Spelling Bee February 17, 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: P
Puzzle stats
Total words
54
Total points
318
Pangrams
4
Genius score
222
Center letter
P
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- PILLOWING
- PILLOWING
- PLOWING
- PLOWING
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
6 pts
2%
Moving Up
15 pts
5%
Good
25 pts
8%
Solid
47 pts
15%
Nice
79 pts
25%
Great
127 pts
40%
Amazing
159 pts
50%
Genius
222 pts
70%
Queen Bee
318 pts
100%
All accepted words
- gloop
- glop
- glopping
- goop
- lipo
- lipping
- lollipop
- lollop
- lolloping
- loop
- looping
- loping
- lopping
- nipping
- opining
- opinion
- pigging
- piling
- pill
- pilling
- pillion
- pillow
- pillowing
- pillowing
- ping
- pinging
- pining
- pinion
- pinioning
- pinning
- piping
- pippin
- plop
- plopping
- plow
- plowing
- plowing
- pogo
- pogoing
- poling
- polio
- poll
- polling
- polliwog
- polo
- pong
- pool
- pooling
- poop
- pooping
- poplin
- popping
- powwow
- wiping
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Tuesday, February 17, 2026 uses the seven letters G, I, L, N, O, P, W, with P as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 54 accepted words for a total of 318 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 222 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.