Spelling Bee October 22, 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: H
Puzzle stats
Total words
68
Total points
359
Pangrams
6
Genius score
251
Center letter
H
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- ATTACHABLE
- ATTACHABLE
- CATCHABLE
- TEACHABLE
- CATCHABLE
- TEACHABLE
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
7 pts
2%
Moving Up
17 pts
5%
Good
28 pts
8%
Solid
53 pts
15%
Nice
89 pts
25%
Great
143 pts
40%
Amazing
179 pts
50%
Genius
251 pts
70%
Queen Bee
359 pts
100%
All accepted words
- ache
- athlete
- attach
- attachable
- attachable
- attache
- baht
- batch
- bath
- bathe
- beach
- beech
- belch
- blah
- bleach
- blech
- cache
- cachet
- catch
- catchable
- catchable
- catchall
- chalet
- challah
- chat
- chattel
- cheat
- cheetah
- each
- etch
- halal
- hale
- hall
- halt
- hatch
- hatchet
- hate
- hateable
- hath
- hatha
- heal
- healable
- health
- heat
- heatable
- heath
- heel
- hell
- hellcat
- latch
- lath
- lathe
- leach
- lech
- leech
- lethal
- tach
- teach
- teachable
- teachable
- tech
- teeth
- teethe
- telehealth
- that
- thatch
- thee
- theta
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Thursday, October 22, 2026 uses the seven letters A, B, C, E, H, L, T, with H as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 68 accepted words for a total of 359 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 251 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 6 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.