Spelling Bee December 8, 2022 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: P
Puzzle stats
Total words
48
Total points
226
Pangrams
4
Genius score
158
Center letter
P
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- NONAPOLOGY
- NONAPOLOGY
- POLYGONAL
- POLYGONAL
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
11 pts
5%
Good
18 pts
8%
Solid
33 pts
15%
Nice
56 pts
25%
Great
90 pts
40%
Amazing
113 pts
50%
Genius
158 pts
70%
Queen Bee
226 pts
100%
All accepted words
- apology
- appall
- apply
- gallop
- galop
- gloop
- gloopy
- glop
- gloppy
- goop
- goopy
- lollop
- loop
- loopy
- nonapology
- nonapology
- opal
- pagan
- palapa
- pall
- palp
- pang
- panoply
- papa
- papal
- papally
- papaya
- pappy
- payola
- plan
- play
- plop
- ploy
- pogo
- poll
- polo
- polygon
- polygonal
- polygonal
- polyp
- pong
- pony
- pool
- poop
- poppa
- poppy
- pylon
- yappy
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, December 8, 2022 uses the seven letters A, G, L, N, O, P, Y, with P as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 48 accepted words for a total of 226 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 158 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.