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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.

• microcrack^†  (MI10)
• ammo  (AM4)
• amok  (AM4)
• armor  (AR5)
• aroma  (AR5)
• cami  (CA4)
• camo  (CA4)
• carom  (CA5)
• coma  (CO4)
• comic  (CO5)
• comma  (CO5)
• cram  (CR4)
• imam  (IM4)
• karma  (KA5)
• karmic  (KA6)
• korma  (KO5)
• macro  (MA5)
• maim  (MA4)
• maki  (MA4)
• mako  (MA4)
• mama  (MA4)
• mamma  (MA5)
• maraca  (MA6)
• mark  (MA4)
• marm  (MA4)
• mica  (MI4)
• micro  (MI5)
• mimic  (MI5)
• mirror  (MI6)
• mock  (MO4)
• momma  (MO5)
• moor  (MO4)
• morocco  (MO7)
• roam  (RO4)
• romcom  (RO6)
• room  (RO4)

Answer Definitions

• microcrack^† (noun): A microscopic crack
• ammo (noun): Ammunition.
• amok (adverb): Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.
• armor (noun): A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
• aroma (noun): A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.
• cami (noun): A camisole.
• 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.
• carom (noun): A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
• coma (noun): A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
• comic (adjective): Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
• 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.
• cram (verb): To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
• imam (noun): One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
• karma (noun): The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
• karmic (adjective): Of or pertaining to karma.
• korma (noun): A curry made from various spices especially coriander and cumin; and often with yoghurt sauce or nuts.
• macro (adjective): Very large in scope or scale.
• maim (verb): To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
• maki (noun): A ring-tailed lemur.
• mako (noun): mako shark
• 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.
• maraca (noun): A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument.
• mark (noun): Boundary, land within a boundary. A boundary; a border or frontier. A boundary-post or fence. A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers. A type of small region or principality. A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
• marm (noun): madam; a polite term of address for a lady.
• mica (noun): Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.
• micro (adjective): Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.
• mimic (verb): To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
• mirror (noun): A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
• mock (noun): An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
• momma (noun): mother
• moor (noun): An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
• morocco (noun): A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
• roam (verb): To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
• romcom (noun): Clipping of romantic comedy.
• room (noun): Opportunity or scope (to do something).