Spelling Bee May 8, 2023 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: C
Puzzle stats
Total words
35
Total points
188
Pangrams
2
Genius score
131
Center letter
C
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- BACKFILL
- BACKFILL
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
9 pts
5%
Good
15 pts
8%
Solid
28 pts
15%
Nice
47 pts
25%
Great
75 pts
40%
Amazing
94 pts
50%
Genius
131 pts
70%
Queen Bee
188 pts
100%
All accepted words
- abaci
- aback
- acacia
- acai
- alack
- bacilli
- back
- backfill
- backfill
- biblical
- black
- blackball
- cabal
- cabala
- calf
- call
- calla
- callback
- cilia
- clack
- click
- cliff
- facial
- fallback
- flack
- flick
- iliac
- kick
- kickback
- kickball
- lack
- laic
- laical
- lick
- lilac
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Monday, May 8, 2023 uses the seven letters A, B, C, F, I, K, L, with C as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 35 accepted words for a total of 188 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 131 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.