Today's NYT Spelling Bee uses center letter L with outer letters A, B, D, O, R, Y. The puzzle contains 60 words worth 276 points, including 2 pangrams. The longest word is 8 letters. To reach Genius you need 193 points; Queen Bee requires all 276 points. Today is not a bingo — at least one letter starts no words. 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.

• adorably^†  (AD8)
• broadly^†  (BR7)
• ably  (AB4)
• allay  (AL5)
• alloy  (AL5)
• ally  (AL4)
• badly  (BA5)
• bald  (BA4)
• baldly  (BA6)
• ball  (BA4)
• ballad  (BA6)
• balladry  (BA8)
• ballboy  (BA7)
• ballyard  (BA8)
• blab  (BL4)
• blabby  (BL6)
• blob  (BL4)
• blobby  (BL6)
• blood  (BL5)
• bloody  (BL6)
• bola  (BO4)
• bold  (BO4)
• boldly  (BO6)
• boll  (BO4)
• bollard  (BO7)
• bolo  (BO4)
• dally  (DA5)
• doll  (DO4)
• dollar  (DO6)
• dolly  (DO5)
• dolor  (DO5)
• drably  (DR6)
• droll  (DR5)
• drolly  (DR6)
• drool  (DR5)
• drooly  (DR6)
• dryly  (DR5)
• labor  (LA5)
• lady  (LA4)
• lard  (LA4)
• load  (LO4)
• lobby  (LO5)
• loblolly  (LO8)
• lobo  (LO4)
• loll  (LO4)
• lord  (LO4)
• lordly  (LO6)
• lordy  (LO5)
• lorry  (LO5)
• loyal  (LO5)
• loyally  (LO7)
• oddball  (OD7)
• oddly  (OD5)
• oral  (OR4)
• orally  (OR6)
• rally  (RA5)
• roll  (RO4)
• rollbar  (RO7)
• royal  (RO5)
• royally  (RO7)

Answer Definitions

• adorably^† (adverb): In an adorable manner.
• broadly^† (adverb): Widely and openly.
• ably (adverb): In an able manner; with great ability.
• allay (verb): To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
• alloy (noun): A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal.
• ally (verb): To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.
• badly (adverb): In a bad manner.
• bald (adjective): Having no hair, fur or feathers.
• baldly (adverb): In a bald (blunt, matter-of-fact, unembellished, or lacking supporting details) manner.
• ball (noun): A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
• ballad (noun): A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
• balladry (noun): ballads considered as a group; also, the sharing (transmission), making and performing of ballads, ballads as an activity, as a tradition, as a body of work, as a craft, as implying a community of singers, makers and lovers of ballads.
• ballboy (noun): Alternative spelling of ball boy
• ballyard (noun): A baseball field.
• blab (verb): To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
• blabby (adjective): Tending to blab or gossip a lot.
• blob (noun): A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
• blobby (adjective): Similar in shape to blobs; amorphous in appearance; partially irregular in appearance like bubbles.
• blood (noun): A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
• bloody (adjective): Covered in blood.
• bola (noun): A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.
• bold (noun): A dwelling; habitation; building.
• boldly (adverb): In a bold manner; with confidence.
• boll (noun): The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
• bollard (noun): A strong vertical post of timber or iron, fixed to the ground and/or on the deck of a ship, to which the ship's mooring lines etc are secured.
• bolo (noun): A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
• dally (verb): To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
• doll (noun): A toy in the form of a human.
• dollar (noun): Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
• dolly (noun): A doll.
• dolor (noun): Alternative spelling of dolour
• drably (adverb): In a drab manner.
• droll (adjective): Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.
• drolly (adverb): In a droll, odd or humorous manner.
• drool (verb): To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
• drooly (adjective): Producing an excess of drool.
• dryly (adverb): In a dry manner.
• labor (noun): Alternative spelling of labour
• lady (noun): The mistress of a household.
• lard (noun): Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
• load (noun): A burden; a weight to be carried.
• lobby (noun): An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
• loblolly (noun): Gruel.
• lobo (noun): A wolf.
• loll (verb): To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
• lord (noun): The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor The male head of a household, a father or husband. The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession
• lordly (adjective): Of or relating to a lord.
• lordy (interjection): Alternative letter-case form of Lordy
• lorry (noun): A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods
• loyal (adjective): Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.
• loyally (adverb): In a loyal manner, faithfully.
• oddball (noun): An eccentric or unusual person.
• oddly (adverb): In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.
• oral (adjective): Relating to the mouth.
• orally (adverb): By mouth.
• rally (noun): A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
• roll (verb): To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
• rollbar (noun): Alternative form of roll bar (“an anti-roll bar”)
• royal (adjective): Of or relating to a monarch or their family.
• royally (adverb): In a royal manner; in a manner having to do with royalty.