NYT Spelling Bee Hints and Answers for Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026: Hint Grid, Pangram and Friday's Solution

Saturday’s Spelling Bee from The New York Times (NYT), for Oct. 31, 2026, puts A in the center with G, H, I, N, T and U around it. It has 59 words worth 303 points and one pangram, with Genius at 212 points. The hint grid, the two-letter list and the pangram clue come first; the full word list waits in a spoiler section, with Friday’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 212 of 303 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: “TA-13” means 13 answers begin with T and A.

Saturday’s hint grid, Oct. 31, 2026

Center letter A; outer letters G, H, I, N, T, U. 59 words, 303 points, one pangram.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	9 letters	10 letters	Total
A	2	4	2	-	1	2	-	11
G	5	2	1	4	-	-	-	12
H	2	2	1	1	1	-	-	7
I	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	2
N	2	-	2	1	-	-	-	5
T	5	4	3	3	2	-	-	17
U	-	1	1	-	1	2	-	5
Total	16	13	11	9	5	4	1	59

Two-letter starts: AG-4, AN-2, AT-3, AU-2, GA-10, GI-1, GN-1, HA-7, IG-1, IN-1, NA-5, TA-13, TH-2, TI-1, TU-1, UN-5.

Pangram hint

• Pangram (8 letters, starts with H)

  a word for something eerie that lingers, a fit for Halloween.

Look for doubles. A letter repeats back-to-back in 11 of Saturday’s 59 answers.

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

Saturday’s Spelling Bee answers, Oct. 31, 2026 (spoilers)

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• Pangram: Haunting
• 4 letters: Anti, Aunt, Gaga, Gain, Gait, Gang, Gnat, Hang, Hath, Naan, Nana, Tang, Taut, Than, That, Tuna
• 5 letters: Again, Aging, Agita, Aught, Gaunt, Giant, Hatha, Haunt, Taiga, Taint, Taunt, Titan, Untag
• 6 letters: Angina, Attain, Gating, Hating, Iguana, Natant, Naught, Tahini, Tannin, Taught, Unhang
• 7 letters: Gagging, Gaining, Ganging, Gauging, Hanging, Nagging, Tagging, Tanning, Tatting
• 8 letters: Attuning, Haunting, Tainting, Taunting, Untaught
• 9 letters: Agitating, Attaining, Unhanging, Untagging
• 10 letters: Initiating

The 16 four-letter words give 16 points, the 43 longer words give 280, and the pangram bonus adds 7, for 303. Natant means floating, and Agita means anxiety or heartburn.

Friday’s hint grid, Oct. 30, 2026

Center letter C; outer letters A, E, L, N, O, V. 66 words, 333 points, two pangrams.

Starts with	4 letters	5 letters	6 letters	7 letters	8 letters	9 letters	Total
A	1	-	1	-	-	-	2
C	12	16	9	5	3	2	47
E	-	-	1	1	-	-	2
L	2	2	1	-	-	-	5
N	-	1	1	1	1	-	4
O	1	1	-	-	-	-	2
V	-	1	-	3	-	-	4
Total	16	21	13	10	4	2	66

Two-letter starts: AC-1, AL-1, CA-16, CE-2, CL-9, CO-20, EN-2, LA-2, LO-3, NA-1, NE-1, NO-2, OC-1, ON-1, VA-2, VO-2.

Friday’s Spelling Bee answers, Oct. 30, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pangrams: Conclave, Covalence
• 4 letters: Acne, Call, Cane, Cava, Cave, Cell, Clan, Coal, Coca, Cola, Cone, Cool, Cove, Lace, Loco, Once
• 5 letters: Cacao, Calla, Calve, Canal, Canna, Canoe, Canon, Cello, Clave, Clean, Clone, Clove, Cocoa, Colon, Convo, Coven, Lance, Local, Nonce, Ocean, Vocal
• 6 letters: Alcove, Cancan, Cancel, Cannon, Canola, Cleave, Cloaca, Clonal, Cloven, Cocoon, Enlace, Locale, Neocon
• 7 letters: Colleen, Colonel, Concave, Conceal, Convene, Enclave, Nacelle, Valance, Valence, Volcano
• 8 letters: Callaloo, Coevolve, Conclave, Nonlocal
• 9 letters: Colcannon, Covalence

The 16 four-letter words give 16 points, the 50 longer words give 303, and the two pangram bonuses add 14, for 333.