Spelling Bee April 2, 2020 answers
All accepted words for today's NYT Spelling Bee, with the pangram revealed, point totals, and progress thresholds for each rank.
Today's letter set · Center: K
Puzzle stats
Total words
38
Total points
160
Pangrams
2
Genius score
112
Center letter
K
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- BLANKET
- BLANKET
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
8 pts
5%
Good
12 pts
8%
Solid
24 pts
15%
Nice
40 pts
25%
Great
64 pts
40%
Amazing
80 pts
50%
Genius
112 pts
70%
Queen Bee
160 pts
100%
All accepted words
- alkane
- alkene
- ankle
- anklet
- babka
- bake
- balk
- bank
- bankable
- beak
- betake
- betaken
- blank
- blanket
- blanket
- bleak
- kale
- katana
- kebab
- keel
- keen
- kennel
- kettle
- knee
- kneel
- knell
- knelt
- lake
- lank
- latke
- leak
- leek
- take
- taken
- talk
- tank
- teak
- teakettle
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, April 2, 2020 uses the seven letters A, B, E, K, L, N, T, with K as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 38 accepted words for a total of 160 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 112 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 2 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.