Today's NYT Spelling Bee uses center letter E with outer letters F, G, I, O, P, T. The puzzle contains 27 words worth 104 points, including 1 pangram. The longest word is 8 letters. To reach Genius you need 73 points; Queen Bee requires all 104 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 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.

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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.

• pettifog^†  (PE8)
• effete  (EF6)
• epee  (EP4)
• feet  (FE4)
• fete  (FE4)
• fief  (FI4)
• fife  (FI4)
• footie  (FO6)
• ogee  (OG4)
• peep  (PE4)
• petit  (PE5)
• petite  (PE6)
• pipe  (PI4)
• pipet  (PI5)
• pipette  (PI7)
• poet  (PO4)
• pope  (PO4)
• poppet  (PO6)
• potpie  (PO6)
• teepee  (TE6)
• teff  (TE4)
• tepee  (TE5)
• tippet  (TI6)
• tiptoe  (TI6)
• toffee  (TO6)
• tope  (TO4)
• tote  (TO4)

Answer Definitions

• pettifog^† (verb): To quibble over trivial matters; nitpick.
• effete (adjective): Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
• epee (noun): A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.
• feet (noun): plural of foot
• fete (noun): A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
• fief (noun): An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior.
• fife (noun): A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
• footie (noun): Alternative spelling of footy
• ogee (noun): A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape.
• peep (noun): A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.
• petit (adjective): Petite: small, little.
• petite (adjective): fairly short and of slim build.
• pipe (noun): Meanings relating to a wind instrument. A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. The key or sound of the voice. A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
• pipet (noun): Alternative form of pipette
• pipette (noun): A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
• poet (noun): A person who writes poems.
• pope (noun): An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state. Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority. Any similar head of a religion. A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of Prester John or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses. An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times. Pope Day, the present Guy Fawkes Day.
• poppet (noun): An endearingly sweet or beautiful child.
• potpie (noun): A pie, having pastry sides and bottom, and filled with meat etc
• teepee (noun): A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America.
• teff (noun): A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
• tepee (noun): Alternative form of teepee
• tippet (noun): A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.
• tiptoe (noun): The tip of the toe.
• toffee (noun): a type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard
• tope (verb): To drink excessively; to get drunk.
• tote (noun): A tote bag.