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Spelling Bee January 2, 2022 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: A

A
D
K
L
O
R
W

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

29

accepted entries

Total points

126

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

2

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

88

70% of total

Center letter

A

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • WORKLOAD
  • WORKLOAD

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

2 pts

2%

Moving Up

6 pts

5%

Good

10 pts

8%

Solid

18 pts

15%

Nice

31 pts

25%

Great

50 pts

40%

Amazing

63 pts

50%

Genius

88 pts

70%

Queen Bee

126 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 5 words
  • allow
  • ardor
  • arrow
  • award
  • awkward
D 5 words
  • dark
  • dollar
  • doodad
  • draw
  • drawl
K 2 words
  • koala
  • kola
L 3 words
  • lard
  • lark
  • load
O 2 words
  • okra
  • oral
R 4 words
  • radar
  • road
  • roadwork
  • roar
W 8 words
  • walk
  • wall
  • wallaroo
  • wallow
  • ward
  • warlord
  • workload
  • workload

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Sunday, January 2, 2022 uses the seven letters A, D, K, L, O, R, W, with A as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 29 accepted words for a total of 126 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 88 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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