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Saturday, January 10, 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 57 words to find resulting in 320 total possible points, we are looking at a massively high scoring ceiling. Impressively, there are 3 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 :

57

Total Pangrams :

3

Total Points:

320

Genius Score :

224

Pangram

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

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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
G 4 2 2 1 2 11
I 1 1 2 2 6
M 2 4 3 2 2 2 15
N 3 1 4
O 1 1
R 4 3 7 1 15
U 1 2 2 5
Σ 14 11 9 12 7 4 57

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

  • GO 3
  • GR 7
  • GU 1
  • IG 1
  • IN 3
  • IR 2
  • MI 6
  • MO 7
  • MU 2
  • NI 1
  • NO 3
  • OR 1
  • RI 5
  • RO 3
  • RU 7
  • UN 4
  • UR 1

Dictionary Clues for Todays List.

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 — harsh and threatening in manner or appearance; difficult to endure; showing no signs of slackening or yielding in one’s purpose; austere; dour sounds like brim
  2. GR4 — to express an emotion (as amusement) by curving the lips upward; beam; smile
  3. GR8 — as in smiling, laughing; beaming; laughing; smiling; blissful
  4. GR4 — a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk; alcohol; aqua vitae; ardent spirits; booze sounds like frog
  5. GR5
  6. GR5 — to make ready in advance; fit; fix; lay; prep sounds like broom, gloom, room
  7. GR8 — to make ready in advance; fitting; fixing; laying; preparing

GU

  1. GU4 — a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field; one who brings an art or science to full realization; ace; adept; artist sounds like grew

IG

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

IN

  1. IN7 — to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure; fortifying; hardening; indurating; seasoning sounds like earring, ginning, sinning, winning
  2. IN5 — as in immure; immure; bury; entomb; hearse
  3. IN8 — as in immuring; immuring; burying; entombing; hearsing sounds like burning, discerning, turning, unnerving, yearning

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

MI

  1. MI5 — having not so great importance or rank as another; of little or less value or merit; lacking importance; inferior; junior sounds like diner, finer, manner, manor, meaner
  2. MI8sounds like binding, dining, fining, foundering, gnawing
  3. MI5sounds like grin
  4. MI6 — to make dirty; to place in conflict or difficulties; befouling; begriming; bemiring sounds like bring, earring, mooring, ring, wring
  5. MI6 — a smooth or polished surface that forms images by reflection; glass; looking glass sounds like hearer, mere, nearer
  6. MI9 — to reproduce or show (an exact likeness) as a mirror would; imaging; reflecting sounds like dickering, differing, earring, hearing, littering

MO

  1. MO4 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; spongy land saturated or partially covered with water; campo; champaign; down(s) sounds like boor, lure, mar, mare, mere
  2. MO7 — as in berth, slip; as in port, anchorage; berth; slip; dock sounds like during, touring
  3. MO4 — the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; the time from sunrise until noon; aurora; cockcrow; dawn sounds like born, corn, horn, shorn, thorn
  4. MO7 — the time from sunrise until noon; the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; the point at which something begins; forenoon; morn sounds like warning
  5. MO5 — a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like run
  6. MO5 — to feel deep sadness or mental pain; to feel or express sorrow for; agonize; anguish; bleed sounds like born, corn, horn, shorn, thorn
  7. MO8 — as in sad, grieving; distressed; grieving; melancholy; miserable sounds like warning

MU

  1. MU6 — an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; speech that is not clear enough to be understood; beef; bitch; bleat sounds like firmer, mercer, merger
  2. MU9 — speech that is not clear enough to be understood; grunt; grunting; mumble; murmur

NI

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

NO

  1. NO4sounds like afar, ajar, are, bar, car
  2. NO4sounds like gory, naughty
  3. NO4 — what is typical of a group, class, or series; the code of good conduct for an individual or group; average; normal; par sounds like dorm, form, warm

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 — covering for the human body; apparel; attire; clobber; clothes
  2. 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
  3. RI7 — as in surrounding, encircling; bounding; circumjacent; embracing; encircling
  4. 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
  5. 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. RO4 — an extent or area available for or used up by some activity or thing; an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall; a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place; elbow room; place sounds like boom, b****, doom, g****, loom
  2. RO7 — to provide with living quarters or shelter; accommodating; bestowing; billeting; bivouacking sounds like booming, ruling
  3. RO7 — as in incarnadining, ruddling; incarnadining; ruddling; blooming; blushing sounds like aging, raging, ring, wring

