammate (noun): One who is on the same team.
• teem (verb): To be stocked to overflowing.
• tumult (noun): Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
• umlaut (noun): An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.