Spelling Bee hints and answers for Saturday, October 17, 2026
A compact Saturday Bee: 33 words, 144 points on the board and Genius at 100. The M-heavy hive is full of doubled letters and animal names, and the pangram is a medical word for a patient who is up and walking around.
Hints, in order
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Every word must contain the center letter M. Words are at least 4 letters long, and letters can repeat.
There is one pangram today: an eight-letter adjective for something that moves about or walks - built on the same root as ambulance.
Look for word families: the MAMM- run (mama, mamba, mamma, mammal), the AUTUMN pair (autumn, autumnal), the look-alike animals (lama, llama, lamb), and one glorious piece of clothing: MUUMUU.
The pangram
It uses all seven letters: A, B, L, M, N, T, U.
All 33 words
The complete accepted word list for the day.