NYT Spelling Bee Hints and Answers for Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026: Hint Grid, One Pangram and Tuesday's Solution

Wednesday’s Spelling Bee from The New York Times (NYT), for Nov. 4, 2026, puts O in the center with A, H, P, R, T and Y around it. It has 68 words worth 286 points and one pangram, with Genius at 200 points. The hint grid, the two-letter list and the pangram clue come first; the full word list waits in a spoiler section, with Tuesday’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 200 of 286 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: “HO-11” means 11 answers begin with H and O.

Wednesday’s hint grid, Nov. 4, 2026

Center letter O; outer letters A, H, P, R, T, Y. 68 words, 286 points, one pangram.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	9 letters	Total
A	2	1	1	1	-	-	5
H	5	2	4	-	-	1	12
O	2	-	1	1	-	-	4
P	6	4	2	2	-	1	15
R	3	1	2	2	1	-	9
T	8	6	5	2	-	-	21
Y	-	1	1	-	-	-	2
Total	26	15	16	8	1	2	68

Two-letter starts: AH-1, AO-1, AR-1, AT-2, HO-11, HY-1, OA-2, OR-2, PA-2, PH-2, PO-9, PR-1, PY-1, RA-2, RO-7, TA-4, TH-2, TO-8, TR-5, TY-2, YA-1, YO-1.

Pangram hint

• Pangram (7 letters, starts with A)

  the wasting away of a muscle or body part, often from lack of use; no letter repeats, and the word ends in Y.

Look for doubles. Watch for them. A repeated letter sits side by side in 25 of Wednesday’s 68 answers. Also, 8 of the 68 answers end in -ot, and 4 of those end in -oot.

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

Wednesday’s Spelling Bee answers, Nov. 4, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangram: Atrophy
• 4 letters: Ahoy, Atop, Hoar, Hoop, Hoot, Hora, Hypo, Oath, Oaty, Pooh, Poop, Poor, Port, Prop, Pyro, Roar, Root, Ropy, Taro, Toot, Toro, Tort, Trot, Troy, Typo, Tyro
• 5 letters: Aorta, Hoary, Hoppy, Photo, Poppa, Poppy, Potty, Rotor, Tarot, Tooth, Torah, Torta, Troop, Troth, Yahoo
• 6 letters: Arroyo, Hoorah, Hooray, Horror, Hotpot, Orator, Parrot, Potato, Raptor, Rotary, Tattoo, Throat, Toothy, Torpor, Trophy, Yoohoo
• 7 letters: Atrophy, Oratory, Pharaoh, Portray, Rapport, Rotator, Taproot, Throaty
• 8 letters: Rotatory
• 9 letters: Hortatory, Paratroop

The 26 four-letter words give 26 points, the 42 longer words give 253, and the pangram bonus adds 7, for 286.

Tuesday’s hint grid, Nov. 3, 2026

Center letter C; outer letters A, B, I, K, L, T. 49 words, 273 points, three pangrams.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	9 letters	Total
A	1	4	2	-	-	-	7
B	1	1	-	3	2	1	8
C	1	6	1	2	2	1	13
I	-	1	1	1	-	-	3
K	1	-	-	-	2	-	3
L	3	2	2	-	-	-	7
T	4	1	1	-	2	-	8
Total	11	15	7	6	8	2	49

Two-letter starts: AB-2, AC-2, AL-1, AT-2, BA-5, BI-1, BL-2, CA-8, CI-2, CL-3, IL-2, IT-1, KI-3, LA-4, LI-3, TA-7, TI-1.

Tuesday’s Spelling Bee answers, Nov. 3, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangrams: Backlit, Clickbait, Tailback
• 4 letters: Acai, Back, Call, Kick, Lack, Laic, Lick, Tack, Tact, Talc, Tick
• 5 letters: Abaci, Aback, Alack, Attic, Black, Cabal, Cacti, Calla, Cilia, Clack, Click, Iliac, Licit, Lilac, Tacit
• 6 letters: Acacia, Attack, Cabala, Italic, Lactic, Laical, Tactic
• 7 letters: Bacilli, Backbit, Backlit, Catcall, Cattail, Illicit
• 8 letters: Backtalk, Biblical, Callback, Ciabatta, Kickback, Kickball, Tactical, Tailback
• 9 letters: Blackball, Clickbait

The 11 four-letter words give 11 points, the 38 longer words give 241, and the pangram bonus adds 21, for 273.