Spelling Bee Hints & Answers Today, November 15, 2026

The Spelling Bee from The New York Times (NYT) for Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, has T in the center and E, G, L, O, P and Y around it. The list is short, with 32 words and 144 points, and it has one pangram. Below are the hint grid, a measure of how far Genius sits from the quick four-letter finds, and a pangram clue; the words wait at the end.

Genius needs 101 points today, and the 7-point pangram bonus is part of that total; the scoring rules are on our Spelling Bee page.

Sunday’s hint grid, Nov. 15

Center letter T; outer letters E, G, L, O, P, Y. 32 words, 144 points, one pangram.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	9 letters	Total
E	-	-	1	-	-	-	1
G	1	-	-	-	-	-	1
L	1	1	-	-	1	-	3
O	-	-	-	1	-	-	1
P	3	2	3	-	1	-	9
T	8	1	4	-	3	1	17
Total	13	4	8	1	5	1	32

Two-letter starts: EY-1, GE-1, LO-3, OT-1, PE-4, PL-1, PO-4, TE-5, TO-9, TY-3.

The pangram clue

• Pangram (8 letters, starts with L)

  a company’s name or emblem set as one piece of lettering; O appears twice and the word ends in -e.

How far Genius sits from the four-letter words

On Nov. 15 the four-letter words add little to the score.

Group	Words	Points
4-letter answers	13	13
5-letter answers	4	20
6-letter answers	8	48
7-, 8- and 9-letter answers	7	56
Pangram bonus	1	7
Total	32	144

• The gap: Genius is 101 points, 88 more than the four-letter words can give. The 13 four-letter words are 40.6% of the list and 9.0% of the points.
• Where the points are: the 15 answers with 6 letters or more carry 111 points with the bonus, 77.1% of the total.
• Hardest words, by counts: 9 of the 32 answers contain a letter pair that no other answer shares. 6 answers contain both G and Y, and G itself appears in only 8 words, the fewest of any outer letter.
• Doubled letters: 15 answers repeat a letter back to back, and 25 repeat a letter somewhere.
• Letter counts: E, L and O each appear in 20 or more answers (20, 20 and 22); P appears in 19, Y in 13 and G in 8.

Saturday in brief

Saturday had L in the center, 62 words and 358 points. It had two pangrams: Initializing and Tantalizing.

Sunday’s other pages: Wordle hints, Connections hints, Strands hints. See the November 2026 calendar or the weekly calendar.

Sunday’s Spelling Bee answers, Nov. 15, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangram: Logotype
• 4 letters: Gelt, Loot, Pelt, Plot, Poet, Tell, Toll, Tool, Toot, Tope, Tote, Type, Typo
• 5 letters: Lotto, Petty, Potty, Tepee
• 6 letters: Eyelet, Pellet, Peyote, Poppet, Teepee, Toggle, Tootle, Topple
• 7 letters: Otology
• 8 letters: Logotype, Polyglot, Teletype, Topology, Typology
• 9 letters: Teleology

The 13 four-letter words give 13 points, the 19 longer words give 124, and the pangram bonus adds 7, for 144.