Spelling Bee January 10, 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
52
Total points
255
Pangrams
2
Genius score
178
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- INFANTRY
- INFANTRY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
12 pts
5%
Good
20 pts
8%
Solid
38 pts
15%
Nice
63 pts
25%
Great
102 pts
40%
Amazing
127 pts
50%
Genius
178 pts
70%
Queen Bee
255 pts
100%
All accepted words
- affair
- affiant
- affinity
- airy
- anti
- aria
- atria
- attain
- attaint
- faint
- fair
- fairy
- farina
- fiat
- fifty
- friar
- friary
- frittata
- iffy
- inanity
- infant
- infantry
- infantry
- infinity
- irritant
- itty
- naif
- nifty
- ninny
- raffia
- rain
- rainy
- raita
- rani
- rarity
- ratify
- riff
- riffraff
- rift
- taint
- tannin
- tariff
- tiara
- tiff
- tiffany
- tinny
- tint
- tiny
- titan
- train
- trait
- trinity
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, January 10, 2020 uses the seven letters A, F, I, N, R, T, Y, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 52 accepted words for a total of 255 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 178 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.