Spelling Bee June 17, 2026 Answers

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ARBOR

noun Tree (as opposed to shrub)

ARCO

adjective To be played with the bow

BARB

noun An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

BARK

noun Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

BARRACK

noun A building or group of buildings used to house military personnel

BOAR

noun Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come

BOOR

noun A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

BROOK

noun A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

CAROB

noun Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp

CAROL

noun Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ

COBRA

noun Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood

COLLAR

noun A band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over

COLOR

noun A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect

CORAL

noun A variable color averaging a deep pink

CORK

noun Outer bark of the cork oak

COROLLA

noun The whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth

CORRAL

noun A pen for cattle

CRAB

noun Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers

CRACK

noun A long narrow opening

CROAK

noun A harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)

CROCK

noun A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

CROOK

noun Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

LABOR

noun A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

LARK

noun North American songbirds having a yellow breast

OARLOCK

noun A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

OKRA

noun Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant

ORAL

noun An examination conducted by spoken communication

ORCA

noun Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin

RACK

noun Framework for holding objects

ROAR

noun A deep prolonged loud noise

ROCK

noun A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

ROCOCO

noun Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century

ROLL

noun Rotary motion of an object around its own axis

ROLLBACK ★

noun The act of forcing the enemy to withdraw

ROOK

noun The piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

Word definitions from WordNet® 3.1, Princeton University.