Wednesday · 39 words

Spelling Bee May 19, 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: I

A
F
I
N
O
T
X

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

38

accepted entries

Total points

215

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

2

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

150

70% of total

Center letter

I

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • FIXATION
  • FIXATION

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

4 pts

2%

Moving Up

10 pts

5%

Good

17 pts

8%

Solid

32 pts

15%

Nice

53 pts

25%

Great

86 pts

40%

Amazing

107 pts

50%

Genius

150 pts

70%

Queen Bee

215 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 12 words
  • affiant
  • affix
  • anion
  • annotation
  • anoint
  • anoxia
  • anti
  • antifa
  • antitoxin
  • ataxia
  • attain
  • attaint
F 6 words
  • faint
  • fiat
  • finito
  • fixation
  • fixation
  • fontina
I 7 words
  • infant
  • infix
  • info
  • initiation
  • into
  • intonation
  • iota
N 4 words
  • naif
  • nation
  • notation
  • notion
O 1 word
  • onion
T 8 words
  • taint
  • tannin
  • taxation
  • taxi
  • tiff
  • tint
  • titan
  • toxin

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, May 19, 2021 uses the seven letters A, F, I, N, O, T, X, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 38 accepted words for a total of 215 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 150 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.

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

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