Spelling Bee answers and hints for November 6, 2026

Today's puzzle is worth 178 points in total. These are the usual rank targets, worked out as a share of the total.

The longest answers are COTILLION, NONILLION, OCTILLION, at 9 letters.

• clinic: A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpati...
• clot: A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
• clout: (informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
• coil: Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
• colic: (pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to inte...
• colon: (anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal t...
• colonic: (anatomy) Of, relating to, affecting, or within the colon.
• colt: A young male horse.
• cool: (informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviab...
• cotillion: (dance) A bold dance performed in groups of eight where women lift their skirts to display their ...
• council: A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
• cull: To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
• cult: (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular acti...
• cultic: ritual, relating to cult (religious ritual)
• illicit: Unlawful.
• licit: Not forbidden by formal or informal rules.
• lilt: (intransitive) To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
• linocut: (art, printing) A type of woodcut in which a block of linoleum is used for the relief surface; th...
• lint: Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
• lion: A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe.
• loci: Alternative form of locie (“locomotive”). [(slang) A steam locomotive.]
• loco: (colloquial) Crazy.
• locution: A phrase or expression peculiar to or characteristic of a given person or group of people.
• loin: Any of several cuts of meat taken from this part of an animal.
• loll: (intransitive) To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
• loon: (US, Canada) Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that div...
• loot: (slang) Synonym of money.
• lotion: A low- to medium-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to unbroken skin.
• lotto: a lottery
• lout: A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
• lull: A period of rest or soothing.
• lulu: A remarkable person, object, or idea.
• nonillion: (hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.
• null: A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
• occult: Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
• octillion
• oculi: (architecture) A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).
• olio: (figuratively) A medley or mixture; a hotchpotch.
• till: (chiefly British) A cash register.
• tilt: (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
• toil: Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
• toll: A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge...
• tool: Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
• uncoil: (transitive) To unwind or untwist (something).
• uncool: (slang) Not in accord with the current fashion, standards, or mores of a particular group; not cool.
• unlit: Not lit
• until: Not tiled.