Spelling Bee August 23, 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: I
Puzzle stats
Total words
51
Total points
270
Pangrams
2
Genius score
189
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- DIFFRACT
- DIFFRACT
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
13 pts
5%
Good
21 pts
8%
Solid
40 pts
15%
Nice
67 pts
25%
Great
108 pts
40%
Amazing
135 pts
50%
Genius
189 pts
70%
Queen Bee
270 pts
100%
All accepted words
- acacia
- acai
- acid
- acidic
- acrid
- addict
- adrift
- affair
- afraid
- aircraft
- arcadia
- arctic
- aria
- arid
- artifact
- atria
- attic
- cacti
- cardiac
- cicada
- circa
- cirri
- citric
- critic
- diacritic
- dicta
- didact
- didactic
- diffract
- diffract
- dirt
- drift
- fair
- fiat
- friar
- frittata
- radii
- raffia
- raid
- raita
- riff
- riffraff
- rift
- tacit
- tactic
- tariff
- tiara
- tiff
- traffic
- trait
- triad
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Sunday, August 23, 2020 uses the seven letters A, C, D, F, I, R, T, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 51 accepted words for a total of 270 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 189 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.