Spelling Bee hints and answers for Monday, October 5, 2026
A Monday Bee with a tight board: 24 words, 125 points in total and Genius at 87, built around the center letter V, a letter most words avoid. A single eight-letter pangram names a wrongdoer, and the short list rewards words built on the VI-, AV- and LA- openings.
Hints, in order
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Every word must contain the center letter V. Words are at least 4 letters long, and letters can repeat.
There is one pangram today: an eight-letter word for a person who breaks a rule or a law, ending in -TOR.
Look for word families: the VI- run (vial, villa, viol, viola, viral, vital, vitriol), the AV- words (avail, avatar, aviator), and words like larva, lava, ravioli and rival.
The pangram
It uses all seven letters: A, I, L, O, R, T, V.
All 24 words
The complete accepted word list for the day.