Spelling Bee December 30, 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: W
Puzzle stats
Total words
41
Total points
181
Pangrams
2
Genius score
126
Center letter
W
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- HEADWIND
- HEADWIND
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
9 pts
5%
Good
14 pts
8%
Solid
27 pts
15%
Nice
45 pts
25%
Great
72 pts
40%
Amazing
90 pts
50%
Genius
126 pts
70%
Queen Bee
181 pts
100%
All accepted words
- anew
- awed
- dawn
- dawned
- hawed
- headwind
- headwind
- heehaw
- heehawed
- hewed
- hewn
- wadded
- wade
- waded
- wahine
- wand
- wane
- waned
- wanna
- wean
- weaned
- wedded
- weed
- weeded
- weenie
- wend
- wended
- whee
- when
- whew
- whine
- whined
- whinnied
- wide
- widen
- widened
- wienie
- wind
- winded
- wine
- wined
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, December 30, 2021 uses the seven letters A, D, E, H, I, N, W, with W as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 41 accepted words for a total of 181 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 126 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.