The center letter for today’s NYT Spelling Bee is I. The outer letters are A, C, N, T, V, and Y. The pangram is INACTIVITY, a nine-letter word that uses every available letter. There are 32 valid words in total.
Hints for Today’s Spelling Bee
Hint 1: Every valid word must contain the center letter I. All answers use only the seven letters available: I, A, C, N, T, V, Y.
Hint 2: The pangram is a nine-letter noun describing a state of doing nothing – the opposite of energy or effort.
Hint 3: Four eight-letter answers are in today’s grid. Each ends in the suffix -ITY and connects to concepts of place, birth, energy, or movement.
Today’s Pangram
INACTIVITY – The state of being inactive; absence of movement or effort. At nine letters, it uses the center letter I three times and puts the full set of seven letters to maximum use.
Full Word List – July 27, 2026
4-letter words (7): ACAI, ANTI, CITY, TINT, TINY, VAIN, VINY
5-letter words (12): ANTIC, ATTIC, AVIAN, CACTI, CIVIC, CYNIC, NINNY, TACIT, TAINT, TINCT, TINNY, TITAN
6-letter words (10): ACACIA, ATTAIN, CAVITY, INCANT, INTACT, NIACIN, TACTIC, TANNIC, TANNIN, VANITY
7-letter words (2): CANTINA, INANITY
8-letter words (4): ACTIVITY, NATIVITY, VICINITY, VIVACITY
9-letter word (1): INACTIVITY
Notable Words
The four 8-letter words share a structural family. ACTIVITY is the direct antonym of INACTIVITY, making today’s pangram and its opposite both present in the same grid. NATIVITY refers to birth, most commonly the birth of Christ, carrying strong religious resonance. VICINITY means the surrounding area, from the Latin vicinus (neighbor). VIVACITY denotes liveliness – the quality that distinguishes energetic conversation from dull silence.
ACACIA at six letters is the grid’s trickiest entry for many solvers. Three A’s in a single word is unusual enough to feel like a trap. The acacia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs found across Africa, Australia, and the Americas, used for centuries in tanning, construction, and medicine.
CANTINA, at seven letters, is the puzzle’s most international entry. Borrowed from Spanish and Italian, it means a bar, canteen, or tavern – and is the word that solvers thinking only in English tend to overlook longest.
For recent Spelling Bee coverage, see our answers for NYT Spelling Bee July 24, 2026 and NYT Spelling Bee July 23, 2026.
