Spelling Bee hints and answers for Friday, October 16, 2026
A Friday Bee with a generous board: 56 words, 339 points in total and Genius at 237. Nearly everything ends in -ING, and the two pangrams could not be more different: one is a baby after a feed, the other is a whole childhood in a word.
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: a seven-letter verb for the sound a baby makes after a feed, and a ten-letter noun for the way a person was raised.
Look for word families: the -ING run is enormous (bringing, burning, running, ruining), the GR- cluster (grin, grip, grub), the RUBBING and RIBBING pair, and a piece of sushi hiding in the list: NIGIRI.
The pangrams
Two words use all seven letters: B, G, I, N, P, R, U.
All 56 words
The complete accepted word list for the day.