Today’s NYT Spelling Bee (July 24, 2026) uses center letter K and outer letters E, V, O, I, N, and G. The puzzle yields 24 valid words and one pangram: EVOKING, worth 14 points. If you have reached Queen Bee, every word on this page is confirmed.
Hints (spoiler-free)
Hint 1: The center letter K must appear in every word.
Hint 2: The only pangram is a 7-letter present participle meaning to summon a feeling, memory, or image to mind.
Hint 3: Today’s board includes the sound a pig makes, a common mushroom in Japanese cooking, and a Scandinavian seafarer from the medieval era.
The Pangram: EVOKING
EVOKING derives from the Latin evocare – to call forth – and has been in steady English use since the 17th century. In contemporary writing it appears most often in arts and political criticism: a piece of music evokes a landscape; a speech evokes a predecessor’s resolve. Finding it requires bridging the E-V-O opening with the -KING suffix that anchors most of today’s longer entries. Once that pattern clicks, INVOKING (8 letters, the board’s longest and highest-scoring word) follows directly.
Complete Word List – July 24, 2026
4 letters (9): GEEK, KEEN, KENO, KING, KINK, KNEE, KOOK, NOOK, OINK
5 letters (3): EKING, ENOKI, EVOKE
6 letters (4): GINKGO, INKING, INVOKE, VIKING
7 letters (7): EVOKING, GEEKING, KEENING, KINGING, KINKING, KNEEING, OINKING
8 letters (1): INVOKING
Yesterday’s NYT Spelling Bee for July 23, 2026 ran considerably larger – center letter F, two pangrams (CONFOUNDED and COFOUNDED), and 40 total words. Today’s K-board contracts to 24, which makes EVOKING both the only pangram and the central challenge. Players who swept yesterday may find today’s puzzle deceptively quick once the -KING suffix clicks. For more of today’s NYT puzzle coverage, see the Spelling Bee answers for July 22, 2026, which featured the single pangram HARDTACK.
