NYT Spelling Bee Solver

What is the NYT Spelling Bee solver?

This tool is tuned for the New York Times Spelling Bee puzzle. It finds every valid word that can be built from seven distinct letters, where the centre letter must appear in every answer and letters can be reused as many times as you like. Enter the centre letter and six outer letters, then press Go to see all matching words from the dictionary.

How is this different from an anagram solver?

In a standard anagram solver each letter can only be used once. In Spelling Bee, any of the seven letters may appear multiple times in a single word — for example, if “a” is in the set, words like “banana” are perfectly valid. The only hard rule is that the centre letter must show up at least once.

How to use it

Tap the honeycomb to start entering letters. The first letter goes into the highlighted centre hex; the next six fill the surrounding cells clockwise. You can also tap any individual hex to edit that cell directly. Duplicate letters are rejected for NYT mode. Press Go or hit Enter when you’re ready. Results appear grouped by word length, with longer words shown first — click a group to expand it.

Rules

• Use exactly 1 centre letter and 6 outer letters.
• Each of the 7 input letters must be unique.
• Every answer must be at least 4 letters long.
• Every answer must contain the centre letter at least once.
• Every letter in the answer must be one of the seven allowed letters.
• Letters may be used more than once in the same word.

Need The Times Polygon rules instead?

Try the Polygon Word Game Solver for the London Times Polygon-style setup, where duplicate outer letters and different outer-ring sizes are allowed, with a letter-reuse toggle if you want Spelling Bee-style matching.