Spelling Bee April 11, 2026 answers
All accepted words for today's NYT Spelling Bee, with the pangram revealed, point totals, and progress thresholds for each rank.
Today's letter set · Center: L
Puzzle stats
Total words
70
Total points
367
Pangrams
8
Genius score
256
Center letter
L
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- HIGHLIGHTED
- HIGHLIGHTED
- DELIGHTED
- DELIGHTED
- LIGHTED
- LIGHTED
- DELIGHT
- DELIGHT
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
7 pts
2%
Moving Up
18 pts
5%
Good
29 pts
8%
Solid
55 pts
15%
Nice
91 pts
25%
Great
146 pts
40%
Amazing
183 pts
50%
Genius
256 pts
70%
Queen Bee
367 pts
100%
All accepted words
- delete
- deleted
- deli
- delight
- delight
- delighted
- delighted
- dell
- delt
- diddle
- diddled
- dill
- elide
- elided
- elite
- geld
- gelded
- gelee
- gelid
- gelled
- gelt
- giggle
- giggled
- gild
- gilded
- gill
- gilled
- gilt
- glee
- glide
- glided
- heel
- heeled
- held
- hell
- highlight
- highlighted
- highlighted
- hill
- hilled
- hilt
- idle
- idled
- lede
- ledge
- legged
- legit
- lidded
- lied
- liege
- light
- lighted
- lighted
- lilt
- lilted
- lite
- lithe
- little
- tell
- tilde
- tile
- tiled
- till
- tilled
- tilt
- tilted
- tilth
- title
- titled
- tittle
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, April 11, 2026 uses the seven letters D, E, G, H, I, L, T, with L as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 70 accepted words for a total of 367 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 256 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 8 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.