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Spelling Bee January 14, 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: D

A
C
D
G
I
N
R

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

63

accepted entries

Total points

359

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

4

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

251

70% of total

Center letter

D

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • CARDIGAN
  • CARDIGAN
  • CARDING
  • CARDING

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

7 pts

2%

Moving Up

17 pts

5%

Good

28 pts

8%

Solid

53 pts

15%

Nice

89 pts

25%

Great

143 pts

40%

Amazing

179 pts

50%

Genius

251 pts

70%

Queen Bee

359 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 8 words
  • acid
  • acidic
  • acrid
  • adding
  • aiding
  • arcadia
  • arcadian
  • arid
C 12 words
  • cadging
  • canard
  • candid
  • canid
  • card
  • cardiac
  • cardigan
  • cardigan
  • carding
  • carding
  • cicada
  • circadian
D 15 words
  • dancing
  • dang
  • daring
  • darn
  • darning
  • dicing
  • digging
  • dinar
  • ding
  • dinging
  • dining
  • drag
  • dragging
  • drain
  • draining
G 11 words
  • gadding
  • gird
  • girding
  • grad
  • grading
  • grand
  • grandad
  • granddad
  • grid
  • grind
  • grinding
I 2 words
  • indica
  • indicia
N 3 words
  • nada
  • nadir
  • naiad
R 12 words
  • radar
  • radian
  • radii
  • raid
  • raiding
  • rancid
  • rand
  • ridding
  • ridging
  • riding
  • rigid
  • rind

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, January 14, 2023 uses the seven letters A, C, D, G, I, N, R, with D as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 63 accepted words for a total of 359 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 251 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.

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

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