Spelling Bee December 9, 2025 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: L
Puzzle stats
Total words
50
Total points
223
Pangrams
2
Genius score
156
Center letter
L
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- CORNBALL
- CORNBALL
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
11 pts
5%
Good
17 pts
8%
Solid
33 pts
15%
Nice
55 pts
25%
Great
89 pts
40%
Amazing
111 pts
50%
Genius
156 pts
70%
Queen Bee
223 pts
100%
All accepted words
- anal
- annal
- ball
- balloon
- banal
- blab
- blob
- bloc
- bola
- boll
- bolo
- cabal
- cabala
- call
- calla
- callaloo
- canal
- cannonball
- canola
- carnal
- carol
- clan
- cloaca
- coal
- cola
- colcannon
- collab
- collar
- colon
- color
- cool
- coral
- cornball
- cornball
- corolla
- coronal
- corral
- labor
- llano
- loan
- lobo
- local
- loco
- loll
- loon
- nonlocal
- oral
- robocall
- roll
- rollbar
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Tuesday, December 9, 2025 uses the seven letters A, B, C, L, N, O, R, with L as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 50 accepted words for a total of 223 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 156 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.