Today's NYT Spelling Bee uses center letter O with outer letters C, H, I, M, R, U. The puzzle contains 30 words worth 140 points, including 1 pangram. The longest word is 8 letters. To reach Genius you need 98 points; Queen Bee requires all 140 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 smaller-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.

• chromium^†  (CH8)
• choir  (CH5)
• churro  (CH6)
• cocci  (CO5)
• coho  (CO4)
• coir  (CO4)
• comic  (CO5)
• couch  (CO5)
• croc  (CR4)
• croci  (CR5)
• crouch  (CR6)
• curio  (CU5)
• hooch  (HO5)
• horror  (HO6)
• hour  (HO4)
• humor  (HU5)
• ichor  (IC5)
• micro  (MI5)
• mirror  (MI6)
• mochi  (MO5)
• mooch  (MO5)
• moor  (MO4)
• morocco  (MO7)
• mucho  (MU5)
• occur  (OC5)
• ouch  (OU4)
• rococo  (RO6)
• romcom  (RO6)
• room  (RO4)
• rumor  (RU5)

Answer Definitions

• chromium^† (noun): A chemical element (symbol Cr) with an atomic number of 24: a steely-grey, lustrous, hard and brittle transition metal.
• choir (noun): A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
• churro (noun): A fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage.
• cocci (noun): plural of coccus
• 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.
• coir (noun): The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.
• comic (adjective): Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
• couch (noun): An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
• croc (noun): A crocodile.
• croci (noun): plural of crocus
• crouch (verb): To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.
• curio (noun): A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.
• hooch (noun): Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky.
• horror (noun): An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
• hour (noun): A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
• humor (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• ichor (noun): The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods.
• micro (adjective): Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.
• mirror (noun): A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
• mochi (noun): A Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice.
• mooch (verb): To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
• moor (noun): An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
• morocco (noun): A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
• mucho (adjective): Much; a great deal of.
• occur (verb): To happen or take place.
• ouch (interjection): An expression of one's own physical pain.
• rococo (noun): A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
• romcom (noun): Clipping of romantic comedy.
• room (noun): Opportunity or scope (to do something).
• rumor (noun): A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.