NYT Spelling Bee Statistics & Records
Records and averages computed from WordPuzzlePro's archive of 3061 NYT Spelling Bee puzzles since May 2018.
Headline numbers
- 125664 total words across the archive
- 560584 total points, averaging 183 points and 41 words per puzzle
- 4236 pangram appearances; 1064 perfect pangrams
- 1394 bingo puzzles (45.5% 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
- O — 280 puzzles (9.1%)
- T — 238 puzzles (7.8%)
- A — 231 puzzles (7.5%)
- L — 229 puzzles (7.5%)
- I — 221 puzzles (7.2%)
- N — 213 puzzles (7.0%)
- C — 208 puzzles (6.8%)
- M — 172 puzzles (5.6%)
- R — 149 puzzles (4.9%)
- P — 140 puzzles (4.6%)