Spelling Bee October 4, 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: G
Puzzle stats
Total words
53
Total points
334
Pangrams
4
Genius score
233
Center letter
G
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- WHOPPING
- WHOPPING
- WHOOPING
- WHOOPING
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
6 pts
2%
Moving Up
16 pts
5%
Good
26 pts
8%
Solid
50 pts
15%
Nice
83 pts
25%
Great
133 pts
40%
Amazing
167 pts
50%
Genius
233 pts
70%
Queen Bee
334 pts
100%
All accepted words
- gigging
- ginning
- going
- gong
- gonging
- goon
- goop
- gown
- gowning
- high
- hinging
- hogging
- honing
- hooping
- hoping
- hopping
- inning
- nigh
- nipping
- noggin
- ongoing
- opining
- owing
- owning
- phoning
- pigging
- ping
- pinging
- pining
- pinioning
- pinning
- piping
- pogo
- pogoing
- pong
- pooping
- popping
- whinging
- whining
- whipping
- whooping
- whooping
- whopping
- whopping
- wigging
- wing
- winging
- wining
- winning
- winnowing
- wiping
- wooing
- wowing
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Sunday, October 4, 2026 uses the seven letters G, H, I, N, O, P, W, with G as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 53 accepted words for a total of 334 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 233 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.