Spelling Bee January 9, 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: V
Puzzle stats
Total words
32
Total points
148
Pangrams
2
Genius score
103
Center letter
V
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- COLLECTIVE
- COLLECTIVE
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
2 pts
2%
Moving Up
7 pts
5%
Good
11 pts
8%
Solid
22 pts
15%
Nice
37 pts
25%
Great
59 pts
40%
Amazing
74 pts
50%
Genius
103 pts
70%
Queen Bee
148 pts
100%
All accepted words
- civet
- civic
- civil
- clove
- coevolve
- collective
- collective
- cove
- covet
- elective
- evict
- evictee
- evil
- evolve
- levee
- level
- live
- love
- olive
- veil
- velvet
- veto
- vice
- vile
- viol
- violet
- voice
- voile
- vole
- volt
- vote
- votive
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Sunday, January 9, 2022 uses the seven letters C, E, I, L, O, T, V, with V as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 32 accepted words for a total of 148 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 103 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.