Wednesday · 31 words

Spelling Bee March 17, 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: D

A
D
G
I
N
T
U

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

30

accepted entries

Total points

212

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

6

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

148

70% of total

Center letter

D

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • INUNDATING
  • INUNDATING
  • AUDITING
  • DAUNTING
  • AUDITING
  • DAUNTING

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

4 pts

2%

Moving Up

10 pts

5%

Good

16 pts

8%

Solid

31 pts

15%

Nice

53 pts

25%

Great

84 pts

40%

Amazing

106 pts

50%

Genius

148 pts

70%

Queen Bee

212 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 5 words
  • adding
  • aiding
  • audit
  • auditing
  • auditing
D 15 words
  • dang
  • data
  • dating
  • daunt
  • daunting
  • daunting
  • digging
  • digit
  • ding
  • dinging
  • dining
  • dint
  • duding
  • dung
  • dunning
G 2 words
  • gadding
  • guiding
I 3 words
  • indignant
  • inundating
  • inundating
N 3 words
  • nada
  • naiad
  • nudging
T 1 word
  • tiding
U 1 word
  • undid

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, March 17, 2021 uses the seven letters A, D, G, I, N, T, U, with D as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 30 accepted words for a total of 212 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 148 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.

Play today's Spelling Bee on The New York Times.

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