Spelling Bee April 16, 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: F
Puzzle stats
Total words
53
Total points
336
Pangrams
6
Genius score
235
Center letter
F
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- AFFILIATING
- AFFILIATING
- FLATLINING
- FLATLINING
- INFLATING
- INFLATING
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
6 pts
2%
Moving Up
16 pts
5%
Good
26 pts
8%
Solid
50 pts
15%
Nice
84 pts
25%
Great
134 pts
40%
Amazing
168 pts
50%
Genius
235 pts
70%
Queen Bee
336 pts
100%
All accepted words
- affiant
- affiliating
- affiliating
- alfalfa
- antifa
- fail
- failing
- faint
- fainting
- fall
- falling
- fang
- fanning
- fantail
- fatal
- fating
- fiat
- fifing
- filial
- filing
- fill
- filling
- finagling
- final
- finial
- fining
- fitting
- flag
- flagging
- flail
- flailing
- flan
- flanging
- flat
- flatlining
- flatlining
- fling
- flinging
- flint
- flit
- flitting
- gaff
- gift
- gifting
- infant
- infill
- infilling
- inflating
- inflating
- lift
- lifting
- naif
- tiff
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, April 16, 2026 uses the seven letters A, F, G, I, L, N, T, with F as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 53 accepted words for a total of 336 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 235 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 6 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.