Spelling Bee February 21, 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: M
Puzzle stats
Total words
72
Total points
483
Pangrams
12
Genius score
338
Center letter
M
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- CONTAMINATION
- CONTAMINATION
- CONTAMINANT
- CONTAMINANT
- MONATOMIC
- MANICOTTI
- MONATOMIC
- MANICOTTI
- AMNIOTIC
- ANATOMIC
- ANATOMIC
- AMNIOTIC
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
9 pts
2%
Moving Up
24 pts
5%
Good
38 pts
8%
Solid
72 pts
15%
Nice
120 pts
25%
Great
193 pts
40%
Amazing
241 pts
50%
Genius
338 pts
70%
Queen Bee
483 pts
100%
All accepted words
- amino
- ammo
- ammonia
- amnio
- amniotic
- amniotic
- anatomic
- anatomic
- anima
- animation
- atom
- atomic
- caiman
- cami
- camo
- catmint
- cinnamon
- coma
- comic
- comma
- commit
- common
- commotion
- contaminant
- contaminant
- contamination
- contamination
- imam
- imitation
- intimation
- maim
- main
- maintain
- mama
- mamma
- mammon
- mania
- maniac
- manic
- manicotti
- manicotti
- manna
- manta
- mica
- mimic
- mini
- minicam
- minim
- minima
- minion
- mint
- mitt
- moan
- moat
- momma
- monatomic
- monatomic
- mono
- monomania
- monomaniac
- moon
- moot
- motion
- motto
- nomination
- noncom
- omit
- ottoman
- tatami
- tomato
- tomcat
- tomtit
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, February 21, 2026 uses the seven letters A, C, I, M, N, O, T, with M as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 72 accepted words for a total of 483 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 338 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 12 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.