Today's NYT Spelling Bee uses center letter H with outer letters D, E, M, N, O, Y. The puzzle contains 23 words worth 116 points, including 1 pangram. The longest word is 11 letters. To reach Genius you need 81 points; Queen Bee requires all 116 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.

• honeymooned^†  (HO11)
• heed  (HE4)
• heeded  (HE6)
• heme  (HE4)
• hemmed  (HE6)
• hoed  (HO4)
• home  (HO4)
• homed  (HO5)
• homey  (HO5)
• homonym  (HO7)
• homonymy  (HO8)
• hone  (HO4)
• honed  (HO5)
• honey  (HO5)
• honeyed  (HO7)
• honeymoon  (HO9)
• hood  (HO4)
• hooded  (HO6)
• hoodoo  (HO6)
• hooey  (HO5)
• hymen  (HY5)
• hymn  (HY4)
• yoohoo  (YO6)

Answer Definitions

• honeymooned^† (verb): simple past and past participle of honeymoon
• heed (noun): Careful attention.
• heeded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of heed
• heme (noun): The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.
• hemmed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of hem
• hoed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of hoe
• home (noun): A dwelling. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace. The place where a person was raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
• homed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of home
• homey (noun): Alternative form of homie
• homonym (noun): A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
• homonymy (noun): The property of being a homonym.
• hone (noun): A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
• honed (adjective): Made sharp.
• honey (noun): A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods.
• honeyed (adjective): Sweetened, with, or as if with, honey.
• honeymoon (noun): The period of time immediately following a marriage.
• hood (noun): A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
• hooded (adjective): Wearing a hood.
• hoodoo (noun): A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs.
• hooey (noun): Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s).
• hymen (noun): A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females.
• hymn (noun): A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
• yoohoo (interjection): Used to get attention.