Spelling Bee May 9, 2025 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
32
Total points
161
Pangrams
4
Genius score
112
Center letter
R
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- WORDILY
- ROWDILY
- ROWDILY
- WORDILY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
8 pts
5%
Good
12 pts
8%
Solid
24 pts
15%
Nice
40 pts
25%
Great
64 pts
40%
Amazing
80 pts
50%
Genius
112 pts
70%
Queen Bee
161 pts
100%
All accepted words
- dolor
- door
- dory
- dowry
- drill
- droid
- droll
- drolly
- drool
- drooly
- dryly
- lord
- lordly
- lordy
- lorry
- odor
- rill
- roil
- roll
- rood
- rowdily
- rowdily
- rowdy
- wiry
- word
- wordily
- wordily
- wordy
- world
- worldly
- worry
- wryly
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, May 9, 2025 uses the seven letters D, I, L, O, R, W, Y, with R as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 32 accepted words for a total of 161 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 112 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.