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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.

• windmilled^†  (WI10)
• deli  (DE4)
• dell  (DE4)
• diddle  (DI6)
• diddled  (DI7)
• dill  (DI4)
• dwell  (DW5)
• dwelled  (DW7)
• dwindle  (DW7)
• dwindled  (DW8)
• elide  (EL5)
• elided  (EL6)
• idle  (ID4)
• idled  (ID5)
• lede  (LE4)
• lend  (LE4)
• lewd  (LE4)
• lidded  (LI6)
• lied  (LI4)
• lien  (LI4)
• lime  (LI4)
• limn  (LI4)
• limned  (LI6)
• linden  (LI6)
• line  (LI4)
• lined  (LI5)
• linemen  (LI7)
• linen  (LI5)
• meddle  (ME6)
• meddled  (ME7)
• meld  (ME4)
• melded  (ME6)
• melee  (ME5)
• mewl  (ME4)
• mewled  (ME6)
• middle  (MI6)
• middlemen  (MI9)
• midline  (MI7)
• mild  (MI4)
• mildew  (MI6)
• mildewed  (MI8)
• mile  (MI4)
• mill  (MI4)
• milled  (MI6)
• needle  (NE6)
• needled  (NE7)
• newel  (NE5)
• weld  (WE4)
• welded  (WE6)
• well  (WE4)
• welled  (WE6)
• wield  (WI5)
• wielded  (WI7)
• wild  (WI4)
• wile  (WI4)
• will  (WI4)
• willed  (WI6)
• windmill  (WI8)

Answer Definitions

• windmilled^† (verb): simple past tense and past participle of windmill
• deli (noun): A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
• dell (noun): A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.
• diddle (noun): In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed.
• diddled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of diddle
• dill (noun): Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.
• dwell (noun): A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
• dwelled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of dwell
• dwindle (verb): To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
• dwindled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of dwindle
• elide (verb): To leave out or omit (something).
• elided (verb): simple past tense and past participle of elide
• idle (adjective): Empty, vacant.
• idled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of idle
• lede (noun): A man; a person.
• lend (verb): To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
• lewd (adjective): Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
• lidded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of lid
• lied (noun): An art song, usually sung solo in German and accompanied on the piano.
• lien (noun): A tendon.
• lime (noun): Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
• limn (verb): To draw or paint; to delineate.
• limned (adjective): described or represented in a lifelike manner
• linden (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• line (noun): A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
• lined (adjective): Having a lining, an inner layer or covering.
• linemen (noun): plural of lineman
• linen (noun): Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
• meddle (verb): To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.
• meddled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of meddle
• meld (verb): to combine multiple similar objects into one.
• melded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of meld
• melee (noun): A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
• mewl (verb): To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
• mewled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of mewl
• middle (noun): A centre, midpoint.
• middlemen (noun): plural of middleman
• midline (noun): The medial line (or plane) of the body, which divides the body into halves that are mirror-images of each other.
• mild (adjective): Gentle and not easily angered.
• mildew (noun): A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.
• mildewed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of mildew
• mile (noun): The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
• mill (noun): A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
• milled (adjective): Ground by a mill.
• needle (noun): A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
• needled (adjective): Covered or armored with needles.
• newel (noun): A central pillar around which a staircase spirals.
• weld (noun): A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
• welded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of weld
• well (adverb): Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
• welled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of well
• wield (verb): To command, rule over; to possess or own.
• wielded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of wield
• wild (adjective): Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).
• wile (noun): A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
• will (verb): Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
• willed (adjective): Having a document specifying inheritance.
• windmill (noun): A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.