Saturday · 42 words

Spelling Bee May 30, 2020 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: L

A
F
L
R
T
U
Y

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

41

accepted entries

Total points

221

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

4

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

154

70% of total

Center letter

L

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • ARTFULLY
  • ARTFULLY
  • TRAYFUL
  • TRAYFUL

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

4 pts

2%

Moving Up

11 pts

5%

Good

17 pts

8%

Solid

33 pts

15%

Nice

55 pts

25%

Great

88 pts

40%

Amazing

110 pts

50%

Genius

154 pts

70%

Queen Bee

221 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
A 9 words
  • alfalfa
  • allay
  • ally
  • altar
  • artful
  • artfully
  • artfully
  • aural
  • aurally
F 16 words
  • fall
  • fatal
  • fatally
  • fatly
  • fault
  • faulty
  • flat
  • flatly
  • flauta
  • flay
  • fluff
  • fluffy
  • flurry
  • full
  • fully
  • furl
L 3 words
  • luau
  • lull
  • lulu
R 5 words
  • rally
  • rattly
  • ruffly
  • rural
  • rurally
T 7 words
  • tall
  • tally
  • tartly
  • tautly
  • trayful
  • trayful
  • truly
U 1 word
  • ultra

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, May 30, 2020 uses the seven letters A, F, L, R, T, U, Y, with L as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 41 accepted words for a total of 221 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 154 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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