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Spelling Bee May 29, 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: Y

A
B
D
E
L
T
Y

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

48

accepted entries

Total points

272

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

4

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

190

70% of total

Center letter

Y

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • DEBATABLY
  • BELATEDLY
  • DEBATABLY
  • BELATEDLY

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

5 pts

2%

Moving Up

13 pts

5%

Good

21 pts

8%

Solid

40 pts

15%

Nice

68 pts

25%

Great

108 pts

40%

Amazing

136 pts

50%

Genius

190 pts

70%

Queen Bee

272 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 6 words
  • abbey
  • ably
  • allay
  • allayed
  • alley
  • ally
B 13 words
  • baby
  • badly
  • baldly
  • batty
  • bayed
  • beady
  • belatedly
  • belatedly
  • belay
  • belayed
  • belly
  • blabby
  • byte
D 13 words
  • daddy
  • dally
  • daybed
  • deadeye
  • deadly
  • debatably
  • debatably
  • delay
  • delayable
  • delayed
  • dyad
  • dyeable
  • dyed
E 7 words
  • eddy
  • eely
  • elatedly
  • eyeball
  • eyeballed
  • eyed
  • eyelet
L 3 words
  • lady
  • lately
  • layette
T 4 words
  • tabby
  • tally
  • tatty
  • teddy
Y 2 words
  • yell
  • yelled

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Sunday, May 29, 2022 uses the seven letters A, B, D, E, L, T, Y, with Y as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 48 accepted words for a total of 272 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 190 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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