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
Puzzle stats
Total words
55
Total points
416
Pangrams
10
Genius score
291
Center letter
V
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- DEACTIVATED
- DEACTIVATED
- DEDICATIVE
- DEACTIVATE
- DEDICATIVE
- DEACTIVATE
- ACTIVATED
- ADDICTIVE
- ADDICTIVE
- ACTIVATED
Rank thresholds
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
- activate
- activated
- activated
- active
- addictive
- addictive
- additive
- advice
- aviate
- aviated
- avid
- cava
- cave
- caveat
- caved
- civet
- civic
- dative
- deactivate
- deactivate
- deactivated
- deactivated
- deceive
- deceived
- dedicative
- dedicative
- detective
- deviate
- deviated
- device
- diva
- dive
- dived
- divide
- divided
- divvied
- eave
- eaved
- evade
- evaded
- evict
- evicted
- evictee
- ivied
- titivate
- titivated
- 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.