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Your Spelling Bee Companion for Sunday, June 28, 2026

A field guide for the V D E G I L N 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

vdegiln

Verified Answers

67

Disputed Words

3

Pangrams

3

Score for Queen Bee

397

Genius estimate: 278 points

Verified Answers

67

Find every accepted word in today's puzzle

Pangrams

3

Use all seven letters

Disputed Words

3

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

Wide 67-word board with three pangrams and a 278-point genius chase

V is the required letter on a roomy 67-word board, but this is not a pure volume day because the real payoff sits in the long V-heavy builds. Start by probing the DIV-, DEV-, and VEI- lanes, then push every promising stem into -ED and especially -ING before you worry about four-letter cleanup. If you want the fastest route to bigger gains, chase the long chains that add G and N rather than settling for the early short words.

Verified answers

67

Max score

397

Genius

278

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.

397 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 278 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

67 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.

  • VE

    13

    words

  • DI

    11

    words

  • DE

    9

    words

  • LI

    7

    words

  • EN

    5

    words

  • LE

    5

    words

  • VI

    5

    words

  • EV

    4

    words

  • GI

    3

    words

  • IN

    3

    words

  • EL

    1

    word

  • IV

    1

    word

Score Planning

Word-Length Grid

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

  • 4 letters

    12

    one-point cleanup

  • 5 letters

    12

    score-building row

  • 6 letters

    17

    score-building row

  • 7 letters

    13

    1 pangram

  • 8 letters

    8

    1 pangram

  • 9 letters

    3

    1 pangram

  • 10 letters

    2

    score-building row

Progressive Hint

First-Letter Counts

  • D

    20

    answers

  • V

    18

    answers

  • L

    12

    answers

  • E

    10

    answers

  • I

    4

    answers

  • G

    3

    answers

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

  • DIV- family

    This is the board's deepest scoring branch, moving from easy cleanup into multiple seven- and eight-letter payoffs.

  • Long -ING lane

    Once a base looks viable, test the -ING extension aggressively because this hive rewards it over and over.

  • DEV- split

    DEV- forks into both the devil family and the culinary devein family, so one stem can unlock two separate tracks.

  • VEI-/VEIL-/VEIN cluster

    The VEI cluster is one of the cleanest spoiler-light builders because both branches keep extending naturally.

  • LIV-/ENLIV growth

    Short live-based seeds keep stretching into meaningful medium and long answers, including one of the board's biggest non-pangrams.

  • Double-V confidence

    A couple of accepted words look wrong at first because of repeated Vs, so this is a board where doubled V is worth trusting.

Common Prefixes

  • div-

    The most productive prefix on the board, with clean growth from four letters to eight.

  • dev-

    DEV branches into both familiar and less obvious accepted words, so it is worth revisiting after the first pass.

  • vei-

    VEI gives you two adjacent families that are easy to extend without brute force.

  • liv-

    LIV starts with simple cleanup and keeps paying into longer answers.

  • veg-

    The short VEG lane is compact but useful, especially once you trust the repeated G shapes.

Common Suffixes

  • -ing

    This is the board's best extension suffix by volume and by point density.

  • -ed

    Many families cash out through straightforward past-tense builds, so keep testing them after you find the base.

  • -en

    Several cleanup words share the same ending, which makes this a useful short-word sweep once the big lanes are done.

  • -ive

    This ending helps you pick off a few clean shorter answers in the middle of the board.

  • -ied

    The IED finish marks a small but high-value cluster with a few suspicious-looking accepted shapes.

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

Shape first

There are three pangrams today, and all of them come from long V-centered builds rather than one obvious everyday noun.

Family nudge

Two pangrams grow out of DE- starts, while the third begins with IN- and lives in the same long-word neighborhood.

Reveal pangrams

If your DE- and IN- scaffolding is in place, the full seven-letter-plus payoffs are ready to cash in.

Reveal words: delving, deviling, inveigled

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • delving

    The perfect pangram is the cleanest early long-word hit and a strong signal that this board rewards layered verb builds.

  • deviling

    This pangram turns an ordinary base into a much bigger payoff, so the DEV- branch is worth exhausting.

  • inveigled

    A 16-point pangram and one of the best reminders that the board hides serious value inside uncommon vocabulary.

  • deveining

    This odd-looking nine-letter accepted word matters because it converts a suspicious stem into real scoring value.

  • enlivening

    The board's other 10-letter standout proves the LIV family is more than cleanup once you keep extending it.

  • dividend

    A sturdy eight-letter non-pangram that rewards anyone who keeps pushing past the simpler DIV- verbs.

  • veld

    A classic trapdoor four-letter answer: small, unusual, and easy to leave behind if you only chase familiar words.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • deveining

    A nine-letter kitchen verb that many solvers will never test unless they first believe in the shorter devein family.

  • inveigle

    This uncommon base matters because it opens both a pangram and a longer extension.

  • inveigled

    The longest pangram payoff is easy to miss unless you keep pushing past the rarer base form.

  • veld

    A specialized four-letter cleanup word that looks too niche to trust on first glance.

  • divvied

    The repeated V pattern makes this look implausible even though it fits a real accepted family.

  • levied

    This is the kind of ordinary-looking past tense that disappears unless you remember the LEV- branch.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

  • levin

    It is a real dictionary word and fits the hive neatly, but today's source set does not verify it.

  • vide

    This looks plausible once the DIVIDE family appears, yet it stays outside the verified answer list.

  • villein

    The letters support it and the word is legitimate, but it is not part of the accepted source set for today.

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.