Spelling Bee October 21, 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
58
Total points
273
Pangrams
4
Genius score
191
Center letter
L
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- LAPIDARY
- LAPIDARY
- RAPIDLY
- RAPIDLY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
13 pts
5%
Good
21 pts
8%
Solid
40 pts
15%
Nice
68 pts
25%
Great
109 pts
40%
Amazing
136 pts
50%
Genius
191 pts
70%
Queen Bee
273 pts
100%
All accepted words
- airily
- airplay
- allay
- ally
- appall
- apply
- aril
- daily
- dally
- daylily
- dial
- diddly
- dill
- dilly
- dillydally
- drill
- dryly
- idly
- idyl
- idyll
- illy
- lady
- laid
- lair
- lapidary
- lapidary
- lard
- liar
- lily
- lipid
- lippy
- lira
- pail
- palapa
- pall
- pallid
- pallidly
- palp
- papal
- papally
- papilla
- papillary
- parlay
- piddly
- pill
- pillar
- plaid
- play
- radial
- radially
- rail
- rally
- rapidly
- rapidly
- rial
- rill
- ripply
- riyal
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Wednesday, October 21, 2026 uses the seven letters A, D, I, L, P, R, Y, with L as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 58 accepted words for a total of 273 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 191 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.