Spelling Bee April 9, 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: C
Puzzle stats
Total words
33
Total points
166
Pangrams
2
Genius score
116
Center letter
C
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- EFFACEMENT
- EFFACEMENT
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
8 pts
5%
Good
13 pts
8%
Solid
24 pts
15%
Nice
41 pts
25%
Great
66 pts
40%
Amazing
83 pts
50%
Genius
116 pts
70%
Queen Bee
166 pts
100%
All accepted words
- accent
- acetate
- acme
- acne
- affect
- cafe
- caftan
- came
- cancan
- cane
- canna
- cant
- cantata
- canteen
- cement
- cent
- cetacean
- efface
- effacement
- effacement
- effect
- emcee
- enact
- enactment
- face
- facet
- fact
- fence
- mace
- mecca
- menace
- tacet
- tact
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, April 9, 2026 uses the seven letters A, C, E, F, M, N, T, with C as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 33 accepted words for a total of 166 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 116 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 2 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.