Updated: September 11, 2025, 04:30 IST • Today’s live puzzle on NYT Games corresponds to Wednesday, September 10, 2025 (ET). Below are the verified answers, pangram, points, and letter set to help you reach Genius fast. For evergreen strategy, tips, and daily updates, bookmark our cornerstone guide: NYT Spelling Bee — rules, tips, and daily answers.
Today’s honeycomb
Center letter: R All letters: A, I, P, R, T, U, Y (center R required in every word)
Today’s pangram
PITUITARY (9 letters)
Score & stats
Total answers: 42 • Perfect pangrams: 0 • Queen Bee score: 173
All verified answers by length
4 letters: airy, aria, arty, aura, pair, part, prat, pray, purr, rapt, tarp, tart, trap, tray, trip, yurt
5 letters: apart, array, atria, attar, parry, party, raita, ratty, rutty, tapir, tarry, tiara, trait
6 letters: apiary, irrupt, papyri, parity, purity, rarity, tartar, trippy
7 letters: apparat, partita, ratatat, rattrap
9 letters: pituitary
How to hit Genius quickly
Open with the center-letter clusters (pr-, tr-, -rr-), then sweep through common endings: -ary, -ity, -ria, -tar, -tary. Build up from short stems (par-, tar-, rar-, pur-) and hunt the seven-letter constructions (apparat, partita, rattrap) before closing with the pangram PITUITARY. For full tactics and archives, revisit our master guide to the New York Times Spelling Bee.
Key notes for today
- No “S” in any NYT Spelling Bee wordlist, so ignore plurals.
- Every answer must include the center letter R.
- Minimum length is 4 letters.
Credit: Live verification from independent Spelling Bee trackers. Times and dates noted for India (IST); the NYT daily reset occurs around 03:00 ET.
