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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.

• allowance^†  (AL9)
• aeon  (AE4)
• allow  (AL5)
• aloe  (AL4)
• alone  (AL5)
• anon  (AN4)
• cacao  (CA5)
• callaloo  (CA8)
• callow  (CA6)
• cannon  (CA6)
• canoe  (CA5)
• canola  (CA6)
• canon  (CA5)
• cello  (CE5)
• cloaca  (CL6)
• clone  (CL5)
• clown  (CL5)
• coal  (CO4)
• coca  (CO4)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• cocoon  (CO6)
• cola  (CO4)
• colcannon  (CO9)
• colleen  (CO7)
• colon  (CO5)
• colonel  (CO7)
• conceal  (CO7)
• cone  (CO4)
• cool  (CO4)
• cowl  (CO4)
• llano  (LL5)
• loan  (LO4)
• local  (LO5)
• locale  (LO6)
• loco  (LO4)
• loll  (LO4)
• lone  (LO4)
• loon  (LO4)
• neocon  (NE6)
• neon  (NE4)
• noel  (NO4)
• nonce  (NO5)
• none  (NO4)
• nonlocal  (NO8)
• noon  (NO4)
• ocean  (OC5)
• oleo  (OL4)
• once  (ON4)
• wallow  (WA6)
• wool  (WO4)
• woolen  (WO6)

Answer Definitions

• allowance^† (noun): Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
• aeon (noun): Alternative spelling of eon
• allow (verb): To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
• aloe (noun): The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica.
• alone (adjective): By oneself, solitary.
• anon (adverb): Straight away; at once.
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• callaloo (noun): Any of various tropical plants grown in the Americas, especially of the genera Amaranthus and Xanthosoma, cultivated for their edible leaves.
• callow (adjective): Bald, hairless, bare.
• cannon (noun): A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
• canoe (noun): A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.
• 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.
• canon (noun): A generally accepted principle; a rule.
• cello (noun): A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
• cloaca (noun): A sewer.
• clone (noun): A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
• clown (noun): A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
• coal (noun): A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
• coca (noun): Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
• cocoa (noun): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
• cocoon (noun): The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
• 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.
• colleen (noun): girl
• colon (noun): The punctuation mark ":".
• colonel (noun): A commissioned officer in an armed military organization, typically the highest rank before flag officer ranks (generals). It is generally found in armies, air forces or naval infantry (marines).
• conceal (verb): To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
• cone (noun): A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
• cool (adjective): Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
• cowl (noun): A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
• 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.
• local (adjective): From or in a nearby location.
• locale (noun): The place where something happens.
• 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.
• lone (adjective): Solitary; having no companion.
• loon (noun): An idler, a lout.
• neocon (noun): A neoconservative.
• neon (noun): The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The second of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
• noel (noun): A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.
• nonce (noun): The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).
• none (pronoun): Not any of a given number or group.
• nonlocal (adjective): Not local; not specific to a location
• noon (noun): The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
• ocean (noun): One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
• oleo (noun): A type of energy-absorbing landing gear strut in which sudden compression or extension of the strut causes a gas-filled chamber to push or pull a piston which forces oil through a small orifice, resulting in absorption of energy through viscous effects.
• once (adverb): One and only one time.
• wallow (verb): To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
• wool (noun): The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
• woolen (adjective): Made of wool.