Spelling Bee November 16, 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: I
Puzzle stats
Total words
72
Total points
329
Pangrams
4
Genius score
230
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- IMMINENTLY
- IMMINENTLY
- EMINENTLY
- EMINENTLY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
6 pts
2%
Moving Up
16 pts
5%
Good
26 pts
8%
Solid
49 pts
15%
Nice
82 pts
25%
Great
131 pts
40%
Amazing
164 pts
50%
Genius
230 pts
70%
Queen Bee
329 pts
100%
All accepted words
- elite
- eminent
- eminently
- eminently
- emit
- enmity
- entitle
- entitlement
- entity
- illy
- imminent
- imminently
- imminently
- inlet
- innie
- intel
- intent
- intently
- item
- itty
- lenient
- leniently
- lenity
- lentil
- lien
- lilt
- lily
- lime
- limit
- limn
- line
- linemen
- linen
- liniment
- lint
- lintel
- linty
- lite
- little
- mien
- mile
- mill
- millet
- mime
- mine
- mini
- minim
- mint
- minty
- mite
- mitt
- mitten
- myelin
- nine
- nineteen
- ninety
- ninny
- nite
- tile
- till
- tilt
- time
- timeline
- timely
- tine
- tinily
- tinny
- tint
- tiny
- title
- tittle
- yeti
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Monday, November 16, 2020 uses the seven letters E, I, L, M, N, T, Y, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 72 accepted words for a total of 329 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 230 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.