Spelling Bee October 26, 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
44
Total points
259
Pangrams
2
Genius score
181
Center letter
I
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- NIGHTLY
- NIGHTLY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
12 pts
5%
Good
20 pts
8%
Solid
38 pts
15%
Nice
64 pts
25%
Great
103 pts
40%
Amazing
129 pts
50%
Genius
181 pts
70%
Queen Bee
259 pts
100%
All accepted words
- giggling
- giggly
- gill
- gilling
- gilt
- glint
- glinting
- highlight
- highlighting
- highly
- hill
- hilling
- hilly
- hilt
- illy
- light
- lighting
- lightly
- lightning
- lilt
- lilting
- lily
- lining
- lint
- linty
- lying
- niggling
- niggly
- nightlight
- nightly
- nightly
- ninthly
- thinly
- tightly
- tiling
- till
- tilling
- tilt
- tilth
- tilting
- tingling
- tingly
- tinily
- titling
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Monday, October 26, 2026 uses the seven letters G, H, I, L, N, T, Y, with I as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 44 accepted words for a total of 259 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 181 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.