Spelling Bee answers and hints for October 30, 2026

Today's puzzle is worth 333 points in total. These are the usual rank targets, worked out as a share of the total.

The longest answers are COVALENCE, COLCANNON, at 9 letters.

• acne: (pathology) A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is character...
• alcove: (architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.
• cacao: The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.
• call: (heading) To reach out with one's voice.
• calla: A calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica).
• callaloo: (cooking) spicy soup or stew made from such leaves.
• calve: (intransitive) To give birth to a calf.
• canal: An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
• cancan: (dance) A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
• cancel: (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
• cane: A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof:
• canna: Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
• cannon: A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or ...
• canoe: (nautical) A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size o...
• canola: Rapeseed oil; canola oil.
• canon: A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
• cava: A Spanish white sparkling wine made using the méthode champenoise.
• cave: A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
• cell: (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded ...
• cello: A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to hig...
• clan: (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especia...
• clave: (music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
• clean: Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
• cleave: (transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
• cloaca: (sometimes figurative) A sewer.
• clonal: Relating to, or created by asexual reproduction (cloning)
• clone: A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
• clove: (uncountable or countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove ...
• cloven: Split, sundered, or divided.
• coal: (uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed larg...
• coca: The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely culti...
• cocoa: (uncountable) A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
• cocoon: The silky case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, protecting the pupa...
• coevolve: (evolutionary theory) To evolve, along with another organism, via coevolution.
• cola: A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
• colcannon: A traditional Irish dish made from mashed potatoes and cabbage or kale, with scallions, butter, s...
• colleen: A female given name from English or Irish.
• colon: (anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal t...
• colonel: A commissioned officer in an armed military organization, typically the highest rank before flag ...
• concave: Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
• conceal: (transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
• conclave: (Roman Catholicism) A group of cardinals assembled to elect a new pope.
• cone: Anything in the general shape of a cone.
• convene: (intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
• convo: (informal) A conversation.
• cool: (informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviab...
• covalence: (chemistry) A form of valence in which electrons are shared between participating atoms
• cove: A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds...
• coven: A formal group or assembly of witches.
• enclave: A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
• enlace: (transitive) To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace
• lace: (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
• lance: A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried ...
• local: From or in a nearby location.
• locale: The place where something happens.
• loco: (colloquial) Crazy.
• nacelle: (aviation) A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engin...
• neocon: (US) Neoconservative.
• nonce: One-off; produced or created for a single occasion or use. Denoting something occurring once.
• nonlocal: Not local; not specific to a location
• ocean: (countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
• once: (frequency) One and only one time.
• valance: A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window.
• valence: (countable, chemistry) The combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined...
• vocal: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
• volcano: A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber...