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BuzzyWords

Your Spelling Bee Companion for Saturday, May 2, 2026

A field guide for the G B D E L N O hive: how many words you need, strategies for finding them, and (if you turn hint mode off) the full word lists you need to reach Genius and Queen Bee today.

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Today's Board

gbdelno

Verified Answers

66

Disputed Words

21

Pangrams

3

Score for Queen Bee

326

Genius estimate: 228 points

Verified Answers

66

Find every accepted word in today's source list

Pangrams

3

Use all seven letters

Disputed Words

21

In our dictionary but not the Spelling Bee list

Puzzle Snapshot

Solve The Hive Before The Spoilers

This page is currently in hint mode: you get the board, counts, estimated score targets, and strategy prompts without answer words. Reveal specific words only when you are ready to check your solve.

Today's Read

Generous

The G-center hive has 66 verified answers, 3 pangrams, and a 326-point Queen Bee ceiling. Start with the longer G words and pattern families before cleaning up the 20 four-letter answers.

Verified answers

66

Max score

326

Genius

228

3 pangrams

Pangram Hunt

Start by forcing every letter into longer shapes before clearing short entries. Pangrams are the fastest way to move the score.

326 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 228 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

66 verified answers

Queen Bee Path

Use the word lists below to scoop up every point you need to reach Queen Bee.

Study mode

Definition Pass

Click unfamiliar words to reveal their definitions and cement them in your memory for next time.

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

  • Start with the biggest point swings: This board has 3 pangrams, so the fastest route is to solve the all-letter shapes before sweeping short words. Examples: boondoggled, boondoggle, belonged, doglegged, blogged.
  • Use long-word stems before cleanup: There are 10 verified answers with seven or more letters. Work their stems first, because each one can be worth several short words. Examples: boondoggled, boondoggle, doglegged, belonged, blogged.
  • Group by recurring starts: The strongest two-letter openings give you a structured scan instead of a random search through the hive. Examples: gold, gone, gong, good, goon.
  • Save four-letter words for the last pass: 20 verified answers are four letters. They matter for Queen Bee, but they are low-value compared with pangrams and longer answers. Examples: blog, bong, doge, dong, edge.

Common Prefixes

  • GO- starts

    Several verified answers start with GO, making it a productive opening scan.

    Examples: gobble, goggle, golden, gonged, google

  • DO- starts

    Several verified answers start with DO, making it a productive opening scan.

    Examples: dodge, doggo, dodged, dogged, dogleg

  • BO- starts

    Several verified answers start with BO, making it a productive opening scan.

    Examples: bongo, bogged, boggle, boggled, boondoggle

  • BE- starts

    Several verified answers start with BE, making it a productive opening scan.

    Examples: begged, begone, belong, belonged

Common Suffixes

  • -GED endings

    The GED ending repeats across verified answers, so test it against the center letter and available stems.

    Examples: edged, egged, begged, bogged, dodged

  • -LED endings

    The LED ending repeats across verified answers, so test it against the center letter and available stems.

    Examples: ogled, gelled, boggled, gobbled, goggled

  • -GLE endings

    The GLE ending repeats across verified answers, so test it against the center letter and available stems.

    Examples: boggle, dongle, goggle, google, boondoggle

  • -DGE endings

    The DGE ending repeats across verified answers, so test it against the center letter and available stems.

    Examples: dodge, ledge, lodge

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

Pangram 1

Look for a 8-letter answer that uses every letter in the hive and keeps G in the word.

Reveal words: belonged

Pangram 2

Look for a 10-letter answer that uses every letter in the hive and keeps G in the word.

Reveal words: boondoggle

Pangram 3

Look for a 11-letter answer that uses every letter in the hive and keeps G in the word.

Reveal words: boondoggled

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • belonged

    BELONGED is a pangram, so it uses all seven letters and earns the bonus on top of its 8-letter base score.

  • boondoggle

    BOONDOGGLE is a pangram, so it uses all seven letters and earns the bonus on top of its 10-letter base score.

  • boondoggled

    BOONDOGGLED is a pangram, so it uses all seven letters and earns the bonus on top of its 11-letter base score.

  • doglegged

    DOGLEGGED is one of the board's long scoring answers; find this kind of shape before chasing one-point cleanup words.

  • blogged

    BLOGGED is worth checking because repeated letters are allowed and often unlock accepted answers that a strict tile mindset misses.

  • boggled

    BOGGLED is worth checking because repeated letters are allowed and often unlock accepted answers that a strict tile mindset misses.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • belonged

    BELONGED is verified for this date; keep it on the list even if it feels less obvious than the cleaner pattern words.

  • boondoggle

    BOONDOGGLE is verified for this date; keep it on the list even if it feels less obvious than the cleaner pattern words.

  • boondoggled

    BOONDOGGLED is verified for this date; keep it on the list even if it feels less obvious than the cleaner pattern words.

  • doglegged

    DOGLEGGED is verified for this date; keep it on the list even if it feels less obvious than the cleaner pattern words.

  • blogged

    BLOGGED is verified for this date; keep it on the list even if it feels less obvious than the cleaner pattern words.

  • boggled

    BOGGLED is verified for this date; keep it on the list even if it feels less obvious than the cleaner pattern words.

  • long

    LONG is verified for this date; keep it on the list even if it feels less obvious than the cleaner pattern words.

  • ogee

    OGEE is verified for this date; keep it on the list even if it feels less obvious than the cleaner pattern words.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

  • doggoned

    DOGGONED fits the letters and BuzzyWords can generate it, but it was not in the verified source answer list for this puzzle.

  • endlong

    ENDLONG fits the letters and BuzzyWords can generate it, but it was not in the verified source answer list for this puzzle.

  • endogen

    ENDOGEN fits the letters and BuzzyWords can generate it, but it was not in the verified source answer list for this puzzle.

  • neogene

    NEOGENE fits the letters and BuzzyWords can generate it, but it was not in the verified source answer list for this puzzle.

  • bonged

    BONGED fits the letters and BuzzyWords can generate it, but it was not in the verified source answer list for this puzzle.

  • donged

    DONGED fits the letters and BuzzyWords can generate it, but it was not in the verified source answer list for this puzzle.

  • engobe

    ENGOBE fits the letters and BuzzyWords can generate it, but it was not in the verified source answer list for this puzzle.

  • genned

    GENNED fits the letters and BuzzyWords can generate it, but it was not in the verified source answer list for this puzzle.

Answer Vault

All The Words You Need And A Few You Don't.

Trusted words are those you'll need to solve the puzzle. Disputed words are the ones we found in our dictionary that don't appear in the Spelling Bee's curated list. But we thought you might like to see them anyway.