Spelling Bee January 18, 2021 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: T
Puzzle stats
Total words
56
Total points
245
Pangrams
2
Genius score
171
Center letter
T
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- COLLECTIBLE
- COLLECTIBLE
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
12 pts
5%
Good
19 pts
8%
Solid
36 pts
15%
Nice
61 pts
25%
Great
98 pts
40%
Amazing
122 pts
50%
Genius
171 pts
70%
Queen Bee
245 pts
100%
All accepted words
- beet
- beetle
- belittle
- belt
- bibelot
- billet
- biotic
- bite
- blot
- blotto
- bolt
- boot
- bootee
- bootie
- bottle
- cite
- clot
- collect
- collectible
- collectible
- collet
- colt
- coot
- cootie
- cote
- eclectic
- elect
- electee
- elicit
- elite
- illicit
- licit
- lilt
- lite
- little
- loot
- lotto
- obit
- ocelot
- ocotillo
- octet
- tell
- tile
- till
- tilt
- title
- tittle
- toil
- toile
- toilet
- toilette
- toll
- tool
- toot
- tootle
- tote
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Monday, January 18, 2021 uses the seven letters B, C, E, I, L, O, T, with T as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 56 accepted words for a total of 245 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 171 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.