Spelling Bee answers and hints for November 13, 2026

Today's puzzle is worth 160 points in total. These are the usual rank targets, worked out as a share of the total.

The longest answer is CACOPHONY, at 9 letters.

• achoo: The sound of a sneeze.
• achy: With or suffering from aches; sore.
• ancho: A broad, flat, dried poblano pepper, often ground into a powder.
• cacao: The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.
• cacophony: A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
• cancan: (dance) A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
• 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 ...
• canny: Knowing, shrewd, astute.
• canon: A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
• canopy: The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
• canyon: A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
• capo: A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar and used to raise the pitch of all strings.
• capon: A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
• chancy: Uncertain; risky; hazardous.
• chap: (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
• chop: A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
• choppy: (of the surface of water) Having many small, rough waves.
• coach: (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
• 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...
• coho: An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the no...
• conch: A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
• coop: A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
• copay: A copayment.
• copy: The result of copying; an identical or nearly identical duplicate of an original.
• cyan: An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 an...
• honcho: (informal) Boss, leader.
• hooch: (Canada, US, informal) An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especiall...
• nacho: A single tortilla chip from a dish of nachos.
• papacy: (usually) The office of the pope of Rome, who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
• poach: (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
• poncho: A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.
• pooch: (slang) A dog.