Spelling Bee Hints & Answers Today, November 10, 2026

Tuesday’s Spelling Bee from The New York Times (NYT), Nov. 10, 2026, has I in the center, ringed by D, E, F, L, O and P. It is the biggest puzzle by points in this stretch: 70 words and 328 points, with one pangram and a Genius line of 230. The grid, a pangram clue and a set of counts come first. The words follow the warning.

Genius means 230 points today. Our Spelling Bee page covers the scoring.

Tuesday’s grid, Nov. 10

Center letter I; outer letters D, E, F, L, O, P. 70 words, 328 points, one pangram.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	11 letters	Total
D	3	2	5	5	-	-	15
E	-	1	2	1	-	-	4
F	6	6	5	3	1	1	22
I	2	1	1	-	-	-	4
L	3	1	2	-	1	-	7
O	1	3	1	-	-	-	5
P	5	4	3	1	-	-	13
Total	20	18	19	10	2	1	70

Two-letter starts: DE-5, DI-9, DO-1, ED-2, EL-2, FE-1, FI-12, FL-5, FO-4, ID-3, IO-1, LI-6, LO-1, OI-1, OL-3, OP-1, PI-10, PL-2, PO-1.

Pangram clue

• Pangram (11 letters, starts with F)

  what a speaker did who reversed a stance more than once; F and L each appear twice, P three times, and the word ends in -pped.

Five opening pairs cover 42 of the 70 answers: fi has 12, pi 10, di 9, li 6 and fl 5. Start with fi and pi. They are the two largest.

Why Nov. 10 is the heavy one

Length	Words	Points each	Points
4 letters	20	1	20
5 letters	18	5	90
6 letters	19	6	114
7 letters	10	7	70
8 letters	2	8	16
11 letters	1	11	11
Pangram bonus	1	7	7

• Longest words: one at 11 letters (starting with F); two at 8 letters (starting with F and L); ten at 7 letters (starting with D, D, D, D, D, E, F, F, F and P).
• Four-letter share: 20 points from short words leave 210 of the 230 Genius points for longer answers.
• Letter reach: L is in 54 words, E in 53, D in 50, F in 29, P in 26 and O in 21.
• Doubles: 48 of 70 words repeat a letter, and 23 repeat one back to back.

Monday’s puzzle in brief

Monday looked different. Its center was T, with A, B, H, M, O and R outside. It had 62 words and 239 points, and its pangram was Bathroom.

Tuesday’s other games: Wordle hints, Connections hints, Pips hints. Plan the month on the November calendar or the weekly calendar.

Tuesday’s Spelling Bee answers, Nov. 10, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangram: Flipflopped
• 4 letters: Deli, Died, Dill, Fief, Fife, File, Fill, Flip, Foil, Idle, Idol, Lied, Life, Lipo, Olio, Pied, Pile, Pill, Pipe, Plie
• 5 letters: Dildo, Diode, Elide, Felid, Field, Fifed, Filed, Flied, Folio, Idled, Lipid, Oiled, Oldie, Ollie, Piled, Piped, Plied, Polio
• 6 letters: Defied, Defile, Diddle, Dipole, Dipped, Eddied, Elided, Fiddle, Filled, Fillip, Foiled, Foodie, Iodide, Lidded, Lipped, Opioid, Piddle, Piffle, Pilled
• 7 letters: Defiled, Deified, Diddled, Diploid, Dollied, Edified, Fiddled, Fielded, Flipped, Piddled
• 8 letters: Flipflop, Lollipop
• 11 letters: Flipflopped

The 20 four-letter words give 20 points, the 50 longer words give 301, and the pangram bonus adds 7, for 328.