NYT Spelling Bee

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Spelling Bee Answers & Analysis

Monday, January 19, 2026

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AKLORW D
31Answers
1Pangrams
118Maximum
83Genius

Answer shape

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Words by first letter

A3
D13
L3
O1
R4
W7

Words by length

415
58
63
72
83

Two-letter starts

AR1
AW2
DA1
DO8
DR4
LA1
LO2
OD1
RA1
RO3
WA2
WO5

Pangram ladder

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Pangram 1
Length

8 letters · 15 points

First and last letters

W … D

Letter pattern

W••••••D

O × 2

Reveal Pangram — spoiler

workload

Complete answer list

Reveal full answers — spoiler

A 3

  • ardor
  • award
  • awkward

D 13

  • dark
  • dodo
  • doll
  • dollar
  • dolor
  • doodad
  • door
  • dorado
  • dork
  • draw
  • drawl
  • droll
  • drool

L 3

  • lard
  • load
  • lord

O 1

  • odor

R 4

  • radar
  • road
  • roadwork
  • rood

W 7

  • ward
  • warlord
  • wood
  • woodwork
  • word
  • workloadPangram
  • world

How hard was this puzzle?

This puzzle's structural difficulty is Hard at 74/100, compared with 19 available puzzles through this date.

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