Spelling Bee May 21, 2022 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: F
Puzzle stats
Total words
55
Total points
259
Pangrams
2
Genius score
181
Center letter
F
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- LIFEBLOOD
- LIFEBLOOD
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
12 pts
5%
Good
20 pts
8%
Solid
38 pts
15%
Nice
64 pts
25%
Great
103 pts
40%
Amazing
129 pts
50%
Genius
181 pts
70%
Queen Bee
259 pts
100%
All accepted words
- beef
- beefed
- befell
- belief
- biff
- biffed
- bifold
- billfold
- boffo
- defied
- defile
- defiled
- deified
- doff
- doffed
- edified
- feeble
- feed
- feel
- felid
- fell
- felled
- fibbed
- fiddle
- fiddled
- fief
- field
- fielded
- fife
- fifed
- file
- filed
- fill
- filled
- fled
- flee
- flied
- floe
- flood
- flooded
- fobbed
- foible
- foil
- foiled
- fold
- folded
- folio
- food
- foodie
- fool
- fooled
- life
- lifeblood
- lifeblood
- offed
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, May 21, 2022 uses the seven letters B, D, E, F, I, L, O, with F as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 55 accepted words for a total of 259 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 181 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.