Today's NYT Spelling Bee uses center letter C with outer letters A, H, N, O, P, Y. The puzzle contains 35 words worth 160 points, including 1 pangram. The longest word is 9 letters. To reach Genius you need 112 points; Queen Bee requires all 160 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.

• cacophony^†  (CA9)
• achoo  (AC5)
• achy  (AC4)
• ancho  (AN5)
• cacao  (CA5)
• cancan  (CA6)
• canna  (CA5)
• cannon  (CA6)
• canny  (CA5)
• canon  (CA5)
• canopy  (CA6)
• canyon  (CA6)
• capo  (CA4)
• capon  (CA5)
• chancy  (CH6)
• chap  (CH4)
• chop  (CH4)
• choppy  (CH6)
• coach  (CO5)
• coca  (CO4)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• cocoon  (CO6)
• coho  (CO4)
• conch  (CO5)
• coop  (CO4)
• copay  (CO5)
• copy  (CO4)
• cyan  (CY4)
• honcho  (HO6)
• hooch  (HO5)
• nacho  (NA5)
• papacy  (PA6)
• poach  (PO5)
• poncho  (PO6)
• pooch  (PO5)

Answer Definitions

• cacophony^† (noun): A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
• achoo (interjection): The sound of a sneeze.
• achy (adjective): Suffering from aches, sore.
• ancho (noun): A broad, flat, dried poblano pepper, often ground into a powder.
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• 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.
• cannon (noun): A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
• canny (adjective): Careful, prudent, cautious.
• canon (noun): A generally accepted principle; a rule.
• canopy (noun): A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
• canyon (noun): A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
• capo (noun): A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
• capon (noun): A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
• chancy (adjective): uncertain, risky, hazardous
• chap (noun): A man, a fellow.
• chop (noun): A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
• choppy (adjective): Having many small, rough waves.
• coach (noun): A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
• coca (noun): Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
• cocoa (noun): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
• cocoon (noun): The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
• 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.
• conch (noun): A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
• coop (noun): A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
• copay (verb): To jointly pay with another or others.
• copy (noun): The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
• 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.
• honcho (noun): boss, leader
• hooch (noun): Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky.
• nacho (noun): A single tortilla chip from a dish of nachos.
• papacy (noun): The office of the pope.
• poach (verb): To cook something in simmering liquid.
• poncho (noun): A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.
• pooch (noun): A dog.