NYT Spelling Bee Answers and Pangram Today

Today’s Spelling Bee Hints (October 24, 2026)

Today’s letters (the yellow tile is the required center letter — every word must use it):

• There are 49 words to find.
• There is 1 pangram (a word that uses all seven letters).
• Reaching Genius takes 136 points out of a possible 194.

How Many Words Start With Each Letter

A	C	P	R	T
4	10	26	2	7

Words by length: 22 × 4-letter, 7 × 5-letter, 5 × 6-letter, 13 × 7-letter, 2 × 8-letter.

Tap to reveal the pangram and full word list

Pangram:

practical

All 49 answers:

• alpaca
• apart
• appall
• apparat
• capital
• capri
• carp
• carpal
• carpi
• catalpa
• clap
• claptrap
• clip
• crap
• pact
• pail
• pair
• palapa
• palatal
• palatial
• pall
• palp
• papa
• papal
• papilla
• part
• partial
• partita
• pica
• piccata
• pill
• pillar
• pipit
• piratic
• pita
• pitapat
• plait
• plat
• prat
• priapic
• rapt
• rattrap
• tapa
• tapir
• tarp
• tilapia
• tipi
• trap
• trip

How Spelling Bee Works

NYT Spelling Bee gives you seven letters set in a honeycomb. Build words of four or more letters, and every word must use the center letter. Letters can repeat. Each puzzle has at least one pangram that uses all seven letters. A new puzzle drops at midnight Eastern.

Answers come from the official New York Times puzzle data and refresh automatically at midnight Eastern. Last checked: Oct 24, 11:39 pm ET.