The NYT Spelling Bee answers for Tuesday, July 21, 2026 feature the center letter F with outer letters A, B, I, L, N, Y. The sole pangram is INFALLIBLY – a 10-letter word worth 17 points.
NYT Spelling Bee Pangram – July 21, 2026
INFALLIBLY (10 letters, 17 points) uses all seven letters: F, A, B, I, L, N, Y. It means “in a manner incapable of error” – from Latin “in-” (not) + “fallere” (to fail or deceive). The word is most familiar from religious discourse, particularly the Catholic doctrine of papal infallibility formally defined in 1870. In everyday English it describes any process considered absolutely reliable. The double-L inside the word (in-FAL-LIbly) is a common spelling stumbling block.
Full Word List – NYT Spelling Bee July 21, 2026
Today’s Spelling Bee contains 24 words. All must include the center letter F:
10 letters: INFALLIBLY
8 letters: FALLIBLY, FILIALLY
7 letters: AFFABLY, ALFALFA, BAILIFF, FINALLY
6 letters: FILIAL, FINIAL, FLABBY, INFILL
5 letters: FILLY, FINAL, FLAIL, FLYBY
4 letters: BIFF, FAIL, FALL, FILL, FLAB, FLAN, FLAY, IFFY, NAIF
Today’s letter set leans heavily on FL- and FI- consonant clusters – FILIAL, FILIALLY, FINAL, FINALLY, FILLY, FINIAL, FLAIL, FLAB, FLAN, FLAY, FLABBY, and FLYBY all share that opening frame. NAIF is the puzzle’s most easily missed word: a valid English noun meaning an artless or naive person, borrowed from French; it qualifies because the F falls at the end rather than the beginning.
Yesterday’s Spelling Bee (July 20, 2026) had center letter M with pangrams MILLIONTH and MONOLITH.
For more of today’s NYT puzzle answers, see our guides for Wordle #1858 and NYT Connections #1136.
