Your Spelling Bee Companion for Wednesday, July 1, 2026
A field guide for the E C D H I P 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.
Today's Board
Verified Answers
51
Disputed Words
3
Pangrams
2
Score for Queen Bee
224
Genius estimate: 157 points
Verified Answers
51
Find every accepted word in today's puzzle
Pangrams
2
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
Medium-large board with twin pangrams and repeat-letter pressure
Start by treating E as the hinge, not the obstacle: this board keeps rewarding words that reuse it, often alongside doubled consonants. The fastest path into the puzzle is the dense DE-, PE-, and CH-/HI- territory, where short repeats can grow into longer scoring chains. If you stall, sweep the repeat-letter fours first and let them point you toward the decide, deduce, and hiccup families.
Verified answers
51
Max score
224
Genius
157
2 pangrams
Pangram Hunt
Start by forcing every letter into longer shapes before clearing short entries. Pangrams are the fastest way to move the score.
224 possible points
Point Density
The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 157 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.
51 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.
DE
11
words
CH
5
words
PI
5
words
DI
4
words
HI
4
words
PE
4
words
DU
3
words
ED
3
words
CE
2
words
CU
2
words
EP
2
words
HE
2
words
Score Planning
Word-Length Grid
Longer words carry more score. Clear them before the four-letter cleanup.
4 letters
19
one-point cleanup
5 letters
11
score-building row
6 letters
14
score-building row
7 letters
5
score-building row
8 letters
1
1 pangram
9 letters
1
1 pangram
Progressive Hint
First-Letter Counts
D
18
answers
P
10
answers
C
9
answers
H
7
answers
E
5
answers
I
1
answer
U
1
answer
Pattern Prompts
Work The Board Without Reveals
de-
This is the main scoring lane, with short entries expanding into multiple sixes and sevens.
double e
Repeated E fuels both the cheap starters and the longer extensions, so it is worth spotting early.
double p
The PP cluster carries several mid-value words and both pangram routes.
-ed builds
A large share of the board comes from pushing valid bases into past-tense forms.
pie-/pip-
The PI lane branches cleanly into multiple short and medium answers without changing many letters.
chi-/hic-
Once you see the CH/HI sound family, the best long-word route becomes much easier to chase.
Common Prefixes
de
The richest prefix on the board; keep stretching it before searching elsewhere.
pe
Useful for both quick points and doubled-letter expansions.
pi
This branch produces several tidy score-building variants.
ch
A smaller family, but it leads directly into some of the best non-DE scores.
Common Suffixes
-ed
The board keeps paying off simple past-tense extensions.
-ee
Double-E endings are common enough to be worth checking whenever you have a short base.
-ide
This ending helps connect short answers to the longer de- family.
-uce
The UCE ending opens a compact cluster that is easy to under-scan.
Progressive Help
Pangram Hints
Repeat-letter nudge
Both pangrams rely on doubled consonants, so do not stop after finding a clean seven-letter sweep.
Same base word
The two pangrams come from the same everyday interruption/noise word; one form simply doubles a late consonant.
Reveal the pair
Both pangrams share the same stem and differ by one extra repeated letter.
Reveal words: hiccuped, hiccupped
Spoiler Control
Notable Words
- hiccuppedPangram
- hiccupedPangram
- deduced7 pts
- deicide7 pts
- eddied6 pts
- heeded6 pts
- epee1 pts
- cheeped7 pts
- chipped7 pts
- decided7 pts
Why these matter
- hiccupped
The longer pangram is the best reminder that repeat letters matter more than clean symmetry today.
- hiccuped
Finding the shorter pangram usually unlocks the entire top-value family.
- deicide
This is the oddball long word that pays off if you keep extending the de- branch.
- deduced
A strong score word that shows how much value sits in simple suffix pushes.
- heeded
One of the cleaner repeat-letter conversions once you notice the double-E engine.
- epee
A compact specialty word that turns an awkward vowel pile into a real answer.
- eddied
Its doubled D and shifted order make it one of the easier sixes to overlook.
Hard Finds
Tricky Accepted Words
- epee
The repeated E makes this fencing term easy to dismiss before you test it.
- deice
A short, perfectly valid verb that hides inside the much louder de- family.
- educe
Less common than deduce, but the same letter shell makes it reachable.
- deicide
An unusual noun, but one that rewards anyone who keeps extending decide/deduce territory.
- hiccupped
The second pangram is easy to miss because many solvers stop after the shorter form.
Disputed Candidates
Plausible Rejections
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.