Spelling Bee August 4, 2022 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: T
Puzzle stats
Total words
43
Total points
188
Pangrams
2
Genius score
131
Center letter
T
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- LOCOMOTION
- LOCOMOTION
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
9 pts
5%
Good
15 pts
8%
Solid
28 pts
15%
Nice
47 pts
25%
Great
75 pts
40%
Amazing
94 pts
50%
Genius
131 pts
70%
Queen Bee
188 pts
100%
All accepted words
- clot
- colt
- commit
- commotion
- concoct
- concoction
- coot
- cotillion
- cotton
- illicit
- into
- licit
- lilt
- limit
- lint
- locomotion
- locomotion
- loot
- lotion
- lotto
- mint
- mitt
- molt
- monotonic
- moonlit
- moot
- motion
- motto
- notion
- octillion
- omit
- onto
- till
- tilt
- tinct
- tint
- toil
- toll
- tomtit
- tonic
- tool
- toon
- toot
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, August 4, 2022 uses the seven letters C, I, L, M, N, O, T, with T as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 43 accepted words for a total of 188 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 131 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.