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Your Spelling Bee Companion for Monday, June 29, 2026

A field guide for the C A F I L N U 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

cafilnu

Verified Answers

30

Disputed Words

1

Pangrams

1

Score for Queen Bee

152

Genius estimate: 106 points

Verified Answers

30

Find every accepted word in today's puzzle

Pangrams

1

Use all seven letters

Disputed Words

1

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

Tight 30-word board with one pangram and heavy CA/CLI families

Today's hive puts C in the center and keeps the board relatively tight, so random four-letter cleanup is a slow way to start. Open with the dense CA and CLI families, then check where doubled consonants and -AL endings stretch into longer scoring words. The board does have one pangram, but the easier entry point is to build outward from the repeated-letter stems first.

Verified answers

30

Max score

152

Genius

106

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.

152 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 106 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

30 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.

  • CA

    9

    words

  • CL

    5

    words

  • FA

    3

    words

  • LA

    3

    words

  • AC

    2

    words

  • CU

    2

    words

  • CI

    1

    word

  • FI

    1

    word

  • IL

    1

    word

  • LI

    1

    word

  • NI

    1

    word

  • UN

    1

    word

Score Planning

Word-Length Grid

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

  • 4 letters

    8

    one-point cleanup

  • 5 letters

    7

    score-building row

  • 6 letters

    9

    score-building row

  • 7 letters

    2

    score-building row

  • 8 letters

    2

    1 pangram

  • 9 letters

    2

    score-building row

Progressive Hint

First-Letter Counts

  • C

    17

    answers

  • F

    4

    answers

  • L

    4

    answers

  • A

    2

    answers

  • I

    1

    answer

  • N

    1

    answer

  • U

    1

    answer

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

  • CA- stem sweep

    CA is the board's biggest starter, and it branches into both short cleanup words and longer scoring forms. Work that family before hopping randomly across the hive.

  • CLI ladder

    CLI builds a clean progression from a short base into two longer medical-looking words, so it is one of the fastest ways to pile up points.

  • Double-letter pressure

    Repeated consonants matter on this board. If you ignore doubled L, N, or F, you leave behind several verified answers.

  • -AL finishers

    Once you have viable stems, test whether they can land on -AL. That ending unlocks multiple accepted answers here.

  • Start with the long payoffs

    There is only one pangram and just six answers of seven letters or longer, so every long find carries real weight toward Genius.

Common Prefixes

  • CA-

    The CA opening dominates the puzzle and feeds both repeat-letter words and the longer scoring branch.

  • CLI-

    CLI is the cleanest high-value ladder on the board.

  • FAN-

    FAN- matters because it produces both a common shorter answer and the pangram.

  • LAI-

    LAI- is easy to skip, but it gives you a tidy pair of accepted words.

Common Suffixes

  • -AL

    This is the strongest repeated ending on the board once you have the stems in place.

  • -IC

    A short -IC finish appears in two different verified answers.

  • -AC

    The -AC ending gives a small but useful pair that is easy to overlook.

  • -IAL

    This longer ending shows up in two of the more distinctive accepted words.

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

No-spoiler nudge

The pangram is an eight-letter adjective. It starts with FAN- and ends with a common descriptive suffix.

Shape hint

After FAN-, look for a repeated inner consonant before the final -FUL ending.

Reveal if needed

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

Reveal words: fanciful

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • fanciful

    The day's pangram uses all seven letters and rewards solvers who notice the FAN- stem can stretch into a descriptive ending.

  • clinician

    One of the two nine-letter anchors on the board and the best payoff if you can build upward from CLINIC.

  • financial

    Another nine-letter scorer, showing that the board supports one long adjective path beyond the medical cluster.

  • clinical

    A strong bridge word because it sits between CLINIC and CLINICIAN and confirms the productive CLI stem.

  • calculi

    Good reminder that plural-looking science terms are live here, not just plain everyday nouns.

  • cannula

    Worth noting because the repeated N helps extend the dense CA family into a seven-letter score.

  • laical

    Useful late-board catch: uncommon, accepted, and directly tied to the productive -AL ending.

  • niacin

    This vitamin entry breaks away from the dominant families, so it is a good check on whether you have searched the whole hive.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • acai

    Short vowel-heavy word that looks more modern than the rest of the board and is easy to talk yourself out of.

  • calculi

    Plural form with a Latin feel; worth chasing because it turns a familiar stem into a bigger score.

  • laical

    Looks plausible but uncommon, which makes it an easy skip unless you deliberately test LAI- plus -AL.

  • niacin

    Useful vitamin word that is not built from the dominant CA and CLI families, so it can hide until late.

  • uncuff

    Adds the UN- twist to a simpler repeated-letter base and is easy to miss if you stop at CUFF.

  • fanfic

    Modern clipped form that stands out from the more clinical and botanical vocabulary around it.

  • cilia

    Short science word with a vowel-heavy shape that does not announce itself as clearly as the long stems do.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

  • caff

    It fits the letters and BuzzyWords can generate it, but it was not present in today's verified source answer list.

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.

Disputed Words

1
Reveal 1 disputed word