Spelling Bee October 29, 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
65
Total points
290
Pangrams
2
Genius score
203
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- TOWLINE
- TOWLINE
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
14 pts
5%
Good
23 pts
8%
Solid
43 pts
15%
Nice
72 pts
25%
Great
116 pts
40%
Amazing
145 pts
50%
Genius
203 pts
70%
Queen Bee
290 pts
100%
All accepted words
- elite
- entitle
- entwine
- inlet
- innie
- intel
- intent
- intention
- into
- intone
- lenient
- lentil
- leonine
- lien
- lilt
- line
- linen
- lint
- lintel
- lion
- lite
- little
- loin
- loonie
- lotion
- nine
- nineteen
- nite
- nitwit
- nonillion
- notion
- olio
- ollie
- onion
- online
- tile
- till
- tilt
- tine
- tint
- title
- tittle
- toil
- toile
- toilet
- toilette
- tontine
- toonie
- towline
- towline
- townie
- twilit
- twill
- twin
- twine
- twit
- weenie
- wienie
- wile
- will
- willow
- wilt
- wine
- winnow
- wino
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, October 29, 2020 uses the seven letters E, I, L, N, O, T, W, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 65 accepted words for a total of 290 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 203 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.