New Delhi, June 25 -- The New York Times Spelling Bee for Thursday, June 25, 2026, presents players with a compact but deceptively challenging letter set. While today's puzzle contains only 35 accepted words, reaching Genius still requires careful word hunting, strategic use of longer entries, and discovery of the lone pangram, FIXATED. The puzzle's relatively modest answer count hides several less-obvious words that can easily keep solvers searching long after they have exhausted the most common combinations.

Today's Spelling Bee puzzle uses the letters A, D, E, F, I, T, X, with I serving as the mandatory center letter. Every valid word must include the center letter and contain at least four letters. As always, letters may be reused as...