Spelling Bee October 9, 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: Y
Puzzle stats
Total words
50
Total points
309
Pangrams
6
Genius score
216
Center letter
Y
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- PATENTLY
- PATENTLY
- PENALTY
- APLENTY
- APLENTY
- PENALTY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
6 pts
2%
Moving Up
15 pts
5%
Good
24 pts
8%
Solid
46 pts
15%
Nice
77 pts
25%
Great
123 pts
40%
Amazing
154 pts
50%
Genius
216 pts
70%
Queen Bee
309 pts
100%
All accepted words
- allay
- alley
- ally
- anally
- aplenty
- aplenty
- apply
- aptly
- eely
- eyelet
- lately
- latently
- layette
- leanly
- nanny
- natty
- neatly
- netty
- palely
- panty
- papally
- papaya
- pappy
- patently
- patently
- patly
- patty
- payee
- peaty
- penally
- penalty
- penalty
- penny
- peppy
- petty
- play
- playlet
- playpen
- plenty
- tally
- tatty
- teeny
- teleplay
- teletype
- type
- yappy
- yell
- yelp
- yenta
- yente
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Sunday, October 9, 2022 uses the seven letters A, E, L, N, P, T, Y, with Y as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 50 accepted words for a total of 309 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 216 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 6 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.