Spelling Bee Solver: Daily Hints and Answers to the New York Times Spelling BeeSpelling Bee Solver: Daily Hints and Answers to the New York Times Spelling BeeSpelling Bee Solver: Daily Hints and Answers to the New York Times Spelling Bee
December 30, 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 30, 2018, including disallowed words, with four-letter words excluded to facilitate solvers of the print edition.


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In the box below, enter the 7 letters from today’s New York Times Spelling Bee and click redo hints. Be sure to capitalize the puzzle’s center letter, and enter the other letters in lower case.

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center letter LABDIJR
Spelling Bee for December 30, 2018

Please note: This is not the solution set for today’s Spelling Bee, which instead uses B as the center letter. For that solution set, click the date high­lighted below.

Related puzzles
Center letter B: February 15, 2025  ← latest
Center letter R: February 28, 2023
Center letter D: April 21, 2020
Center letter A: May 26, 2019

words: 86
score: 548 pts
pangrams: 1
compounds: 7
plurals: 4
bingo: yes

A x 13
B x 21
D x 12
I x 8
J x 7
L x 20
R x 5

5L x 29
6L x 27
7L x 13
8L x 13
9L x 3
12L x 1

  5 6 7 8 9 12 tot
A 5 4 2 2 - - 13
B 5 6 3 4 2 1 21
D 4 4 3 1 - - 12
I 3 1 3 1 - - 8
J 2 2 2 1 - - 7
L 10 7 - 2 1 - 20
R - 3 - 2 - - 5
tot 29 27 13 13 3 1 86

Click an item below for its 3-letter tally
AA x 1 AB x 3 AD x 2 AI x 2 AL x 3 AR x 2
ARA x 1 ARI x 1
BA x 14 BI x 4 BR x 3
DA x 5 DI x 4 DR x 3
IB x 1 IL x 5 IR x 2
JA x 3 JI x 4
LA x 13 LI x 7
RA x 4 RI x 1

cmp 5 7 8 tot
A 1 2 - 3
B - 1 - 1
J - - 1 1
L - - 1 1
R - - 1 1
tot 1 3 3 7

plu 5 6 8 tot
L 2 1 - 3
R - - 1 1
tot 2 1 1 4

JAILBIRD

word       length      
AALII 5
ABDAL 5
ABILLA 6
ABRADIAL 8
ADLIB * 5
ADRADIAL 8
AIRBALL * 7
AIRBILL * 7
ALALA 5
ALALIA 6
ALIBI 5
ARALIA 6
ARILLI 6
BABALA 6
BABILLARD 9
BADLA 5
BAILA 5
BAILI 5
BAILLI 6
BALBARID 8
BALDRIB * 7
BALLABILI 9
BALLAD 6
BALLIA 6
BARBAL 6
BARBARALALIA 12
BARILLA 7
BILABIAL 8
BILLARD 7
BILLIARD 8
BIRADIAL 8 allowed elsewhere
BRAIL 5
BRIDAL 6
BRILL 5
DAJJAAL 7
DAJJAL 6
DALAAL 6
DALADALA 8
DALAL 5
DIALID 6
DIARIAL 7
DILAL 5
DILARID 7
DRAIL 5
DRILID 6
DRILL 5
IBALIID 7
ILALA 5
ILARIID 7
ILIAD 5 disallowed elsewhere
ILIAL 5
ILLABIAL 8
IRIDAL 6
IRIDIAL 7
JAALI 5
JAILBIRD * 8 pangram
JALABIB 7
JILABI 6
JILBAAB 7
JILBAB 6
JILDI 5
LAARI 5
LABARA  6
LABBA 5
LABIA  5
LABIAL 6
LABIID 6
LABLAB 6
LABRA  5
LABRAL 6
LABRID 6
LAIRD 5
LARDBALL * 8
LARID 5
LIARD 5
LIBIDIBI 8
LIBRA 5
LIBRARIAL 9
LIBRI 5
LIDAR 5
LILIID 6
RADIAL 6
RADIALIA  8
RAILBIRD * 8
RALLID 6
RIBALD 6

* compound(ish) word
† plural noun

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