Spelling Bee Hints & Answers Today

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · new hints every day after 3 AM New York time

BIKLOXE

23 words
90 points
1 pangram (1 perfect)
Genius at 63 points

Stuck on today's Spelling Bee? Use the hints from the top down: each step gives away a little more. The center letter is E and every word must use it. Nothing below spoils a word unless you tap Show.

Your words so far (optional): type or paste the words you have found, and the hints below count only the words you are still missing.

Step 1: the hint grid

How many words start with each letter, by word length.

	4	5	6	7	Σ
B	3	4	2	1	10
E	-	1	-	-	1
I	1	-	-	-	1
K	1	-	1	-	2
L	3	1	-	1	5
O	2	1	1	-	4
Σ	10	7	4	2	23

Step 2: the two-letter list

How many words start with each pair of letters.

BE-3 BI-3 BL-1 BO-3 EX-1 IB-1 KE-1 KI-1 LE-1 LI-3 LO-1 OB-1 OL-2 OX-1

Step 3: the pangram

A pangram uses all seven letters and is worth 7 extra points. A perfect pangram uses each letter exactly once.

B · 7 Resembling a box in rectangularity
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BOXLIKE

Step 4: a clue for every word

First letter, length and a short meaning. Tap Show to see one word at a time.

B

B · 4 A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
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BELL
B · 4 A motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame
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BIKE
B · 4 A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder
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BILE
B · 5 Be in contradiction with
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BELIE
B · 5 A young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals
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BELLE
B · 5 A book regarded as authoritative in its field
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BIBLE
B · 5 A boy or man
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BLOKE
B · 6 The momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball
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BOBBLE
B · 6 A gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)
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BOOKIE

E

E · 5 A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
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EXILE

I

I · 4 Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and northern Africa having large recurved horns
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IBEX

K

K · 4 The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly
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KEEL
K · 6 Coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets
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KIBBLE

L

L · 4 Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves
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LEEK
L · 4 Resembling or similar
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LIKE
L · 4 A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part
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LOBE
L · 5 A false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
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LIBEL
L · 7 Starts with LI
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LIBELEE

O

O · 4 A slender double-reed instrument
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OBOE
O · 4 A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
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OLEO
O · 5 Starts with OL
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OLLIE
O · 6 Starts with OX
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OXLIKE

Step 5: all of today's answers

Show all 23 answers for Oct 14, 2026

BELIE BELL BELLE BIBLE BIKE BILE BLOKE BOBBLE BOOKIE BOXLIKE EXILE IBEX KEEL KIBBLE LEEK LIBEL LIBELEE LIKE LOBE OBOE OLEO OLLIE OXLIKE

Pangrams are in bold.

Points you need for each rank

Rank	Points	Share of the total
Beginner	0	0 %
Good Start	2	2 %
Moving Up	5	5 %
Good	7	8 %
Solid	14	15 %
Nice	23	25 %
Great	36	40 %
Amazing	45	50 %
Genius	63	70 %
Queen Bee	90	100 %

4-letter words score 1 point, longer words 1 point per letter, and a pangram adds 7. Point totals for ranks are rounded; the official game can differ by a point.

Yesterday's answers (Oct 13, 2026)

AINOPRD

51 words, 227 points. Pangrams: PARANOID, RAINDROP.

ADORN AIRDROP ANDIRON ANDROID ARDOR ARID DARN DINAR DINO DODO DONOR DOODAD DOOR DORADO DRAIN DRIP DROID DROOP DROP INDOOR INROAD NADA NADIR NAIAD NONPAID ODOR OPIOID ORDAIN PAID PANDA PANDAN PARADROP PARANOID PARDON PODIA POND PROD RADAR RADIAN RADII RADIO RADON RAID RAINDROP RAND RANDO RAPID RIND ROAD RONDO ROOD

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How to use these hints

Every day the New York Times Spelling Bee gives you seven letters in a honeycomb. You make words of at least four letters, every word must contain the letter in the middle, and letters can be used more than once. The puzzle has a fixed list of accepted words, and finding all of them makes you Queen Bee.

The hints on this page go from gentle to full answers. Start with the grid: it shows how many words of each length start with each letter. The two-letter list narrows it down to the first two letters. If you are still stuck, read the clues: each one gives a word's first letter, its length and a short meaning, and you can open the answer for that one word only. The full list is at the bottom, folded away.

Already found some words? Type them in the box near the top. The grid, the two-letter list and the clues then show only what is still missing, so you can see at a glance which letters and lengths to work on.

Tips for a higher score

Look for the pangram first: it is worth the most points, and longer words usually hide shorter ones.
Try common endings with today's letters: -ING, -ED, -ION, -ER or -LY often turn one word into two or three.
Words that repeat letters count, so try doubles like DOOR or POOP when the letters allow.
Shuffle the outer letters. A new order often shows a word you kept looking past.

Questions

When do the hints change?

The New York Times publishes a new Spelling Bee at 3 AM Eastern time. This page switches to the new puzzle shortly after that and keeps yesterday's answers further down.

Why is a word I found not on the list?

The official game accepts only common words chosen by its editor, so many real words, names and very rare words are left out. Our Spelling Bee solver uses a much larger dictionary and shows those words too.