Spelling Bee August 17, 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: P
Puzzle stats
Total words
64
Total points
300
Pangrams
4
Genius score
210
Center letter
P
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- PLEBEIAN
- PLEBEIAN
- BIPLANE
- BIPLANE
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
6 pts
2%
Moving Up
15 pts
5%
Good
24 pts
8%
Solid
45 pts
15%
Nice
75 pts
25%
Great
120 pts
40%
Amazing
150 pts
50%
Genius
210 pts
70%
Queen Bee
300 pts
100%
All accepted words
- alpine
- apian
- apnea
- appall
- appeal
- appealable
- appellee
- apple
- beep
- biplane
- biplane
- bleep
- blip
- epee
- lapel
- leap
- nape
- neap
- ninepin
- nipple
- paean
- paella
- pail
- pain
- palapa
- pale
- pall
- palp
- palpable
- pane
- panel
- panini
- papa
- papal
- papilla
- papillae
- peal
- pebble
- peel
- peelable
- peen
- peep
- penal
- penile
- penne
- pile
- pill
- pinball
- pine
- pineapple
- pipe
- pipeline
- pippin
- plain
- plan
- plane
- plea
- pleb
- plebe
- plebeian
- plebeian
- plena
- pliable
- plie
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Tuesday, August 17, 2021 uses the seven letters A, B, E, I, L, N, P, with P as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 64 accepted words for a total of 300 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 210 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.