Spelling Bee answers and hints for November 12, 2026

Today's puzzle is worth 233 points in total. These are the usual rank targets, worked out as a share of the total.

The longest answers are DECOCTED, DEDUCTED, DETECTED, at 8 letters.

• chute: A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a ...
• coot: Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal s...
• cote: A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
• couth: Agreeable, friendly, pleasant.
• cute: Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly a...
• cutout: Alternative spelling of cut-out. [A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting.]
• decoct: (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
• decocted: (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
• deduct: To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount.
• deducted: taken off or taken away from a total
• detect: To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.
• detected: Having been noticed.
• doeth
• dote: (intransitive, stative, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
• doted: (obsolete) stupid; foolish
• doth
• dotted: (of a line) Made up of a series of dots.
• duct: A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
• ducted: Fitted with a duct
• duet: (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
• duetted: (intransitive) To perform a duet.
• etch: (figuratively) To make a lasting impression.
• etched: Cut or dug into the surface as by etching.
• etude: (music) A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill.
• hoot: The cry of an owl.
• hooted: (slang) Drunk.
• hutch: A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
• octet: A group or set of eight of something.
• outdo: (transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.
• outed: (transitive) To eject; to expel.
• tech: (informal) Technology.
• teed: A surname.
• teeth: Dated spelling of teethe (“to grow teeth”).
• teethe: (intransitive) To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.
• teethed: (intransitive) To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.
• thee: (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
• thou: A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).
• thud: The sound of a dull impact.
• thudded: (intransitive) To make the sound of a dull impact.
• toed: (chiefly in combination) Having (a specified number or type of) toes.
• toot: (countable) The noise of a horn or whistle.
• tooted: To stand out, or be prominent.
• tooth: A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for ...
• toothed: (of an animal) Having teeth.
• tote: A tote bag.
• toted: To add up; to calculate a total.
• touch: Primarily physical senses.
• touche: a surname related Touchet and Touchette.
• touched: Emotionally moved (by), made to feel emotion (by).
• tout: (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag about; to promote.
• touted: (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag about; to promote.
• tutee: A student of a tutor.
• tutted
• tutu: A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.