New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- The NYT Spelling Bee answers today, for Saturday, August 22, 2026, run off a centre letter of I with A, C, N, R, T and U around the outside. There are two pangrams, CURTAIN and TACITURN, and 56 accepted words worth 304 points in total.

CURTAIN is the one worth pausing on. It is seven letters long, and the puzzle has seven letters, and it uses each of them exactly once. That is a perfect pangram, and it turns up only a handful of times a year. If you find it, you have effectively been handed the letter set in a single word.

NYT Spelling Bee Hints for August 22, 2026

The only vowels in play are A, I, and U. Nothing today contains an E or an O, which is why so many familiar words refuse to work.

Both pangrams descri...