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
Puzzle stats
Total words
38
Total points
215
Pangrams
2
Genius score
150
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- FIXATION
- FIXATION
Rank thresholds
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
- affiant
- affix
- anion
- annotation
- anoint
- anoxia
- anti
- antifa
- antitoxin
- ataxia
- attain
- attaint
- faint
- fiat
- finito
- fixation
- fixation
- fontina
- infant
- infix
- info
- initiation
- into
- intonation
- iota
- naif
- nation
- notation
- notion
- onion
- 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.