Spelling Bee September 4, 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: H
Puzzle stats
Total words
30
Total points
161
Pangrams
2
Genius score
112
Center letter
H
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- CHAPPING
- CHAPPING
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
8 pts
5%
Good
12 pts
8%
Solid
24 pts
15%
Nice
40 pts
25%
Great
64 pts
40%
Amazing
80 pts
50%
Genius
112 pts
70%
Queen Bee
161 pts
100%
All accepted words
- aching
- caching
- chai
- chain
- chaining
- chancing
- changing
- chap
- chapping
- chapping
- chia
- chic
- chica
- chichi
- chin
- china
- chinning
- chip
- chipping
- cinch
- cinching
- hang
- hanging
- high
- hinging
- inch
- inching
- nigh
- pinch
- pinching
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, September 4, 2020 uses the seven letters A, C, G, H, I, N, P, with H as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 30 accepted words for a total of 161 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 112 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.