NYT Spelling Bee Statistics & Records

Records and averages computed from WordPuzzlePro's archive of 3015 NYT Spelling Bee puzzles since May 2018.

Headline numbers

  • 123611 total words across the archive
  • 551031 total points, averaging 183 points and 41 words per puzzle
  • 4169 pangram appearances; 1041 perfect pangrams
  • 1372 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

  1. O — 278 puzzles (9.2%)
  2. T — 233 puzzles (7.7%)
  3. A — 229 puzzles (7.6%)
  4. L — 228 puzzles (7.6%)
  5. I — 217 puzzles (7.2%)
  6. C — 207 puzzles (6.9%)
  7. N — 207 puzzles (6.9%)
  8. M — 167 puzzles (5.5%)
  9. R — 148 puzzles (4.9%)
  10. P — 137 puzzles (4.5%)

See the complete all-time pangram list →