Panagram No. 1,265
October 10, 2026Panagram is The Telegraph's daily word wheel: nine letters, and every word must use the one in the middle. One word uses all nine. Today the centre letter is D, and the game counts 51 words. Play it on the Telegraph.
Hint 1: what the nine-letter word means
- A noun: the work of managing relations between countries, or skill in dealing with people without upsetting them.
Hint 2: the first letter
- It starts with D.
Hint 3: the first half
- DIPL·····
Today's Panagram answer, No. 1,265
Other words on today's wheel
21 words we are sure of, each using D. The game counts 51, and its word list is its own, so a few of yours may not be here and one or two of these may not count. Tap to see them.
How to find the nine-letter word
Look for the endings first. A wheel with -AL, -IC, -ING or -ER in it often builds its long word on one of those, and once the ending is set aside the rest is a short word to unscramble. Words have to be four letters or more and every one needs the middle letter.
Panagram hides one long word. This one hides a headline.
One real news sentence a day, twenty to thirty words, something that actually happened. Keep the five words a headline would keep and let the rest go. Here is yesterday's, solved.
At Camden Lock, a 71-year-old woman, Beatrice Millar, took off her shoes, jumped in after a drowning man and saved him by holding his head above water.
Five tries. blue is the right word in the right place, orange is one of the five sitting somewhere else, grey is not one of them. The result beats the process, a name or a job beats a place, and the little words never count.
How you finish decides which sticker you keep.
