Spelling Bee February 8, 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: I
Puzzle stats
Total words
49
Total points
290
Pangrams
6
Genius score
203
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- ILLEGIBILITY
- ILLEGIBILITY
- ELIGIBILITY
- ELIGIBILITY
- LEGIBILITY
- LEGIBILITY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
14 pts
5%
Good
23 pts
8%
Solid
43 pts
15%
Nice
72 pts
25%
Great
116 pts
40%
Amazing
145 pts
50%
Genius
203 pts
70%
Queen Bee
290 pts
100%
All accepted words
- beige
- belie
- belittle
- bible
- biggie
- bigly
- bile
- bilge
- bill
- billet
- billy
- bite
- eligibility
- eligibility
- eligible
- eligibly
- elite
- gibe
- giblet
- giggle
- giggly
- gill
- gilt
- glib
- glibly
- illegibility
- illegibility
- illegible
- illegibly
- illy
- itty
- legibility
- legibility
- legible
- legibly
- legit
- libel
- libelee
- liege
- lilt
- lily
- lite
- little
- tile
- till
- tilt
- title
- tittle
- yeti
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, February 8, 2020 uses the seven letters B, E, G, I, L, T, Y, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 49 accepted words for a total of 290 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 203 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 6 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.