Spelling Bee February 17, 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: Y
Puzzle stats
Total words
33
Total points
176
Pangrams
2
Genius score
123
Center letter
Y
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- CELIBACY
- CELIBACY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
8 pts
5%
Good
14 pts
8%
Solid
26 pts
15%
Nice
44 pts
25%
Great
70 pts
40%
Amazing
88 pts
50%
Genius
123 pts
70%
Queen Bee
176 pts
100%
All accepted words
- abbacy
- abbey
- ably
- acyclic
- allay
- alley
- ally
- baby
- belay
- belly
- bialy
- biblically
- bicycle
- bicyclic
- billy
- blabby
- cabby
- celibacy
- celibacy
- cicely
- clay
- clayey
- cycle
- cyclic
- cyclical
- cyclically
- eely
- eyeball
- icily
- illy
- lacy
- lily
- yell
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, February 17, 2022 uses the seven letters A, B, C, E, I, L, Y, with Y as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 33 accepted words for a total of 176 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 123 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.