Spelling Bee October 1, 2025 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
35
Total points
285
Pangrams
10
Genius score
199
Center letter
F
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- CITIFICATION
- NOTIFICATION
- NOTIFICATION
- CITIFICATION
- OFFICIATION
- OFFICIATION
- OFFICIANT
- OFFICIANT
- FACTION
- FACTION
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
14 pts
5%
Good
22 pts
8%
Solid
42 pts
15%
Nice
71 pts
25%
Great
114 pts
40%
Amazing
142 pts
50%
Genius
199 pts
70%
Queen Bee
285 pts
100%
All accepted words
- affiant
- afoot
- antifa
- caftan
- citification
- citification
- coffin
- coif
- confit
- fact
- faction
- faction
- faint
- fanatic
- fanfic
- fiat
- fiction
- finito
- focaccia
- foci
- font
- fontina
- foot
- infant
- info
- naif
- nonfat
- nonfiction
- notification
- notification
- officiant
- officiant
- officiation
- officiation
- tiff
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, October 1, 2025 uses the seven letters A, C, F, I, N, O, T, with F as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 35 accepted words for a total of 285 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 199 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 10 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.