Spelling Bee May 17, 2024 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: T
Puzzle stats
Total words
31
Total points
152
Pangrams
2
Genius score
106
Center letter
T
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- OBJECTED
- OBJECTED
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
7 pts
5%
Good
12 pts
8%
Solid
22 pts
15%
Nice
38 pts
25%
Great
60 pts
40%
Amazing
76 pts
50%
Genius
106 pts
70%
Queen Bee
152 pts
100%
All accepted words
- beet
- boot
- booted
- bootee
- coot
- cote
- debt
- decoct
- decocted
- deject
- dejected
- detect
- detected
- dote
- doted
- dotted
- eject
- ejected
- jete
- jetted
- jotted
- object
- objected
- objected
- octet
- teed
- toed
- toot
- tooted
- tote
- toted
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, May 17, 2024 uses the seven letters B, C, D, E, J, O, T, with T as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 31 accepted words for a total of 152 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 106 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.