Spelling Bee January 30, 2024 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: R
Puzzle stats
Total words
56
Total points
274
Pangrams
2
Genius score
191
Center letter
R
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- DIFFRACT
- DIFFRACT
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
13 pts
5%
Good
21 pts
8%
Solid
41 pts
15%
Nice
68 pts
25%
Great
109 pts
40%
Amazing
137 pts
50%
Genius
191 pts
70%
Queen Bee
274 pts
100%
All accepted words
- acrid
- adrift
- afar
- affair
- afraid
- aircraft
- arcadia
- arctic
- aria
- arid
- artifact
- atria
- attar
- attract
- carat
- card
- cardiac
- cart
- cataract
- circa
- cirri
- citric
- craft
- critic
- dart
- diacritic
- diffract
- diffract
- dirt
- draft
- drat
- drift
- fair
- farad
- fart
- frat
- friar
- frittata
- radar
- radii
- raffia
- raft
- raid
- raita
- ratatat
- riff
- riffraff
- rift
- tariff
- tart
- tartar
- tiara
- tract
- traffic
- trait
- triad
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Tuesday, January 30, 2024 uses the seven letters A, C, D, F, I, R, T, with R as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 56 accepted words for a total of 274 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 191 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.