NYT Spelling Bee Statistics & Records

Records and averages computed from WordPuzzlePro's archive of 3057 NYT Spelling Bee puzzles since May 2018.

Headline numbers

  • 125525 total words across the archive
  • 559976 total points, averaging 183 points and 41 words per puzzle
  • 4232 pangram appearances; 1063 perfect pangrams
  • 1392 bingo puzzles (45.5% of all puzzles)

Biggest & smallest puzzles

  • Highest-scoring puzzle: sb20210122 with 537 points
  • Lowest-scoring puzzle: sb20230327 with 47 points
  • Longest word in the archive: NATIONALIZATION (15 letters) on sb20240108

Most common center letters

  1. O — 280 puzzles (9.2%)
  2. T — 238 puzzles (7.8%)
  3. A — 231 puzzles (7.6%)
  4. L — 229 puzzles (7.5%)
  5. I — 220 puzzles (7.2%)
  6. N — 211 puzzles (6.9%)
  7. C — 208 puzzles (6.8%)
  8. M — 172 puzzles (5.6%)
  9. R — 149 puzzles (4.9%)
  10. P — 139 puzzles (4.5%)

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