Spelling Bee January 1, 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: C
Puzzle stats
Total words
52
Total points
285
Pangrams
4
Genius score
199
Center letter
C
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- MONOCRACY
- MONOCRACY
- ACRONYM
- ACRONYM
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
14 pts
5%
Good
22 pts
8%
Solid
42 pts
15%
Nice
71 pts
25%
Great
114 pts
40%
Amazing
142 pts
50%
Genius
199 pts
70%
Queen Bee
285 pts
100%
All accepted words
- acorn
- acronym
- acronym
- arcana
- arco
- cacao
- camo
- canary
- cancan
- canna
- cannon
- canny
- canon
- canyon
- carny
- carom
- carry
- cayman
- coca
- cocoa
- cocoon
- coma
- comma
- common
- corn
- corny
- corona
- coronary
- cram
- cranny
- crayon
- croc
- crony
- croon
- cyan
- macaron
- macaroon
- macro
- macron
- maraca
- monocracy
- monocracy
- morocco
- narc
- narco
- noncom
- orca
- raccoon
- racy
- rancor
- rococo
- romcom
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, January 1, 2022 uses the seven letters A, C, M, N, O, R, Y, with C as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 52 accepted words for a total of 285 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 199 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 4 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.