Spelling Bee February 1, 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: B
Puzzle stats
Total words
82
Total points
460
Pangrams
4
Genius score
322
Center letter
B
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- BALLOONING
- BALLOONING
- BILLABONG
- BILLABONG
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
9 pts
2%
Moving Up
23 pts
5%
Good
36 pts
8%
Solid
69 pts
15%
Nice
115 pts
25%
Great
184 pts
40%
Amazing
230 pts
50%
Genius
322 pts
70%
Queen Bee
460 pts
100%
All accepted words
- aboil
- albino
- alibi
- baaing
- baba
- babbling
- baboon
- bagging
- bail
- bailing
- baling
- ball
- balling
- balloon
- ballooning
- ballooning
- banal
- banana
- bang
- banging
- banning
- baobab
- bilabial
- bill
- billabong
- billabong
- billing
- billion
- binging
- bingo
- binning
- blab
- blabbing
- blin
- bling
- blini
- blob
- blobbing
- blog
- blogging
- boba
- bobbin
- bobbing
- bobbling
- bogging
- boggling
- boil
- boiling
- boing
- bola
- boll
- bolo
- bologna
- bonbon
- bong
- bongo
- boning
- bonobo
- boob
- booboo
- boogaloo
- booing
- boon
- gabbing
- gabbling
- gibbon
- gibing
- glib
- glob
- global
- gobbling
- goblin
- labia
- labial
- lobbing
- lobo
- nabbing
- nabob
- nibbling
- noob
- obliging
- oblong
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Sunday, February 1, 2026 uses the seven letters A, B, G, I, L, N, O, with B as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 82 accepted words for a total of 460 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 322 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 4 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.