India, May 28 -- The New York Times Spelling Bee for Thursday, May 28, 2026, hands solvers a compact seven-letter grid built on A, G, I, J, M, N and U, with N sitting at the center of the hive. The puzzle accepts 46 words for a maximum of 245 points, with Genius arriving at 172. The defining solution is the pangram UNJAMMING, a nine-letter gerund that uses every letter in the grid and follows the same morphological logic that has shaped much of the puzzle calendar this month.

If you came here for nudges rather than a full reveal, the structure of today's board is unusually forgiving once the J anchors a single word. The rare consonant tends to lock solvers into a narrow corridor, but the moment UNJAM and then UNJAMMING surface, the rest...