Spelling Bee May 5, 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: O
Puzzle stats
Total words
72
Total points
492
Pangrams
12
Genius score
344
Center letter
O
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- INTIMIDATION
- INTIMIDATION
- NONDOMINANT
- NONDOMINANT
- ADMONITION
- DOMINATION
- DOMINATION
- ADMONITION
- DAMNATION
- DAMNATION
- DOMINANT
- DOMINANT
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
9 pts
2%
Moving Up
24 pts
5%
Good
39 pts
8%
Solid
73 pts
15%
Nice
123 pts
25%
Great
196 pts
40%
Amazing
246 pts
50%
Genius
344 pts
70%
Queen Bee
492 pts
100%
All accepted words
- addition
- admonition
- admonition
- amino
- ammo
- ammonia
- amnio
- animation
- anion
- annotation
- anoint
- anon
- atom
- damnation
- damnation
- diamond
- diatom
- dino
- ditto
- dodo
- domain
- dominant
- dominant
- domination
- domination
- dominion
- domino
- donation
- doodad
- doom
- idiom
- idiot
- imitation
- initiation
- intimation
- intimidation
- intimidation
- into
- intonation
- iota
- mammon
- minion
- moan
- moat
- momma
- monad
- mondo
- mono
- monomania
- mood
- moon
- moot
- motion
- motto
- nation
- nomad
- nomination
- nondominant
- nondominant
- noon
- notation
- notion
- omit
- onion
- onto
- ottoman
- tattoo
- toad
- tomato
- tomtit
- toon
- toot
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, May 5, 2021 uses the seven letters A, D, I, M, N, O, T, with O as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 72 accepted words for a total of 492 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 344 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 12 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.