Spelling Bee January 8, 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: W
Puzzle stats
Total words
30
Total points
136
Pangrams
2
Genius score
95
Center letter
W
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- PLOWABLE
- PLOWABLE
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
2 pts
2%
Moving Up
6 pts
5%
Good
10 pts
8%
Solid
20 pts
15%
Nice
34 pts
25%
Great
54 pts
40%
Amazing
68 pts
50%
Genius
95 pts
70%
Queen Bee
136 pts
100%
All accepted words
- allow
- allowable
- bawl
- bellow
- below
- blew
- blow
- bowel
- bowl
- bowwow
- elbow
- lowball
- papaw
- pawl
- pawpaw
- peewee
- pewee
- plow
- plowable
- plowable
- powwow
- wale
- wall
- wallop
- wallow
- weal
- weep
- well
- wobble
- wool
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, January 8, 2022 uses the seven letters A, B, E, L, O, P, W, with W as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 30 accepted words for a total of 136 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 95 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.