Spelling Bee hints and answers for Sunday, October 4, 2026
A Sunday Bee that loves the -ING ending: 51 words, 304 points in total and Genius at 212, built around the center letter G with two pangrams that sit one letter apart. Nearly every long word ends the same way, and the pair WHOOPING and WHOPPING rewards anyone who tries both spellings.
Hints, in order
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Every word must contain the center letter G. Words are at least 4 letters long, and letters can repeat.
There are two pangrams today, both eight letters: one for making a loud, excited cry (or the cough named after that sound), and one meaning enormous, as in a ___ lie. They differ by a single letter.
Lean on the -ING ending: going, gonging, honing, hoping, hopping, owning, pinging, winging, winning and winnowing all cash in, and the GO- words (gong, goon, goop) and the double-G words (gigging, hogging, noggin, pigging, wigging) fill the middle.
The pangrams
Two words use all seven letters: G, H, I, N, O, P, W.
All 51 words
The complete accepted word list for the day.