Spelling Bee June 25, 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: I
Puzzle stats
Total words
36
Total points
165
Pangrams
2
Genius score
115
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- FIXATED
- FIXATED
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
8 pts
5%
Good
13 pts
8%
Solid
24 pts
15%
Nice
41 pts
25%
Great
66 pts
40%
Amazing
82 pts
50%
Genius
115 pts
70%
Queen Bee
165 pts
100%
All accepted words
- affix
- affixed
- aide
- aided
- ataxia
- defied
- deified
- died
- diet
- dieted
- eddied
- edified
- edit
- edited
- exit
- exited
- fetid
- fiat
- fief
- fife
- fifed
- fitted
- fixate
- fixated
- fixated
- fixed
- idea
- ideate
- ideated
- taxi
- taxied
- tide
- tided
- tidied
- tied
- tiff
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, June 25, 2026 uses the seven letters A, D, E, F, I, T, X, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 36 accepted words for a total of 165 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 115 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.