Spelling Bee February 9, 2023 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: G
Puzzle stats
Total words
50
Total points
314
Pangrams
2
Genius score
219
Center letter
G
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- NICKNAMING
- NICKNAMING
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
6 pts
2%
Moving Up
15 pts
5%
Good
25 pts
8%
Solid
47 pts
15%
Nice
78 pts
25%
Great
125 pts
40%
Amazing
157 pts
50%
Genius
219 pts
70%
Queen Bee
314 pts
100%
All accepted words
- acing
- again
- aging
- aiming
- angina
- caging
- caking
- caning
- canning
- gaga
- gagging
- gain
- gaining
- gamin
- gaming
- gamma
- gang
- ganging
- gigging
- gimmick
- ginning
- icing
- imaging
- imagining
- inking
- inning
- kicking
- king
- kinging
- kinking
- macing
- magi
- magic
- magician
- magma
- maiming
- making
- managing
- manga
- manning
- miking
- mimicking
- miming
- mincing
- mining
- nagging
- naming
- nicking
- nicknaming
- nicknaming
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, February 9, 2023 uses the seven letters A, C, G, I, K, M, N, with G as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 50 accepted words for a total of 314 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 219 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.