Spelling Bee October 30, 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
55
Total points
236
Pangrams
2
Genius score
165
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- FAMILIARLY
- FAMILIARLY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
11 pts
5%
Good
18 pts
8%
Solid
35 pts
15%
Nice
59 pts
25%
Great
94 pts
40%
Amazing
118 pts
50%
Genius
165 pts
70%
Queen Bee
236 pts
100%
All accepted words
- affair
- affirm
- airily
- airmail
- airy
- aria
- aril
- fail
- fair
- fairly
- fairy
- familial
- familiar
- familiarly
- familiarly
- family
- filial
- filially
- fill
- filly
- film
- filmy
- firm
- firmly
- flail
- flair
- flimflam
- frail
- friar
- friary
- frill
- frilly
- iffy
- illy
- imam
- lair
- liar
- lily
- lima
- lira
- mafia
- maim
- malaria
- malarial
- miff
- mill
- raffia
- rail
- ramify
- rial
- riff
- riffraff
- rill
- riyal
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, October 30, 2020 uses the seven letters A, F, I, L, M, R, Y, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 55 accepted words for a total of 236 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 165 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.