Spelling Bee June 23, 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: U
Puzzle stats
Total words
62
Total points
337
Pangrams
6
Genius score
235
Center letter
U
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- DEFAULTED
- DEFAULTED
- DEFAULT
- FAULTED
- DEFAULT
- FAULTED
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
6 pts
2%
Moving Up
16 pts
5%
Good
26 pts
8%
Solid
50 pts
15%
Nice
84 pts
25%
Great
134 pts
40%
Amazing
168 pts
50%
Genius
235 pts
70%
Queen Bee
337 pts
100%
All accepted words
- adulate
- adulated
- adult
- allude
- alluded
- default
- default
- defaulted
- defaulted
- delude
- deluded
- dual
- dude
- duded
- duel
- dueled
- duet
- duetted
- duff
- duffel
- duffle
- dull
- dulled
- elude
- eluded
- etude
- fateful
- fault
- faulted
- faulted
- feud
- feudal
- feuded
- flauta
- flue
- fluff
- fluffed
- flute
- fluted
- fuddle
- fuddled
- fuel
- fueled
- full
- laud
- lauded
- luau
- lull
- lulled
- lulu
- lute
- luteal
- taut
- tuffet
- tuft
- tufted
- tulle
- tutee
- tutted
- tutu
- ululate
- ululated
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, June 23, 2022 uses the seven letters A, D, E, F, L, T, U, with U as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 62 accepted words for a total of 337 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 235 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 6 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.