Wednesday · 26 words

Spelling Bee September 9, 2020 answers

All accepted words for today's NYT Spelling Bee, with the pangram revealed, point totals, and progress thresholds for each rank.

AW Verified by AppWalkthrough · Published Sep 9, 2020

Today's letter set · Center: H

A
F
H
I
L
T
W

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

25

accepted entries

Total points

89

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

2

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

62

70% of total

Center letter

H

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • HALFWIT
  • HALFWIT

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

Beginner

0 pts

0%

Good Start

1 pts

2%

Moving Up

4 pts

5%

Good

7 pts

8%

Solid

13 pts

15%

Nice

22 pts

25%

Great

35 pts

40%

Amazing

44 pts

50%

Genius

62 pts

70%

Queen Bee

89 pts

100%

All accepted words

Grouped by starting letter
F 3 words
  • faith
  • fifth
  • filth
H 13 words
  • haft
  • hail
  • halal
  • half
  • halfwit
  • halfwit
  • hall
  • halt
  • hath
  • hatha
  • hiatal
  • hill
  • hilt
L 1 word
  • lath
T 3 words
  • that
  • thaw
  • tilth
W 5 words
  • what
  • whiff
  • whit
  • with
  • withal

About this puzzle

The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, September 9, 2020 uses the seven letters A, F, H, I, L, T, W, with H as the center letter that must appear in every word.

Today's puzzle has 25 accepted words for a total of 89 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 62 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.

Play today's Spelling Bee on The New York Times.

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