NYT Spelling Bee Hints and Answers for Friday, Nov. 6, 2026: L at the Center and Two Pangrams

Friday’s Spelling Bee from The New York Times (NYT), dated Nov. 6, 2026, centers on L and wraps it with C, I, N, O, T and U. Two pangrams sit in the 47 words, which total 178 points. The grid and a pair of clues come first. The word list stays in the final section.

Genius sits at 125 points. Our Spelling Bee page covers how scoring works.

Friday’s grid by first letter and length

Center letter L; outer letters C, I, N, O, T, U. 47 words, 178 points, two pangrams.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	9 letters	Total
C	6	3	2	2	-	1	14
I	-	-	-	1	-	-	1
L	12	2	1	1	1	-	17
N	1	-	-	-	-	1	2
O	1	1	1	-	-	1	4
T	5	-	-	-	-	-	5
U	-	2	2	-	-	-	4
Total	25	8	6	4	1	3	47

Two-letter starts: CL-3, CO-8, CU-3, IL-1, LI-5, LO-10, LU-2, NO-1, NU-1, OC-3, OL-1, TI-2, TO-3, UN-4.

Clues for both pangrams

• Pangram 1 (7 letters, starts with L)

  a relief print made from a design cut into a block of linoleum; all seven letters are different.
• Pangram 2 (8 letters, starts with L)

  a manner of speaking or a set phrase; O appears twice and the ending is -ion.

The two largest opening pairs are lo with 10 answers and co with 8, which together cover 18 of the 47 words. Try every word you can build from those two starts. Then move on.

Where the points hide on Nov. 6

The 25 four-letter words are more than half of the 47 answers but only 25 of the 178 points. Genius needs 100 more, and the 22 longer words plus both bonuses supply 153.

Length	Words	Points each	Points
4 letters	25	1	25
5 letters	8	5	40
6 letters	6	6	36
7 letters	4	7	28
8 letters	1	8	8
9 letters	3	9	27
Pangram bonus	2	7	14

Pairs that open exactly one word: il, no, nu, ol. Four pairs, four words. Also, 17 of the answers double a letter back to back, and 4 of the words start with O.

Thursday in brief

The Nov. 5 puzzle used P as its center and had 42 words for 249 points. Pivoting was the pangram.

More games for Friday: Wordle hints, Connections hints, Pips hints. A habit tracker fits on the weekly calendar, and November’s dates are on the monthly page.

Friday’s Spelling Bee answers, Nov. 6, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangrams: Linocut, Locution
• 4 letters: Clot, Coil, Colt, Cool, Cull, Cult, Lilt, Lint, Lion, Loci, Loco, Loin, Loll, Loon, Loot, Lout, Lull, Lulu, Null, Olio, Till, Tilt, Toil, Toll, Tool
• 5 letters: Clout, Colic, Colon, Licit, Lotto, Oculi, Unlit, Until
• 6 letters: Clinic, Cultic, Lotion, Occult, Uncoil, Uncool
• 7 letters: Colonic, Council, Illicit, Linocut
• 8 letters: Locution
• 9 letters: Cotillion, Nonillion, Octillion

The 25 four-letter words give 25 points, the 22 longer words give 139, and the two pangram bonuses add 14, for 178.