Spelling Bee August 20, 2022 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
Puzzle stats
Total words
49
Total points
201
Pangrams
2
Genius score
140
Center letter
A
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- BELLYACHE
- BELLYACHE
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
10 pts
5%
Good
16 pts
8%
Solid
30 pts
15%
Nice
50 pts
25%
Great
80 pts
40%
Amazing
100 pts
50%
Genius
140 pts
70%
Queen Bee
201 pts
100%
All accepted words
- abbacy
- abbey
- able
- ably
- ache
- achy
- allay
- allele
- alley
- ally
- baba
- babble
- babe
- babel
- baby
- bale
- ball
- beach
- beachy
- belay
- bellyache
- bellyache
- blab
- blabby
- blah
- bleach
- cabal
- cabala
- cabby
- cable
- cache
- call
- calla
- callable
- challah
- clay
- clayey
- each
- eyeball
- halal
- hale
- hall
- heal
- healable
- label
- lace
- lacy
- leach
- yeah
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, August 20, 2022 uses the seven letters A, B, C, E, H, L, Y, with A as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 49 accepted words for a total of 201 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 140 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.