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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.

• baptize^†  (BA7)
• abate  (AB5)
• abet  (AB4)
• appetite  (AP8)
• appetize  (AP8)
• baba  (BA4)
• babe  (BA4)
• bait  (BA4)
• baize  (BA5)
• bate  (BA4)
• beat  (BE4)
• beta  (BE4)
• papa  (PA4)
• pate  (PA4)
• peat  (PE4)
• pepita  (PE6)
• piazza  (PI6)
• pita  (PI4)
• pitapat  (PI7)
• pizazz  (PI6)
• pizza  (PI5)
• pizzazz  (PI7)
• tapa  (TA4)
• tape  (TA4)
• teat  (TE4)
• tibia  (TI5)
• tibiae  (TI6)
• zeta  (ZE4)

Answer Definitions

• baptize^† (verb): To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water.
• abate (verb): To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
• abet (verb): To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
• appetite (noun): Desire to eat food or consume drink.
• appetize (verb): To whet the appetite.
• baba (noun): A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
• babe (noun): A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
• bait (noun): Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
• baize (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• bate (verb): To reduce the force of something; to abate.
• beat (noun): A stroke; a blow.
• beta (noun): The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β,  β), preceded by alpha (Α,  α) and followed by gamma, (Γ,  γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
• papa (noun): Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
• pate (noun): The head, particularly the top or crown.
• peat (noun): Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
• pepita (noun): An edible seed from a pumpkin or similar squash, which may - after being roasted (and, if needed, shelled) - be eaten as a snack or used as an ingredient in cooking.
• piazza (noun): A public square, especially in Italian cities.
• pita (noun): A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.
• pitapat (verb): Alternative spelling of pit-a-pat
• pizazz (noun): Alternative spelling of pizzazz.
• pizza (noun): A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit
• pizzazz (noun): Flair, vitality, or zest; energy; vigor.
• tapa (noun): A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
• tape (noun): Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
• teat (noun): The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
• tibia (noun): The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone
• tibiae (noun): plural of tibia
• zeta (noun): The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ (Z), ζ (z)) preceded by epsilon (Ε (E), ε (e)) and followed by eta, (Η (I), η (i)); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ (W), ϝ (w))