Spelling Bee May 20, 2020 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: L
Puzzle stats
Total words
61
Total points
261
Pangrams
2
Genius score
182
Center letter
L
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- BALCONY
- BALCONY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
13 pts
5%
Good
20 pts
8%
Solid
39 pts
15%
Nice
65 pts
25%
Great
104 pts
40%
Amazing
130 pts
50%
Genius
182 pts
70%
Queen Bee
261 pts
100%
All accepted words
- ably
- allay
- alloy
- ally
- anal
- anally
- annal
- balcony
- balcony
- ball
- ballboy
- balloon
- banal
- banally
- blab
- blabby
- blob
- blobby
- bloc
- bola
- boll
- bolo
- cabal
- cabala
- call
- calla
- callaloo
- canal
- cannonball
- canola
- clan
- clay
- cloaca
- clonal
- cloy
- coal
- cola
- colcannon
- colon
- colony
- cool
- coolly
- coyly
- lacy
- llano
- loan
- lobby
- lobo
- local
- locally
- loco
- loll
- loon
- loony
- loyal
- loyally
- nobly
- nonlocal
- nylon
- onlay
- only
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, May 20, 2020 uses the seven letters A, B, C, L, N, O, Y, with L as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 61 accepted words for a total of 261 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 182 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.