Spelling Bee July 16, 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: D
Puzzle stats
Total words
38
Total points
181
Pangrams
2
Genius score
126
Center letter
D
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- ACRIDITY
- ACRIDITY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
9 pts
5%
Good
14 pts
8%
Solid
27 pts
15%
Nice
45 pts
25%
Great
72 pts
40%
Amazing
90 pts
50%
Genius
126 pts
70%
Queen Bee
181 pts
100%
All accepted words
- acid
- acidic
- acidity
- acidy
- acrid
- acridity
- acridity
- addict
- arcadia
- arid
- aridity
- caddy
- card
- cardiac
- cicada
- daddy
- dairy
- dart
- data
- diacritic
- diary
- dicta
- didact
- didactic
- dirt
- dirty
- ditty
- drat
- dray
- dryad
- dyad
- radar
- radii
- raid
- tardy
- tidy
- triad
- yard
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, July 16, 2026 uses the seven letters A, C, D, I, R, T, Y, with D as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 38 accepted words for a total of 181 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 126 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.