NYT Spelling Bee
NYT Spelling Bee Answers & Hints — July 3, 2026
· Edited by Sam Ezersky · By Vaibhav Rajput
- 63total words
- 235total points
- 165genius score
- 2pangrams
Spelling Bee Hints for July 3, 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.
“A large-headed nail once used to stud doors — famous from the phrase 'dead as a ___'.”
“A number that tells you position in a sequence — first, second, third.”
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 | Σ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 5 | 5 | – | 2 | – | 12 |
| D | 2 | 2 | 3 | – | 1 | 8 |
| I | – | – | 3 | – | – | 3 |
| L | 9 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| N | 4 | 3 | – | – | – | 7 |
| O | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 3 |
| R | 9 | 5 | 2 | – | 1 | 17 |
| Σ | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 63 |
Spelling Bee Answers for July 3, 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
- landlord8
- railroad8
7-letter words 3 words
- android7
- lanolin7
6-letter words 9 words
- dollar6
- doodad6
- dorado6
- inlaid6
- inland6
- inroad6
- ordain6
- radial6
- radian6
5-letter words 17 words
- adorn5
- anion5
- annal5
- ardor5
- dinar5
- drain5
- lanai5
- nadir5
- nodal5
- radar5
- radii5
- radio5
- radon5
- rando5
4-letter words 30 words
- anal1
- anon1
- aria1
- arid1
- aril1
- darn1
- dial1
- laid1
- lain1
- lair1
- land1
- lard1
- liar1
- lira1
- load1
- loan1
- naan1
- nada1
- nail1
- nana1
- oral1
- raid1
- rail1
- rain1
- rand1
- rani1
- rial1
- road1
- roan1
- roar1
4-letter words score 1 point, longer words score their length, pangrams add +7.
Puzzle Stats — July 3, 2026
Difficulty, rank thresholds and how this puzzle compares to the archive.
Difficulty
A middle-of-the-road board that runs longer than usual: 63 words is well above a typical day, but most of them are short, familiar A-words. The letter set is vowel-light, so expect to grind out four-letter words — the two pangrams are both everyday vocabulary once you spot the -AIL and -AL endings.
63 words vs 43 on an average day · 235 points vs 180 · 2 pangrams vs 1.4
Points needed for every rank
| Rank | Points | % of max |
|---|---|---|
| Queen Bee 👑 | 235 | 100% |
| Genius | 165 | 70% |
| Amazing | 118 | 50% |
| Great | 94 | 40% |
| Nice | 59 | 25% |
| Solid | 35 | 15% |
| Good | 19 | 8% |
| Moving Up | 12 | 5% |
| Good Start | 5 | 2% |
| Beginner | 0 | 0% |
About the pangrams
doornail (15 pts). From Middle English 'dorenail'; the 'dead as a doornail' idiom appears as far back as 1350, later cemented by Dickens in A Christmas Carol.
ordinal (14 pts, a perfect pangram — all 7 letters exactly once). From Latin 'ordinalis' (showing order), from 'ordo', the same root as 'order' and 'ordain'.
Puzzle facts
- Longest words: 8 letters (3 of them).
- 30 of 63 words are 4-letter, 1-point words.
- Edited by Sam Ezersky — 15 puzzles in our archive.