Spelling Bee August 12, 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: I
Puzzle stats
Total words
32
Total points
112
Pangrams
2
Genius score
78
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- MULTILEVEL
- MULTILEVEL
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
2 pts
2%
Moving Up
5 pts
5%
Good
8 pts
8%
Solid
16 pts
15%
Nice
28 pts
25%
Great
44 pts
40%
Amazing
56 pts
50%
Genius
78 pts
70%
Queen Bee
112 pts
100%
All accepted words
- elite
- emit
- evil
- ileum
- ilium
- item
- lieu
- lilt
- lime
- limit
- lite
- little
- live
- mile
- milieu
- mill
- millet
- mime
- mite
- mitt
- multilevel
- multilevel
- tile
- till
- tilt
- time
- title
- tittle
- tutti
- utile
- veil
- vile
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, August 12, 2021 uses the seven letters E, I, L, M, T, U, V, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 32 accepted words for a total of 112 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 78 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.