Spelling Bee October 2, 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: T
Puzzle stats
Total words
63
Total points
401
Pangrams
4
Genius score
280
Center letter
T
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- INITIALIZING
- INITIALIZING
- TANTALIZING
- TANTALIZING
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
8 pts
2%
Moving Up
20 pts
5%
Good
32 pts
8%
Solid
60 pts
15%
Nice
100 pts
25%
Great
160 pts
40%
Amazing
200 pts
50%
Genius
280 pts
70%
Queen Bee
401 pts
100%
All accepted words
- agita
- agitating
- alit
- anti
- atilt
- attain
- attaining
- gait
- gallant
- gating
- giant
- gilt
- glint
- glinting
- glitz
- gnat
- igniting
- initial
- initialing
- initializing
- initializing
- initiating
- lantana
- ligating
- lilt
- lilting
- lint
- litigant
- litigating
- natal
- natant
- tagging
- taiga
- tail
- tailgating
- tailing
- taint
- tainting
- tali
- tall
- tallit
- tang
- tangling
- tannin
- tanning
- tantalizing
- tantalizing
- tatting
- tattling
- tiling
- till
- tilling
- tilt
- tilting
- tinging
- tingling
- tinning
- tint
- tinting
- titan
- titillating
- titling
- ziti
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, October 2, 2025 uses the seven letters A, G, I, L, N, T, Z, with T as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 63 accepted words for a total of 401 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 280 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.