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Spelling Bee December 4, 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: D

A
D
K
O
R
W
Y

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

42

accepted entries

Total points

244

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

8

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

170

70% of total

Center letter

D

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • YARDWORK
  • WORKADAY
  • YARDWORK
  • WORKADAY
  • WORKDAY
  • DAYWORK
  • WORKDAY
  • DAYWORK

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

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

97 pts

40%

Amazing

122 pts

50%

Genius

170 pts

70%

Queen Bee

244 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 3 words
  • ardor
  • award
  • awkward
D 18 words
  • daddy
  • dark
  • daywork
  • daywork
  • dodo
  • doodad
  • door
  • doorway
  • dooryard
  • dork
  • dorky
  • dory
  • dowdy
  • dowry
  • draw
  • dray
  • dryad
  • dyad
O 1 word
  • odor
R 6 words
  • radar
  • road
  • roadway
  • roadwork
  • rood
  • rowdy
W 11 words
  • ward
  • wayward
  • wood
  • woodwork
  • woody
  • word
  • wordy
  • workaday
  • workaday
  • workday
  • workday
Y 3 words
  • yard
  • yardwork
  • yardwork

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, December 4, 2020 uses the seven letters A, D, K, O, R, W, Y, with D as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 42 accepted words for a total of 244 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 170 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.

This puzzle has 8 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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