Monday · 47 words

Spelling Bee May 3, 2021 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: T

A
C
E
I
P
T
V

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

46

accepted entries

Total points

277

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

4

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

193

70% of total

Center letter

T

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • CAPTIVATE
  • CAPTIVATE
  • CAPTIVE
  • CAPTIVE

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

5 pts

2%

Moving Up

13 pts

5%

Good

22 pts

8%

Solid

41 pts

15%

Nice

69 pts

25%

Great

110 pts

40%

Amazing

138 pts

50%

Genius

193 pts

70%

Queen Bee

277 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 9 words
  • accept
  • acetate
  • acetic
  • activate
  • active
  • appetite
  • appetitive
  • attic
  • aviate
C 9 words
  • cacti
  • capacitate
  • captivate
  • captivate
  • captive
  • captive
  • caveat
  • cite
  • civet
E 2 words
  • evict
  • evictee
P 13 words
  • pact
  • pate
  • peat
  • pepita
  • peptic
  • petit
  • petite
  • piccata
  • pipet
  • pipette
  • pipit
  • pita
  • pitapat
T 11 words
  • tacet
  • tacit
  • tact
  • tactic
  • tapa
  • tape
  • teat
  • teepee
  • tepee
  • tippet
  • titivate
V 2 words
  • vacate
  • vitiate

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Monday, May 3, 2021 uses the seven letters A, C, E, I, P, T, V, with T as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 46 accepted words for a total of 277 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 193 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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