Spelling Bee July 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: W
Puzzle stats
Total words
55
Total points
264
Pangrams
2
Genius score
184
Center letter
W
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- LETDOWN
- LETDOWN
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
13 pts
5%
Good
21 pts
8%
Solid
39 pts
15%
Nice
66 pts
25%
Great
105 pts
40%
Amazing
132 pts
50%
Genius
184 pts
70%
Queen Bee
264 pts
100%
All accepted words
- dowel
- down
- downed
- downtown
- dwell
- dwelled
- dwelt
- endow
- endowed
- letdown
- letdown
- lewd
- lowdown
- lowed
- newel
- newt
- newton
- owed
- owlet
- owned
- towed
- towel
- toweled
- towelette
- town
- twee
- tweed
- tweedle
- tweedled
- tween
- tweet
- tweeted
- wedded
- weed
- weeded
- weld
- welded
- well
- welled
- welt
- welted
- wend
- wended
- went
- wetted
- wont
- wonton
- wood
- wooded
- wooden
- wooed
- wool
- woolen
- woot
- wowed
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, July 9, 2022 uses the seven letters D, E, L, N, O, T, W, with W as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 55 accepted words for a total of 264 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 184 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.