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Spelling Bee May 22, 2023 answers

All accepted words for today's NYT Spelling Bee, with the pangram revealed, point totals, and progress thresholds for each rank.

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Today's letter set · Center: H

E
H
I
L
N
O
T

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

35

accepted entries

Total points

183

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

4

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

128

70% of total

Center letter

H

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • HOTLINE
  • NEOLITH
  • NEOLITH
  • HOTLINE

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

3 pts

2%

Moving Up

9 pts

5%

Good

14 pts

8%

Solid

27 pts

15%

Nice

45 pts

25%

Great

73 pts

40%

Amazing

91 pts

50%

Genius

128 pts

70%

Queen Bee

183 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
H 17 words
  • heel
  • heinie
  • hell
  • hellhole
  • hellion
  • hello
  • hill
  • hilt
  • hint
  • hole
  • holt
  • hone
  • hoot
  • hotel
  • hotline
  • hotline
  • hottie
L 2 words
  • lithe
  • litho
N 5 words
  • neolith
  • neolith
  • nineteenth
  • ninetieth
  • ninth
T 11 words
  • teeth
  • teethe
  • telethon
  • tenth
  • thee
  • then
  • thin
  • thine
  • tilth
  • tithe
  • tooth

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Monday, May 22, 2023 uses the seven letters E, H, I, L, N, O, T, with H as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 35 accepted words for a total of 183 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 128 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.

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

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