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Saturday, March 7, 2026

Welcome to today’s New York Times Spelling Bee hints and answers. Today’s puzzle features a substantially larger than average board today, promising plenty of opportunities with a center letter of “R”. With a total of 51 words to find resulting in 274 total possible points, we are looking at a massively high scoring ceiling. Impressively, there are 2 pangrams to uncover. Whether you’re stuck looking for those elusive final few words to reach Genius rank, or simply seeking a gentle nudge to get the ball rolling, you’re in the right place. Dive into our comprehensive two-letter lists, explore our word length grid, and uncover targeted Merriam-Webster definitions tailored specifically to help you without giving the entire game away immediately. Good luck mastering the hive!

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Puzzle Stats

Total Words :

51

Total Pangrams :

2

Total Points:

274

Genius Score :

192

Pangram

Finding the nyt pangram is key to reaching “Genius” status.
Below is progressive reveal to help you achieve it.

9-letter pangram 0 / 9 letters revealed
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8-letter pangram 0 / 8 letters revealed
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NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Grid

Maximize your score without ruining the fun.

The grid shows how many words start with each letter, broken down by word length.

4 5 6 7 8 9 Σ
B 5 3 2 2 2 1 15
G 3 2 2 2 1 10
I 1 1 2 1 5
N 2 1 3
O 1 1
R 1 2 3 4 1 11
W 1 2 1 2 6
Σ 13 9 11 10 6 2 51

Knowing the first two letters of a missing word is often the perfect clue. Here is the two letter list for today’s puzzle.

  • BO 6
  • BR 9
  • GO 3
  • GR 7
  • IG 1
  • IN 2
  • IR 2
  • NI 1
  • NO 2
  • OR 1
  • RI 7
  • RO 4
  • WI 1
  • WO 1
  • WR 4

Dictionary Clues for Todays List.

BO

  1. BO4 — a person whose behavior is offensive to others; bastard; beast; bleeder; blighter sounds like bar, bare, bear, beer, bull
  2. BO6 — causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; arid; colorless; drab; dreary sounds like bearing, bring, roaring, soaring
  3. BO4 — being such from birth or by nature; belonging to a particular place by birth or origin; congenital; natural; aboriginal sounds like barn, corn, horn, mourn, shorn
  4. BO5sounds like bun, burden, burgeon, burn, burne
  5. BO6 — to take for one’s own use (something originated by another); adopt; embrace; espouse; take on sounds like bar, barb, bard, barge, bark
  6. BO9 — to take for one’s own use (something originated by another); adopting; embracing; espousing; taking on sounds like arming, bearing, bring, carping

BR

  1. BR7 — to influence someone with a bribe; buying; corrupting; having; paying off sounds like biking, biting
  2. BR4 — a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody; bastille; big house; bridewell; calaboose sounds like big, rig
  3. BR5 — to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request; to have a price of; beget; breed sounds like bearing, being, boring, buying, earring
  4. BR8 — to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request; to have a price of; begetting; breeding
  5. BR7sounds like biking, binding, biting, blinding
  6. BR4 — active strength of body or mind; beans; bounce; dash; drive sounds like barrio, trio
  7. BR4sounds like bough, bow, eye****, frau, prow
  8. BR5 — having a skin color darkened by the sun; bronzed; suntanned; tanned; blooming sounds like crown, drown, frown
  9. BR8sounds like crowning

GO

  1. GO7 — as in devouring, gobbling; devouring; gobbling; gormandizing; gulping sounds like boring, galling, growing, grudging, morning
  2. GO6 — as in fishwife; fishwife; battle-ax; dragon lady; fury sounds like organ
  3. GO6 — to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object; harpooning; impaling; jabbing; lancing sounds like boring, galling, roaring, soaring

GR

  1. GR4 — to express an emotion (as amusement) by curving the lips upward; beam; smile
  2. GR8 — as in smiling, laughing; beaming; laughing; smiling; blissful
  3. GR4 — a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk; alcohol; aqua vitae; ardent spirits; booze sounds like frog
  4. GR5
  5. GR4 — to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care; to become mature; to eventually have as a state or quality; crop; cultivate sounds like arrow, crow, glow
  6. GR7 — as in robust, booming; booming; roaring; robust; coming sounds like glowing, going, rowing
  7. GR5 — covered with a thick healthy natural growth; green; leafy; lush; luxuriant sounds like crone, drone

IG

  1. IG8 — as in disregard, forgetting; disregard; forgetting; nonobservance; overlooking

IN

  1. IN6 — being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing; genetically passed or capable of being passed from parent to offspring; built-in; constitutional; constitutive sounds like unborn
  2. IN7sounds like engross

IR

  1. IR4 — as in sand, grit; backbone; fortitude; grit; pluck sounds like burn, burne, churn, durn, earn
  2. IR7 — as in tying, securing; hobbling; hog-tying; lashing; securing sounds like burning, turning, yearning

