Spelling Bee August 29, 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: K
Puzzle stats
Total words
48
Total points
234
Pangrams
6
Genius score
163
Center letter
K
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- UNDOCKED
- UNCOCKED
- UNCOOKED
- UNDOCKED
- UNCOCKED
- UNCOOKED
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
11 pts
5%
Good
18 pts
8%
Solid
35 pts
15%
Nice
58 pts
25%
Great
93 pts
40%
Amazing
117 pts
50%
Genius
163 pts
70%
Queen Bee
234 pts
100%
All accepted words
- cock
- cocked
- coke
- conk
- conked
- cook
- cooked
- cuckoo
- cuckooed
- cuke
- deck
- decked
- deke
- deked
- dock
- docked
- duck
- ducked
- duke
- duked
- dunk
- dunked
- eked
- keen
- keened
- kendo
- keno
- knee
- kneed
- knock
- knocked
- kook
- kudu
- neck
- necked
- nock
- nocked
- nook
- nuke
- nuked
- uncock
- uncocked
- uncocked
- uncooked
- uncooked
- undock
- undocked
- undocked
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, August 29, 2025 uses the seven letters C, D, E, K, N, O, U, with K as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 48 accepted words for a total of 234 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 163 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.