Spelling Bee August 18, 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: L
Puzzle stats
Total words
64
Total points
242
Pangrams
2
Genius score
169
Center letter
L
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- ANKLEBONE
- ANKLEBONE
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
12 pts
5%
Good
19 pts
8%
Solid
36 pts
15%
Nice
60 pts
25%
Great
96 pts
40%
Amazing
121 pts
50%
Genius
169 pts
70%
Queen Bee
242 pts
100%
All accepted words
- abalone
- able
- alkane
- alkene
- allele
- aloe
- alone
- anal
- ankle
- anklebone
- anklebone
- annal
- anneal
- babble
- babel
- bale
- baleen
- balk
- ball
- balloon
- banal
- bankable
- beanball
- bell
- belle
- blab
- blank
- bleak
- blob
- bloke
- bobble
- bola
- boll
- bolo
- elan
- enable
- ennoble
- kale
- keel
- kennel
- kneel
- knell
- knoll
- koala
- kola
- label
- lake
- lane
- lank
- leak
- lean
- leek
- llano
- loan
- loanable
- lobe
- lobo
- loll
- lone
- look
- loon
- noble
- noel
- oleo
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Tuesday, August 18, 2020 uses the seven letters A, B, E, K, L, N, O, with L as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 64 accepted words for a total of 242 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 169 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.