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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.

• chocolate^†  (CH9)
• echolocate^†  (EC10)
• ache  (AC4)
• achoo  (AC5)
• alcohol  (AL7)
• aloha  (AL5)
• athlete  (AT7)
• attach  (AT6)
• attache  (AT7)
• cache  (CA5)
• cachet  (CA6)
• catch  (CA5)
• catchall  (CA8)
• chalet  (CH6)
• challah  (CH7)
• chat  (CH4)
• chattel  (CH7)
• cheat  (CH5)
• cheetah  (CH7)
• cloche  (CL6)
• cloth  (CL5)
• clothe  (CL6)
• coach  (CO5)
• cochlea  (CO7)
• cochleae  (CO8)
• coho  (CO4)
• each  (EA4)
• echo  (EC4)
• etch  (ET4)
• halal  (HA5)
• hale  (HA4)
• hall  (HA4)
• halo  (HA4)
• halt  (HA4)
• hatch  (HA5)
• hatchet  (HA7)
• hate  (HA4)
• hath  (HA4)
• hatha  (HA5)
• heal  (HE4)
• health  (HE6)
• heat  (HE4)
• heath  (HE5)
• heel  (HE4)
• hell  (HE4)
• hellcat  (HE7)
• hellhole  (HE8)
• hello  (HE5)
• hole  (HO4)
• holt  (HO4)
• hooch  (HO5)
• hoot  (HO4)
• hotel  (HO5)
• latch  (LA5)
• lath  (LA4)
• lathe  (LA5)
• leach  (LE5)
• lech  (LE4)
• leech  (LE5)
• lethal  (LE6)
• loach  (LO5)
• loath  (LO5)
• loathe  (LO6)
• loch  (LO4)
• oath  (OA4)
• tach  (TA4)
• teach  (TE5)
• tech  (TE4)
• teeth  (TE5)
• teethe  (TE6)
• telehealth  (TE10)
• that  (TH4)
• thatch  (TH6)
• thee  (TH4)
• theta  (TH5)
• tooth  (TO5)
• toothache  (TO9)

Answer Definitions

• chocolate^† (noun): A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
• echolocate^† (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• ache (verb): To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
• achoo (interjection): The sound of a sneeze.
• alcohol (noun): Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).
• aloha (noun): Good wishes, love.
• athlete (noun): A participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
• attach (verb): To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• attache (noun): Alternative form of attaché
• cache (noun): A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
• cachet (noun): A seal, as of a letter.
• catch (noun): The act of seizing or capturing.
• catchall (noun): Alternative form of catch-all
• chalet (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• challah (noun): A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for a yom tov.
• chat (verb): To be engaged in informal conversation.
• chattel (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• cheat (verb): To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
• cheetah (noun): A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head. It is native to Africa and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.
• cloche (noun): A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
• cloth (noun): A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
• clothe (verb): To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
• coach (noun): A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
• cochlea (noun): The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear of higher vertebrates, which contains the organ of Corti and in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
• cochleae (noun): plural of cochlea
• coho (noun): An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean, used as a symbol by several Native American tribes.
• each (determiner): All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).
• echo (noun): A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
• etch (verb): To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
• halal (adjective): Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
• hale (adjective): Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
• hall (noun): A corridor; a hallway.
• halo (noun): A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
• halt (verb): To limp; move with a limping gait.
• hatch (noun): A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
• hatchet (noun): A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
• hate (noun): An object of hatred.
• hath (verb): third-person singular simple present indicative form of have
• hatha (noun): The fundamental form of yoga that focuses on asanas
• heal (verb): To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
• health (noun): The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
• heat (noun): Thermal energy.
• heath (noun): A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
• heel (noun): The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
• hell (proper noun): A place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death.
• hellcat (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• hellhole (noun): A place of intense hatred, misery, or turmoil.
• hello (interjection): A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.
• hole (noun): A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
• holt (noun): A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
• hooch (noun): Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky.
• hoot (noun): A derisive cry or shout.
• hotel (noun): A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France.
• latch (verb): To close or lock as if with a latch.
• lath (noun): A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
• lathe (verb): To invite; bid; ask.
• leach (noun): A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
• lech (noun): A strong, lecherous desire or craving.
• leech (noun): An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
• lethal (adjective): Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
• loach (noun): A bottom-feeding freshwater fish in the superfamily or suborder Cobitoidea. Any true loach, of the family Cobitidae. A similar fish in one of three other families of Cypriniformes: Botiidae, Balitoridae, and Gyrinocheilidae.
• loath (adjective): Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling.
• loathe (verb): To detest, hate, or revile (someone or something).
• loch (noun): A lake.
• oath (noun): A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
• tach (noun): Clipping of tachometer.
• teach (verb): To pass on knowledge to.
• tech (noun): Technology.
• teeth (noun): plural of tooth
• teethe (verb): To grow teeth.
• telehealth (noun): Healthcare facilitated by telecommunication technology, typically allowing a doctor or other healthcare professional to interact with a patient visually and audibly.
• that (conjunction): Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
• thatch (noun): Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
• thee (pronoun): Objective and reflexive case of thou.
• theta (noun): The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
• tooth (noun): A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
• toothache (noun): A pain or ache in a tooth.