Tuesday · 27 words

Spelling Bee April 20, 2021 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: A

A
B
C
D
K
R
Y

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

26

accepted entries

Total points

106

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

2

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

74

70% of total

Center letter

A

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • BACKYARD
  • BACKYARD

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

2 pts

2%

Moving Up

5 pts

5%

Good

8 pts

8%

Solid

15 pts

15%

Nice

26 pts

25%

Great

42 pts

40%

Amazing

53 pts

50%

Genius

74 pts

70%

Queen Bee

106 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 2 words
  • abracadabra
  • array
B 8 words
  • backyard
  • backyard
  • barb
  • bard
  • bark
  • barrack
  • brad
  • bray
C 8 words
  • carb
  • card
  • carry
  • crab
  • crabby
  • crack
  • cracky
  • crybaby
D 4 words
  • dark
  • drab
  • dray
  • dryad
R 3 words
  • rack
  • racy
  • radar
Y 1 word
  • yard

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Tuesday, April 20, 2021 uses the seven letters A, B, C, D, K, R, Y, with A as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 26 accepted words for a total of 106 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 74 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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