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BuzzyWords

Your Spelling Bee Companion for Friday, May 29, 2026

A field guide for the A E K Q S U Y hive: how many words to look for, where the big points are hiding, and full answer lists only when you decide you are ready to reveal them.

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Today's Board

aekqsuy

Verified Answers

41

Disputed Words

10

Pangrams

1

Score for Queen Bee

170

Genius estimate: 119 points

Verified Answers

41

Find every accepted word in today's puzzle

Pangrams

1

Use all seven letters

Disputed Words

10

Real-looking words to treat with caution

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

Moderate with one high-value pangram and a heavy S/QU cleanup

A is the required center letter today, and this hive is more about disciplined family-hunting than free-form brainstorming. Start with the S-heavy and QU-based lanes, then push into SEA- and repeated-letter builds before circling back for the many short cleanup words that keep the board feeling busier than its 41 verified answers suggest.

Verified answers

41

Max score

170

Genius

119

1 pangram

Pangram Hunt

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

170 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 119 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

41 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.

Spoiler-Light Scan

Two-Letter Start Counts

Use these starts as a checklist without revealing full answers.

  • AS

    7

    words

  • QU

    6

    words

  • SA

    6

    words

  • EA

    3

    words

  • KA

    3

    words

  • SE

    3

    words

  • SQ

    3

    words

  • AQ

    2

    words

  • ES

    2

    words

  • SK

    2

    words

  • AU

    1

    word

  • AY

    1

    word

Score Planning

Word-Length Grid

Longer words carry more score. Clear them before the four-letter cleanup.

  • 4 letters

    16

    one-point cleanup

  • 5 letters

    12

    score-building row

  • 6 letters

    8

    score-building row

  • 7 letters

    2

    1 pangram

  • 8 letters

    2

    score-building row

  • 9 letters

    1

    score-building row

Progressive Hint

First-Letter Counts

  • S

    14

    answers

  • A

    11

    answers

  • Q

    6

    answers

  • E

    5

    answers

  • K

    3

    answers

  • Y

    2

    answers

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

  • SQU- cluster

    The SQU lane is the cleanest route to the pangram and one of the few branches that creates immediate high-value momentum.

  • SEA- family

    SEA- does real work here, producing both easy cleanup words and one of the day's biggest scoring answers.

  • QUAK- ladder

    QUAK- is worth extending carefully because it converts one discovery into several accepted answers.

  • Repeated-S branch

    This board rewards solvers who trust repeated letters, especially in the assess and sass families.

  • Delay the one-pointers

    There are 16 four-letter answers, so your first pass should stay with the longer families instead of chasing cleanup too early.

Common Prefixes

  • AS- starts

    AS repeats often enough to be one of the board's best opening scans.

  • QU- starts

    QU repeats often enough to be one of the board's best opening scans.

  • SA- starts

    SA repeats often enough to be one of the board's best opening scans.

  • EA- starts

    EA repeats often enough to be one of the board's best opening scans.

Common Suffixes

  • -AYS endings

    AYS is a recurring ending in accepted answers, so it is worth testing once a stem appears.

  • -SES endings

    SES is a recurring ending in accepted answers, so it is worth testing once a stem appears.

  • -AKE endings

    AKE is a recurring ending in accepted answers, so it is worth testing once a stem appears.

  • -AKS endings

    AKS is a recurring ending in accepted answers, so it is worth testing once a stem appears.

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

Perfect pangram alert

There is exactly one perfect pangram today, so the all-letter answer uses each tile once and only once.

Sound pattern

That pangram begins with the same opening as a high-pitched noise and ends like a familiar descriptive adjective.

Reveal

Open this only if you want the full pangram.

Reveal words: squeaky

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • squeaky

    The only pangram is also a perfect pangram, so it maps the whole hive in one shot and gives an immediate scoring spike.

  • seaquakes

    This plural is one of the biggest point swings on the board and confirms that the SEA- family deserves real attention.

  • seaquake

    A useful bridge word that often appears before the longer pluralized payoff.

  • queasy

    This seven-letter answer broadens the QU lane beyond the more obvious quake sequence.

  • assesses

    A reminder that repeated-letter confidence matters today, especially when the board starts feeling too short-word-heavy.

  • kayaks

    A repeated-letter plural that rewards anyone willing to revisit the smaller K branch late in the solve.

  • quays

    Helpful because it confirms the board supports the less intuitive quay spelling as well as the louder QUAK family.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • queasy

    A strong seven-letter scorer that is easy to miss if you focus too narrowly on the earthquake branch.

  • skua

    Short, legitimate, and obscure enough to slip past a normal cleanup pass.

  • asea

    Common phrase, less common spelling shape in a hive scan.

  • seaquake

    Looks plausible once you have SEA- and QUA-, but it still takes deliberate assembly.

  • assesses

    Repeated S and E pressure makes this feel less natural than it really is.

  • quay

    The accepted spelling is familiar to experienced solvers but still easy to doubt in the moment.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

  • eyases

    EYASES fits the hive letters and current solver rules, but it is not in today's verified source set.

  • ukases

    UKASES fits the hive letters and current solver rules, but it is not in today's verified source set.

  • akees

    AKEES fits the hive letters and current solver rules, but it is not in today's verified source set.

  • quass

    QUASS fits the hive letters and current solver rules, but it is not in today's verified source set.

  • ukase

    UKASE fits the hive letters and current solver rules, but it is not in today's verified source set.

  • yakka

    YAKKA fits the hive letters and current solver rules, but it is not in today's verified source set.

  • akee

    AKEE fits the hive letters and current solver rules, but it is not in today's verified source set.

  • eyas

    EYAS fits the hive letters and current solver rules, but it is not in today's verified source set.

  • kaka

    KAKA fits the hive letters and current solver rules, but it is not in today's verified source set.

  • keas

    KEAS fits the hive letters and current solver rules, but it is not in today's verified source set.

Answer Vault

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

Trusted words are your safest answer list. Disputed words are real-looking candidates that may not count in the curated puzzle, but they can still be useful for review.