Spelling Bee Answers

How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 340 was in the 97th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on September 27, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 62 possible answers rank it in the 93rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on September 30, 2026.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 08, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on October 05, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.0.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.

Haven't I seen these letters before?

Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!

Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

noon 251
loll 229
toot 224
nana 212
naan 212
tilt 164
till 164
lilt 164
nene 163
tint 162
mamma 162
mama 162
onion 155
acai 155
acacia 155
toon 152
onto 152
anon 141
anal 141
olio 140
tact 131
papa 131
mitt 131
dodo 130
baba 130
lulu 127
lull 127
booboo 125
boob 125
poop 124
loon 124
cocci 122
calla 122
call 122
tattoo 120
tartar 120
tart 120
ratatat 120
moon 120
mono 120
attar 119
natant 118
tutu 117
cancan 117
aria 116
momma 115
ammo 115
ally 115
allay 115
meme 114

How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 124,170 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,156 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.

Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

cenote
cento
cete
cheth
choc
chon
chott
coco
cocotte
codded
codec
coden
cohoe
concent
concho
conn
conodont
conte
conto
cooch
coocoo
cooee
cooeed
coon
coted
eche
eched
echt
ecotone
eocene
honchoed
hootch
hotch
hotched
nocent
oche
ochone
octette
oncet
teched
tench
tendence
tetched
thecodont
toco

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.

NYT Spelling Bee Answers and Analysis

Tuesday, October 06, 2026

Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 340

Number of Answers: 62

Points Needed for Genius: 238

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Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers