Today we are publishing the answers of NYT Spelling Bee January 17 2026 puzzle.
This Saturday’s spelling bee puzzle was built by Sam Ezersky. As always there are 7 letters and here the center letter is the letter Y.
A L O are the letters on the bottom and P R T are the letters on the top which form the honeycomb shape. There are a total of 59 possible answers and we have listed them below sorted from the shortest (4 letters) length to the longest (9 letters):
Pangram(s):
PORTRAYAL
All Spelling Bee Words you can form:
- 4 Letters
- ally
- arty
- oaty
- play
- ploy
- pray
- pyro
- ropy
- tray
- troy
- typo
- tyro
- 5 Letters
- allay
- alloy
- apply
- aptly
- array
- loopy
- lorry
- loyal
- pappy
- parry
- party
- patly
- patty
- polyp
- poppy
- potty
- rally
- ratty
- royal
- tally
- tarry
- tatty
- yappy
- 6 Letters
- arroyo
- orally
- paltry
- papaya
- parlay
- partly
- payola
- poorly
- portly
- raptly
- rattly
- rotary
- tartly
- 7 Letters
- loyally
- loyalty
- oratory
- papally
- payroll
- portray
- royally
- royalty
- totally
- 8 Letters
- rotatory
- 9 Letters
- portrayal