Wednesday · 36 words

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

A
C
F
I
N
O
T

Puzzle stats

accepted words

Total words

35

accepted entries

Total points

285

Queen Bee score

Pangrams

10

words using all 7 letters

Genius score

199

70% of total

Center letter

F

required in every word

Pangrams

+7 bonus per word

Uses all 7 letters

  • CITIFICATION
  • NOTIFICATION
  • NOTIFICATION
  • CITIFICATION
  • OFFICIATION
  • OFFICIATION
  • OFFICIANT
  • OFFICIANT
  • FACTION
  • FACTION

Rank thresholds

Points needed for each rank

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

Grouped by starting letter
A 3 words
  • affiant
  • afoot
  • antifa
C 6 words
  • caftan
  • citification
  • citification
  • coffin
  • coif
  • confit
F 14 words
  • fact
  • faction
  • faction
  • faint
  • fanatic
  • fanfic
  • fiat
  • fiction
  • finito
  • focaccia
  • foci
  • font
  • fontina
  • foot
I 2 words
  • infant
  • info
N 5 words
  • naif
  • nonfat
  • nonfiction
  • notification
  • notification
O 4 words
  • officiant
  • officiant
  • officiation
  • officiation
T 1 word
  • 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.

Play today's Spelling Bee on The New York Times.

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