Extra June 3, 2025 | Spelling Bee Answers
This page lists answers for the extra New York Times Spelling Bee from June 3, 2025.
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.
Alternatively, simply click above for help with today’s puzzle. Mark the checkboxes below and click to customize your level of help.
Please note: On the morning of June 3, 2025, the New York Times published hints in its Spelling Bee forum that did not match the actual puzzle that players were seeing. The hints below are for that original puzzle. Later that morning, rather than issuing a simple correction, the Times instead published a replacement puzzle to match the forum hints, much to the consternation of players worldwide.
Related puzzles
Center letter I: May 24, 2024Center letter E: July 25, 2022
Center letter A: April 2, 2021
words: 56
score: 269 pts
pangrams: 2
perfect: 1
bingo: yes
A x 6
C x 20
E x 6
H x 4
I x 4
M x 12
N x 4
4L x 17
5L x 15
6L x 13
7L x 5
8L x 4
9L x 2
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | tot | |
| A | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 6 |
| C | 7 | 7 | 6 | - | - | - | 20 |
| E | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| H | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 4 |
| I | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 4 |
| M | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 12 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 |
| tot | 17 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 56 |
MACHINE, MECHANIC
| word | length | |||
| ACACIA | 6 | |||
| ACAI | 4 | |||
| ACHE | 4 | |||
| ACME | 4 | |||
| ACNE | 4 | |||
| ANEMIC | 6 | |||
| CACHE | 5 | |||
| CAIMAN | 6 | |||
| CAME | 4 | |||
| CAMI | 4 | |||
| CANCAN | 6 | |||
| CANE | 4 | |||
| CANINE | 6 | |||
| CANNA | 5 | |||
| CHAI | 4 | |||
| CHAIN | 5 | |||
| CHANCE | 6 | |||
| CHIA | 4 | |||
| CHIC | 4 | |||
| CHICA | 5 | |||
| CHICHI | 6 | |||
| CHIME | 5 | |||
| CHIN | 4 | |||
| CHINA | 5 | |||
| CINCH | 5 | |||
| CINEMA | 6 | |||
| EACH | 4 | |||
| ECHINACEA | 9 | |||
| EMCEE | 5 | |||
| EMINENCE | 8 | |||
| ENCHAIN | 7 | |||
| ENHANCE | 7 | |||
| HAMACHI | 7 | |||
| HENCE | 5 | |||
| HENCHMAN | 8 | |||
| HENCHMEN | 8 | |||
| ICEMAN | 6 | |||
| ICEMEN | 6 | |||
| IMMINENCE | 9 | |||
| INCH | 4 | |||
| MACE | 4 | |||
| MACHINE | 7 | perfect pangram | ||
| MANIAC | 6 | |||
| MANIC | 5 | |||
| MECCA | 5 | |||
| MECHANIC | 8 | pangram | ||
| MENACE | 6 | |||
| MICA | 4 | |||
| MICE | 4 | |||
| MIMIC | 5 | |||
| MINCE | 5 | |||
| MINICAM | 7 | |||
| NIACIN | 6 | |||
| NICE | 4 | |||
| NICHE | 5 | |||
| NIECE | 5 |