Spelling Bee answers for October 7, 2026
The Wednesday NYT Spelling Bee had 53 words, 202 points and 1 pangram. Every answer is listed below, with the letter grid and the points for each rank.
Puzzle by Sam Ezersky
The pangram
Showing all 1 words.
Pangrams1
All 53 answers
Showing all 53 words.
a10
b16
d4
f10
l5
o4
r4
At a glance
- Words
- 53
- Points
- 202
- Pangram
- 1
- Longest word
- 10 letters
- No perfect pangram
- Bingo: a word starts with every letter
- Average word: 5 letters
Maximum score 202. Genius takes 141 points: the fastest route is 22 words, starting with the longest ones, all 5 letters or longer.
Points for each rank
| Rank | Share | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Beginner | 0% | 0 |
| Good Start | 2% | 4 |
| Moving Up | 5% | 10 |
| Good | 8% | 16 |
| Solid | 15% | 30 |
| Nice | 25% | 51 |
| Great | 40% | 81 |
| Amazing | 50% | 101 |
| Genius | 70% | 141 |
| Queen Bee | 100% | 202 |
Real words that do not count
- larboard
- forbad
- dado
Letter grid
| First letter | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 10 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a (center letter) | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | 10 |
| b | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 16 |
| d | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | 4 |
| f | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| l | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 5 |
| o | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 4 |
| r | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 4 |
| Total | 24 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 53 |
Two-letter list
- ab2 words
- ad1 word
- af3 words
- al2 words
- ar2 words
- ba8 words
- bl1 word
- bo5 words
- br2 words
- do3 words
- dr1 word
- fa4 words
- fl4 words
- fo2 words
- la2 words
- lo3 words
- od1 word
- of2 words
- or1 word
- ra1 word
- ro3 words
How the Oct 7, 2026 puzzle played
The center letter was A with B, D, F, L, O, R around it. Answers ran from 4 to 10 letters, 5 on average. There was no perfect pangram (a seven-letter word using each letter once). It was also a bingo day: at least one word started with each of the seven letters.
Genius needed 141 points. Browse other days in the Spelling Bee archive, try today's Spelling Bee hints or play a fresh puzzle in unlimited mode.