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Spelling Bee January 11, 2022 answers

All accepted words for today's NYT Spelling Bee, with the pangram revealed, point totals, and progress thresholds for each rank.

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Today's letter set · Center: C

A
C
D
F
I
R
T

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

36

accepted entries

Total points

209

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

2

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

146

70% of total

Center letter

C

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • DIFFRACT
  • DIFFRACT

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

4 pts

2%

Moving Up

10 pts

5%

Good

16 pts

8%

Solid

31 pts

15%

Nice

52 pts

25%

Great

83 pts

40%

Amazing

104 pts

50%

Genius

146 pts

70%

Queen Bee

209 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 12 words
  • acacia
  • acai
  • acid
  • acidic
  • acrid
  • addict
  • aircraft
  • arcadia
  • arctic
  • artifact
  • attic
  • attract
C 12 words
  • cacti
  • carat
  • card
  • cardiac
  • cart
  • cataract
  • cicada
  • circa
  • cirri
  • citric
  • craft
  • critic
D 6 words
  • diacritic
  • dicta
  • didact
  • didactic
  • diffract
  • diffract
F 1 word
  • fact
T 5 words
  • tacit
  • tact
  • tactic
  • tract
  • traffic

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Tuesday, January 11, 2022 uses the seven letters A, C, D, F, I, R, T, with C as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 36 accepted words for a total of 209 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 146 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.

Play today's Spelling Bee on The New York Times.

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