Spelling Bee hints and answers for Thursday, October 1, 2026
A short Thursday Bee with a wedding at its heart: 23 words, 116 points in total and Genius at 81, built around the center letter H with a single 11-letter pangram for what newlyweds did after the wedding. The HO- openings do most of the work, and HONEY- is the richest seam on the board.
Hints, in order
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Every word must contain the center letter H. Words are at least 4 letters long, and letters can repeat.
There is one pangram today: an 11-letter verb in the past tense, for what a newly married couple did on the trip they took after the wedding.
Work the HONEY- seam first (honey, honeyed, honeymoon and the pangram itself), then the HO- words (home, homey, homonym, hone, hood, hoodoo, hooey), the HE- pair (heed, heme, and their -ed and doubled forms), and the short pair hymn and hymen.
The pangram
It uses all seven letters: D, E, H, M, N, O, Y.
All 23 words
The complete accepted word list for the day.