Spelling Bee June 18, 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: T
Puzzle stats
Total words
42
Total points
200
Pangrams
4
Genius score
140
Center letter
T
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- DETOXIFIED
- DETOXIFIED
- TOXIFIED
- TOXIFIED
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
4 pts
2%
Moving Up
10 pts
5%
Good
16 pts
8%
Solid
30 pts
15%
Nice
50 pts
25%
Great
80 pts
40%
Amazing
100 pts
50%
Genius
140 pts
70%
Queen Bee
200 pts
100%
All accepted words
- deft
- detox
- detoxed
- detoxified
- detoxified
- diet
- dieted
- ditto
- dote
- doted
- dotted
- edit
- edited
- effete
- exit
- exited
- feet
- fete
- feted
- fetid
- fitted
- foot
- footed
- footie
- idiot
- teed
- teff
- text
- texted
- tide
- tided
- tidied
- tied
- tiff
- toed
- toffee
- toot
- tooted
- tote
- toted
- toxified
- toxified
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, June 18, 2026 uses the seven letters D, E, F, I, O, T, X, with T as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 42 accepted words for a total of 200 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 140 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.