Your Spelling Bee Companion for Saturday, June 13, 2026
A field guide for the I A E K L T V 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.
Today's Board
Verified Answers
39
Disputed Words
8
Pangrams
1
Score for Queen Bee
156
Genius estimate: 109 points
Verified Answers
39
Find every accepted word in today's source list
Pangrams
1
Use all seven letters
Disputed Words
8
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
Mid-sized I board with 39 answers, one pangram, and repeated-letter cleanup around TALK-, TIL-, and -IATE lanes.
The center letter is I, and this hive opens fastest when you test TALK- and TIL- stems instead of guessing isolated fours. There is one clean pangram, several long -IATE payoffs, and a lot of double-L or double-T cleanup waiting underneath. Start by building from TA-, TI-, and VI- families, then extend them before you sweep the short endings.
Verified answers
39
Max score
156
Genius
109
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.
156 possible points
Point Density
The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 109 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.
39 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.
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Score Planning
Word-Length Grid
Longer rows carry more score. Clear them before the four-letter cleanup.
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- 1 pangram
Progressive Hint
First-Letter Counts
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Pattern Prompts
Work The Board Without Reveals
- TALK- family: This is the clearest early lane because it gives you the pangram plus shorter support words from the same opening. Examples: talkie, talkative, tail, tali, tallit.
- -IATE ending payoff: Several of the best mid- and long-range scores come from extending clean bases into -IATE shapes. Examples: aviate, alleviate, levitate, vitiate, titivate.
- TIL- / TIT- ladder: One short stem keeps scaling upward, so it is worth pushing past the four-letter cleanup into the longer reveal words. Examples: tile, till, tilt, title, tittle, titillate.
- Double-letter pressure: Repeated L and T show up all over this board, so reject the instinct to avoid doubled letters too early. Examples: alkali, alleviate, kill, little, tallit, villa.
- VI- scoring lane: VI- gives you several stable mid-board answers and helps confirm that the hive favors smooth vowel-consonant alternation. Examples: vial, vile, villa, vital, vitiate.
Common Prefixes
TA-
TA- opens both the pangram route and several supporting answers, so it is one of the fastest starts on the board.
Examples: tail, tali, talkie, talkative, tallit
TI-
TI- is the densest family here, spanning short cleanup words and the board's longer extensions.
Examples: tiki, tikka, tile, till, tilt, title, tittle, titivate
VI-
VI- is a productive secondary lane once the board stops yielding easy TA- answers.
Examples: vial, vile, villa, vital, vitiate
AL-
AL- hides some of the trickier repeated-letter answers, including a strong long-word payoff.
Examples: alike, alive, alkali, alleviate
Common Suffixes
-ITE
This ending appears in multiple clean mid-board answers and is worth testing whenever a stem looks close.
Examples: elite, kite, lite
-ATE
The longer scoring lane repeatedly resolves into -ATE endings once you have the right stem in place.
Examples: alleviate, levitate, vitiate
-IVE
The pangram and a supporting answer both land on -IVE, which makes it a useful finishing check.
Examples: alive, talkative
-ILL
Short repeated-letter cleanup often finishes here, especially once you trust doubled consonants.
Examples: kill, till
Progressive Help
Pangram Hints
No-spoiler nudge
The pangram is a common adjective built from a conversational root and a very familiar -IVE ending.
Stronger hint
Start from TALK-, keep the center I active, and look for a nine-letter word that uses every hive letter exactly where the board wants them.
Reveal
The full pangram is the long TALK- extension.
Reveal words: talkative
Spoiler Control
Notable Words
- talkativePangram
- titillate9 pts
- alleviate9 pts
- levitate8 pts
- vitiate7 pts
- talkie6 pts
- titivate8 pts
- alkali6 pts
- aviate6 pts
- little6 pts
Why these matter
- talkative
TALKATIVE is the lone pangram, so spotting the TALK- lane early gives you the cleanest jump toward Queen Bee.
- titillate
TITILLATE is the board's longest non-pangram and the best proof that the TIL/TIT family deserves a full extension pass.
- alleviate
ALLEVIATE is a big repeated-letter payoff that turns a familiar root into one of the day's stronger long scores.
- levitate
LEVITATE confirms that the -IATE lane is not a one-off and helps unlock the board's rhythm for longer answers.
- vitiate
VITIATE is a high-value VI- answer that many solvers only see after they have already found VITAL or VILE.
- talkie
TALKIE is a useful bridge word because it points straight at the pangram without revealing the whole route immediately.
Hard Finds
Tricky Accepted Words
- alkali
ALKALI is a classic Bee word that feels less obvious than it should because the repeated A and L hide in plain sight.
- tallit
TALLIT is easy to miss if you stop the TALK/TAL lane too early or avoid the doubled T and L.
- tikka
TIKKA is short, source-verified, and exactly the kind of repeated-letter answer solvers talk themselves out of.
- titivate
TITIVATE looks niche, but it is a real high-value extension once you trust the TIT- lane.
- titillate
TITILLATE is the longest non-pangram and rewards anyone who keeps building instead of cashing out at TITLE or TITTLE.
- alleviate
ALLEVIATE is both a long scorer and a reminder that doubled letters are part of the puzzle's main route, not edge cases.
Disputed Candidates
Plausible Rejections
- illative
ILLATIVE fits the letters and the -IVE pattern, but the verified source list does not accept it today.
- kail
KAIL looks natural once KA- and KI- words start landing, but it is outside the source-backed answer set.
- kali
KALI is a plausible short form on these letters, yet it is not verified for this puzzle date.
- kittle
KITTLE feels possible because the board likes doubled consonants, but the source list leaves it out.
- taille
TAILLE follows the TA- lane and repeated-letter logic, but it was not in the accepted source answers.
- titi
TITI is a believable four-letter cleanup guess that still misses the verified list.
- vail
VAIL fits the VI/VA vowel-consonant rhythm, but today's accepted set does not include it.
- viva
VIVA is another natural repeated-vowel candidate that BuzzyWords can generate but the source does not verify.
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.