Spelling Bee August 25, 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: E
Puzzle stats
Total words
37
Total points
205
Pangrams
2
Genius score
143
Center letter
E
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- DEPENDENTLY
- DEPENDENTLY
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
51 pts
25%
Great
82 pts
40%
Amazing
102 pts
50%
Genius
143 pts
70%
Queen Bee
205 pts
100%
All accepted words
- deeply
- delete
- deleted
- dell
- delt
- dependently
- dependently
- deplete
- depleted
- eely
- eyelet
- lend
- lent
- needle
- needled
- needly
- nettle
- nettled
- nettly
- peddle
- peddled
- peel
- peeled
- pellet
- pelleted
- pelt
- pelted
- pled
- plenty
- teletype
- teletyped
- tell
- telnet
- yell
- yelled
- yelp
- yelped
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Tuesday, August 25, 2020 uses the seven letters D, E, L, N, P, T, Y, with E as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 37 accepted words for a total of 205 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 143 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.