Spelling Bee Hints & Answers Today, October 25, 2026

Sunday’s Spelling Bee from The New York Times (NYT), for Oct. 25, 2026, puts M in the center with A, B, I, L, N and O around it. It is a big one: 66 words worth 282 points and two pangrams, with Genius at 197 points. The hint grid, the two-letter list and pangram clues come first; the full word list waits in a spoiler section, with Saturday’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 197 of 282 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. The two-letter list does the same job with more precision: “MA-15” means 15 answers begin with M and A.

Sunday’s hint grid, Oct. 25, 2026

Center letter M; outer letters A, B, I, L, N, O. 66 words, 282 points, two pangrams.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	9 letters	11 letters	Total
A	1	3	2	1	-	-	-	7
B	4	1	1	-	1	-	1	8
I	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	3
L	8	2	1	2	-	-	-	13
M	12	8	5	4	1	2	-	32
N	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	2
O	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1
Total	27	16	10	8	2	2	1	66

Two-letter starts: AB-1, AM-4, AN-2, BA-2, BI-2, BL-2, BO-2, IA-2, IM-1, LA-4, LI-6, LL-1, LO-2, MA-15, MI-7, MO-10, NI-1, NO-1, OI-1.

Pangram hints

• Pangram 1 (8 letters, starts with B)

  in algebra, an expression with two terms, such as x + 2.
• Pangram 2 (11 letters, starts with B)

  an obsession with collecting books.

Look for doubles. M repeats in many of today’s answers, often twice in a row, and O doubles up in several more. Try animals too.

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

Sunday’s Spelling Bee answers, Oct. 25, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangrams: Binomial, Bibliomania
• 4 letters: Ammo, Balm, Blam, Bomb, Boom, Iamb, Imam, Lama, Lamb, Lima, Limb, Limn, Limo, Loam, Loom, Mail, Maim, Main, Mall, Mama, Mill, Mini, Moan, Moil, Moll, Mono, Moon
• 5 letters: Amino, Amnio, Anima, Bloom, Iambi, Limbo, Llama, Mamba, Mambo, Mamma, Mania, Manna, Minim, Momma, Moola, Nimbi
• 6 letters: Abloom, Animal, Bamboo, Lamina, Mammal, Mammon, Manila, Minima, Minion, Oilman
• 7 letters: Ammonia, Laminal, Liminal, Mailman, Million, Minimal, Monobob, Nominal
• 8 letters: Binomial, Monomial
• 9 letters: Mammalian, Monomania
• 11 letters: Bibliomania

The 27 four-letter words give 27 points, the 39 longer words give 241, and the two pangram bonuses add 14, for 282. Monobob, a one-person bobsled event, and Minim, a half note in music, are the ones most solvers miss.

Saturday’s hint grid, Oct. 24, 2026

Center letter P; outer letters A, C, I, L, R, T. 50 words, 210 points, one pangram.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	9 letters	Total
A	-	1	2	1	-	-	4
C	4	2	1	2	1	-	10
P	12	3	2	8	1	1	27
R	1	-	-	1	-	-	2
T	5	1	-	1	-	-	7
Total	22	7	5	13	2	1	50

Two-letter starts: AL-1, AP-3, CA-6, CL-3, CR-1, PA-14, PI-8, PL-2, PR-3, RA-2, TA-3, TI-2, TR-2.

Saturday’s Spelling Bee answers, Oct. 24, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangram: Practical
• 4 letters: Carp, Clap, Clip, Crap, Pact, Pail, Pair, Pall, Palp, Papa, Part, Pica, Pill, Pita, Plat, Prat, Rapt, Tapa, Tarp, Tipi, Trap, Trip
• 5 letters: Apart, Capri, Carpi, Papal, Pipit, Plait, Tapir
• 6 letters: Alpaca, Appall, Carpal, Palapa, Pillar
• 7 letters: Apparat, Capital, Catalpa, Palatal, Papilla, Partial, Partita, Piccata, Piratic, Pitapat, Priapic, Rattrap, Tilapia
• 8 letters: Claptrap, Palatial
• 9 letters: Practical

The 22 four-letter words give 22 points, the 28 longer words give 181, and the pangram bonus adds 7, for 210. Words such as Pipit, a small songbird, and Palapa, a thatched open shelter, are the ones most solvers miss.