December 9, 2018 | Expanded 2-Letter Spelling Bee Answers and More for Print
This page lists expanded answers for the New York Times Spelling Bee from December 9, 2018, including disallowed words, with four-letter words excluded to facilitate solvers of the print edition.
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Instructions
In the box below, enter the 7 letters from today’s New York Times Spelling Bee and click . Be sure to capitalize the puzzle’s center letter, and enter the other letters in lower case.
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words: 102
score: 685 pts
pangrams: 3
compounds: 2
plurals: 3
Click an item below for its 3-letter tally
| AC x 3 | AL x 2 | AM x 10 | AT x 1 |
| CA x 13 | CL x 10 | CY x 5 | |
| IL x 1 | IM x 2 | ||
| LA x 4 | LI x 4 | LL x 1 | |
| MA x 23 | MI x 13 | MY x 3 | |
| TA x 6 | TI x 1 |
| cmp | 7 | 8 | tot |
| C | 1 | - | 1 |
| M | - | 1 | 1 |
| tot | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| plu | 5 | 7 | tot |
| A | 1 | - | 1 |
| C | - | 1 | 1 |
| M | - | 1 | 1 |
| tot | 1 | 2 | 3 |
CALAMITY, CLIMACTICALLY, CLIMATICALLY
| word | length | |||
| ACCLAIM | 7 | |||
| ACMATIC | 7 | |||
| ACMIC | 5 | |||
| ALMAMI | 6 | |||
| ALMAMY | 6 | |||
| AMALA | 5 | |||
| AMALAITA | 8 | |||
| AMICAL | 6 | |||
| AMICI | † 5 | |||
| AMICITIAL | 9 | |||
| AMICTIC | 7 | |||
| AMIMIA | 6 | |||
| AMIMIC | 6 | |||
| AMITY | 5 | |||
| AMYLIC | 6 | |||
| ATIMY | 5 | |||
| CAIMAC | 6 | |||
| CAIMACAM | 8 | |||
| CALAMATA | 8 | |||
| CALAMI | 6 | |||
| CALAMITIC | 9 | |||
| CALAMITY | 8 | pangram | ||
| CALMLY | 6 | |||
| CALMY | 5 | |||
| CAMACA | 6 | |||
| CAMAIL | 6 | |||
| CAMIA | 5 | |||
| CATAMITICAL | 11 | |||
| CATMILL | * 7 | |||
| CLAIM | 5 | |||
| CLAMMILY | 8 | |||
| CLAMMY | 6 | |||
| CLIMACI | † 7 | |||
| CLIMACTIC | 9 | |||
| CLIMACTICAL | 11 | |||
| CLIMACTICALLY | 13 | pangram | ||
| CLIMATIC | 8 | |||
| CLIMATICAL | 10 | |||
| CLIMATICALLY | 12 | pangram | ||
| CYCLAM | 6 | |||
| CYCLAMIC | 8 | |||
| CYMATA | 6 | |||
| CYMATIA | 7 | |||
| CYMATIC | 7 | |||
| ILAMA | 5 | |||
| IMALA | 5 | |||
| IMAMIC | 6 | |||
| LACTAM | 6 | |||
| LACTIM | 6 | |||
| LAMIA | 5 | |||
| LAMMY | 5 | |||
| LIMAIL | 6 | |||
| LIMIT | 5 | |||
| LIMITAL | 7 | |||
| LIMMA | 5 | |||
| LLAMA | 5 | |||
| MAILY | 5 | |||
| MALACCA | 7 | |||
| MALACIA | 7 | |||
| MALACIC | 7 | |||
| MALAI | 5 | |||
| MALIA | 5 | |||
| MALIC | 5 | |||
| MALLAM | 6 | |||
| MALMY | 5 | |||
| MALTY | 5 | |||
| MAMILLA | 7 | |||
| MAMMA | 5 | |||
| MAMMAL | 6 | |||
| MAMMALITY | 9 | |||
| MAMMILLA | 8 | |||
| MAMMY | 5 | disallowed elsewhere | ||
| MATAI | 5 | |||
| MATAMATA | 8 | |||
| MATAMATAM | 9 | |||
| MATICAL | 7 | |||
| MATILY | 6 | |||
| MATTA | 5 | |||
| MATTY | 5 | |||
| MICTIC | 6 | |||
| MILIA | 5 | |||
| MILITIA | 7 | |||
| MILLIM | 6 | |||
| MILLTAIL | * 8 | |||
| MILTY | 5 | |||
| MIMIC | 5 | |||
| MIMICAL | 7 | |||
| MIMICALLY | 9 | |||
| MITMITA | 7 | |||
| MITTA | 5 | |||
| MITTIMI | † 7 | |||
| MITTY | 5 | |||
| MYALL | 5 | |||
| MYIATIC | 7 | |||
| MYTILI | 6 | |||
| TAALIM | 6 | |||
| TALLITIM | 8 | |||
| TALMA | 5 | |||
| TAMAL | 5 | |||
| TAMMY | 5 | |||
| TATAMI | 6 | |||
| TILMATLI | 8 |
* compound(ish) word
† plural noun