Spelling Bee October 9, 2023 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
54
Total points
380
Pangrams
2
Genius score
266
Center letter
G
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- GLITCHING
- GLITCHING
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
7 pts
2%
Moving Up
19 pts
5%
Good
30 pts
8%
Solid
57 pts
15%
Nice
95 pts
25%
Great
152 pts
40%
Amazing
190 pts
50%
Genius
266 pts
70%
Queen Bee
380 pts
100%
All accepted words
- chilling
- chinning
- cinching
- citing
- clinching
- cling
- clinging
- gigging
- giggling
- gill
- gilling
- gilt
- ginning
- glint
- glinting
- glitch
- glitching
- glitching
- high
- highlight
- highlighting
- hilling
- hinging
- hinting
- hitching
- hitting
- icing
- igniting
- inching
- inciting
- inclining
- inning
- itching
- light
- lighting
- lightning
- lilting
- lining
- niggling
- nigh
- night
- nightlight
- thigh
- thing
- thinning
- tight
- tiling
- tilling
- tilting
- tinging
- tingling
- tinting
- tithing
- titling
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Monday, October 9, 2023 uses the seven letters C, G, H, I, L, N, T, with G as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 54 accepted words for a total of 380 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 266 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.