Spelling Bee December 14, 2020 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: L
Puzzle stats
Total words
65
Total points
256
Pangrams
2
Genius score
179
Center letter
L
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- COMICALLY
- COMICALLY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
12 pts
5%
Good
20 pts
8%
Solid
38 pts
15%
Nice
64 pts
25%
Great
102 pts
40%
Amazing
128 pts
50%
Genius
179 pts
70%
Queen Bee
256 pts
100%
All accepted words
- acclaim
- acyclic
- aioli
- allay
- alloy
- ally
- amyl
- calico
- call
- calla
- callaloo
- calm
- calmly
- cilia
- claim
- clam
- clammy
- clay
- cloaca
- cloy
- coal
- coil
- cola
- colic
- comical
- comically
- comically
- cool
- coolly
- coyly
- cyclic
- cyclical
- cyclically
- icily
- iliac
- illy
- lacy
- laic
- laical
- lama
- lilac
- lily
- lima
- limo
- llama
- loam
- loamy
- local
- locally
- loci
- loco
- loll
- loom
- loyal
- loyally
- malic
- mall
- mammal
- mill
- moil
- moll
- moola
- oily
- olio
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Monday, December 14, 2020 uses the seven letters A, C, I, L, M, O, Y, with L as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 65 accepted words for a total of 256 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 179 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.