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BuzzyWords

Your Spelling Bee Companion for Friday, June 19, 2026

A field guide for the A C D E I M Y 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

acdeimy

Verified Answers

57

Disputed Words

6

Pangrams

1

Score for Queen Bee

254

Genius estimate: 178 points

Verified Answers

57

Find every accepted word in today's source list

Pangrams

1

Use all seven letters

Disputed Words

6

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

Wide 57-word board with one nine-letter pangram and a deep academic MA-/ACA- lane

Today's center letter is A, and this hive opens up once you stop treating it like a short-word cleanup board. The fastest path is through the ACA-/MACA- families, the long -ED extensions, and one nine-letter pangram that turns the whole vowel-heavy mix into a real scoring lane. If you start by testing doubled consonants and long academic-looking shapes, the one-point endings get much easier to see later.

Verified answers

57

Max score

254

Genius

178

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.

254 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 178 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

57 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.

  • AC

    13

    words

  • MA

    13

    words

  • CA

    5

    words

  • DE

    5

    words

  • AI

    3

    words

  • DA

    3

    words

  • ME

    3

    words

  • ED

    2

    words

  • IM

    2

    words

  • MI

    2

    words

  • AD

    1

    word

  • AM

    1

    word

Score Planning

Word-Length Grid

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

  • 4 letters

    20

    one-point cleanup

  • 5 letters

    13

    score-building row

  • 6 letters

    12

    score-building row

  • 7 letters

    8

    score-building row

  • 8 letters

    2

    score-building row

  • 9 letters

    2

    1 pangram

Progressive Hint

First-Letter Counts

  • A

    18

    answers

  • M

    18

    answers

  • D

    10

    answers

  • C

    6

    answers

  • I

    3

    answers

  • E

    2

    answers

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

  • ACA- academic branch: This is the richest opening lane on the board, and it produces both long scores and short cleanup words once you trust the stem. Examples: academe, academia, academic, academy, acacia.
  • MACA- and MAD- scoring lane: The M+A backbone carries several of the best non-pangram scores, so it is worth extending well past the obvious four-letter checks. Examples: macadamia, macadam, madame, maimed, mayday.
  • -ED extension ladder: Past-tense endings do real work here. Once a base looks legal, test whether it also supports an -ED version for extra points. Examples: acceded, aided, caddied, decayed, maimed.
  • Double-consonant confidence: This board rewards solvers who trust repeated letters instead of trimming them away. The best long answers often need DD, MM, or CC. Examples: caddie, caddied, dammed, mamma, mecca.
  • DEA-/DEC- branch: The DEA/DEC family gives you both dependable medium-length points and one of the board's easier long reveals. Examples: deadeye, decade, decay, decayed, dead.
  • Save four-letter cleanup for last: There are plenty of one-point exits, but they are much easier to spot after the long academic and M-heavy stems have already clicked. Examples: acme, aide, amid, dame, mica.

Common Prefixes

  • aca-

    ACA- is the clearest productive prefix on the board and branches into both common and academic-looking answers.

    Examples: acacia, academe, academia, academic, academy

  • deca-

    DECA- quickly splits into a scoreable core plus past-tense extensions, so it is worth forcing early.

    Examples: decade, decay, decayed

  • maca-

    MACA- is the long-word jackpot here, especially if you keep extending past the first believable stop.

    Examples: macadam, macadamia

  • ma-

    MA- is everywhere on this board and supports clean four-letter words, longer doubled-letter builds, and several top scorers.

    Examples: madam, madame, made, maid, maimed

Common Suffixes

  • -ed

    Verified words repeatedly expand into -ED forms, which is one of the cleanest ways to add medium-value points today.

    Examples: acceded, added, aided, decayed, maced

  • -ia

    The board likes vowel-heavy -IA endings, especially in the academic and food-adjacent lanes.

    Examples: acacia, academia, macadamia

  • -ic

    Short adjective endings are live, and they help confirm that the academic/science vocabulary lane is real.

    Examples: academic, acidic

  • -day

    DAY appears in more than one accepted answer, so once that shape feels possible it is worth extending in both directions.

    Examples: mayday, midday

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

No-spoiler nudge

There is only one pangram, and it is longer than any other answer on the board. Start in the IM- lane rather than the obvious ACA- family.

Shape hint

The pangram is a nine-letter abstract noun with repeated I and M sounds, and it finishes with a common -CY ending.

Reveal pangram

If you want the full all-letter answer, reveal it here.

Reveal words: immediacy

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • immediacy

    IMMEDIACY is the only pangram, so it is the board's biggest single scoring swing and the best proof that the IM- lane matters.

  • macadamia

    MACADAMIA is the longest accepted word, and it rewards anyone who keeps extending the MACA- branch instead of settling early.

  • academia

    ACADEMIA confirms that the board really wants academic-looking stems, not just short A-start cleanups.

  • edamame

    EDAMAME is a high-value score that hides inside the board's repeated-vowel texture rather than its obvious consonant branches.

  • deadeye

    DEADEYE turns a familiar DEAD start into a seven-letter payoff and makes the DEA-/DEC- family much more trustworthy.

  • caddied

    CADDIED shows how profitable the doubled-consonant plus -ED extension pattern is on this board.

  • diadem

    DIADEM is one of the better medium scores and a good reminder to test ornate-looking vowel patterns instead of skipping them.

  • mayday

    MAYDAY is a satisfying bridge word because it proves the DAY ending before you circle back to MIDDAY.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • acai

    ACAI is easy to doubt because it is short, vowel-heavy, and feels more modern than the surrounding academic lane.

  • acidy

    ACIDY looks like a made-up extension even though the board accepts it.

  • deadeye

    DEADEYE is a strong seven-letter score hiding inside a very ordinary DEAD stem.

  • diadem

    DIADEM is easy to miss because the vowel order feels less natural than the cleaner MA-/DECA- branches.

  • edamame

    EDAMAME is one of the board's best scores, but many solvers stop at the familiar food idea before committing to the full spelling.

  • imam

    IMAM is a useful reminder that repeated letters and compact vowel patterns are both active today.

  • macadam

    MACADAM looks like a fragment on first pass, but it unlocks the longer MACADAMIA family.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

  • accidie

    ACCIDIE fits the academic and repeated-letter feel of the board, but it was not in the verified source list for today.

  • acedia

    ACEDIA looks perfectly at home beside ACADEMIA and ACIDY, yet it was not source-verified for this date.

  • cadi

    CADI is a believable short cleanup answer near CAMI and CADDIE, but the source list does not include it today.

  • ceca

    CECA matches the science-flavored letter set and repeated-vowel style, but it was not part of the accepted source set.

  • cycad

    CYCAD feels plausible because the board already accepts CICADA and other unusual C-heavy words, but it is still unverified today.

  • dace

    DACE is a neat four-letter fish word that the solver can form, but it did not make the curated source list.

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.