Spelling Bee Solver

Enter the yellow center letter and the six letters around it. The solver lists every word of four or more letters that uses the center letter, and marks the pangrams.

Want today's NYT letters? Fill in today's puzzle (spoilers!) or try the step-by-step hints for today first.

BIKLOXE

20 common words (59 points), 1 pangram, and 40 rarer words.

Pangrams

BOXLIKE

Common words

6 letters (3)

BOBBLE BOOKIE KOOKIE

5 letters (6)

BELIE BELLE BIBLE EXILE KEBOB LIBEL

4 letters (11)

BELL BIKE BILE BOLE IBEX KEEL LEEK LIKE LOBE OBOE OLEO

Show 40 rarer words from the big dictionary

8 letters (1)

LIBELLEE

7 letters (5)

BEELIKE BIBLIKE BOXLIKE EELLIKE LIBELEE

6 letters (14)

BEEBEE BELIKE BIBBLE BIKKIE BLOOIE BOOBIE KEBBIE KEBELE KEELIE KIBBLE KIEKIE KILLIE LEBBEK OXLIKE

5 letters (10)

BELEE BIKIE BLOKE EBOOK KIBBE KIBEI LOOIE OBELI OBOLE OLLIE

4 letters (10)

BLEB BLEE BOKE ILEX KEEK KELL KIBE KOEL LEKE LOKE

How the solver works

A Spelling Bee word has at least four letters, uses only the seven letters of the puzzle and always contains the center letter. Letters may repeat, so with A, E, L, N, R, T around a center P you can make both PLANT and PEPPER. The solver checks every word in our dictionaries against these rules.

The common words are about 40,000 words found in standard American and British dictionaries, the kind the official game tends to accept: on recent puzzles this list contained about four out of five official answers. The rarer words come from our full list of more than 140,000 words, which includes old, technical and specialist words. The New York Times decides its own word list every day, so the solver can show a word the official game rejects, and very new words can be missing.

Scoring

Four-letter words are worth 1 point. Longer words score 1 point per letter, and a pangram, a word that uses all seven letters, adds 7 points. The total above counts the common words only.

Prefer hints to answers?

For today's puzzle, the Spelling Bee hints page starts with the grid and the two-letter list and reveals one word at a time. Or play our own Spelling Bee Unlimited with a fresh set of letters whenever you like.