Spelling Bee answers and hints for November 15, 2026

Today's puzzle is worth 149 points in total. These are the usual rank targets, worked out as a share of the total.

The longest answer is TELEOLOGY, at 9 letters.

• elote: (uncountable, countable) A street food dish originating in Central America, but now also popular ...
• eyelet: An object that consists of a rim and small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as ...
• gelt: (originally UK, especially thieves' cant and Polari, later Judaism and general slang) Money.
• logotype: A symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of an institution or oth...
• loot: (slang) Synonym of money.
• lotto: a lottery
• otology: (medicine) The branch of medicine that deals with the ear, its structure, function and pathology.
• pellet: A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
• pelt: The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserv...
• petty: (often derogatory) Having little or no importance.
• peyote: A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central M...
• plot: (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolde...
• poet: A person who writes poems.
• polyglot: Of a person: speaking, or versed in, many languages; multilingual.
• poppet: (informal, term of endearment) An endearingly sweet or beautiful child.
• potty: A small, usually plastic, chamber pot used to toilet-train small children.
• teepee: A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America.
• teleology: (philosophy) The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences.
• teletype: (historical) A telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Mo...
• tell: (transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
• tepee: Alternative form of teepee. [A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the ...
• toggle: To alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever.
• 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.
• toot: (countable) The noise of a horn or whistle.
• tootle: (intransitive, colloquial) To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly.
• tope: A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.
• topology: (mathematics, uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with those properties of a geometric...
• topple: (transitive) To push or throw over.
• tote: A tote bag.
• type: A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
• typo: A typographical error.
• typology: The systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics.