Spelling Bee February 29, 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: R
Puzzle stats
Total words
55
Total points
249
Pangrams
2
Genius score
174
Center letter
R
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- LABORATORY
- LABORATORY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
12 pts
5%
Good
19 pts
8%
Solid
37 pts
15%
Nice
62 pts
25%
Great
99 pts
40%
Amazing
124 pts
50%
Genius
174 pts
70%
Queen Bee
249 pts
100%
All accepted words
- abort
- altar
- aorta
- aortal
- arbor
- array
- arroyo
- arty
- attar
- barb
- boar
- boor
- brat
- bratty
- bray
- labor
- laboratory
- laboratory
- lorry
- oral
- orally
- orator
- oratory
- rally
- ratatat
- rattly
- ratty
- roar
- robot
- roll
- rollbar
- root
- rotary
- rotator
- rotatory
- roto
- rotor
- royal
- royally
- royalty
- tabor
- taro
- tarot
- tarry
- tart
- tartar
- tartly
- toolbar
- toro
- tort
- tray
- troll
- trot
- troy
- tyro
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, February 29, 2020 uses the seven letters A, B, L, O, R, T, Y, with R as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 55 accepted words for a total of 249 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 174 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.