Spelling Bee hints and answers for Tuesday, October 13, 2026
A Tuesday Bee with a roomy board: 51 words, 227 points in total and Genius at 158, with two pangrams that share six of their letters. The RAD- cluster and the DROP family do much of the work, and DOOR, DODO and RADAR show how far repeated letters can stretch a small hive.
Hints, in order
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Every word must contain the center letter D. Words are at least 4 letters long, and letters can repeat.
There are two pangrams today: an eight-letter adjective for suspicious, watchful dread, and an eight-letter noun for a single bead of falling rain.
Look for word families: the RAD- run (radar, radian, radii, radio, radon), the DROP run (drop, droop, airdrop, paradrop), the DOOR and DODO repeat pair, and the ANDIRON and ANDROID twins near the top of the alphabet.
The pangrams
Two words use all seven letters: A, D, I, N, O, P, R.
All 51 words
The complete accepted word list for the day.