Spelling Bee July 20, 2023 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
45
Total points
163
Pangrams
2
Genius score
114
Center letter
L
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- HEAVILY
- HEAVILY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
8 pts
5%
Good
13 pts
8%
Solid
24 pts
15%
Nice
40 pts
25%
Great
65 pts
40%
Amazing
81 pts
50%
Genius
114 pts
70%
Queen Bee
163 pts
100%
All accepted words
- alive
- allay
- allele
- alley
- ally
- avail
- eely
- evil
- evilly
- hail
- halal
- hale
- hall
- halva
- halvah
- halve
- heal
- heavily
- heavily
- heel
- hell
- helve
- hill
- hilly
- illy
- lava
- lave
- leave
- levee
- level
- levelly
- levy
- lily
- live
- lively
- vale
- valley
- valve
- veal
- veil
- vial
- vile
- vilely
- villa
- yell
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, July 20, 2023 uses the seven letters A, E, H, I, L, V, Y, with L as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 45 accepted words for a total of 163 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 114 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.