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Spelling Bee April 25, 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: A

A
B
C
D
K
R
W

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

31

accepted entries

Total points

139

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

4

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

97

70% of total

Center letter

A

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • DRAWBACK
  • BACKWARD
  • BACKWARD
  • DRAWBACK

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

2 pts

2%

Moving Up

6 pts

5%

Good

11 pts

8%

Solid

20 pts

15%

Nice

34 pts

25%

Great

55 pts

40%

Amazing

69 pts

50%

Genius

97 pts

70%

Queen Bee

139 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 4 words
  • aback
  • abracadabra
  • award
  • awkward
B 11 words
  • baba
  • babka
  • back
  • backward
  • backward
  • barb
  • bard
  • bark
  • barrack
  • bawd
  • brad
C 6 words
  • carb
  • card
  • crab
  • crack
  • craw
  • crawdad
D 5 words
  • dark
  • drab
  • draw
  • drawback
  • drawback
R 2 words
  • rack
  • radar
W 3 words
  • wack
  • ward
  • wrack

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, April 25, 2020 uses the seven letters A, B, C, D, K, R, W, with A as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 31 accepted words for a total of 139 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 97 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.

This puzzle has 4 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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