Today's NYT Spelling Bee uses center letter N with outer letters A, C, I, L, M, Y. The puzzle contains 60 words worth 348 points, including 3 pangrams. The longest word is 10 letters. To reach Genius you need 244 points; Queen Bee requires all 348 points. Today is not a bingo — at least one letter starts no words. Compared with the eight-year average of about 184 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.

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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.

• inimically^†  (IN10)
• maniacally^†  (MA10)
• manically^†  (MA9)
• almanac  (AL7)
• anal  (AN4)
• anally  (AN6)
• anima  (AN5)
• animal  (AN6)
• annal  (AN5)
• caiman  (CA6)
• canal  (CA5)
• cancan  (CA6)
• canna  (CA5)
• cannily  (CA7)
• canny  (CA5)
• cayman  (CA6)
• clan  (CL4)
• clinic  (CL6)
• clinical  (CL8)
• clinically  (CL10)
• clinician  (CL9)
• cyan  (CY4)
• cynic  (CY5)
• cynical  (CY7)
• cynically  (CY9)
• inimical  (IN8)
• inlay  (IN5)
• lain  (LA4)
• lamina  (LA6)
• laminal  (LA7)
• lanai  (LA5)
• layman  (LA6)
• liminal  (LI7)
• limn  (LI4)
• mailman  (MA7)
• main  (MA4)
• mainly  (MA6)
• mammalian  (MA9)
• mancala  (MA7)
• mania  (MA5)
• maniac  (MA6)
• maniacal  (MA8)
• manic  (MA5)
• manila  (MA6)
• manly  (MA5)
• manna  (MA5)
• many  (MA4)
• mini  (MI4)
• minicam  (MI7)
• minim  (MI5)
• minima  (MI6)
• minimal  (MI7)
• minimally  (MI9)
• myna  (MY4)
• naan  (NA4)
• nail  (NA4)
• nana  (NA4)
• nanny  (NA5)
• niacin  (NI6)
• ninny  (NI5)

Answer Definitions

• inimically^† (adverb): In an inimical manner.
• maniacally^† (adverb): In a maniacal manner; frantically.
• manically^† (adverb): In a manic manner.
• almanac (noun): A book or table listing nautical, astronomical, astrological or other events for the year; sometimes, but not essentially, containing historical and statistical information.
• anal (adjective): of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
• anally (adverb): Involving the anus.
• anima (noun): The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
• animal (noun): A eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
• annal (noun): The record of a single event or item.
• caiman (noun): Any of the relatively small crocodilians of the genus Caiman, within the family Alligatoridae.
• canal (noun): An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
• cancan (noun): A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
• canna (noun): Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
• cannily (adverb): In a canny manner.
• canny (adjective): Careful, prudent, cautious.
• cayman (noun): Alternative spelling of caiman
• clan (noun): A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
• clinic (noun): A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
• clinical (adjective): Dealing with the practical management of patients, in practice at the point of care; as contrasted with other health care venues (see clinical medicine for more explanation).
• clinically (adverb): In a clinical manner; dispassionately or analytically.
• clinician (noun): Any healthcare practitioner working at the point of care, in clinical practice (e.g., physicians in clinical medicine, nurses in nursing practice, or allied health providers in practice).
• cyan (noun): A vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.
• cynic (adjective): cynical (in all senses)
• cynical (adjective): Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
• cynically (adverb): in a cynical manner
• inimical (adjective): Harmful in effect.
• inlay (verb): To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design.
• lain (verb): past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
• lamina (noun): a thin layer, plate, or scale of material
• laminal (adjective): laminar
• lanai (noun): A Hawaiian-style roofed patio.
• layman (noun): Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy.
• liminal (adjective): Of or pertaining to an entrance or threshold.
• limn (verb): To draw or paint; to delineate.
• mailman (noun): someone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes
• main (adjective): Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
• mainly (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• mammalian (adjective): of, or pertaining to, mammals
• mancala (noun): Any of various board games, common throughout Africa and Asia, in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits.
• mania (noun): Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
• maniac (noun): An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania.
• maniacal (adjective): Like a maniac; insane; frenzied.
• manic (adjective): Of or pertaining to someone who exhibits mania or craziness; wicked.
• manila (adjective): Made of manila paper or material like it.
• manly (adjective): Having the characteristics of a man.
• manna (noun): Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
• many (determiner): An indefinite large number of.
• mini (adjective): Miniature, tiny, small.
• minicam (noun): A small movie camera.
• minim (noun): A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
• minima (noun): plural of minimum
• minimal (adjective): The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
• minimally (n/a): No definition found; request failed
• myna (noun): One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.
• naan (noun): A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
• nail (noun): The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
• nana (noun): A banana.
• nanny (noun): A child's nurse.
• niacin (noun): A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.
• ninny (noun): A silly or foolish person.