Spelling Bee May 20, 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: T
Puzzle stats
Total words
41
Total points
157
Pangrams
4
Genius score
109
Center letter
T
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- MILLIONTH
- MILLIONTH
- MONOLITH
- MONOLITH
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
7 pts
5%
Good
12 pts
8%
Solid
23 pts
15%
Nice
39 pts
25%
Great
62 pts
40%
Amazing
78 pts
50%
Genius
109 pts
70%
Queen Bee
157 pts
100%
All accepted words
- hilt
- hint
- holt
- hoot
- into
- lilt
- limit
- lint
- litho
- loot
- lotion
- lotto
- millionth
- millionth
- mint
- mitt
- molt
- monolith
- monolith
- month
- moonlit
- moot
- moth
- motion
- motto
- ninth
- notion
- omit
- onto
- thin
- till
- tilt
- tilth
- tint
- toil
- toll
- tomtit
- tool
- toon
- toot
- tooth
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, May 20, 2021 uses the seven letters H, I, L, M, N, O, T, with T as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 41 accepted words for a total of 157 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 109 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 4 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.