Spelling Bee hints and answers for Saturday, October 3, 2026
A Saturday Bee with a classical streak: 46 words, 233 points in total and Genius at 163, built around the center letter I with two long pangrams from the same Roman root, one the festivities and one the adjective for the reveller. The CLIN- run does much of the early work, and CHINCHILLA is the board's hidden trophy.
Hints, in order
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Every word must contain the center letter I. Words are at least 4 letters long, and letters can repeat.
There are two pangrams today, 11 and 12 letters, built on the same root: the plural noun for drunken festivities honouring Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, and its adjective form with -AN on the end.
Look for word families: the CLIN- run (cinch, clinch, clinic, clinical, clinician), the CH- words (chai, chain, chic, chili, chin, china), and the -BIL- words (alibi, bilabial, biblical), plus the long outlier CHINCHILLA.
The pangrams
Two words use all seven letters: A, B, C, H, I, L, N.
All 46 words
The complete accepted word list for the day.