Spelling Bee answers and hints for October 22, 2026

Today's puzzle is worth 310 points in total. These are the usual rank targets, worked out as a share of the total.

The longest answers are ATTACHABLE, TELEHEALTH, at 10 letters.

• ache: (intransitive, stative) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued...
• athlete: (US, Canada) A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; ...
• attach: (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• attachable: Able to be attached.
• attache: Alternative form of attaché. [A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.]
• baht: The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.
• batch: The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
• bath: The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.
• bathe: (intransitive) To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
• beach: The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
• beech: The wood of the beech tree.
• belch: (ambitransitive, immunology) To expel (gas) from the stomach through the mouth; especially, to do...
• blah: (uncountable, informal) Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
• bleach: (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of s...
• blech: (slang) To have the vomiting reflex triggered.
• cache: (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to a...
• cachet: (figurative) A special characteristic or quality; prestige, especially via association.
• catch: (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
• catchable: That can be caught.
• catchall: Alternative form of catch-all. [Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately ...
• chalet: An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
• challah: (countable) A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and roun...
• chat: To be engaged in informal conversation.
• chattel: Tangible, movable property.
• cheat: (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
• cheetah: (zoology) A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the le...
• each: Individually; separately; used in a sentence with a plural subject to indicate that the action or...
• etch: (figuratively) To make a lasting impression.
• halal: (specifically, of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.
• hale: (dated) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
• hall: A large meeting room.
• halt: (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
• hatch: A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
• hatchet: A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
• hate: (transitive) To dislike intensely or greatly.
• hateable: Alternative form of hatable. [Capable of, suitable for, or deserving being hated; detestable.]
• hath: Alternative form of hauth (“unit of measure”). [(India, obsolete) An obsolete measure, a cubit, e...
• hatha: (yoga) The fundamental form of yoga that focuses on asanas
• heal: (transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
• healable: Receptive to treatment or cure.
• health: The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
• heat: (uncountable) Thermal energy.
• heatable: Capable of being heated.
• heath: A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
• heel: (anatomy) The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
• hell: (in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go ...
• hellcat: A spiteful and violent person, especially a woman.
• latch: A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or...
• lath: A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpo...
• lathe: (tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece...
• leach: (transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
• lech: (slang) A lecher.
• leech: An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
• lethal: Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
• tach: (medicine, colloquial) Tachycardia.
• teach: (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
• teachable: Capable of being taught; apt to learn.
• tech: (informal) Technology.
• teeth: Dated spelling of teethe (“to grow teeth”).
• teethe: (intransitive) To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.
• telehealth: Healthcare facilitated by telecommunication technology, typically allowing a doctor or other heal...
• that: (degree) To a given extent or degree.
• thatch: Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of ha...
• thee: (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
• theta: The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.