Spelling Bee December 22, 2021 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: R
Puzzle stats
Total words
46
Total points
246
Pangrams
4
Genius score
172
Center letter
R
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- FARCICALLY
- FARCICALLY
- CLARIFY
- CLARIFY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
12 pts
5%
Good
19 pts
8%
Solid
36 pts
15%
Nice
61 pts
25%
Great
98 pts
40%
Amazing
123 pts
50%
Genius
172 pts
70%
Queen Bee
246 pts
100%
All accepted words
- acrylic
- afar
- affair
- affray
- airily
- airy
- aria
- aril
- array
- carry
- carryall
- circa
- cirri
- clarify
- clarify
- fair
- fairly
- fairy
- farcical
- farcically
- farcically
- flair
- frail
- fray
- friar
- friary
- frill
- frilly
- lair
- liar
- lira
- lyric
- lyrical
- lyrically
- racial
- racially
- racy
- raffia
- rail
- railcar
- rally
- rial
- riff
- riffraff
- rill
- riyal
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, December 22, 2021 uses the seven letters A, C, F, I, L, R, Y, with R as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 46 accepted words for a total of 246 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 172 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 4 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.