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
Puzzle stats
Total words
75
Total points
475
Pangrams
6
Genius score
332
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- DEIFYING
- EDIFYING
- EDIFYING
- DEIFYING
- DEFYING
- DEFYING
Rank thresholds
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
- 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
- eddied
- eddying
- edging
- edified
- edify
- edifying
- edifying
- effigy
- egging
- ending
- engine
- eyeing
- eying
- feeding
- feign
- feigned
- feigning
- fending
- fief
- fiend
- fife
- fifed
- fifing
- find
- finding
- fine
- fined
- fining
- finned
- genie
- genii
- giddy
- ginned
- ginning
- iffy
- indeed
- indie
- indigene
- innie
- inning
- needing
- nine
- ninny
- 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.