NYT Spelling Bee Statistics & Records

Records and averages computed from WordPuzzlePro's archive of 3106 NYT Spelling Bee puzzles since May 2018.

Headline numbers

  • 127851 total words across the archive
  • 570996 total points, averaging 184 points and 41 words per puzzle
  • 4305 pangram appearances; 1080 perfect pangrams
  • 1420 bingo puzzles (45.7% 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 — 282 puzzles (9.1%)
  2. T — 240 puzzles (7.7%)
  3. A — 234 puzzles (7.5%)
  4. L — 233 puzzles (7.5%)
  5. I — 225 puzzles (7.2%)
  6. N — 215 puzzles (6.9%)
  7. C — 213 puzzles (6.9%)
  8. M — 174 puzzles (5.6%)
  9. R — 150 puzzles (4.8%)
  10. P — 144 puzzles (4.6%)

See the complete all-time pangram list →