NYT Spelling Bee
NYT Spelling Bee Answers & Hints — July 11, 2026
· Edited by Sam Ezersky · By Sneha Rajput
- 62total words
- 271total points
- 190genius score
- 2pangrams
Spelling Bee Hints for July 11, 2026
Five levels of help, gentlest first — take only as much as you need.
The pangrams
Guess it from the clue — tap any ? to uncover that letter.
“Extremely tiny, as if belonging to the fictional island of miniature people in Gulliver's Travels.”
“Relating to a wedding ceremony or the state of marriage.”
Words per starting letter
The gentlest nudge — which letters do the heavy lifting today.
Two-letter tally
How many words start with each pair — if a pair isn't here, nothing starts with it.
Word length grid
The most specific spoiler-free hint — hunt a missing word by its length.
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| I | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| L | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 4 |
| N | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| P | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | 20 |
| T | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 19 |
| U | 1 | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Σ | 23 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 62 |
Spelling Bee Answers for July 11, 2026
The full word list for this puzzle, grouped by length.
Every answer, by length
Groups open on tap, so nothing spoils early. Tap any word for its meaning.
Pangram 2 words
8-letter words 2 words
7-letter words 7 words
6-letter words 11 words
5-letter words 17 words
4-letter words 23 words
4-letter words score 1 point, longer words score their length, pangrams add +7.
Puzzle Stats — July 11, 2026
Difficulty, rank thresholds and how this puzzle compares to the archive.
Difficulty
A middling Saturday that leans slightly generous thanks to a rich letter set. At 62 words against a historical average of roughly 44, there is more to find than usual, and many of the shorter entries are common enough that careful solvers will rack up points steadily. The main challenge is the pair of pangrams: one is a long, specific adjective drawn from 18th-century literary satire that solvers may not think to attempt, while the other is a seven-letter word whose less obvious vowel arrangement and consonant cluster can slow even experienced solvers. A handful of less familiar entries — an archaic heraldic adjective, a Jewish liturgical term, and a cephalopod plural — form the obscure corner that separates good scores from great ones.
62 words vs 41 on an average day · 271 points vs 186 · 2 pangrams vs 1.5
Points needed for every rank
| Rank | Points | % of max |
|---|---|---|
| Queen Bee 👑 | 271 | 100% |
| Genius | 190 | 70% |
| Amazing | 136 | 50% |
| Great | 108 | 40% |
| Nice | 68 | 25% |
| Solid | 41 | 15% |
| Good | 22 | 8% |
| Moving Up | 14 | 5% |
| Good Start | 5 | 2% |
| Beginner | 0 | 0% |
About the pangrams
lilliputian (18 pts). From Lilliput, the fictional island of six-inch-tall inhabitants invented by Jonathan Swift in 'Gulliver's Travels' (1726); Swift almost certainly coined the name as a pure invention, likely attaching a diminutive-sounding suffix to suggest smallness, though the exact inspiration remains unknown. The word passed into general English as an adjective meaning 'extremely small or petty' within decades of the novel's publication.
nuptial (14 pts, a perfect pangram — all 7 letters exactly once). From Latin 'nuptialis,' derived from 'nuptiae' (wedding, marriage), itself from 'nubere' (to marry, literally 'to veil'), reflecting the Roman bridal custom of covering the bride's head. The word entered English in the late 15th century, initially as a noun in the plural ('the nuptials') before settling into its more common adjectival use.
Puzzle facts
- Longest word: 11 letters.
- 23 of 62 words are 4-letter, 1-point words.
- Edited by Sam Ezersky — 23 puzzles in our archive.