All 54 valid words for the NYT Spelling Bee. Center letter: O.
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July 5, 2026 brought one of the more word-rich NYT Spelling Bee: 54 valid words, every single one containing the center letter O.
With 54 valid words, this was an unusually large puzzle — patient, systematic solvers had plenty of material to work with. The outer letters were D, E, F, I, L, V, and the longest answer aside from the pangram ran 8 letters for 8 points. Reaching Genius required 162 points out of a possible 232; see how this compares in the full answers archive.
The pangram used all 7 letters for 15 points — the highest-scoring word of the day (tap the spoiler above if you want it). If pangrams are where you get stuck, the pangram-spotting guide walks through the letter patterns that give them away.
Prefer to solve it yourself? Get spoiler-free hints for today's Spelling Bee instead — the words grouped by starting letter and length, with a nudge toward the pangram, so nothing is spoiled until you ask.
Not ready to spoil the whole puzzle? The grid below shows how many of the July 5, 2026 answers start with each letter and how long they run, and the two-letter list gives the count for each opening pair. It is the fastest way to close out the last few words without seeing every answer.
| Start \ Len | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 |
| E | · | · | 1 | 1 | · | 2 |
| F | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| I | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | 2 |
| L | 3 | 1 | 1 | · | · | 5 |
| O | 2 | 6 | · | · | · | 8 |
| V | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | · | 8 |
| Total | 19 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 54 |
DE3DI2DO11EV2FI1FL3FO9ID1IO1LO5OF1OI1OL5OV1VI3VO5
Spoiler warning — the complete answer list is below.
Definitions for the July 5, 2026 answers — so you know exactly what you found, or what you missed. Pangrams are marked ★.
Spoiler warning — every answer word is spelled out and defined below.
Word definitions from WordNet® 3.1, Princeton University.
The players who find DEVOLVED and DEVOLVE consistently know their Latin and Greek roots. These books teach the exact system that unlocks words like FIVEFOLD before you ever see the puzzle.
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