Spelling Bee October 30, 2021 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
38
Total points
255
Pangrams
6
Genius score
178
Center letter
H
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- HICCOUGHING
- HICCOUGHING
- COUGHING
- COUCHING
- COUCHING
- COUGHING
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
63 pts
25%
Great
102 pts
40%
Amazing
127 pts
50%
Genius
178 pts
70%
Queen Bee
255 pts
100%
All accepted words
- chic
- chichi
- chignon
- chin
- chinning
- chino
- chug
- chugging
- cinch
- cinching
- coho
- conch
- couch
- couching
- couching
- cough
- coughing
- coughing
- gnocchi
- hiccough
- hiccoughing
- hiccoughing
- high
- hinging
- hogging
- honcho
- honing
- hooch
- hugging
- hunch
- hunching
- hung
- inch
- inching
- nigh
- ouch
- unhinging
- unhung
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Saturday, October 30, 2021 uses the seven letters C, G, H, I, N, O, U, with H as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 38 accepted words for a total of 255 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 178 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.