Spelling Bee January 18, 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: O
Puzzle stats
Total words
55
Total points
256
Pangrams
2
Genius score
179
Center letter
O
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- THROWAWAY
- THROWAWAY
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
64 pts
25%
Great
102 pts
40%
Amazing
128 pts
50%
Genius
179 pts
70%
Queen Bee
256 pts
100%
All accepted words
- ahoy
- aorta
- arrow
- arrowroot
- arroyo
- harrow
- hoar
- hoary
- hoorah
- hooray
- hoot
- hora
- horror
- hortatory
- oath
- oaty
- orator
- oratory
- roar
- root
- rotary
- rotator
- rotatory
- roto
- rotor
- taro
- tarot
- tattoo
- throat
- throaty
- throw
- throwaway
- throwaway
- toot
- tooth
- toothy
- torah
- toro
- tort
- trot
- troth
- troy
- tyro
- wahoo
- whoa
- woohoo
- woot
- worry
- worrywart
- wort
- worth
- worthy
- yahoo
- yarrow
- yoohoo
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, January 18, 2020 uses the seven letters A, H, O, R, T, W, Y, with O as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 55 accepted words for a total of 256 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 179 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.