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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.

• lapboard^†  (LA8)
• appall  (AP6)
• bloop  (BL5)
• boop  (BO4)
• dollop  (DO6)
• droop  (DR5)
• drop  (DR4)
• lollop  (LO6)
• loop  (LO4)
• opal  (OP4)
• palapa  (PA6)
• pall  (PA4)
• pallor  (PA6)
• palp  (PA4)
• papa  (PA4)
• papal  (PA5)
• parabola  (PA8)
• paradrop  (PA8)
• parlor  (PA6)
• parol  (PA5)
• plod  (PL4)
• plop  (PL4)
• polar  (PO5)
• poll  (PO4)
• polo  (PO4)
• pool  (PO4)
• poop  (PO4)
• poor  (PO4)
• poplar  (PO6)
• poppa  (PO5)
• prod  (PR4)
• prop  (PR4)

Answer Definitions

• lapboard^† (noun): A board held on the lap as a simple lap desk.
• appall (verb): To fill with horror; to dismay.
• bloop (verb): To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
• boop (noun): A low-pitched beeping sound.
• dollop (noun): A considerable lump, scoop, or quantity of something, especially soft food.
• droop (verb): To hang downward; to sag.
• drop (noun): A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
• lollop (verb): To walk or move with a bouncing or undulating motion and at an unhurried pace.
• loop (noun): A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
• opal (noun): A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO2·nH2O. A precious gem, an iridescent gemstone found in the opal-silica mineral substrate (potch)
• palapa (noun): An open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves.
• pall (noun): Senses relating to cloth. Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes. A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse. A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist. A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).
• pallor (noun): Paleness; want of color; pallidity; wanness.
• palp (noun): Synonym of pedipalp.
• papa (noun): Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
• papal (adjective): Having to do with the pope or the papacy.
• parabola (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• paradrop (noun): A delivery of goods or equipment by dropping of a parachute
• parlor (noun): The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room
• parol (adjective): Word of mouth.
• plod (noun): A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
• plop (noun): A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.
• polar (adjective): Of or having a pole or polarity.
• poll (noun): A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
• polo (noun): A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
• pool (noun): A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
• poop (verb): To make a short blast on a horn.
• poor (adjective): With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• poplar (noun): Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus.
• poppa (noun): father, papa.
• prod (verb): To poke, to push, to touch.
• prop (noun): An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.