Spelling Bee July 29, 2021 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: I
Puzzle stats
Total words
40
Total points
288
Pangrams
4
Genius score
201
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- UNMUZZLING
- UNMUZZLING
- MUZZLING
- MUZZLING
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
14 pts
5%
Good
23 pts
8%
Solid
43 pts
15%
Nice
72 pts
25%
Great
115 pts
40%
Amazing
144 pts
50%
Genius
201 pts
70%
Queen Bee
288 pts
100%
All accepted words
- giggling
- gill
- gilling
- ginning
- gluing
- gulling
- gumming
- gunning
- guzzling
- ilium
- immunizing
- inning
- limn
- limning
- linguini
- lining
- lugging
- luging
- lulling
- lunging
- mill
- milling
- miming
- mingling
- mini
- minim
- minimizing
- minimum
- mining
- mugging
- mulling
- muzzling
- muzzling
- niggling
- nuzzling
- unmuzzling
- unmuzzling
- zigging
- zing
- zinging
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, July 29, 2021 uses the seven letters G, I, L, M, N, U, Z, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 40 accepted words for a total of 288 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 201 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 4 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.