WordPlay: ILLIONs, TEENS, and NTHs
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The Spelling Bee lexicon includes more than a hundred words for numbers and words about numbers, as compiled and defined in the LexiTopic Numbers.
These words fall naturally into groups, such as words that include the sequence ILLION, or those that include TEEN, or those that end with -TH or -THLY. (There is some overlap between these lists, of course.)
Being aware of these families of words can improve solving skills when the daily Bee contains these letter groups.
A few unrelated Bee words include TEEN or ILLION or NTH; we’ve included those, as well as a list of all the simple cardinal number words from the Bee lexicon.
Pangrams are shown in ALL CAPS. Bee words marked with an asterisk have been used in at least one Spelling Bee puzzle, then subsequently disallowed; they are retained here for historical interest.
These words fall naturally into groups, such as words that include the sequence ILLION, or those that include TEEN, or those that end with -TH or -THLY. (There is some overlap between these lists, of course.)
Being aware of these families of words can improve solving skills when the daily Bee contains these letter groups.
A few unrelated Bee words include TEEN or ILLION or NTH; we’ve included those, as well as a list of all the simple cardinal number words from the Bee lexicon.
Pangrams are shown in ALL CAPS. Bee words marked with an asterisk have been used in at least one Spelling Bee puzzle, then subsequently disallowed; they are retained here for historical interest.
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Spelling Bee words with ILLION, TEEN, or NTH
THE ILLIONS
(cardinal and ordinal)
billionBILLIONTHGAZILLIONjillionmillionMILLIONTHMULTIMILLIONnonillionnonillionth*octilliontrillionTRILLIONTHzillion
Other Bee words that include ILLIONcotillionpillion
Other Bee words that include ILLIONcotillionpillion
THE TEENS
(cardinal and ordinal)
eighteenthfifteennineteennineteenthumpteenUMPTEENTH
Other Bee Words that include TEENcanteenlateen*teenteenageteenagedteenyvelveteen
Other Bee Words that include TEENcanteenlateen*teenteenageteenagedteenyvelveteen
ORDINALS THAT END WITH -TH or -THLY
eightheightiethfifthninetiethninthninthlytenthtenthlythirtytwentieth
Other Bee words that include NTHamaranthanthemanthillHYACINTHMENTHOLMIDMONTHmonthMONTHLONGMONTHLYnepenthePANTHEON
(The Bee includes dozens of other words that end with -TH, too many to include here.)
Other Bee words that include NTHamaranthanthemanthillHYACINTHMENTHOLMIDMONTHmonthMONTHLONGMONTHLYnepenthePANTHEON
(The Bee includes dozens of other words that end with -TH, too many to include here.)
ALL THE CARDINALS, just for fun
billion
eighteightyelevenfifteenfiftyfivefortyfour
millionnineninetynineteen
octillion
trillion