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Your Spelling Bee Companion for Saturday, June 20, 2026

A field guide for the R D G I N O 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

rdginow

Verified Answers

55

Disputed Words

2

Pangrams

3

Score for Queen Bee

297

Genius estimate: 208 points

Verified Answers

55

Find every accepted word in today's source list

Pangrams

3

Use all seven letters

Disputed Words

2

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

Generous board with three pangrams and deep GR/WR branches

R sits in the center of a generous board: 55 verified answers, three pangrams, and a lot of productive -ING traffic. Start by scanning the GR- and WR- branches before you touch the four-letter cleanup, because that is where most of the seven- through ten-letter value lives. Repeated letters matter more than usual here, so keep OO, GG, and NN in play while you work those stems.

Verified answers

55

Max score

297

Genius

208

3 pangrams

Pangram Hunt

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

297 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 208 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

55 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.

  • GR

    11

    words

  • RI

    9

    words

  • WR

    5

    words

  • DR

    4

    words

  • GO

    3

    words

  • IR

    3

    words

  • NO

    3

    words

  • RO

    3

    words

  • WO

    3

    words

  • DO

    2

    words

  • GI

    2

    words

  • IN

    2

    words

Score Planning

Word-Length Grid

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

  • 4 letters

    15

    one-point cleanup

  • 5 letters

    11

    score-building row

  • 6 letters

    8

    score-building row

  • 7 letters

    12

    1 pangram

  • 8 letters

    8

    1 pangram

  • 10 letters

    1

    1 pangram

Progressive Hint

First-Letter Counts

  • G

    16

    answers

  • R

    12

    answers

  • W

    9

    answers

  • D

    6

    answers

  • I

    6

    answers

  • N

    4

    answers

  • O

    2

    answers

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

  • GR- cluster: GR- is the biggest production line on the board, covering short entries, long score-builders, and several doubled-letter paths. Clear this branch early and a lot of the board opens at once. Examples: grid, gridiron, grind, grinning, growing.
  • WR- family: The WR- branch carries both cleanup words and one of the highest-value reveals. If you see WRING or WRONG, keep extending instead of stopping at the first valid hit. Examples: wring, wringing, wrong, wrongdoing, wronging.
  • -ING extensions: This board rewards turning stable bases into longer -ING answers. After you find a short stem, test whether it can absorb another N or G before moving on. Examples: droning, girding, growing, ringing, wronging.
  • Repeated-letter tolerance: OO, GG, and NN are all active, so do not solve as if each tile can be used once. Several of the best-scoring answers only appear after you allow doubled letters. Examples: door, grinning, rigging, ringing, ironwood.
  • Center-letter R starters: Once the big families are gone, many of the remaining keeps start with the center letter itself. Sweep the RI-, RO-, and RW-adjacent shapes for late cleanup. Examples: riding, rigid, rigor, rondo, rowing.

Common Prefixes

  • gr-

    GR- is the board's most productive opening and spans both short keepers and long scoring words.

    Examples: gird, grid, gridiron, grind, growing

  • wr-

    WR- produces a compact but valuable family, including a pangram route and two strong extensions.

    Examples: wring, wringing, wrong, wrongdoing, wronging

  • ri-

    RI- is a useful cleanup sweep once you have the larger branches under control.

    Examples: ridding, ridging, riding, rigging, rigid

  • ir-

    IR- is smaller, but it hides one of the longer compound-style answers on the board.

    Examples: iron, ironing, ironwood

Common Suffixes

  • -ing

    The board leans heavily on -ING endings, especially once you find a stable GR-, WR-, or R-start stem.

    Examples: droning, girding, growing, ringing, wronging

  • -own

    The -OWN finish is worth a dedicated pass because it appears in both base words and extensions.

    Examples: drown, grown, ingrown

  • -ood

    OO-based endings are part of the repeated-letter story, not random one-offs.

    Examples: door, rood, ironwood

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

No-spoiler nudge

All three pangrams are built from familiar English scaffolding rather than obscure endings. One is the only seven-letter all-letter hit, one grows out of WRONG-, and one starts with DR- and finishes as an -ING word.

Shape clue

If you want the fastest all-letter find, hunt the WO- branch first. The remaining pangrams come from the DROWN- and WRONG- families.

Reveal the shortest pangram

Use this if you want the compact all-letter answer that unlocks the board quickly.

Reveal words: wording

Reveal the long pangrams

These are the two heavier all-letter payoffs once you have the shorter one.

Reveal words: drowning, wrongdoing

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • wording

    WORDING is the only perfect pangram, so it is the fastest full-hive reveal and a strong early confidence check.

  • wrongdoing

    WRONGDOING is the ten-letter ceiling word and the single biggest point swing on the board.

  • drowning

    DROWNING gives you a long pangram through a very ordinary base, which makes it easier to spot than its score suggests.

  • gridiron

    GRIDIRON is one of the best non-pangram scores and proves how much value sits inside the GR- branch.

  • ironwood

    IRONWOOD is a long repeated-letter answer that rewards solvers who keep compound-style shapes in mind.

  • wringing

    WRINGING shows that the WR- branch keeps extending after the first valid hit and that doubled letters stay live.

  • nigiri

    NIGIRI is a memorable off-pattern acceptance that can separate a strong solve from a full cleanup.

  • ingrown

    INGROWN is a good example of the board's useful -OWN ending and its appetite for longer extensions.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • nigiri

    NIGIRI is easy to miss because it feels niche next to the board's plain-English stems, but it is fully accepted today.

  • noir

    NOIR is a short foreign-feeling keep that can disappear if you only chase obvious verb patterns.

  • nori

    NORI is another compact answer that rewards checking the N-O-R frame from more than one angle.

  • gridiron

    GRIDIRON hides inside the crowded GR- family and is worth a strong mid-board score jump.

  • ironwood

    IRONWOOD matters because it combines a long answer with repeated O, a pattern many solvers under-test.

  • rigor

    RIGOR is easy to second-guess if you instinctively reach for the U-bearing spelling instead.

  • indoor

    INDOOR is everyday vocabulary, but it is not always the kind of word solvers remember to test in bee mode.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

  • grig

    GRIG fits the hive and the heavy GR- branch, but it is not in today's verified source list.

  • gringo

    GRINGO looks plausible because the board strongly supports GR- plus -ING/-O shapes, but today's source set does not verify it.

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.