RU

  1. RU4 — to cause to lose one’s fortune and become unable to pay one’s debts; to bring destruction to (something) through violent action; to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of; bankrupt; break sounds like rayon
  2. RU5 — to feel sorry or dissatisfied about; bemoaning; deploring; lamenting; regretting sounds like chewing, ring, roofing, rowing, wring
  3. RU7 — to cause to lose one’s fortune and become unable to pay one’s debts; to bring destruction to (something) through violent action; to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of; bankrupting; breaking
  4. RU5 — information or opinion that is widely disseminated without any authority or confirmation of accuracy; buzz; dish; gossip; hearsay sounds like boomer, roemer, roofer, room, roomier
  5. RU8 — to make (as a piece of information) the subject of common talk without any authority or confirmation of accuracy; bruiting (about); circulating; noising (about or abroad); whispering sounds like boomerang, booming, lumbering, rambling, remaining
  6. RU4 — the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement; a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; degree; echelon; footing sounds like dung, hung, lung, rang, ring
  7. RU7 — being in effective operation; going on and on without any interruptions; active; alive; functional sounds like cunning

UN

  1. UN6 — as in manumit, uncage; discharge; emancipate; enfranchise; free
  2. UN9 — as in manumitting, uncaging; discharging; emancipating; enfranchising; freeing sounds like amazing, annoying, appalling, gnawing, lumbering
  3. UN5sounds like abridge, annoying, brig, enrich, rig
  4. UN9sounds like rigging

UR

  1. UR6 — as in entreaty, exhortation; as in reminder, prompt; blandishment; cajolement; cajolery sounds like aging, s******

The Complete Word List (Spoiler Alert!)

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

  • grim
  • grin
  • grog
  • guru
  • iron
  • moor
  • morn
  • noir
  • nori
  • norm
  • ring
  • room
  • ruin
  • rung

  • gorging
  • gorgon
  • goring
  • grinning
  • groin
  • groom
  • grooming
  • ignoring
  • inuring
  • inurn
  • inurning
  • ironing
  • minor
  • minoring
  • mirin
  • miring
  • mirror
  • mirroring
  • mooring
  • morning
  • moron
  • mourn
  • mourning
  • murmur
  • murmuring
  • nigiri
  • origin
  • rigging
  • rigor
  • rimming
  • ringing
  • rooming
  • rouging
  • ruing
  • ruining
  • rumor
  • rumoring
  • running
  • unmoor
  • unmooring
  • unrig
  • unrigging
  • urging

Valid dictionary words not in today’s official answers

Today’s puzzle have total of 79 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.

  • GIMMOR
  • GIRN
  • GIRNING
  • GIRO
  • GIRON
  • GIRR
  • GOOR
  • GOOROO
  • GORGIO
  • GORI
  • GORM
  • GORMING
  • GRIG
  • GRIGGING
  • GRIGRI
  • GRIMING
  • GRINGO
  • GROGGING
  • GROINING
  • GRONING
  • GRUGRU
  • GRUING
  • GRUM
  • GRUNION
  • GUIRO
  • GUNROOM
  • GUNRUNNING
  • GURGING
  • GURN
  • GURNING
  • IMMURING
  • INGRUM
  • INRO
  • INRUN
  • IRING
  • MIRI
  • MIRO
  • MIROMIRO
  • MONURON
  • MORION
  • MORRION
  • MORRO
  • MUGGUR
  • MUIR
  • MURING
  • MURR
  • MURRI
  • MURRIN
  • MURRION
  • NONIRON
  • NORIMON
  • NURR
  • OURN
  • RIGG
  • RIGOUR
  • RIMING
  • RIMU
  • RINNING
  • RIRORIRO
  • ROGNON
  • ROGUING
  • ROIN
  • ROINING
  • RONG
  • RONIN
  • RONION
  • RONNING
  • ROON
  • ROUM
  • ROUMING
  • RUGGING
  • RUMOUR
  • RUMOURING
  • RUNNION
  • RUNRIG
  • RURU
  • UNMURMURING
  • URINING
  • URNING