Spelling Bee September 12, 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
255
Pangrams
2
Genius score
178
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- LOCOMOTION
- LOCOMOTION
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
12 pts
5%
Good
20 pts
8%
Solid
38 pts
15%
Nice
63 pts
25%
Great
102 pts
40%
Amazing
127 pts
50%
Genius
178 pts
70%
Queen Bee
255 pts
100%
All accepted words
- clinic
- cocci
- coil
- coin
- colic
- colonic
- comic
- commit
- commotion
- concoction
- conic
- cotillion
- icon
- iconic
- illicit
- into
- ionic
- licit
- lilt
- limit
- limn
- limo
- lint
- lion
- loci
- locomotion
- locomotion
- loin
- lotion
- mill
- million
- mimic
- mini
- minim
- minion
- mint
- mitt
- moil
- monotonic
- moonlit
- motion
- nonillion
- notion
- ocotillo
- octillion
- olio
- omit
- onion
- till
- tilt
- tinct
- tint
- toil
- tomtit
- tonic
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, September 12, 2020 uses the seven letters C, I, L, M, N, O, T, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 55 accepted words for a total of 255 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 178 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.