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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Welcome to today’s New York Times Spelling Bee hints and answers. Today’s puzzle features an average-looking board with a center letter of “G”. With a total of 37 words to find resulting in 246 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 :

37

Total Pangrams :

2

Total Points:

246

Genius Score :

172

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
C 1 1
E 2 1 1 4
F 1 3 2 2 8
G 3 2 5 10
I 1 2 2 1 6
N 1 1
T 1 1 4 1 7
Σ 3 5 9 12 6 2 37

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

  • CI 1
  • EF 1
  • EG 1
  • EN 2
  • FE 5
  • FI 3
  • GE 6
  • GI 4
  • IC 1
  • IG 2
  • IN 3
  • NE 1
  • TE 2
  • TI 5

Dictionary Clues for Todays List.

CI

  1. CI6 — to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; adducing; instancing; mentioning sounds like biting, fighting, lighting, seating, sitting

EF

  1. EF9 — to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); begetting; breeding; bringing; bringing about sounds like affect, affected, connecting, reflecting

EG

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

EN

  1. EN6 — a device that changes energy into mechanical motion; machine; motor
  2. EN8 — as in tempting, tantalizing; tantalizing; tempting; absorbing; arresting sounds like anything, fencing, icing, incisive

FE

  1. FE5 — to present a false appearance of; act; affect; assume; bluff sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, face
  2. FE8 — as in pretense, hoax; counterfeit; fake; forgery; hoax sounds like caning, facing, fading, fining, finish
  3. FE8 — as in bluffing; bluffing; camouflaging; concealing; disguising sounds like fighting, fining
  4. FE7 — as in surrounding, enclosing; bounding; circumjacent; embracing; encircling sounds like ending, facing, fining, forensic, funding
  5. FE6 — to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration; honoring; recognizing sounds like fighting, fitting, footing, petting

FI

  1. FI6
  2. FI6 — to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; assessing; charging; exacting; imposing sounds like dining, shining
  3. FI7 — meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation; applicable; appropriate; apt; becoming sounds like footing, sitting

GE

  1. GE4sounds like bean, dean, gin, jeans, jeep
  2. GE7 — genetically passed or capable of being passed from parent to offspring; hereditary; heritable; inborn; inheritable sounds like kinetic, phonetic
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. GE4 — an adult male human being; bastard; bloke; buck; cat sounds like bent, cent, dent, jaunt, jest
  6. GE7 — to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in; to become affected with (a disease or disorder); to become the father of; learning; mastering sounds like petting

GI

  1. GI4 — something given to someone without expectation of a return; a special and usually inborn ability; bestowal; comp; donation sounds like guilt, lift, miffed, rift, shift
  2. GI7 — to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; blessing; endowing; enduing; favoring sounds like lifting, shifting, sifting
  3. GI7 — as in driving, riding; busing; cabbing; coaching; cruising sounds like rigging
  4. GI7sounds like inning, sinning, winning

IC

  1. IC5 — as in fringe benefit; fringe benefit; award; prize; reward sounds like sing

IG

  1. IG6 — to set (something) on fire; burn; enkindle; fire; inflame sounds like l******
  2. IG8 — to set (something) on fire; burning; enkindling; firing; inflaming sounds like exciting, infighting, inviting

IN

  1. IN8 — serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction; charged; edgy; exciting; instigating sounds like exciting
  2. IN9 — to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else; contaminating; poisoning; communicating; conducting sounds like effective
  3. IN6sounds like earring, g******, s******, w******

NE

  1. NE7 — a fabric made of strands loosely twisted, knotted, or woven together at regular intervals; mesh; net; network sounds like petting

TE

  1. TE6 — as in raging, vituperating; angering; fulminating; raging; ranting sounds like being
  2. TE7 — as in sleeping out; sleeping out; bivouacking; camping (out); encamping sounds like arresting, attentive, daunting, ending, fencing

TI

  1. TI5 — a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; cast; color; hue; shade sounds like binge, hinge, twinge
  2. TI8 — to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing; painting sounds like ginning, inning, rigging, rinsing, sinning
  3. TI7 — to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing; painting sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, tanning, turning
  4. TI7sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, tanning, turning
  5. TI7 — to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing; painting sounds like tenting

The Complete Word List (Spoiler Alert!)

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

  • gene
  • gent
  • gift

  • citing
  • effecting
  • egging
  • engine
  • enticing
  • feign
  • feigning
  • feinting
  • fencing
  • feting
  • fifing
  • fining
  • fitting
  • genetic
  • genie
  • genii
  • getting
  • gifting
  • gigging
  • ginning
  • icing
  • ignite
  • igniting
  • inciting
  • infecting
  • inning
  • netting
  • teeing
  • tenting
  • tinge
  • tingeing
  • tinging
  • tinning
  • tinting

Valid dictionary words not in today’s official answers

Today’s puzzle have total of 48 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.

  • CIGGIE
  • EFFING
  • EGENCE
  • EIGNE
  • ENGINING
  • FEEING
  • FETTING
  • FIGGING
  • FINNING
  • GEEING
  • GEGGIE
  • GEIT
  • GENET
  • GENETTE
  • GENIC
  • GENNET
  • GENNING
  • GIEING
  • GIEN
  • GIFTEE
  • GIGGIT
  • GIGGITING
  • GING
  • GINGE
  • GINN
  • GITE
  • GITTIN
  • GITTING
  • IGGING
  • INCENTING
  • INFEFTING
  • INGINE
  • NIFFING
  • TEENING
  • TEGG
  • TENGE
  • TICCING
  • TICING
  • TIEING
  • TIFFING
  • TIFFINING
  • TIFTING
  • TIGE
  • TIGGING
  • TINCTING
  • TING
  • TINING
  • TITTING