Spelling Bee February 17, 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: T
Puzzle stats
Total words
54
Total points
274
Pangrams
2
Genius score
191
Center letter
T
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- FACILITY
- FACILITY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
13 pts
5%
Good
21 pts
8%
Solid
41 pts
15%
Nice
68 pts
25%
Great
109 pts
40%
Amazing
137 pts
50%
Genius
191 pts
70%
Queen Bee
274 pts
100%
All accepted words
- afflict
- alit
- atilt
- attic
- cacti
- catalytic
- catalytically
- catcall
- cattail
- cattily
- catty
- citify
- city
- facility
- facility
- fact
- facticity
- fatal
- fatality
- fatally
- fatly
- fatty
- fiat
- fifty
- fitly
- flat
- flatly
- flit
- illicit
- illicitly
- italic
- itty
- lactic
- laity
- licit
- licitly
- lift
- lilt
- tacit
- tacitly
- tact
- tactic
- tactical
- tactically
- taffy
- tail
- talc
- tali
- tall
- tally
- tatty
- tiff
- till
- tilt
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Monday, February 17, 2020 uses the seven letters A, C, F, I, L, T, Y, with T as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 54 accepted words for a total of 274 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 191 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.