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Friday, February 6, 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 “E”. With a total of 61 words to find resulting in 260 total possible points, we are looking at a massively high scoring ceiling. There is just a single pangram hiding in today’s letter set. 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 :

61

Total Pangrams :

1

Total Points:

260

Genius Score :

182

Pangram

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

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
A 3 1 3 7
C 3 2 5
E 2 5 4 11
G 3 3 1 7
I 3 2 1 1 7
M 10 3 4 1 1 19
N 4 1 5
Σ 23 13 17 2 5 1 61

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

  • AC 2
  • AG 1
  • AM 1
  • AN 3
  • CA 4
  • CI 1
  • EG 1
  • EM 3
  • EN 7
  • GA 3
  • GE 3
  • GI 1
  • IC 2
  • IM 3
  • IN 2
  • MA 5
  • ME 9
  • MI 5
  • NA 1
  • NE 1
  • NI 3

Dictionary Clues for Todays List.

AC

  1. AC4 — the highest part or point; the most perfect type or example; apex; apogee; capstone sounds like axe
  2. AC4sounds like abbey, agony, algae, alley, and

AG

  1. AG6 — being of advanced years and especially past middle age; aged; ancient; elderly; geriatric sounds like aching, ailing

AM

  1. AM4sounds like again, aim, cayenne, den, glen

AN

  1. AN6 — as in bloodlessness; bloodlessness; indolence; laziness; languidness sounds like uneasy, uremia
  2. AN6 — as in bloodless; bloodless; white; whitened; untanned sounds like atomic
  3. AN5

CA

  1. CA4 — an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals; coop; corral; hutch; pen sounds like age, gage, gauge
  2. CA4 — to move closer to; to get to a destination; to eventually have as a state or quality; advanced; approached sounds like aim, claim, comb
  3. CA4 — a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; bastinado; bat; baton; billy sounds like arraign, bane, chain
  4. CA6 — a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes; dog; doggy; hound; pooch sounds like benign, confine, consign, mainline, quinine

CI

  1. CI6 — the art or business of making a movie; a building or part of a building where movies are shown; big screen; film; filmdom sounds like minimal, minimum, serum, silica

EG

  1. EG6 — as in whipping, prompting; exhorting; flogging; goading; hounding sounds like etching

EM

  1. EM5 — a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity; announcer; host; MC sounds like airy, any, assay, chassis, edgy
  2. EM8sounds like aching, acting, amazing, anything, being
  3. EM8 — the fact or state of being above others in rank or importance; an area of high ground; distinction; dominance; noteworthiness

EN

  1. EN6 — to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; box (in); cage; closet; coop (up)
  2. EN8 — to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; boxing (in); caging; closeting; cooping (up)
  3. EN5
  4. EN6 — to hold the attention of; to enter into contest or conflict with; to obligate by prior agreement; absorb; bemuse
  5. EN8 — having an often mysterious or magical power to attract; holding the attention or provoking interest; alluring; appealing; attractive
  6. EN6 — a device that changes energy into mechanical motion; machine; motor
  7. EN6 — something hard to understand or explain; closed book; conundrum; head-scratcher; mystery sounds like stigma

GA

  1. GA4 — something given or held to assure that the giver will keep a promise; guarantee; guaranty; pawn; pledge sounds like age, cage
  2. GA4 — a competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize; a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective; an attitude or manner not to be taken seriously; bout; competition sounds like aim, came, dame, fame
  3. GA6 — as in urchin, waif; as in pixie, tomboy; ragamuffin; urchin; waif sounds like amen, demean, glean, green, gummy

GE

  1. GE4sounds like bean, dean, gin, jeans, jeep
  2. GE5 — a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it; afreet; jinni; cacodemon; demon sounds like jeans, journey
  3. GE5 — a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it; afreets; jinn; cacodemons; demons sounds like any, enemy, ennui, envy, fennel

GI

  1. GI5 — as in laugher, walkaway; laugher; walkaway; sitting duck; no-brainer sounds like dim, game, gear, grim, gum

IC

  1. IC6sounds like adman, airman, aspen, baseman, bison
  2. IC6sounds like lemon, salmon, seaman, semen, sermon

IM

  1. IM5 — something or someone that strongly resembles another; a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing; something imagined or pictured in the mind; alter ego; carbon sounds like emerge, homage, smudge
  2. IM7 — to form a mental picture of; to have as an opinion; to form an opinion from little or no evidence; conceit; conceive
  3. IM9 — something that may cause injury or harm; danger; hazard; menace; peril sounds like eminence

IN

  1. IN5 — having no meaning; empty; meaningless; pointless; senseless
  2. IN5sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy

MA

  1. MA4 — as in blackjack, knobkerrie; blackjack; knobkerrie; bastinado; bat sounds like ace, base, case, chase, face
  2. MA4 — a person skilled in using supernatural forces; charmer; conjurer; enchanter; Magian sounds like badge
  3. MA6 — to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently; to look after and make decisions about; to meet one’s day-to-day needs; address; contend (with)
  4. MA4sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
  5. MA5sounds like arrange, change, range

