NYT Spelling Bee Hints and Answers for Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026: A Short 37-Word List With J and K

The Spelling Bee from The New York Times (NYT) for Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, is built on P, with A, C, E, J, K and L around it. It is a compact puzzle: 37 words, 117 points and one pangram. Hints and a counting section come first, and the full list stays behind the spoiler warning at the end.

The Genius mark is 82 points, and our Spelling Bee page explains the scoring behind it.

Sunday’s hint grid, Nov. 8

Center letter P; outer letters A, C, E, J, K, L. 37 words, 117 points, one pangram.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	8 letters	9 letters	Total
A	-	2	3	1	1	7
C	2	-	-	-	-	2
E	1	-	-	-	-	1
J	2	-	-	-	-	2
K	2	1	-	-	-	3
L	1	1	-	-	-	2
P	14	3	3	-	-	20
Total	22	7	6	1	1	37

Two-letter starts: AL-1, AP-6, CA-1, CL-1, EP-1, JA-1, JE-1, KA-1, KE-2, LA-1, LE-1, PA-10, PE-8, PL-2.

Pangram hint

• Pangram (9 letters, starts with A)

  a spirit distilled from fermented cider, spelled as a fruit followed by a short name; A and P each appear twice and it ends in -jack.

More than half of the list, 20 of 37 words, starts with P, and the pa pair alone has 10. Next come pe with 8 and ap with 6.

The J and K problem, and the missing length

Length	Words	Points each	Points
4 letters	22	1	22
5 letters	7	5	35
6 letters	6	6	36
8 letters	1	8	8
9 letters	1	9	9
Pangram bonus	1	7	7

• Hard letters: J is in 3 words and K in 9, out of 37.
• Missing length: no answer has 7 letters; after the six-letter words, the next length is 8, with one word, and the last is the 9-letter pangram.
• Pairs that open one word: al, ca, cl, ep, ja, je, ka, la, le.
• Doubles: 14 words repeat a letter back to back, and 24 repeat one somewhere.
• Four-letter share: 22 points from short words, so 60 of the 82 Genius points must come from longer ones.

Saturday in brief

Saturday’s puzzle had I in the center, 77 words, 306 points and the pangram Medieval. Genius needed 214.

Also out for Sunday: Wordle hints, Connections hints, Pips hints. Puzzle streaks can be marked on the printable November calendar or the weekly layout.

Sunday’s Spelling Bee answers, Nov. 8, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangram: Applejack
• 4 letters: Cape, Clap, Epee, Jape, Jeep, Keep, Kelp, Leap, Pace, Pack, Pale, Pall, Palp, Papa, Peak, Peal, Peck, Peek, Peel, Peep, Peke, Plea
• 5 letters: Apace, Apple, Kappa, Lapel, Papal, Peace, Place
• 6 letters: Alpaca, Appall, Appeal, Paella, Palace, Palapa
• 8 letters: Appellee
• 9 letters: Applejack

The 22 four-letter words give 22 points, the 15 longer words give 88, and the pangram bonus adds 7, for 117.