Spelling Bee hints and answers for Friday, October 9, 2026
A Friday Bee with a rare center: 37 words, 224 points in total and Genius at 156, built around the letter Y with four pangrams, three of them long adverbs ending in -LY. Short Y-ending words do the early work, and the -ING and -LY families carry the board from there.
Hints, in order
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Every word must contain the center letter Y. Words are at least 4 letters long, and letters can repeat.
There are four pangrams today: a nine-letter noun for noble courtesy and refinement, and three long adverbs ending in -LY, for doing something with intelligence, without care, and in a way that tells the truth.
Look for word families: the -LY adverbs (gently, intently, leniently, tellingly), the -ING run (eyeing, lying, tying, yelling), and the tiny Y words (eely, eggy, itty, tiny).
The pangrams
Four words use all seven letters: E, G, I, L, N, T, Y.
All 37 words
The complete accepted word list for the day.