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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.

• flavorful^†  (FL9)
• afoul  (AF5)
• alfalfa  (AL7)
• aloof  (AL5)
• aural  (AU5)
• auroral  (AU7)
• fall  (FA4)
• falloff  (FA7)
• flavor  (FL6)
• floor  (FL5)
• flora  (FL5)
• floral  (FL6)
• flour  (FL5)
• fluff  (FL5)
• foal  (FO4)
• fool  (FO4)
• foul  (FO4)
• full  (FU4)
• furl  (FU4)
• larva  (LA5)
• larval  (LA6)
• lava  (LA4)
• loaf  (LO4)
• loll  (LO4)
• loofa  (LO5)
• luau  (LU4)
• luff  (LU4)
• lull  (LU4)
• lulu  (LU4)
• offal  (OF5)
• oral  (OR4)
• oval  (OV4)
• ovular  (OV6)
• roll  (RO4)
• rural  (RU5)
• uvula  (UV5)
• uvular  (UV6)
• valor  (VA5)
• vulva  (VU5)
• vulval  (VU6)
• vulvar  (VU6)

Answer Definitions

• flavorful^† (adjective): Full of flavor.
• afoul (adverb): In a state of collision or entanglement.
• alfalfa (noun): A plant, principally of Medicago sativa, grown as a pasture crop.
• aloof (adverb): At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
• aural (adjective): Of or pertaining to the ear.
• auroral (adjective): Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.
• fall (verb): To be moved downwards. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• falloff (noun): A reduction or decline.
• flavor (noun): The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
• floor (noun): The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
• flora (noun): Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• floral (adjective): Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.
• flour (noun): Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
• fluff (noun): Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
• foal (noun): A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
• fool (noun): A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
• foul (adjective): Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
• full (adjective): Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
• furl (verb): To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
• larva (noun): An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
• larval (adjective): Of or relating to a larva or larvae.
• lava (noun): The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
• loaf (noun): (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
• loll (verb): To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
• loofa (noun): Alternative form of loofah
• luau (noun): An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.
• luff (noun): The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.
• lull (noun): A period of rest or soothing.
• lulu (noun): A remarkable person, object or idea.
• offal (noun): The internal organs of an animal, used as animal food.
• oral (adjective): Relating to the mouth.
• oval (noun): An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse.
• ovular (adjective): Of or pertaining to an oval.
• 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.
• rural (adjective): Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.
• uvula (noun): Ellipsis of palatine uvula.: the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing
• uvular (adjective): Of or relating to the uvula.
• valor (noun): Value; worth.
• vulva (noun): The external female sexual organs, collectively.
• vulval (adjective): Pertaining to the vulva.
• vulvar (adjective): Of or pertaining to the vulva.