Friday · 41 words

Spelling Bee January 24, 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: L

A
B
I
L
T
X
Y

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

40

accepted entries

Total points

181

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

2

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

126

70% of total

Center letter

L

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • TAXABILITY
  • TAXABILITY

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

3 pts

2%

Moving Up

9 pts

5%

Good

14 pts

8%

Solid

27 pts

15%

Nice

45 pts

25%

Great

72 pts

40%

Amazing

90 pts

50%

Genius

126 pts

70%

Queen Bee

181 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 10 words
  • ability
  • ably
  • alibi
  • alit
  • allay
  • ally
  • atilt
  • axial
  • axially
  • axilla
B 10 words
  • bail
  • ball
  • bialy
  • biaxial
  • bilabial
  • bill
  • billy
  • blab
  • blabby
  • blat
I 1 word
  • illy
L 9 words
  • labia
  • labial
  • lability
  • laity
  • laxity
  • laxly
  • liability
  • lilt
  • lily
T 10 words
  • tabla
  • tail
  • tali
  • tall
  • tally
  • taxability
  • taxability
  • tibial
  • till
  • tilt

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, January 24, 2020 uses the seven letters A, B, I, L, T, X, Y, with L as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 40 accepted words for a total of 181 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 126 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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