Spelling Bee January 4, 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: F
Puzzle stats
Total words
43
Total points
218
Pangrams
2
Genius score
152
Center letter
F
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- FAMILIARLY
- FAMILIARLY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
10 pts
5%
Good
17 pts
8%
Solid
32 pts
15%
Nice
54 pts
25%
Great
87 pts
40%
Amazing
109 pts
50%
Genius
152 pts
70%
Queen Bee
218 pts
100%
All accepted words
- afar
- affair
- affirm
- affray
- alfalfa
- fail
- fair
- fairly
- fairy
- fall
- familial
- familiar
- familiarly
- familiarly
- family
- farm
- filial
- filially
- fill
- filly
- film
- filmy
- firm
- firmly
- flail
- flair
- flay
- flimflam
- frail
- frailly
- fray
- friar
- friary
- frill
- frilly
- iffy
- mafia
- mayfly
- miff
- raffia
- ramify
- riff
- riffraff
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Sunday, January 4, 2026 uses the seven letters A, F, I, L, M, R, Y, with F as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 43 accepted words for a total of 218 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 152 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.