Spelling Bee May 8, 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: R
Puzzle stats
Total words
36
Total points
144
Pangrams
2
Genius score
100
Center letter
R
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- BLIZZARD
- BLIZZARD
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
2 pts
2%
Moving Up
7 pts
5%
Good
11 pts
8%
Solid
21 pts
15%
Nice
36 pts
25%
Great
57 pts
40%
Amazing
72 pts
50%
Genius
100 pts
70%
Queen Bee
144 pts
100%
All accepted words
- airball
- aria
- arid
- aril
- barb
- bard
- bazaar
- billiard
- biradial
- bird
- blizzard
- blizzard
- brad
- braid
- briar
- bridal
- drab
- drib
- drill
- lair
- lard
- liar
- lira
- lizard
- rabbi
- rabid
- radar
- radial
- radii
- raid
- rail
- railbird
- razz
- rial
- ribald
- rill
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Sunday, May 8, 2022 uses the seven letters A, B, D, I, L, R, Z, with R as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 36 accepted words for a total of 144 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 100 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 2 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.