NYT Spelling Bee Hints and Answers for Monday, Nov. 9, 2026: T in the Center, 62 Words, One Pangram

Monday’s Spelling Bee from The New York Times (NYT), Nov. 9, 2026, has T in the center and A, B, H, M, O and R in the outer ring. The list contains 62 words and 239 points, with a Genius mark of 167. We begin with a hint grid, a clue for the one pangram and some counts; the words are last.

Genius is 167 points today; the rules sit on our Spelling Bee page.

Monday’s hint grid for Nov. 9

Center letter T; outer letters A, B, H, M, O, R. 62 words, 239 points, one pangram.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	9 letters	Total
A	1	5	1	-	-	-	7
B	6	2	1	1	1	-	11
H	3	1	-	-	-	-	4
M	5	2	2	2	-	1	12
O	1	-	1	-	-	-	2
R	1	2	-	2	-	-	5
T	9	8	4	-	-	-	21
Total	26	20	9	5	1	1	62

Two-letter starts: AB-2, AO-1, AR-1, AT-3, BA-4, BO-5, BR-2, HA-3, HO-1, MA-5, MO-7, OA-1, OR-1, RA-1, RO-4, TA-7, TH-3, TO-8, TR-3.

The pangram clue

• Pangram (8 letters, starts with B)

  the room with the tub or shower; the word is two shorter words joined, O appears twice and it ends in -room.

T, M and B open 44 of the 62 words (21, 12 and 11). If your list is thin, work through those three first letters and the pairs to, ta, mo, bo and ma.

What Nov. 9’s letters and lengths show

Length	Words	Points each	Points
4 letters	26	1	26
5 letters	20	5	100
6 letters	9	6	54
7 letters	5	7	35
8 letters	1	8	8
9 letters	1	9	9
Pangram bonus	1	7	7

• Longest words: one at 9 letters (starting with M); one at 8 letters (starting with B); five at 7 letters (starting with B, M, M, R and R).
• Letter reach: O is in 45 words, A in 41, R in 34, H in 24, B in 20 and M in 19.
• Thin starts: only 2 words start with O and 4 with H.
• Doubles: 41 of 62 words repeat a letter; 15 do so back to back.

Sunday’s puzzle in brief

Sunday had P in the middle, 37 words and 117 points. The pangram was Applejack.

Monday’s companion pages: Wordle hints, Connections hints, Pips hints. For planning the week, see the printable weekly calendar or the November 2026 calendar.

Monday’s Spelling Bee answers, Nov. 9, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangram: Bathroom
• 4 letters: Atom, Baht, Bath, Boat, Boot, Both, Brat, Hart, Hath, Hoot, Mart, Math, Moat, Moot, Moth, Oath, Root, Taro, Tart, That, Tomb, Toot, Toro, Tort, Tram, Trot
• 5 letters: Abbot, Abort, Aorta, Arhat, Attar, Booth, Broth, Hatha, Motor, Motto, Robot, Rotor, Taboo, Tabor, Tarot, Throb, Tooth, Torah, Torta, Troth
• 6 letters: Athrob, Bottom, Marmot, Mortar, Orator, Tartar, Tattoo, Throat, Tomato
• 7 letters: Bathmat, Mahatma, Mammoth, Ratatat, Rotator
• 8 letters: Bathroom
• 9 letters: Motorboat

The 26 four-letter words give 26 points, the 36 longer words give 206, and the pangram bonus adds 7, for 239.