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
Puzzle stats
Total words
41
Total points
243
Pangrams
4
Genius score
170
Center letter
Y
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- ELEMENTALLY
- ELEMENTALLY
- MENTALLY
- MENTALLY
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
60 pts
25%
Great
97 pts
40%
Amazing
121 pts
50%
Genius
170 pts
70%
Queen Bee
243 pts
100%
All accepted words
- allay
- alley
- ally
- amyl
- anally
- eely
- elementally
- elementally
- enemy
- eyelet
- lamely
- lately
- latently
- layette
- layman
- laymen
- leanly
- malty
- manly
- many
- matey
- mealy
- meanly
- meany
- meaty
- melty
- mentally
- mentally
- myna
- namely
- nanny
- natty
- neatly
- netty
- tally
- tamely
- tatty
- teeny
- 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.