Extra March 24, 2021 | Expanded 2-Letter Spelling Bee Answers and More
This page lists expanded answers for the extra New York Times Spelling Bee from March 24, 2021, including disallowed words, plus the three-letter tally for words beginning with RU.
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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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Please note: The New York Times Spelling Bee suffered an outage for several hours on the morning of March 24, 2021. In the interim before the official puzzle for that date finally went live, this puzzle (a duplicate of the Spelling Bee from May 14, 2018) was temporarily released to bridge the gap.
Related puzzles
Center letter M: February 28, 2020Center letter U: March 10, 2019
Identical letters: May 14, 2018
words: 78
score: 373 pts
pangrams: 3
compounds: 7
bingo: yes
F x 24
L x 2
M x 14
N x 6
O x 4
R x 20
U x 8
4L x 28
5L x 15
6L x 13
7L x 9
8L x 11
10L x 2
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | tot | |
| F | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 24 |
| L | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| M | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 14 |
| N | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 6 |
| O | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 |
| R | 11 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | 20 |
| U | - | 1 | 6 | - | - | 1 | 8 |
| tot | 28 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 78 |
Click an item below for its 3-letter tally
| FL x 8 | FO x 7 | FR x 4 | FU x 5 |
| LO x 2 | |||
| MO x 9 | MU x 5 | ||
| NO x 5 | NU x 1 | ||
| OF x 1 | OR x 2 | OU x 1 | |
| RO x 13 | RU x 7 | ||
| RUF x 2 | RUM x 2 | RUN x 2 | RUR x 1 |
| UN x 7 | UR x 1 |
| cmp | 6 | 7 | 8 | tot |
| F | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| M | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| N | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| R | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| tot | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| debut appearances | 0 | |
| newly disallowed words | 1 | ruff |
| newly reallowed words | 1 |
MOURNFUL, NULLFORM, UNMOURNFUL
| word | length | |||
| FLOOR | 5 | |||
| FLOORFUL | 8 | |||
| FLOR | 4 | |||
| FLOROON | 7 | |||
| FLOUR | 5 | |||
| FLUOR | 5 | |||
| FLUOROFORM | 10 | |||
| FLURR | 5 | |||
| FORLORN | 7 | |||
| FORM | 4 | |||
| FORMFUL | 7 | |||
| FORMOL | 6 | |||
| FORMROOM | * 8 | |||
| FORUM | 5 | |||
| FOUR | 4 | |||
| FROLF | 5 | |||
| FROM | 4 | |||
| FROUFROU | 8 | |||
| FRUM | 4 | |||
| FURFUR | 6 | |||
| FURL | 4 | |||
| FURO | 4 | |||
| FUROR | 5 | |||
| FURR | 4 | |||
| LORN | 4 | |||
| LOUR | 4 | |||
| MONURON | 7 | |||
| MOONROOF | * 8 | |||
| MOONRUN | * 7 | |||
| MOOR | 4 | |||
| MORN | 4 | |||
| MORON | 5 | |||
| MORRO | 5 | |||
| MOURN | 5 | |||
| MOURNFUL | 8 | pangram | ||
| MUNRO | 5 | |||
| MURL | 4 | |||
| MURMUR | 6 | |||
| MURU | 4 | |||
| MURUMURU | 8 | |||
| NONFLOOR | 8 | |||
| NONFLOUR | 8 | |||
| NONROOF | 7 | |||
| NONRUN | 6 | |||
| NORM | 4 | |||
| NULLFORM | * 8 | pangram | ||
| OFURO | 5 | |||
| ORLO | 4 | |||
| ORMOLU | 6 | newly reallowed | ||
| OURN | 4 | |||
| ROLF | 4 | |||
| ROLL | 4 | |||
| ROLLFORM | * 8 | |||
| ROLLOFF | * 7 | |||
| ROOF | 4 | |||
| ROOFFUL | 7 | |||
| ROOL | 4 | |||
| ROOM | 4 | |||
| ROOMFUL | 7 | |||
| ROON | 4 | |||
| ROUF | 4 | |||
| ROULROUL | 8 | |||
| ROUN | 4 | |||
| RUFF | 4 | newly disallowed, allowed elsewhere | ||
| RUFOL | 5 | |||
| RUMOR | 5 | |||
| RUMOUR | 6 | |||
| RUNN | 4 | |||
| RUNOFF | * 6 | |||
| RURU | 4 | |||
| UNFORM | 6 | |||
| UNFURL | 6 | |||
| UNMOOR | 6 | |||
| UNMOURNFUL | 10 | pangram | ||
| UNROLL | 6 | |||
| UNROOF | 6 | |||
| UNRUN | 5 | |||
| URNFUL | 6 |
* compound(ish) word