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Spelling Bee May 22, 2024 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: V

A
C
D
E
I
T
V

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

55

accepted entries

Total points

416

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

10

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

291

70% of total

Center letter

V

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • DEACTIVATED
  • DEACTIVATED
  • DEDICATIVE
  • DEACTIVATE
  • DEDICATIVE
  • DEACTIVATE
  • ACTIVATED
  • ADDICTIVE
  • ADDICTIVE
  • ACTIVATED

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

8 pts

2%

Moving Up

20 pts

5%

Good

33 pts

8%

Solid

62 pts

15%

Nice

104 pts

25%

Great

166 pts

40%

Amazing

208 pts

50%

Genius

291 pts

70%

Queen Bee

416 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 11 words
  • activate
  • activated
  • activated
  • active
  • addictive
  • addictive
  • additive
  • advice
  • aviate
  • aviated
  • avid
C 6 words
  • cava
  • cave
  • caveat
  • caved
  • civet
  • civic
D 19 words
  • dative
  • deactivate
  • deactivate
  • deactivated
  • deactivated
  • deceive
  • deceived
  • dedicative
  • dedicative
  • detective
  • deviate
  • deviated
  • device
  • diva
  • dive
  • dived
  • divide
  • divided
  • divvied
E 7 words
  • eave
  • eaved
  • evade
  • evaded
  • evict
  • evicted
  • evictee
I 1 word
  • ivied
T 2 words
  • titivate
  • titivated
V 9 words
  • vacate
  • vacated
  • vetted
  • vice
  • vied
  • vitiate
  • vitiated
  • vivace
  • vivid

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, May 22, 2024 uses the seven letters A, C, D, E, I, T, V, with V as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 55 accepted words for a total of 416 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 291 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.

This puzzle has 10 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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