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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.

• familiarly^†  (FA10)
• afar  (AF4)
• affair  (AF6)
• affirm  (AF6)
• affray  (AF6)
• alfalfa  (AL7)
• fail  (FA4)
• fair  (FA4)
• fairly  (FA6)
• fairy  (FA5)
• fall  (FA4)
• familial  (FA8)
• familiar  (FA8)
• family  (FA6)
• farm  (FA4)
• filial  (FI6)
• filially  (FI8)
• fill  (FI4)
• filly  (FI5)
• film  (FI4)
• filmy  (FI5)
• firm  (FI4)
• firmly  (FI6)
• flail  (FL5)
• flair  (FL5)
• flay  (FL4)
• flimflam  (FL8)
• frail  (FR5)
• frailly  (FR7)
• fray  (FR4)
• friar  (FR5)
• friary  (FR6)
• frill  (FR5)
• frilly  (FR6)
• iffy  (IF4)
• mafia  (MA5)
• mayfly  (MA6)
• miff  (MI4)
• raffia  (RA6)
• ramify  (RA6)
• riff  (RI4)
• riffraff  (RI8)

Answer Definitions

• familiarly^† (adverb): In a familiar or easily recognised manner.
• afar (adverb): At, to, or from a great distance; far away.
• affair (noun): Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.
• affirm (verb): To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
• affray (verb): To startle from quiet; to alarm.
• alfalfa (noun): A plant, principally of Medicago sativa, grown as a pasture crop.
• fail (verb): To be unsuccessful.
• fair (adjective): Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
• fairly (adverb): In a fair manner; fair; not biased or skewed or favouring a certain party
• fairy (noun): a small imaginary being of human form that has magical powers, especially a female one. E.g., Tinkerbell.
• fall (verb): To be moved downwards. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• familial (adjective): Of or pertaining to a human family.
• familiar (adjective): Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.
• family (noun): A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
• farm (noun): A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
• filial (adjective): Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
• filially (adverb): In a filial manner.
• fill (verb): To occupy fully, to take up all of.
• filly (noun): A young female horse.
• film (noun): A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
• filmy (adjective): Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy
• firm (noun): A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
• firmly (adverb): In a firm or definite or strong manner.
• flail (noun): A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
• flair (noun): A natural or innate talent or aptitude.
• flay (verb): To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
• flimflam (noun): Alternative form of flim-flam
• frail (adjective): Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
• frailly (adverb): In a frail manner; weakly; infirmly.
• fray (verb): To rub or wear away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction.
• friar (noun): A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites, Franciscans, or the Dominicans.
• friary (noun): house or dwelling where monks or members of certain religious communities live
• frill (noun): A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
• frilly (adjective): Having frills; frilled.
• iffy (adjective): Of dubious authenticity, legitimacy or legality.
• mafia (noun): A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.
• mayfly (noun): Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults.
• miff (noun): A small argument; a quarrel.
• raffia (noun): A fibrous material used for tying plants, originating from the leaves of the raffia palm tree (genus Raphia).
• ramify (verb): To divide into branches or subdivisions.
• riff (noun): A repeated instrumental melody line in a song.
• riffraff (noun): The rabble; crowds; the common people.