Spelling Bee December 3, 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: E
Puzzle stats
Total words
35
Total points
126
Pangrams
2
Genius score
88
Center letter
E
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- HEAVILY
- HEAVILY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
2 pts
2%
Moving Up
6 pts
5%
Good
10 pts
8%
Solid
18 pts
15%
Nice
31 pts
25%
Great
50 pts
40%
Amazing
63 pts
50%
Genius
88 pts
70%
Queen Bee
126 pts
100%
All accepted words
- alive
- allele
- alley
- eave
- eely
- evil
- evilly
- hale
- halve
- have
- heal
- heave
- heavily
- heavily
- heavy
- heel
- hell
- helve
- hive
- lave
- leave
- levee
- level
- levy
- live
- lively
- vale
- valley
- valve
- veal
- veil
- vile
- vilely
- yeah
- yell
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, December 3, 2020 uses the seven letters A, E, H, I, L, V, Y, with E as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 35 accepted words for a total of 126 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 88 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.