ME

  1. ME4 — to communicate or convey (as an idea) to the mind; to be of importance; to have in mind as a purpose or goal; denote; express sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
  2. ME6 — a mean, evil, or unprincipled person; baddie; beast; brute; caitiff sounds like genie, many, mien, money
  3. ME7 — the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action; something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; content; denotation; drift
  4. ME5 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axis; base; capital; center sounds like mica
  5. ME4 — unusually large; astronomical; Brobdingnagian; bumper; colossal
  6. ME4sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
  7. ME6sounds like lemming
  8. ME6 — something that may cause injury or harm; danger; hazard; imminence; peril sounds like minus, tennis
  9. ME8 — being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come; involving potential loss or injury; baleful; dire; direful sounds like fencing, managing

MI

  1. MI4 — as in cowards, pussies; as in icebergs, cold fishes; cowards; milquetoasts; nebbishes sounds like dice, ice, lice, mass, mess
  2. MI4 — the outward form of someone or something especially as indicative of a quality; appearance; aspect; dress; figure sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
  3. MI4 — an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements; a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling; mimic; mummer; pantomime sounds like chime, dime, lime, mom, mum
  4. MI5 — to cut into small pieces; chop; dice; hash sounds like rinse, since, wince
  5. MI4 — an abundant source; a usually concealed explosive device designed to go off when disturbed; argosy; cornucopia; gold mine sounds like dine, fine, line, main, man

NA

  1. NA4 — a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known; an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another’s feelings; outward and often deceptive indication; appellation; appellative sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game

NE

  1. NE4sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead

NI

  1. NI4 — giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses; following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; hard to please; agreeable; blessed sounds like dice, ice, knife, knight, lice
  2. NI5sounds like cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease
  3. NI4 — as in last word, hot ticket; buzz; chic; craze; dernier cri sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin

The Complete Word List (Spoiler Alert!)

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  • acme
  • acne
  • amen
  • cage
  • came
  • cane
  • gage
  • game
  • gene
  • mace
  • mage
  • mane
  • mean
  • mega
  • meme
  • mice
  • mien
  • mime
  • mine
  • name
  • nene
  • nice
  • nine

  • ageing
  • anemia
  • anemic
  • anime
  • canine
  • cinema
  • egging
  • emcee
  • emceeing
  • eminence
  • encage
  • encaging
  • enema
  • engage
  • engaging
  • engine
  • enigma
  • gamine
  • genie
  • genii
  • gimme
  • iceman
  • icemen
  • image
  • imagine
  • imminence
  • inane
  • innie
  • manage
  • mange
  • meanie
  • meaning
  • mecca
  • meming
  • menace
  • menacing
  • mince
  • niece

Valid dictionary words not in today’s official answers

Today’s puzzle have total of 108 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.

  • ACCINGE
  • AECIA
  • AGEE
  • AGEN
  • AGENE
  • AGGIE
  • AGNAME
  • AINE
  • AINEE
  • AMENAGE
  • AMENAGING
  • AMENE
  • AMENING
  • AMICE
  • AMIE
  • AMINE
  • AMMINE
  • ANAEMIA
  • ANAEMIC
  • ANCE
  • CAECA
  • CAMMIE
  • CANNAE
  • CANNIE
  • CECA
  • CIGGIE
  • CINE
  • EANING
  • ECCE
  • EGENCE
  • EGMA
  • EIGNE
  • EINA
  • EINE
  • EMIC
  • EMMA
  • ENAMINE
  • ENCAENIA
  • ENCINA
  • ENGAGEE
  • ENGINING
  • ENIAC
  • ENNAGE
  • GAEING
  • GAEN
  • GAGMEN
  • GAMGEE
  • GAMME
  • GANE
  • GEAN
  • GEEING
  • GEGGIE
  • GEMINI
  • GEMMA
  • GEMMAE
  • GEMMAN
  • GEMMEN
  • GEMMING
  • GENA
  • GENIC
  • GENNING
  • GIEING
  • GIEN
  • GIGMEN
  • GIMMIE
  • GINGE
  • IMINE
  • IMMANE
  • IMMANENCE
  • INCAGE
  • INGINE
  • INNAGE
  • MAGGIE
  • MAMEE
  • MAMIE
  • MAMMAE
  • MAMMEE
  • MAMMIE
  • MANEGE
  • MANEGING
  • MANGEMANGE
  • MEANE
  • MEEMIE
  • MEIN
  • MEINIE
  • MEINING
  • MENAGE
  • MENAGING
  • MENE
  • MENG
  • MENGE
  • MENGING
  • MENING
  • MINAE
  • MINGE
  • MINNIE
  • MNEME
  • MNEMIC
  • NANCE
  • NANE
  • NANNIE
  • NEANIC
  • NEEM
  • NEINEI
  • NEMA
  • NEMN
  • NEMNING
  • NENNIGAI