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Spelling Bee August 28, 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: I

D
E
F
G
I
N
Y

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

75

accepted entries

Total points

475

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

6

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

332

70% of total

Center letter

I

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • DEIFYING
  • EDIFYING
  • EDIFYING
  • DEIFYING
  • DEFYING
  • DEFYING

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

9 pts

2%

Moving Up

23 pts

5%

Good

38 pts

8%

Solid

71 pts

15%

Nice

118 pts

25%

Great

190 pts

40%

Amazing

237 pts

50%

Genius

332 pts

70%

Queen Bee

475 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
D 31 words
  • deeding
  • defending
  • defied
  • define
  • defined
  • defining
  • defying
  • defying
  • deified
  • deify
  • deifying
  • deifying
  • deign
  • deigned
  • deigning
  • denied
  • denying
  • died
  • digging
  • dignified
  • dignify
  • dignifying
  • dine
  • dined
  • ding
  • dinged
  • dinging
  • dingy
  • dining
  • dyeing
  • dying
E 13 words
  • eddied
  • eddying
  • edging
  • edified
  • edify
  • edifying
  • edifying
  • effigy
  • egging
  • ending
  • engine
  • eyeing
  • eying
F 16 words
  • feeding
  • feign
  • feigned
  • feigning
  • fending
  • fief
  • fiend
  • fife
  • fifed
  • fifing
  • find
  • finding
  • fine
  • fined
  • fining
  • finned
G 5 words
  • genie
  • genii
  • giddy
  • ginned
  • ginning
I 6 words
  • iffy
  • indeed
  • indie
  • indigene
  • innie
  • inning
N 3 words
  • needing
  • nine
  • ninny
Y 1 word
  • yenning

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, August 28, 2021 uses the seven letters D, E, F, G, I, N, Y, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 75 accepted words for a total of 475 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 332 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.

This puzzle has 6 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.

Play today's Spelling Bee on The New York Times.

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