This page covers today's NYT Spelling Bee — puzzle #3055, released Friday, September 18, 2026 at 3 a.m. ET, with all 41 valid words and 1 pangram. Work the hints first if you want to keep your score honest. Then expand the letter groups below to fill in what you're missing. Every word must include A . Letters can repeat. A pangram uses all 7 letters at least once. Pangrams are bolded . Today's grid leans heavily on nautical and botanical terms, with a splash of musical references, all anchored by a single central vowel. The NYT Spelling Bee for September 18, 2026 (#3,055) has 1 pangram and 41 accepted words. Across the 156 puzzles in our archive the average is 1.5 pangrams and 44 words, with word counts running from 16 to 77.

Every pangram we have archived → See every pangram we've covered → · How to play → A word that uses every one of the day's 7 letters at least once. Pangrams score bonus points in the official game. 4 letters. Every word must also include the center (yellow) letter. The Spelling Bee resets at 3 a.m. Eastern Time, later than most NYT games. Our answers and hints publish automatically within minutes of the switch. NYT's API splits its word set into pangrams and answers as two separate arrays. We union them on this page so you see every accepted word in one place.