# Spelling Bee Hints

> Hints for the NYT Spelling Bee

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/spelling-bee-hints](https://chrome-stats.com/d/spelling-bee-hints)

## Overview

- **ID:** `spelling-bee-hints`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Dovetail
- **Category:** games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 12
- **Version:** 3.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-02
- **First published:** 2022-02-07
- **Size:** 48 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/spelling-bee-hints/)
- **Website:** [https://spellingbeehints.com](https://spellingbeehints.com/)

## Description

Spelling Bee Hints is a Firefox add-on that provides hints, word length counts, pangram information, and progress tracking for the daily New York Times Spelling Bee puzzle. It also shows pangram synonyms and turns off the flashing cursor when the window is inactive.

## Rankings

- #31,482 — Overall
- #16 — spelling

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee*`
- `https://spellingbeehints.com/answers/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.nytimes.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/spelling-bee-hints)