NYT Spelling Bee Hints and Answers for Monday, Nov. 2, 2026: Hint Grid, Pangram and Sunday's Solution

Monday’s Spelling Bee from The New York Times (NYT), for Nov. 2, 2026, puts D in the center with A, C, E, T, V and X around it. It has 35 words worth 176 points and one pangram, with Genius at 123 points. The hint grid, the two-letter list and the pangram clue come first; the full word list waits in a spoiler section, with Sunday’s solution below it.

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 123 of 176 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. Short ones first. The two-letter list does the same job with more precision: “DE-6” means 6 answers begin with D and E.

Monday’s hint grid, Nov. 2, 2026

Center letter D; outer letters A, C, E, T, V, X. 35 words, 176 points, one pangram.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	9 letters	Total
A	2	2	1	1	-	-	6
C	1	3	-	-	-	-	4
D	4	1	3	-	1	-	9
E	-	2	2	1	1	1	7
T	1	1	2	-	-	-	4
V	-	2	2	1	-	-	5
Total	8	11	10	3	2	1	35

Two-letter starts: AC-4, AD-1, AX-1, CA-2, CE-2, DA-3, DE-6, EA-1, EV-2, EX-4, TA-2, TE-2, VA-3, VE-2.

Pangram hint

• Pangram (9 letters, starts with E)

  the second letter is X, and the word has two A letters.

Look for doubles. Watch for them. A repeated letter sits side by side in 11 of Monday’s 35 answers, and two of them hold three D letters. Also, 26 of the 35 answers end in -ed.

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

Monday’s Spelling Bee answers, Nov. 2, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangram: Excavated
• 4 letters: Aced, Axed, Cede, Data, Date, Dead, Deed, Teed
• 5 letters: Acted, Added, Cadet, Caved, Ceded, Dated, Eaved, Evade, Taxed, Vaxed, Vexed
• 6 letters: Accede, Decade, Deeded, Detect, Evaded, Exceed, Tatted, Texted, Vaxxed, Vetted
• 7 letters: Acceded, Exacted, Vacated
• 8 letters: Detected, Exceeded
• 9 letters: Excavated

The 8 four-letter words give 8 points, the 27 longer words give 161, and the pangram bonus adds 7, for 176.

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.

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.