Spelling Bee October 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: I
Puzzle stats
Total words
60
Total points
314
Pangrams
2
Genius score
219
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- JOINTED
- JOINTED
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
6 pts
2%
Moving Up
15 pts
5%
Good
25 pts
8%
Solid
47 pts
15%
Nice
78 pts
25%
Great
125 pts
40%
Amazing
157 pts
50%
Genius
219 pts
70%
Queen Bee
314 pts
100%
All accepted words
- denied
- dentin
- dentition
- detention
- died
- diet
- dieted
- dine
- dined
- dinette
- dino
- dint
- diode
- ditto
- djinn
- djinni
- eddied
- edit
- edited
- edition
- enjoin
- enjoined
- idiot
- indeed
- indent
- indented
- indie
- innie
- intend
- intended
- intent
- intention
- intentioned
- into
- intone
- intoned
- iodide
- iodine
- jinn
- jinni
- join
- joined
- joint
- jointed
- jointed
- nine
- nineteen
- nite
- notion
- onion
- tide
- tided
- tidied
- tied
- tine
- tined
- tinned
- tint
- tinted
- toonie
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Sunday, October 18, 2026 uses the seven letters D, E, I, J, N, O, T, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 60 accepted words for a total of 314 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 219 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.