Spelling Bee March 3, 2023 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: V
Puzzle stats
Total words
47
Total points
314
Pangrams
6
Genius score
219
Center letter
V
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- INACTIVATE
- INACTIVATE
- VACCINATE
- VACCINATE
- INACTIVE
- INACTIVE
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
6 pts
2%
Moving Up
15 pts
5%
Good
25 pts
8%
Solid
47 pts
15%
Nice
78 pts
25%
Great
125 pts
40%
Amazing
157 pts
50%
Genius
219 pts
70%
Queen Bee
314 pts
100%
All accepted words
- activate
- active
- attentive
- avian
- aviate
- cava
- cave
- caveat
- civet
- civic
- eave
- even
- event
- evict
- evictee
- evince
- inactivate
- inactivate
- inactive
- inactive
- inattentive
- incentive
- initiative
- invective
- invent
- inventive
- invite
- invitee
- naive
- naivete
- native
- nave
- tentative
- titivate
- vacant
- vacate
- vaccinate
- vaccinate
- vaccine
- vain
- vane
- vein
- vent
- vice
- vine
- vitiate
- vivace
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, March 3, 2023 uses the seven letters A, C, E, I, N, T, V, with V as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 47 accepted words for a total of 314 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 219 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.