Wednesday · 57 words

Spelling Bee April 2, 2025 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: O

A
C
I
N
O
T
Z

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

56

accepted entries

Total points

329

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

2

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

230

70% of total

Center letter

O

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • CANONIZATION
  • CANONIZATION

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

6 pts

2%

Moving Up

16 pts

5%

Good

26 pts

8%

Solid

49 pts

15%

Nice

82 pts

25%

Great

131 pts

40%

Amazing

164 pts

50%

Genius

230 pts

70%

Queen Bee

329 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 5 words
  • action
  • anion
  • annotation
  • anoint
  • anon
C 28 words
  • cacao
  • cannon
  • cannot
  • canon
  • canonic
  • canonization
  • canonization
  • canton
  • catatonia
  • catatonic
  • cation
  • ciao
  • citation
  • coat
  • coati
  • coca
  • cocci
  • cocoa
  • cocoon
  • coin
  • concoct
  • concoction
  • conic
  • connotation
  • contact
  • contain
  • coot
  • cotton
I 10 words
  • icon
  • iconic
  • inaction
  • incantation
  • initiation
  • into
  • intonation
  • ionic
  • ionization
  • iota
N 4 words
  • nation
  • noon
  • notation
  • notion
O 3 words
  • octant
  • onion
  • onto
T 6 words
  • taco
  • tattoo
  • toccata
  • tonic
  • toon
  • toot

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, April 2, 2025 uses the seven letters A, C, I, N, O, T, Z, with O as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 56 accepted words for a total of 329 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 230 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.

Play today's Spelling Bee on The New York Times.

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