Spelling Bee January 4, 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
Puzzle stats
Total words
49
Total points
175
Pangrams
2
Genius score
122
Center letter
L
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- BLOWBACK
- BLOWBACK
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
8 pts
5%
Good
14 pts
8%
Solid
26 pts
15%
Nice
43 pts
25%
Great
70 pts
40%
Amazing
87 pts
50%
Genius
122 pts
70%
Queen Bee
175 pts
100%
All accepted words
- alack
- allow
- balk
- ball
- bawl
- blab
- black
- blackball
- blob
- bloc
- block
- blow
- blowback
- blowback
- bola
- boll
- bolo
- bowl
- cabal
- cabala
- call
- calla
- callaloo
- callback
- callow
- clack
- claw
- cloaca
- cloak
- clock
- coal
- cola
- cool
- cowl
- koala
- kola
- lack
- lawbook
- lobo
- local
- lock
- loco
- loll
- look
- lowball
- walk
- wall
- wallow
- wool
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, January 4, 2020 uses the seven letters A, B, C, K, L, O, W, with L as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 49 accepted words for a total of 175 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 122 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.