Spelling Bee December 20, 2024 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: B
Puzzle stats
Total words
48
Total points
193
Pangrams
2
Genius score
135
Center letter
B
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- PLOWABLE
- PLOWABLE
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
48 pts
25%
Great
77 pts
40%
Amazing
96 pts
50%
Genius
135 pts
70%
Queen Bee
193 pts
100%
All accepted words
- able
- allowable
- appealable
- baba
- babble
- babe
- babel
- bale
- ball
- baobab
- bawl
- bebop
- beep
- bell
- belle
- bellow
- below
- blab
- bleep
- blew
- blob
- bloop
- blow
- boba
- bobble
- bola
- boll
- bolo
- boob
- booboo
- boop
- bowel
- bowl
- bowwow
- elbow
- label
- lobe
- lobo
- lowball
- oboe
- palpable
- pebble
- peelable
- pleb
- plebe
- plowable
- plowable
- wobble
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, December 20, 2024 uses the seven letters A, B, E, L, O, P, W, with B as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 48 accepted words for a total of 193 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 135 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.