New Delhi, July 27 -- The center letter for today's NYT Spelling Bee is I. The outer letters are A, C, N, T, V, and Y. The pangram is INACTIVITY, a nine-letter word that uses every available letter. There are 32 valid words in total.

Hints for Today's Spelling Bee

Hint 1: Every valid word must contain the center letter I. All answers use only the seven letters available: I, A, C, N, T, V, Y.

Hint 2: The pangram is a nine-letter noun describing a state of doing nothing - the opposite of energy or effort.

Hint 3: Four eight-letter answers are in today's grid. Each ends in the suffix -ITY and connects to concepts of place, birth, energy, or movement.

Today's Pangram

INACTIVITY - The state of being inactive; absence of movement or effor...