Spelling Bee December 20, 2023 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: E
Puzzle stats
Total words
47
Total points
238
Pangrams
6
Genius score
166
Center letter
E
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- BLOCKABLE
- BLOCKABLE
- COOKABLE
- LOCKABLE
- COOKABLE
- LOCKABLE
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
11 pts
5%
Good
19 pts
8%
Solid
35 pts
15%
Nice
59 pts
25%
Great
95 pts
40%
Amazing
119 pts
50%
Genius
166 pts
70%
Queen Bee
238 pts
100%
All accepted words
- able
- allele
- allocable
- aloe
- babble
- babe
- babel
- bake
- bale
- beak
- beck
- bell
- belle
- bleak
- blockable
- blockable
- bloke
- bobble
- bocce
- bookable
- cable
- cackle
- cake
- callable
- celeb
- cell
- cellblock
- cello
- cobble
- cockle
- coke
- cookable
- cookable
- kale
- kebab
- keel
- label
- lace
- lake
- leak
- leek
- lobe
- locale
- lockable
- lockable
- oboe
- oleo
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, December 20, 2023 uses the seven letters A, B, C, E, K, L, O, with E as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 47 accepted words for a total of 238 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 166 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.