Today's NYT Spelling Bee uses center letter N with outer letters A, D, M, O, R, T. The puzzle contains 57 words worth 274 points, including 2 pangrams. The longest word is 9 letters. To reach Genius you need 192 points; Queen Bee requires all 274 points. Today is a bingo — every letter starts at least one word. Compared with the eight-year average of about 183 points per puzzle, this is a larger-than-average day.

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Table of Contents

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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.

• dormant^†  (DO7)
• mordant^†  (MO7)
• adamant  (AD7)
• adman  (AD5)
• adorn  (AD5)
• annatto  (AN7)
• annotator  (AN9)
• anon  (AN4)
• arrant  (AR6)
• damn  (DA4)
• darn  (DA4)
• donor  (DO5)
• doorman  (DO7)
• madman  (MA6)
• mammon  (MA6)
• manna  (MA5)
• manor  (MA5)
• manta  (MA5)
• mantra  (MA6)
• maroon  (MA6)
• matron  (MA6)
• moan  (MO4)
• monad  (MO5)
• mondo  (MO5)
• mono  (MO4)
• monodrama  (MO9)
• moon  (MO4)
• morn  (MO4)
• moron  (MO5)
• naan  (NA4)
• nada  (NA4)
• nana  (NA4)
• narrator  (NA8)
• natant  (NA6)
• nomad  (NO5)
• nonart  (NO6)
• nonrandom  (NO9)
• noon  (NO4)
• norm  (NO4)
• notator  (NO7)
• onto  (ON4)
• ottoman  (OT7)
• radon  (RA5)
• rand  (RA4)
• rando  (RA5)
• random  (RA6)
• rant  (RA4)
• rattan  (RA6)
• roan  (RO4)
• rondo  (RO5)
• tandoor  (TA7)
• tantara  (TA7)
• tantra  (TA6)
• tartan  (TA6)
• toon  (TO4)
• torn  (TO4)
• tornado  (TO7)

Answer Definitions

• dormant^† (adjective): Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
• mordant^† (adjective): Having or showing a sharp or critical quality
• adamant (adjective): Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
• adman (noun): A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements.
• adorn (verb): To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
• annatto (noun): A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.
• annotator (noun): One who annotates.
• anon (adverb): Straight away; at once.
• arrant (adjective): Complete; downright; utter.
• damn (verb): To condemn to hell.
• darn (adjective): Damn.
• donor (noun): One who makes a donation.
• doorman (noun): A person who holds open the door at the entryway (entrance) to a building, summons taxicabs, and provides an element of security; in apartment buildings, he also accepts deliveries and may perform certain concierge type services.
• madman (noun): A male who is insane or mentally disturbed.
• mammon (proper noun): Alternative letter-case form of Mammon (wealth, material avarice).
• manna (noun): Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
• manor (noun): A landed estate.
• manta (noun): A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
• mantra (noun): The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer.
• maroon (noun): An escaped negro of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
• matron (noun): A mature or elderly woman.
• moan (noun): a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
• monad (noun): An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
• mondo (noun): A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.
• mono (noun): Clipping of mononucleosis.
• monodrama (noun): A play in the form of a monologue
• moon (proper noun): Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”).
• morn (noun): Morning.
• moron (noun): A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.
• naan (noun): A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
• nada (pronoun): Nothing.
• nana (noun): A banana.
• narrator (noun): One who narrates or tells stories.
• natant (adjective): floating or swimming (in water)
• nomad (noun): A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
• nonart (noun): That which is not art
• nonrandom (adjective): Not random; caused or manipulated; arranged.
• noon (noun): The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
• norm (noun): That which is normal or typical.
• notator (noun): One who notates; a writer of notation.
• onto (preposition): Upon; on top of.
• ottoman (noun): An upholstered sofa, without arms or a back, sometimes with a compartment for storing linen etc.
• radon (noun): The chemical element (symbol Rn, formerly Ro) with atomic number 86. It is an odorless, colorless, chemically inert but radioactive noble gas.
• rand (noun): The border of an area of land, especially marshland.
• rando (adjective): Random; arbitrary.
• random (noun): A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
• rant (verb): To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
• rattan (noun): Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
• roan (adjective): Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
• rondo (noun): A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
• tandoor (noun): A cylindrical clay oven used, in the cuisine of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent, to make flat bread, or to cook meat.
• tantara (noun): a flourish on a trumpet
• tantra (noun): A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text.
• tartan (noun): A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans and some Scottish families and institutions having their own distinctive patterns.
• toon (noun): A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
• torn (verb): past participle of tear (rip, rend, speed).
• tornado (noun): A violent windstorm characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.