Spelling Bee March 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: L
Puzzle stats
Total words
52
Total points
255
Pangrams
4
Genius score
178
Center letter
L
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- PENITENTLY
- PENITENTLY
- INEPTLY
- INEPTLY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
12 pts
5%
Good
20 pts
8%
Solid
38 pts
15%
Nice
63 pts
25%
Great
102 pts
40%
Amazing
127 pts
50%
Genius
178 pts
70%
Queen Bee
255 pts
100%
All accepted words
- eely
- elite
- entitle
- eyelet
- illy
- ineptly
- ineptly
- inlet
- intel
- intently
- lenient
- leniently
- lenity
- lent
- lentil
- lien
- lilt
- lily
- line
- linen
- linnet
- lint
- lintel
- linty
- lippy
- lite
- little
- nettle
- nipple
- peel
- pellet
- pelt
- penile
- penitently
- penitently
- pettily
- pile
- pill
- pipeline
- plenty
- plie
- teletype
- tell
- tile
- till
- tilt
- tinily
- tipple
- title
- tittle
- yell
- yelp
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, March 25, 2026 uses the seven letters E, I, L, N, P, T, Y, with L as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 52 accepted words for a total of 255 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 178 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.