The NYT Spelling Bee for Monday, August 10, 2026 has G as the center letter. The outer letters are A, L, M, O, R, and U. Today’s pangram is GLAMOUR. There are 39 valid answers in total, ranging from four to nine letters. Three hints come first for players still solving, followed by the complete word list organized by length.
NYT Spelling Bee Hints – August 10, 2026
Three hints before the answers: the puzzle leans heavily on G-initial words, so entering common G combinations like GL-, GR-, and GU- early will clear the board quickly. The nine-letter bonus word, MAMMOGRAM, is a compound of two Latin roots and belongs to the medical imaging vocabulary. And GOOGOL, the six-letter standout, is the mathematician’s word for 10 to the power of 100, coined by a nine-year-old in 1920 and later (loosely) borrowed by the search engine.
Today’s center G is unusually productive for short words, generating 19 four-letter answers alone. The letter combination A-G-L-M-O-R-U avoids common five-letter patterns, which means solvers who exhaust the obvious GL- and GR- words will need to work into less common territory like GULAG, AUGUR, and ARUGULA before reaching GLAMOUR itself.
NYT Spelling Bee Answers – August 10, 2026
Complete word list for August 10, 2026, organized by length:
4 letters (19): agar, agog, alga, gaga, gala, gall, glam, glom, glug, glum, goal, gram, grog, guar, gull, guru, logo, raga, ragu
5 letters (10): agora, algal, augur, gamma, gloom, groom, gulag, largo, magma, mogul
6 letters (3): glamor, googol, gramma
7 letters (5): amalgam, arugula, glamour, grammar, logroll
8 letters (1): logogram
9 letters (1): mammogram
Today’s Standout Answers
GLAMOUR is today’s pangram, using all seven available letters: G, L, A, M, O, U, R. The word’s spelling with a U reflects its Scottish origin, where it originally meant a magical spell or enchantment, a meaning that later softened into the English sense of alluring beauty and style. GLAMOR, the six-letter American variant without the U, also appears in today’s list.
MAMMOGRAM at nine letters is the session’s longest word, formed from the Latin mamma (breast) and the Greek gramma (written mark or record). LOGOGRAM, at eight letters, is a symbol that represents an entire word rather than a sound, as in Chinese characters or the ampersand. LOGROLL at seven letters carries a political meaning: the trading of votes between legislators so that each gets their preferred measures passed. GULAG at five letters is the acronym-derived term for the Soviet forced-labor camp system. GOOGOL, the six-letter mathematical outlier, was coined by Milton Sirotta, the nine-year-old nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner, when asked to name a very large number.
For the previous puzzle, see the NYT Spelling Bee answers for August 9, 2026, which featured two pangrams: CHOCOLATE and ECHOLOCATE.
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