Today’s NYT Spelling Bee for Tuesday, August 11, 2026 has center letter N, outer letters A, E, L, M, T, Y, and two pangrams: MENTALLY and ELEMENTALLY. There are 69 valid words to find.
ELEMENTALLY is the standout entry: an 11-letter pangram that uses all seven letters of the grid and ranks among the longer pangrams the Spelling Bee has served. It reads like an adverb from a physics textbook, the kind of word that feels slightly archaic in everyday speech but is immediately understandable. MENTALLY is the more accessible pangram at 8 letters, and most solvers will find it first. Both words share the same root cluster: element, mental, elemental, and elementally form a clean semantic chain from the same seven letters. Solvers who reach Queen Bee today have earned it.
Among the other notable entries: MANATEE (the sea mammal, seven letters) is one of those Spelling Bee words that feels like a gift once the letters align. ENTENTE (seven letters, diplomatic agreement) rewards solvers who work through the double-E possibilities methodically. NENE (four letters), the Hawaiian state bird, is a near-certain include whenever the puzzle features a repeated vowel pair. ANTENNAE (eight letters, plural of antenna) and ANTENATAL (nine letters, relating to pregnancy) fill the longer slots before the pangrams.
NYT Spelling Bee Answers – August 11, 2026
4-letter words (17): amen, ante, elan, lane, lean, lent, mane, many, mean, myna, naan, name, nana, neat, nene, teen, tent
5-letter words (19): annal, eaten, enema, enemy, laten, leant, manly, manna, manta, meant, meany, nanny, natal, natty, netty, teeny, tenet, yenta, yente
6-letter words (19): anneal, enamel, lament, latent, layman, laymen, leanly, mantel, mantle, meanly, mental, mentee, namely, natant, neaten, neatly, nettle, talent, tenant
7-letter words (7): antenna, element, emanate, entente, lantana, manatee
8-letter words (4): antennae, latently, mentally, tenement
9-letter words (2): antenatal, elemental
11-letter word (1): elementally
Yesterday’s pangrams and full word list are in the NYT Spelling Bee answers for August 10, 2026, which featured GLAMOUR as the day’s pangram.
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