Statistics | Lone Letters
Since its debut on May 9, 2018, the New York Times Spelling Bee has run 2,389 regular daily puzzles, plus 2 extra stopgap puzzles. Here are a few statistics covering that span.
There have been only 12 Spelling Bee puzzles which include a letter that appears only one time in the entire solution set:
M A D E I L V
V
60
236
(1)
V A D E I L M
M
43
180
C A J L O R U
J
31
133
G A E L M P X
X
27
98
D A B I J L R
J
25
97
L G I M O X Y
X
25
88
B A D G N O V
V
22
97
O G I L M X Y
X
22
84
D A B I J R Y
J
22
82
H C E G L O W
G
22
78
T A C J K O P
J
21
82
O A C G H P Z
Z
21
67