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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

A
B
E
L
O
P
W

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

48

accepted entries

Total points

193

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

2

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

135

70% of total

Center letter

B

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • PLOWABLE
  • PLOWABLE

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

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

Grouped by starting letter
A 3 words
  • able
  • allowable
  • appealable
B 31 words
  • 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
E 1 word
  • elbow
L 4 words
  • label
  • lobe
  • lobo
  • lowball
O 1 word
  • oboe
P 7 words
  • palpable
  • pebble
  • peelable
  • pleb
  • plebe
  • plowable
  • plowable
W 1 word
  • 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.

Play today's Spelling Bee on The New York Times.

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