NI

  1. NI6sounds like bleary, cheery, decree, degree, dreary

NO

  1. NO4sounds like afar, ajar, are, bar, car
  2. NO4sounds like gory, naughty

OR

  1. OR6 — a point or place at which something is invented or provided; the source from which something grows or develops; the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended; cradle; font sounds like bludgeon, dudgeon, region

RI

  1. RI7 — marked by or expressive of mild or good-natured teasing; bantering; chaffing; fooling; funning
  2. RI6 — a long narrow piece of material; list; slip; strip sounds like rebuff, rebut, robin, written
  3. RI9 — to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it; rending; ripping; riving; shredding sounds like christening, rationing, reckoning, refunding, remaining
  4. RI7 — covering for the human body; apparel; attire; clobber; clothes
  5. RI5 — something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal; the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding (as in discipline or criticism); the quality or state of being very accurate; adversity; asperity sounds like bigger, digger, recur, trigger, vigor
  6. RI4 — a group involved in secret or criminal activities; a circular strip; a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; cabal; conspiracy sounds like b****, ear****, king, owing, ping
  7. RI7 — marked by a high volume of sound; marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones; not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; blaring; blasting sounds like singing

RO

  1. RO7 — to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully; burglarizing; burgling; knocking off; knocking over sounds like ribbing
  2. RO5 — a meeting featuring a group discussion; colloquy; conference; council; forum sounds like ribbon
  3. RO6 — to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes; appareling; arraying; attiring; bedecking sounds like ribbing
  4. RO6 — to move a boat by means of oars; oaring; paddling; sculling sounds like going, g******, knowing, owing, ring

WI

  1. WI6 — as in strapping, roping; cinching; cording; roping; strapping sounds like bring, earring, ring, wring

WO

  1. WO4 — depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; all in; aweary; beat; beaten sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

WR

  1. WR5 — to get (as money) by the use of force or threats; to get with great difficulty; to move by or as if by a forceful rotation; exact; extort sounds like bring, earring, king, owing, ping
  2. WR8 — a forceful rotating or pulling motion for the purpose of dislodging something; twist; twisting; wrench; wrenching sounds like ribbing, rigging, singing
  3. WR5 — falling short of a standard; having an opinion that does not agree with truth or the facts; not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation; bad; bastard sounds like long, pong, rang, ring, roar
  4. WR8 — as in burning, victimizing; burning; sandbagging; victimizing; harassing sounds like longing, roaring

The Complete Word List (Spoiler Alert!)

Ready to see the words? Use the toggles below to reveal today’s nyt spelling bee answers.

  • boor
  • born
  • brig
  • brio
  • brow
  • grin
  • grog
  • grow
  • iron
  • noir
  • nori
  • ring
  • worn

  • boring
  • boron
  • borrow
  • borrowing
  • bribing
  • bring
  • bringing
  • brining
  • brown
  • browning
  • gorging
  • gorgon
  • goring
  • grinning
  • groin
  • growing
  • grown
  • ignoring
  • inborn
  • ingrown
  • ironing
  • nigiri
  • origin
  • ribbing
  • ribbon
  • ribboning
  • rigging
  • rigor
  • ringing
  • robbing
  • robin
  • robing
  • rowing
  • wiring
  • wring
  • wringing
  • wrong
  • wronging

Valid dictionary words not in today’s official answers

Today’s puzzle have total of 50 valid dictionary words that are excluded. If you found a valid dictionary word that wasn’t accepted, it’s likely due to the New York Times Spelling Bee’s strict editorial criteria. Sam Ezersky, the puzzle’s editor, manually curates the daily word list to balance difficulty and fairness.

  • Obscure or Highly Technical Words: Medical, legal, and intensely specific scientific jargon is frequently omitted to keep the puzzle accessible to a general audience.
  • Offensive Language: Vulgar or derogatory words are universally banned.
  • Proper Nouns: Capitalized names of people or places are never allowed.
  • Hyphenated Words: Multi-word combinations containing hyphens are excluded.
  • Letter S / Plurals: The letter “S” is generally never included on a Spelling Bee board to avoid making the game too simple by tacking plurals onto every word.

  • BIRO
  • BIRR
  • BIRRING
  • BORGO
  • BOWR
  • BRIN
  • BROG
  • BROGGING
  • BROO
  • BRRR
  • GIRN
  • GIRNING
  • GIRO
  • GIRON
  • GIRR
  • GOOR
  • GOOROO
  • GORGIO
  • GORI
  • GRIG
  • GRIGGING
  • GRIGRI
  • GRINGO
  • GROGGING
  • GROINING
  • GRONING
  • INBRING
  • INBRINGING
  • INGROWING
  • INORB
  • INORBING
  • INRO
  • INWORN
  • IRING
  • NONGROWING
  • NONIRON
  • ORBING
  • ORIBI
  • RIGG
  • RINNING
  • RIRORIRO
  • ROBBIN
  • ROGNON
  • ROIN
  • ROINING
  • RONG
  • RONIN
  • RONION
  • RONNING
  • ROON