NYT Spelling Bee answers: Monday 21 August 2023

While the NYT Spelling Bee answers for today's game on August 21 may certainly prove a little bit tricky to solve, fear not, as we've got all of the latest on how to help you make it through.

Developed by The New York Times games team, who also acquired the popular game Wordle back in February 2022 for $3 million USD, Spelling Bee is a game perfect for wordsmiths everywhere. While other games like Wordle may have you trying to guess the 5-letter word, NYT's Spelling Bee tasks you with making as many words as possible from seven letters in the game.

But the longer you stare at a jumble of letters, trying to work out what other words you can make from it, the harder it can seem to get - so keep reading for all of our tips to use when trying to solve The NYT Spelling Bee's answers today for August 21, 2023.

• If you're looking to match a group of words with a similar meaning, check out our answers and hints for NYT Connections today.

Tips for how to play NYT Spelling Bee

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Once you're on the NYT Spelling Bee website, all you need to do in order to get started is to press the 'Play' button. 

From here, you'll be shown a honeycomb-shaped word grid, and the name of the game here is to make words with as many letters as possible. You must include the word in the centre of the honeycomb grid, though, which will be highlighted with a yellow background.

When putting together your answers, be sure to remember that while you can use a letter more than once when building a word, they will have to be at least four letters long. What's more, the longer a word is, the more points that you'll earn - so you'll want to get out your thesauruses and focus on words with more letters for a higher overall score.

If you're struggling to pick out words from what NYT refers to as the 'Hive', we'd suggest using the refresh icon located just below the game board (the looping circular icon with arrows) - it's surprising how much this feature can be very useful in providing you with more clues as to what answers can be made in each daily NYT Spelling Bee game.

• If Semantle is giving you more trouble than it's worth, check out our guide detailing Semantle's answer today.

NYT Spelling Bee answers: Monday 21 August 2023

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Still here? Right, let's get into it: Below you will find the answers for today's NYT Spelling Bee game, sorted by length, and the points you receive per answer redeemed.

So that's everything you need to know about today's answers for The NYT's Spelling Bee game today -
did you achieve Queen Bee? If so, check out some of our other word game answer guides such as the Contexto answers today or Word Hurdle answers.