Your Spelling Bee Companion for Monday, June 15, 2026

A field guide for the H A C E I P T 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

haceipt

Verified Answers

Disputed Words

Pangrams

Score for Queen Bee

288

Genius estimate: 202 points

Verified Answers

Find every accepted word in today's source list

Pangrams

Use all seven letters

Disputed Words

In our dictionary but not the Spelling Bee list

Puzzle Snapshot

Solve The Hive Before The Spoilers

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Today's Read

Large H-centered board with 63 answers, three pangrams, and a heavy CH/TCH network that pays off before the repeated-letter cleanup.

Today's H-centered hive is broad rather than stingy: there are 63 verified answers, three pangrams, and a lot of mileage in CH-, HE-, and TH- lanes. Start by testing the chunky CH and TCH shapes before you sweep the short four-letter words. If you want quicker progress toward Genius, stay on the long families that recycle A, T, and E around H instead of nibbling at single-point cleanup first.

Verified answers

Max score

288

Genius

202

4 pangrams

Pangram Hunt

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

288 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 202 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

63 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.

answers start here

Score Planning

Word-Length Grid

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

one-point cleanup

score-building row

1 pangram

Progressive Hint

First-Letter Counts

answers

answer

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

CH- openers: The board leans hard on CH starts, so this is the fastest way to build volume without random guessing. Examples: chapati, cheapie, cheetah, chitchat.
-TCH endings: Six verified answers land on TCH, which makes this one of the cleanest score-building endings on the board. Examples: catch, hatch, pitch, thatch.
-TIC finishers: The adjective lane is lucrative here because three of the five -TIC words are the puzzle's pangrams. Examples: apathetic, haptic, hectic, hepatic, pathetic.
HE- and HA- branches: Once you have H in front, the board splits into two productive families instead of a single stem. Examples: haptic, hatchet, heath, hepcat.
Repeated-letter cleanup: Double letters matter late: this board hides extra value in EE, PP, and CHI/THA repeats that are easy to skip on a first pass. Examples: cheep, hippie, teethe, chichi.
EPI- pair: There are only two EPI- answers, but both are long enough to matter for the score climb. Examples: epitaph, epithet.

Common Prefixes

CH-
The strongest opening family on the board.
Examples: chapati, cheapie, chitchat
HE-
Useful for both medium and long answers.
Examples: heath, hectic, hepatic, hepcat
HA-
Short and medium answers cluster here.
Examples: haptic, hatch, hatchet, hatha
CA-
The C+A track produces several six- and seven-letter answers.
Examples: cache, cachet, capiche, captcha, catch
TE-
The TE lane mixes short cleanup with repeated-letter payoffs.
Examples: teach, techie, teeth, teethe

Common Suffixes

-tch
A dense ending family that is worth checking whenever you have a usable starter.
Examples: catch, hatch, hitch, patch, pitch, thatch
-tic
Several of the best scoring answers finish this way.
Examples: apathetic, haptic, hectic, hepatic, pathetic
-che
Borrowed-looking endings are real on this board.
Examples: attache, cache, capiche
-het
This ending connects one common trap word and two longer wins.
Examples: cachet, epithet, hatchet
-the
A smaller but useful repeated-letter lane.
Examples: teethe, tithe

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

Pangram lane 1

One pangram starts with A- and stretches into a nine-letter adjective built from the full hive.

Pangram lane 2

Another pangram is shorter and begins with HE-. Think anatomy-adjacent rather than conversational.

Pangram lane 3

The third pangram starts with PAT- and shares most of its skeleton with the longest answer family.

Reveal words: apathetic, hepatic, pathetic

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

apathetic
The longest pangram is also the biggest single scoring hit on the board, so it changes the pace of the whole solve.
hepatic
This seven-letter pangram is the fastest route to seeing how productive the HE- lane really is.
pathetic
Once you see PAT- working, this pangram becomes a strong bridge from short cleanup to the high-score tier.
chitchat
An eight-letter repeated-letter word that rewards anyone willing to trust the CHI/CHAT overlap.
epitaph
The EPI- opening is easy to ignore, but it leads straight to a valuable seven-letter answer.
epithet
This is the cleaner twin to EPITAPH and helps confirm the same long-letter scaffold.
cheetah
A repeated-E long answer that pays well and signals how generous the CH family is.
hatchet
This word makes the HA- branch and the -HET ending family click at the same time.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

attache
Easy to miss because it looks accent-dependent, but the plain spelling is accepted here.
capiche
The spelling is the trap: it sounds familiar, but the exact letter order is still easy to fumble.
hatha
Repeated H and A make this feel less likely than it is.
hepcat
This older-feeling noun is short enough to overlook even after you see HE-.
phat
A modern-looking short word that solvers often second-guess.
theta
Greek-letter vocabulary is a classic place to hesitate.
teethe
The repeated E pattern is valid and worth keeping in mind late.
chichi
A repeated-CHI shape that looks made up until you remember the duplicate letters are allowed.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

aitch
Looks plausible because the board supports many H-led short words, but the source list does not include the letter-name noun today.
chaeta
A real-looking science word built cleanly from the hive, but it is not in the verified answer set.
chaetae
The plural fits the same science lane as CHAETA, yet it still misses today's verified list.
echt
A compact four-letter fit that feels dictionary-safe, but today's source does not verify it.
petechia
It matches the medical-pattern letter mix, but it is absent from the curated source answers.
titch
This short TCH form feels possible once you find CATCH/HATCH/HITCH, but it was not verified today.

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.

Trusted Words

Reveal 63 trusted words

Disputed Words

Reveal 6 disputed words