Spelling Bee November 19, 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: R
Puzzle stats
Total words
45
Total points
206
Pangrams
2
Genius score
144
Center letter
R
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- FAMILIARLY
- FAMILIARLY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
10 pts
5%
Good
16 pts
8%
Solid
30 pts
15%
Nice
51 pts
25%
Great
82 pts
40%
Amazing
103 pts
50%
Genius
144 pts
70%
Queen Bee
206 pts
100%
All accepted words
- afar
- affair
- affirm
- affray
- airily
- airmail
- airy
- alarm
- aria
- aril
- army
- array
- fair
- fairly
- fairy
- familiar
- familiarly
- familiarly
- farm
- firm
- firmly
- flair
- frail
- fray
- friar
- friary
- frill
- frilly
- lair
- liar
- lira
- malaria
- malarial
- mammary
- marm
- marry
- raffia
- rail
- rally
- ramify
- rial
- riff
- riffraff
- rill
- riyal
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, November 19, 2021 uses the seven letters A, F, I, L, M, R, Y, with R as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 45 accepted words for a total of 206 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 144 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.