Spelling Bee October 9, 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: Y
Puzzle stats
Total words
41
Total points
294
Pangrams
8
Genius score
205
Center letter
Y
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- INTELLIGENTLY
- INTELLIGENTLY
- NEGLIGENTLY
- NEGLIGENTLY
- TELLINGLY
- GENTILITY
- GENTILITY
- TELLINGLY
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
5 pts
2%
Moving Up
14 pts
5%
Good
23 pts
8%
Solid
44 pts
15%
Nice
73 pts
25%
Great
117 pts
40%
Amazing
147 pts
50%
Genius
205 pts
70%
Queen Bee
294 pts
100%
All accepted words
- eely
- eggy
- elegy
- entity
- eyeing
- eyelet
- eying
- gentility
- gentility
- gently
- giggly
- illy
- intelligently
- intelligently
- intently
- itty
- leggy
- leniently
- lenity
- lily
- linty
- lying
- negligently
- negligently
- netty
- niggly
- ninety
- ninny
- teeny
- tellingly
- tellingly
- tingly
- tinily
- tinny
- tiny
- tying
- yell
- yelling
- yenning
- yente
- yeti
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, October 9, 2026 uses the seven letters E, G, I, L, N, T, Y, with Y as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 41 accepted words for a total of 294 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 205 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 8 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.