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Spelling Bee October 21, 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: V

C
D
E
I
N
O
V

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

64

accepted entries

Total points

464

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

10

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

324

70% of total

Center letter

V

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • INCONVENIENCED
  • INCONVENIENCED
  • CONVINCED
  • CONVINCED
  • CONCEIVED
  • CONCEIVED
  • INVOICED
  • INVOICED
  • CONNIVED
  • CONNIVED

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

9 pts

2%

Moving Up

23 pts

5%

Good

37 pts

8%

Solid

69 pts

15%

Nice

116 pts

25%

Great

185 pts

40%

Amazing

232 pts

50%

Genius

324 pts

70%

Queen Bee

464 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
C 15 words
  • civic
  • conceive
  • conceived
  • conceived
  • connive
  • connived
  • connived
  • convene
  • convened
  • convenience
  • convince
  • convinced
  • convinced
  • cove
  • coven
D 15 words
  • deceive
  • deceived
  • devein
  • deveined
  • device
  • devoid
  • dive
  • dived
  • divide
  • divided
  • dividend
  • divine
  • divined
  • divvied
  • dove
E 8 words
  • endive
  • envied
  • even
  • evened
  • evidence
  • evidenced
  • evince
  • evinced
I 7 words
  • inconvenience
  • inconvenienced
  • inconvenienced
  • invoice
  • invoiced
  • invoiced
  • ivied
N 1 word
  • novice
O 3 words
  • oven
  • ovine
  • ovoid
V 15 words
  • vein
  • veined
  • vend
  • vended
  • vice
  • video
  • videoed
  • vied
  • vine
  • vivid
  • voice
  • voiced
  • void
  • voided
  • voodoo

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, October 21, 2022 uses the seven letters C, D, E, I, N, O, V, with V as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 64 accepted words for a total of 464 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 324 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.

This puzzle has 10 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.

Play today's Spelling Bee on The New York Times.

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