Thursday · 42 words

Spelling Bee January 27, 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: Y

A
E
L
M
N
T
Y

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

41

accepted entries

Total points

243

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

4

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

170

70% of total

Center letter

Y

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • ELEMENTALLY
  • ELEMENTALLY
  • MENTALLY
  • MENTALLY

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

4 pts

2%

Moving Up

12 pts

5%

Good

19 pts

8%

Solid

36 pts

15%

Nice

60 pts

25%

Great

97 pts

40%

Amazing

121 pts

50%

Genius

170 pts

70%

Queen Bee

243 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 5 words
  • allay
  • alley
  • ally
  • amyl
  • anally
E 5 words
  • eely
  • elementally
  • elementally
  • enemy
  • eyelet
L 7 words
  • lamely
  • lately
  • latently
  • layette
  • layman
  • laymen
  • leanly
M 12 words
  • malty
  • manly
  • many
  • matey
  • mealy
  • meanly
  • meany
  • meaty
  • melty
  • mentally
  • mentally
  • myna
N 5 words
  • namely
  • nanny
  • natty
  • neatly
  • netty
T 4 words
  • tally
  • tamely
  • tatty
  • teeny
Y 3 words
  • yell
  • yenta
  • yente

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, January 27, 2022 uses the seven letters A, E, L, M, N, T, Y, with Y as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 41 accepted words for a total of 243 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 170 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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