NYT Spelling Bee
NYT Spelling Bee Answers & Hints — July 13, 2026
· Edited by Sam Ezersky · By Sneha Rajput
- 53total words
- 194total points
- 136genius score
- 1pangram
Spelling Bee Hints for July 13, 2026
Five levels of help, gentlest first — take only as much as you need.
The pangram
Guess it from the clue — tap any ? to uncover that letter.
“The formal act of sending someone to prison or a psychiatric facility by official order.”
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 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 4 |
| C | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| I | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| L | 5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
| M | 13 | 6 | 1 | 2 | – | – | 22 |
| O | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| T | – | – | 4 | – | – | 1 | 5 |
| Σ | 27 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 53 |
Spelling Bee Answers for July 13, 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 1 word
9-letter words 2 words
8-letter words 1 word
7-letter words 4 words
6-letter words 7 words
5-letter words 11 words
4-letter words 27 words
4-letter words score 1 point, longer words score their length, pangrams add +7.
Puzzle Stats — July 13, 2026
Difficulty, rank thresholds and how this puzzle compares to the archive.
Difficulty
A middling Monday that leans slightly easier than it first appears. With 53 words against a historical average of around 44, there is genuine volume here, and the four-letter base words are plentiful enough to build momentum quickly. The main challenge is the single pangram — a longer, less common word that requires assembling all seven letters in a specific order — which may keep some solvers short of Genius if they miss it. A handful of less familiar five- and six-letter entries, including one borrowed from an Asian language and one from French, add a modest layer of obscurity without making the puzzle brutal.
53 words vs 42 on an average day · 194 points vs 189 · 1 pangram vs 1.6
Points needed for every rank
| Rank | Points | % of max |
|---|---|---|
| Queen Bee 👑 | 194 | 100% |
| Genius | 136 | 70% |
| Amazing | 97 | 50% |
| Great | 78 | 40% |
| Nice | 49 | 25% |
| Solid | 29 | 15% |
| Good | 16 | 8% |
| Moving Up | 10 | 5% |
| Good Start | 4 | 2% |
| Beginner | 0 | 0% |
About the pangram
committal (16 pts). From Latin 'committere' (to entrust, to join together), via the English verb 'commit'; the noun suffix '-al' was added in the 17th century to denote the act of committing someone or something, especially to custody or a cause.
Puzzle facts
- Longest words: 9 letters (3 of them).
- 27 of 53 words are 4-letter, 1-point words.
- Edited by Sam Ezersky — 23 puzzles in our archive.