NYT Spelling Bee Hints and Answers for Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026: Hint Grid, Pangram and Saturday's Solution

Sunday’s Spelling Bee from The New York Times (NYT), for Nov. 1, 2026, puts E in the center with F, G, I, O, P and T around it. It has 27 words worth 104 points and one pangram, with Genius at 73 points. The hint grid, the two-letter list and the pangram clue come first; the full word list waits in a spoiler section, with Saturday’s solution below it. U.S. daylight saving time ends that morning.

How Spelling Bee works

You get seven letters in a honeycomb. Each word must be at least four letters long and must use the yellow center letter; letters can repeat. A four-letter word is worth 1 point and a longer word is worth one point per letter. A pangram uses all seven letters and earns 7 extra points. Genius sits at 70% of the day’s total, which is 73 of 104 points today.

How to use the hint grid

The grid counts the answers by first letter and by length. Start with a row that has many short words, find those, then move to the longer columns. The two-letter list does the same job with more precision: “PE-4” means 4 answers begin with P and E.

Sunday’s hint grid, Nov. 1, 2026

Center letter E; outer letters F, G, I, O, P, T. 27 words, 104 points, one pangram.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	Total
E	1	-	1	-	-	2
F	4	-	1	-	-	5
O	1	-	-	-	-	1
P	4	2	3	1	1	11
T	3	1	4	-	-	8
Total	13	3	9	1	1	27

Two-letter starts: EF-1, EP-1, FE-2, FI-2, FO-1, OG-1, PE-4, PI-3, PO-4, TE-3, TI-2, TO-3.

Pangram hint

• Pangram (8 letters, starts with P)

  it has a double T in the middle.

Look for doubles. A repeated letter sits side by side in 14 of Sunday’s 27 answers, and four of them hold three E letters.

More of Sunday’s games: Wordle hints, Connections hints and Pips hints. Track a Genius streak on our printable weekly calendar or the November 2026 calendar.

Sunday’s Spelling Bee answers, Nov. 1, 2026 (spoilers)

Stop here if you are still working on Sunday’s puzzle.

• Pangram: Pettifog
• 4 letters: Epee, Feet, Fete, Fief, Fife, Ogee, Peep, Pipe, Poet, Pope, Teff, Tope, Tote
• 5 letters: Petit, Pipet, Tepee
• 6 letters: Effete, Footie, Petite, Poppet, Potpie, Teepee, Tippet, Tiptoe, Toffee
• 7 letters: Pipette
• 8 letters: Pettifog

The 13 four-letter words give 13 points, the 14 longer words give 84, and the pangram bonus adds 7, for 104.

Saturday’s hint grid, Oct. 31, 2026

Center letter A; outer letters G, H, I, N, T, U. 59 words, 303 points, one pangram.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	9 letters	10 letters	Total
A	2	4	2	-	1	2	-	11
G	5	2	1	4	-	-	-	12
H	2	2	1	1	1	-	-	7
I	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	2
N	2	-	2	1	-	-	-	5
T	5	4	3	3	2	-	-	17
U	-	1	1	-	1	2	-	5
Total	16	13	11	9	5	4	1	59

Two-letter starts: AG-4, AN-2, AT-3, AU-2, GA-10, GI-1, GN-1, HA-7, IG-1, IN-1, NA-5, TA-13, TH-2, TI-1, TU-1, UN-5.

Saturday’s Spelling Bee answers, Oct. 31, 2026 (spoilers)

Stop here if you are still working on Saturday’s puzzle.

• Pangram: Haunting
• 4 letters: Anti, Aunt, Gaga, Gain, Gait, Gang, Gnat, Hang, Hath, Naan, Nana, Tang, Taut, Than, That, Tuna
• 5 letters: Again, Aging, Agita, Aught, Gaunt, Giant, Hatha, Haunt, Taiga, Taint, Taunt, Titan, Untag
• 6 letters: Angina, Attain, Gating, Hating, Iguana, Natant, Naught, Tahini, Tannin, Taught, Unhang
• 7 letters: Gagging, Gaining, Ganging, Gauging, Hanging, Nagging, Tagging, Tanning, Tatting
• 8 letters: Attuning, Haunting, Tainting, Taunting, Untaught
• 9 letters: Agitating, Attaining, Unhanging, Untagging
• 10 letters: Initiating

The 16 four-letter words give 16 points, the 43 longer words give 280, and the pangram bonus adds 7, for 303.