Spelling Bee January 20, 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: A
Puzzle stats
Total words
71
Total points
394
Pangrams
6
Genius score
275
Center letter
A
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- INFANTILITY
- INFANTILITY
- FINALITY
- FINALITY
- FAINTLY
- FAINTLY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
7 pts
2%
Moving Up
19 pts
5%
Good
31 pts
8%
Solid
59 pts
15%
Nice
98 pts
25%
Great
157 pts
40%
Amazing
197 pts
50%
Genius
275 pts
70%
Queen Bee
394 pts
100%
All accepted words
- affiant
- affinity
- alfalfa
- alit
- allay
- ally
- anal
- anally
- annal
- anti
- antifa
- atilt
- attain
- fail
- faint
- faintly
- faintly
- fall
- fanny
- fantail
- fatal
- fatality
- fatally
- fatly
- fatty
- fiat
- filial
- filially
- final
- finality
- finality
- finally
- finial
- flail
- flan
- flat
- flatly
- flay
- inanity
- infant
- infantility
- infantility
- initial
- initially
- inlay
- lain
- laity
- lanai
- lantana
- litany
- naan
- naif
- nail
- nana
- nanny
- natal
- natality
- natant
- nattily
- natty
- taffy
- tail
- taint
- tali
- tall
- tallit
- tally
- tannin
- tatty
- tiffany
- titan
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Tuesday, January 20, 2026 uses the seven letters A, F, I, L, N, T, Y, with A as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 71 accepted words for a total of 394 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 275 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.