Spelling Bee Solver: Daily Hints and Answers to the New York Times Spelling BeeSpelling Bee Solver: Daily Hints and Answers to the New York Times Spelling BeeSpelling Bee Solver: Daily Hints and Answers to the New York Times Spelling Bee
Statistics | Same Initial Letter


Since its debut on May 9, 2018, the New York Times Spelling Bee has run 3,007 regular daily puzzles, plus 3 extra stopgap puzzles. Here are a few statistics covering that span.

There have been only two Spelling Bee puzzles in which every word in the solution set begins with the same letter:

 
 
init
wds
pts
rank
W G H I L N Y
1
21
133
(1)
J G I L N O Y
1
18
114

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