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Spoiler warning: The pangram for the Sunday, September 14, 2025, NYT Spelling Bee is POTHEAD. The required center letter is O; the full letter set is A, E, P, H, T, O, and D. Hints come first, followed by a third-party archive’s answer list.
Hints for the September 14 puzzle
- Every answer must include the center letter, O.
- You can reuse letters, so try rearranging and repeating the six outer letters along with O.
- Look for a word that uses all seven available letters. The pangram is POTHEAD.
Letters and pangram
The seven letters are A, E, P, H, T, O, and D, with O in the center. POTHEAD uses every letter at least once, making it the pangram. The date-specific archive at NYTBee.com lists it as the puzzle’s pangram; Today’s Spelling Bee’s pangram index also identifies it for this date.
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September 14, 2025 answer list
The following list is from the third-party NYTBee.com dated archive, which labels these as official answers. It is an archive, not the New York Times, and an official NYT page was not available for independent verification.
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adopt, adopted, adoptee, atop, depot, dodo, doeth, doodad, dope, doped, dote, doted, doth, dotted, epode, hoed, hood, hooded, hoodoo, hoop, hooped, hoot, hooted, hope, hoped, hopped, hothead, hotheaded, hotpot, oath, opted, peapod, photo, poet, pooh, poop, pooped, pope, poppa, popped, poppet, potato, pothead, potted, tattoo, tattooed, teapot, toad, toed, toot, tooted, tooth, toothed, tope, toped, topped, tote, toted.
How to interpret the archive’s score figures
NYTBee’s archive reports 58 answers, a maximum score of 252 points, and a Genius threshold of 176 points; it also says a six-letter word is needed for Genius. These are figures reported by that archive, not confirmed NYT statistics. Today’s Spelling Bee’s September 14 entry reports 57 words and 247 points instead. Because the two third-party archives disagree, neither total should be treated as a settled official count or score.
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NYTBee’s archive also describes dictionary-valid words it says were not accepted, explaining that words may be excluded when the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive. That is the archive’s explanation; it should not be read as a direct NYT statement.
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