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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.

• cornball^†  (CO8)
• anal  (AN4)
• annal  (AN5)
• ball  (BA4)
• balloon  (BA7)
• banal  (BA5)
• blab  (BL4)
• blob  (BL4)
• bloc  (BL4)
• bola  (BO4)
• boll  (BO4)
• bolo  (BO4)
• cabal  (CA5)
• cabala  (CA6)
• call  (CA4)
• calla  (CA5)
• callaloo  (CA8)
• canal  (CA5)
• cannonball  (CA10)
• canola  (CA6)
• carnal  (CA6)
• carol  (CA5)
• clan  (CL4)
• cloaca  (CL6)
• coal  (CO4)
• cola  (CO4)
• colcannon  (CO9)
• collab  (CO6)
• collar  (CO6)
• colon  (CO5)
• color  (CO5)
• cool  (CO4)
• coral  (CO5)
• corolla  (CO7)
• coronal  (CO7)
• corral  (CO6)
• labor  (LA5)
• llano  (LL5)
• loan  (LO4)
• lobo  (LO4)
• local  (LO5)
• loco  (LO4)
• loll  (LO4)
• loon  (LO4)
• nonlocal  (NO8)
• oral  (OR4)
• robocall  (RO8)
• roll  (RO4)
• rollbar  (RO7)

Answer Definitions

• cornball^† (noun): A ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.
• anal (adjective): of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
• annal (noun): The record of a single event or item.
• ball (noun): A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
• balloon (noun): An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
• banal (adjective): Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
• blab (verb): To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
• blob (noun): A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
• bloc (noun): A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
• bola (noun): A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.
• boll (noun): The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
• bolo (noun): A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
• cabal (noun): A secret political clique or faction.
• cabala (proper noun): Alternative spelling of Kabballah
• call (noun): A telephone conversation; a phone call.
• calla (noun): A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.
• callaloo (noun): Any of various tropical plants grown in the Americas, especially of the genera Amaranthus and Xanthosoma, cultivated for their edible leaves.
• canal (noun): An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
• cannonball (noun): A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.
• canola (noun): Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and closely related field mustard (Brassica rapa), which have a lower erucic acid and glucosinolate content than traditional rapeseed.
• carnal (adjective): Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.
• carol (noun): A round dance accompanied by singing.
• clan (noun): A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
• cloaca (noun): A sewer.
• coal (noun): A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
• cola (noun): The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
• colcannon (noun): A traditional Irish dish made from mashed potatoes and cabbage or kale, with scallions, butter, salt and pepper added.
• collab (noun): A collaboration, especially a work produced by several musicians who do not usually work together.
• collar (noun): Clothes that encircle the neck. The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric. A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline. A chain worn around the neck. A similar detachable item. A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal. A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
• colon (noun): The punctuation mark ":".
• color (noun): The spectral composition of visible light.
• cool (adjective): Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
• coral (noun): Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
• corolla (noun): An outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.
• coronal (adjective): Relating to a crown or coronation.
• corral (noun): An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
• labor (noun): Alternative spelling of labour
• llano (noun): A plain or steppe in parts of Latin America.
• loan (noun): An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
• lobo (noun): A wolf.
• local (adjective): From or in a nearby location.
• loco (adverb): A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
• loll (verb): To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
• loon (noun): An idler, a lout.
• nonlocal (adjective): Not local; not specific to a location
• oral (adjective): Relating to the mouth.
• robocall (noun): An automated phone call, commonly for telemarketing purposes, that uses both an autodialer and a recorded message.
• roll (verb): To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
• rollbar (noun): Alternative form of roll bar (“an anti-roll bar”)