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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.

• belonged^†  (BE8)
• boondoggle^†  (BO10)
• boondoggled^†  (BO11)
• begged  (BE6)
• begone  (BE6)
• belong  (BE6)
• blog  (BL4)
• blogged  (BL7)
• bogged  (BO6)
• boggle  (BO6)
• boggled  (BO7)
• bong  (BO4)
• bongo  (BO5)
• dodge  (DO5)
• dodged  (DO6)
• doge  (DO4)
• dogged  (DO6)
• doggo  (DO5)
• doggone  (DO7)
• dogleg  (DO6)
• doglegged  (DO9)
• dong  (DO4)
• dongle  (DO6)
• edge  (ED4)
• edged  (ED5)
• egged  (EG5)
• eggnog  (EG6)
• geld  (GE4)
• gelded  (GE6)
• gelee  (GE5)
• gelled  (GE6)
• gene  (GE4)
• geode  (GE5)
• glee  (GL4)
• glen  (GL4)
• glob  (GL4)
• globe  (GL5)
• gobble  (GO6)
• gobbled  (GO7)
• goggle  (GO6)
• goggled  (GO7)
• gold  (GO4)
• golden  (GO6)
• gone  (GO4)
• gong  (GO4)
• gonged  (GO6)
• good  (GO4)
• google  (GO6)
• googled  (GO7)
• googol  (GO6)
• goon  (GO4)
• ledge  (LE5)
• legend  (LE6)
• legged  (LE6)
• lodge  (LO5)
• lodged  (LO6)
• loge  (LO4)
• logged  (LO6)
• logo  (LO4)
• long  (LO4)
• longed  (LO6)
• oblong  (OB6)
• ogee  (OG4)
• ogle  (OG4)
• ogled  (OG5)
• oolong  (OO6)

Answer Definitions

• belonged^† (verb): simple past and past participle of belong
• boondoggle^† (noun): A braided ring to hold a neckerchief.
• boondoggled^† (verb): simple past and past participle of boondoggle
• begged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of beg
• begone (interjection): Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.
• belong (verb): To have its proper place.
• blog (noun): A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)
• blogged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of blog
• bogged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of bog
• boggle (verb): Either literally or figuratively to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle.
• boggled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of boggle
• bong (noun): The clang of a large bell.
• bongo (noun): A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
• dodge (verb): To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
• dodged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of dodge
• doge (noun): The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
• dogged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of dog
• doggo (adverb): Only used in lie doggo.
• doggone (adjective): Euphemistic form of goddamned.
• dogleg (noun): Something (such as a canyon or road) with a sharp bend or turn in it. A configuration of stairs where a flight ascends to a half-landing before turning 180 degrees and continuing upwards. A sharp bend in the fairway before reaching a hole.
• doglegged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of dogleg
• dong (noun): The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫
• dongle (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• edge (noun): The boundary line of a surface.
• edged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of edge
• egged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of egg
• eggnog (noun): A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy or whisky; popular at Christmas.
• geld (noun): Money. In particular, (money paid as) a medieval form of land tax.
• gelded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of geld
• gelee (noun): Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.
• gelled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of gel
• gene (noun): A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
• geode (noun): A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall.
• glee (noun): Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
• glen (noun): A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.
• glob (noun): A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
• globe (noun): Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
• gobble (verb): To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf
• gobbled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of gobble
• goggle (verb): To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
• goggled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of goggle
• gold (noun): A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
• golden (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• gone (verb): past participle of go
• gong (noun): A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer.
• gonged (verb): simple past and past participle of gong
• good (adjective): Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
• google (verb): To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
• googled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of google
• googol (numeral): The number 10 100 {\displaystyle 10^{100}} , or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sedecilliard (long scale).
• goon (noun): A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
• ledge (noun): A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
• legend (noun): An unrealistic story depicting past events. A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.
• legged (adjective): Having legs of a certain specified type or number.
• lodge (noun): A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
• lodged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of lodge
• loge (noun): A booth or stall.
• logged (verb): simple past tense and past participle of log
• logo (noun): A visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization.
• long (adjective): Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point .
• longed (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• oblong (adjective): Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
• ogee (noun): A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape.
• ogle (verb): To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
• ogled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of ogle
• oolong (noun): A partially fermented tea, often roasted, which combines the characteristics of green tea and black tea.