Spelling Bee Hints & Answers Today, October 27, 2026

Tuesday’s Spelling Bee from The New York Times (NYT), dated Oct. 27, 2026, is a compact one: A anchors the honeycomb, ringed by E, H, N, O, P and Y. Only 29 words answer to those letters, for 116 points and a single pangram. The grid and a pangram clue open the page, and the words themselves wait at the bottom.

Genius arrives at 81 points. How the count works is set out on our Spelling Bee page.

Tuesday’s hint grid for Oct. 27

Center letter A; outer letters E, H, N, O, P, Y. 29 words, 116 points, one pangram.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	8 letters	Total
A	3	2	2	-	7
H	1	3	1	-	5
N	4	1	-	-	5
P	2	4	2	1	9
Y	1	2	-	-	3
Total	11	12	5	1	29

Two-letter starts: AE-1, AH-1, AN-4, AP-1, HA-2, HE-2, HY-1, NA-4, NE-1, PA-7, PE-1, PO-1, YA-2, YE-1.

A clue for the pangram

• Pangram (8 letters, starts with P)

  a coin-operated telephone once fixed to street corners and station walls; it is the one eight-letter answer.

The quickest handholds are the two four-word openings, AN and NA. Clear those, then chase the seven PA words, which are where most of the points sit.

What makes Oct. 27 unusual

With no S in the ring, this puzzle leans on repeated letters instead of plurals. Twelve of the 29 answers double a letter back to back, among them Nanny, Poppa, Pappy, Yappy and Henna, and six words end in -y. None end in -ed or -ing.

Length	Words	Points each	Points
4 letters	11	1	11
5 letters	12	5	60
6 letters	5	6	30
8 letters	1	8	8
Pangram bonus	1	7	7

The letters are spread thin: N sits in 18 words, P in 16, E in 15 and Y in 14, while O turns up in only 9. The 11 four-letter words give just 11 of the 116 points, so Genius depends on the five- and six-letter finds.

Monday in brief

Monday, Oct. 26 ran larger, with L at the center and G, H, I, N, T and Y around it, a 43-word grid worth 245 points. Its lone pangram was Nightly.

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

Tuesday’s Spelling Bee answers, Oct. 27, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangram: Payphone
• 4 letters: Aeon, Ahoy, Anon, Heap, Naan, Nana, Nape, Neap, Pane, Papa, Yeah
• 5 letters: Annoy, Apnea, Happy, Henna, Hyena, Nanny, Paean, Pappy, Payee, Poppa, Yahoo, Yappy
• 6 letters: Anyhoo, Anyone, Happen, Papaya, Peahen
• 8 letters: Payphone

Those 29 words break down as 11 points from the four-letter words, 98 from the 18 longer ones and a 7-point pangram bonus, which is 116. Anyhoo is a casual form of anyway, and a paean is a song of praise.