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BuzzyWords

Your Spelling Bee Companion for Monday, May 11, 2026

A field guide for the T C D E H I W 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

tcdehiw

Verified Answers

52

Disputed Words

17

Pangrams

2

Score for Queen Bee

237

Genius estimate: 166 points

Verified Answers

52

Find every accepted word in today's source list

Pangrams

2

Use all seven letters

Disputed Words

17

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

Balanced

The T-center hive has 52 verified answers, 1 pangram, and a 237-point Queen Bee ceiling. Start with the longer T words and pattern families before cleaning up the 16 four-letter answers.

Verified answers

52

Max score

237

Genius

166

2 pangrams

Pangram Hunt

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

237 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 166 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

52 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 1 pangram, so the fastest route is to solve the all-letter shapes before sweeping short words. Examples: twitched, detected, dietetic, ditched, eidetic.
  • Use long-word stems before cleanup: There are 9 verified answers with seven or more letters. Work their stems first, because each one can be worth several short words. Examples: detected, dietetic, twitched, ditched, eidetic.
  • Group by recurring starts: The strongest two-letter openings give you a structured scan instead of a random search through the hive. Examples: twee, twit, tweed, tweet, twice.
  • Save four-letter words for the last pass: 16 verified answers are four letters. They matter for Queen Bee, but they are low-value compared with pangrams and longer answers. Examples: chit, cite, diet, edit, etch.

Common Prefixes

  • TW- starts

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

    Examples: tweed, tweet, twice, twitch, tweeted

  • DI- starts

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

    Examples: ditch, dieted, ditched, dietetic

  • TE- starts

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

    Examples: teeth, techie, teethe, teethed

  • TI- starts

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

    Examples: tided, tithe, tidied, tithed

Common Suffixes

  • -HED endings

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

    Examples: etched, itched, tithed, ditched, hitched

  • -TED endings

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

    Examples: cited, dieted, edited, wetted, tweeted

  • -TCH endings

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

    Examples: ditch, hitch, witch, twitch

  • -TIC endings

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

    Examples: hectic, eidetic, dietetic

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

Pangram 1

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

Reveal words: twitched

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • twitched

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

  • detected

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

  • dietetic

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

  • ditched

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

  • eidetic

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

  • hitched

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

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • twitched

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

  • detected

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

  • dietetic

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

  • ditched

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

  • eidetic

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

  • hitched

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

  • whet

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

  • whit

    WHIT 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

  • cheddite

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

  • deictic

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

  • twitted

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

  • witched

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

  • thetic

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

  • whited

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

  • withed

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

  • witted

    WITTED 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.