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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.

• midbrain^†  (MI8)
• airman  (AI6)
• aria  (AR4)
• arid  (AR4)
• armada  (AR6)
• armband  (AR7)
• barb  (BA4)
• barbarian  (BA9)
• bard  (BA4)
• barmaid  (BA7)
• barman  (BA6)
• barn  (BA4)
• bird  (BI4)
• birdbrain  (BI9)
• birria  (BI6)
• brad  (BR4)
• braid  (BR5)
• brain  (BR5)
• bran  (BR4)
• brand  (BR5)
• briar  (BR5)
• brim  (BR4)
• darn  (DA4)
• dinar  (DI5)
• drab  (DR4)
• drain  (DR5)
• dram  (DR4)
• drama  (DR5)
• drib  (DR4)
• mandarin  (MA8)
• marimba  (MA7)
• marina  (MA6)
• marinara  (MA8)
• marm  (MA4)
• midair  (MI6)
• midrib  (MI6)
• minibar  (MI7)
• mirin  (MI5)
• nadir  (NA5)
• rabbi  (RA5)
• rabid  (RA5)
• radar  (RA5)
• radian  (RA6)
• radii  (RA5)
• raid  (RA4)
• rain  (RA4)
• ramada  (RA6)
• rand  (RA4)
• rani  (RA4)
• rind  (RI4)

Answer Definitions

• midbrain^† (noun): A part of the brain located rostral to the pons and caudal to the thalamus and the basal ganglia, composed of the tectum (dorsal portion) and the tegmentum (ventral portion).
• airman (noun): A pilot of an aircraft.
• aria (noun): A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.
• arid (adjective): Very dry.
• armada (noun): A fleet of warships, especially with reference to the Spanish Armada.
• armband (noun): A band worn around the arm, usually to symbolize protest or mourning.
• barb (noun): The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
• barbarian (adjective): Relating to people, countries, or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
• bard (noun): A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
• barmaid (noun): A woman who serves in a bar.
• barman (noun): A man who works in a bar.
• barn (noun): A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
• bird (noun): A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
• birdbrain (noun): Someone who is not intelligent.
• birria (noun): A Mexican dish of stewed meat (usually goat, beef or lamb; sometimes pork or chicken) and spices, typically served like a soup with (or sometimes in) tortillas.
• brad (noun): A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
• braid (verb): To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
• brain (noun): The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
• bran (noun): The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
• brand (noun): A conflagration; a flame.
• briar (noun): Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
• brim (noun): The sea; ocean; water; flood.
• darn (adjective): Damn.
• dinar (noun): The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, North Macedonia, Serbia and Tunisia.
• drab (noun): A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
• drain (noun): A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole
• dram (noun): A small unit of weight, variously: One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (approximately 1.77 g). Alternative form of drachm (“⁄8 ounce apothecary (3.89 g) (symbol: ℨ)”). Synonym of dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g). Synonym of drachma: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).
• drama (noun): A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue
• drib (verb): To cut off; chop off.
• mandarin (noun): A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
• marimba (noun): A musical instrument similar to a xylophone but clearer in pitch.
• marina (noun): A harbour for small boats.
• marinara (adjective): Prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce.
• marm (noun): madam; a polite term of address for a lady.
• midair (adjective): In the act of flight; airborne.
• midrib (noun): The strengthened vein down the middle of a flower petal or simple leaf or leaflet.
• minibar (noun): A small refrigerator in a hotel room, containing drinks and snacks that the guest may choose to purchase during their stay.
• mirin (noun): A form of Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake and used in cooking.
• nadir (noun): The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
• rabbi (noun): A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.
• rabid (adjective): Affected with rabies.
• radar (noun): A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces
• radian (noun): English Wikipedia has an article on:radianWikipedia In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angular measure of angle equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle. Symbol: rad
• radii (noun): plural of radius
• raid (noun): A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
• rain (noun): Condensed water falling from a cloud.
• ramada (noun): A simple arbour or open porch, typically roofed with branches.
• rand (noun): The border of an area of land, especially marshland.
• rani (noun): The wife of a rajah.
• rind (noun): tree bark