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Spelling Bee August 28, 2025 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: C

A
C
E
N
O
T
V

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

62

accepted entries

Total points

327

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

2

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

228

70% of total

Center letter

C

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • COVENANT
  • COVENANT

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

6 pts

2%

Moving Up

16 pts

5%

Good

26 pts

8%

Solid

49 pts

15%

Nice

81 pts

25%

Great

130 pts

40%

Amazing

163 pts

50%

Genius

228 pts

70%

Queen Bee

327 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 5 words
  • accent
  • acetate
  • acetone
  • acne
  • avocet
C 41 words
  • cacao
  • cancan
  • cane
  • canna
  • cannon
  • cannot
  • canoe
  • canon
  • cant
  • cantata
  • canteen
  • canton
  • cava
  • cave
  • caveat
  • cent
  • cetacean
  • coat
  • coca
  • cocoa
  • cocoon
  • concatenate
  • concave
  • concoct
  • cone
  • connect
  • connote
  • contact
  • content
  • convect
  • convene
  • convent
  • coot
  • cote
  • cotenant
  • cotton
  • cove
  • coven
  • covenant
  • covenant
  • covet
E 2 words
  • ecotone
  • enact
N 2 words
  • neocon
  • nonce
O 6 words
  • ocean
  • octane
  • octant
  • octave
  • octet
  • once
T 4 words
  • tacet
  • taco
  • tact
  • toccata
V 2 words
  • vacant
  • vacate

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, August 28, 2025 uses the seven letters A, C, E, N, O, T, V, with C as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 62 accepted words for a total of 327 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 228 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.

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

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