Spelling Bee June 2, 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: B
Puzzle stats
Total words
52
Total points
289
Pangrams
4
Genius score
202
Center letter
B
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- BOGEYING
- BOGEYING
- OBEYING
- OBEYING
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
202 pts
70%
Queen Bee
289 pts
100%
All accepted words
- been
- begging
- begin
- beginning
- begone
- beige
- being
- benign
- bigeye
- biggie
- binge
- bingeing
- binging
- bingo
- binning
- bobbin
- bobbing
- bogey
- bogeying
- bogeying
- bogging
- boggy
- boing
- bonbon
- bone
- bong
- bongo
- boning
- bonny
- bonobo
- bony
- boob
- booboo
- booby
- boogie
- boogieing
- booing
- boon
- bygone
- ebbing
- ebon
- ebony
- gibbon
- gibe
- gibing
- goby
- nonbeing
- noob
- obey
- obeying
- obeying
- oboe
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, June 2, 2021 uses the seven letters B, E, G, I, N, O, Y, with B as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 52 accepted words for a total of 289 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 202 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.