Today’s NYT Spelling Bee for Friday, August 14, 2026 has M as the center letter. The outer letters are A, D, G, I, N, and T. There are three pangrams: ADMITTING, MANDATING, and INTIMIDATING. The puzzle has 57 valid answers, ranging from four to twelve letters.
NYT Spelling Bee Hints – August 14, 2026
Three hints for players still working through today’s hive.
The center letter M must appear in every valid answer. The puzzle leans hard on the -ING suffix; more than a third of today’s answers end that way, and all three pangrams follow that pattern. If you are stacking -ING endings through the center M, you are on the right track.
Of the three pangrams, MANDATING is the easiest entry point. ADMITTING is the trickiest: it requires doubling both the T and the I, which is easy to miss once you already have ADMIT in hand. INTIMIDATING at twelve letters is today’s longest valid word and builds directly on the familiar base INTIMIDATE.
Among the shorter answers, look for a traditional Japanese rush-floor mat (6 letters starting with T), the molten rock beneath Earth’s crust (5 letters starting with MA), and a 7-letter word meaning absolutely unyielding, one that also gave diamonds their name.
NYT Spelling Bee Answers – August 14, 2026
Here is the complete answer list for today’s NYT Spelling Bee, organized by word length. Pangrams are marked with a star (★).
4 letters (12): AMID, IMAM, MAGI, MAID, MAIM, MAIN, MAMA, MIDI, MIND, MINI, MINT, MITT
5 letters (15): ADMAN, ADMIN, ADMIT, ANIMA, GAMIN, GAMMA, MADAM, MAGMA, MAMMA, MANGA, MANIA, MANNA, MANTA, MINIM, TIMID
6 letters (11): AIMING, GAMING, MADMAN, MATING, MIMING, MINIMA, MINING, NAMING, TAMING, TATAMI, TIMING
7 letters (9): ADAMANT, DAMMING, DIMMING, IMAGING, MAIMING, MANNING, MATTING, MINDING, MINTING
8 letters (3): DAMAGING, MAINTAIN, MANAGING
9 letters (5): ADMITTING ★, ANIMATING, IMAGINING, IMITATING, MANDATING ★
10 letters (2): INTIMATING, MITIGATING
11 letters (1): MAINTAINING
12 letters (1): INTIMIDATING ★
A few words worth pausing on: MAGI, the ancient plural of magus, refers to the Zoroastrian priests from the nativity account in Matthew’s Gospel. TATAMI is the traditional Japanese rush mat used as floor covering, familiar from martial arts dojos and tea ceremony rooms. ADAMANT, originally the name of an impossibly hard mythical stone in ancient Greek, eventually gave English the word diamond and now means firmly unyielding. MINIM is a precise five-letter find: in British musical notation it is a half note; in pharmacy, it is the smallest unit of liquid measure.
Yesterday’s NYT Spelling Bee for August 13, 2026 had center letter N with outer letters O, Y, A, C, H, L and two pangrams: HALCYON and COLCANNON.
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