Spelling Bee Hints for Yesterday
Monday, June 29, 2026
The New York Times Spelling Bee is a word puzzle that asks players to create as many words as possible using seven letters set in a honeycomb shape, with the rule that all words must include the center letter.
This page contains hints for yesterday's Spelling Bee Puzzle. For yesterday's answers, please visit the yesterday's answers page. For today's hints, visit the hints page.
There were a total of 30 answers in Yesterday's NYT Spelling Bee puzzle, including 1 pangram(s). None of the pangrams were perfect pangrams.
There were 8 4-letter words, 7 5-letter words, 9 6-letter words, 2 7-letter words, 2 8-letter words, and 2 9-letter words in Yesterday's puzzle.
The highest scoring word in Yesterday's puzzle was worth 15 points.
Presented below are 7 sections of hints to help you solve Yesterday's Spelling Bee: Summary, Length, First Letter, First Two Letters, First Letter And Length, Answers, and Levels.
Summary
| Answers: | 30 |
|---|---|
| Pangrams: | 1 |
| Perfect Pangrams: | 0 |
| Bingo: | Yes |
| Score: | 152 |
Length
| 4 | 8 | |
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| 5 | 7 | |
| 6 | 9 | |
| 7 | 2 | |
| 8 | 2 | |
| 9 | 2 |
First Letter
| A | 2 | |
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| C | 17 | |
| F | 4 | |
| I | 1 | |
| L | 4 | |
| N | 1 | |
| U | 1 |
First Two Letters
| AC | 2 | |
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| CA | 9 | |
| CI | 1 | |
| CL | 5 | |
| CU | 2 | |
| FA | 3 | |
| FI | 1 | |
| IL | 1 | |
| LA | 3 | |
| LI | 1 | |
| NI | 1 | |
| UN | 1 |
First Letter and Length
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Total | |
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| A | 1 | ● | 1 | ● | ● | ● | 2 |
| C | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| F | ● | ● | 2 | ● | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| I | ● | 1 | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 |
| L | 1 | 1 | 2 | ● | ● | ● | 4 |
| N | ● | ● | 1 | ● | ● | ● | 1 |
| U | ● | ● | 1 | ● | ● | ● | 1 |
| Total | 8 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 30 |
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Levels
| Beginner | 0 Points |
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| Good Start | 3 Points |
| Moving Up | 8 Points |
| Good | 12 Points |
| Solid | 23 Points |
| Nice | 38 Points |
| Great | 61 Points |
| Amazing | 76 Points |
| Genius | 106 Points |
| Queen Bee | 152 Points |