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Your Spelling Bee Companion for Thursday, July 2, 2026

A field guide for the M E G I L N T 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

megilnt

Verified Answers

53

Disputed Words

5

Pangrams

1

Score for Queen Bee

258

Genius estimate: 181 points

Verified Answers

53

Find every accepted word in today's puzzle

Pangrams

1

Use all seven letters

Disputed Words

5

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-long board with one clean pangram and a deep -ing ladder

M sits in the center of a 53-word board that rewards patience more than brute-force cleanup. Start by scanning for long M-led builds and repeated-letter shapes, because this hive keeps turning short stems into bigger -ing and -ent payoffs. If the board feels dry at first, move from MI- and ME- starts into doubled consonants instead of chasing random four-letter scraps.

Verified answers

53

Max score

258

Genius

181

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.

258 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 181 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

53 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.

  • MI

    18

    words

  • ME

    11

    words

  • LI

    7

    words

  • EM

    3

    words

  • TE

    3

    words

  • TI

    3

    words

  • GI

    2

    words

  • EL

    1

    word

  • EN

    1

    word

  • GE

    1

    word

  • IM

    1

    word

  • IT

    1

    word

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

    4

    score-building row

  • 6 letters

    11

    score-building row

  • 7 letters

    10

    1 pangram

  • 8 letters

    7

    score-building row

  • 9 letters

    1

    score-building row

  • 11 letters

    1

    score-building row

Progressive Hint

First-Letter Counts

  • M

    29

    answers

  • L

    8

    answers

  • T

    6

    answers

  • E

    5

    answers

  • G

    3

    answers

  • I

    2

    answers

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

  • MI- family

    The biggest cluster on this board starts with MI-, so that branch is the fastest way to pile up verified words once you spot the right stem.

  • -ING ladder

    This hive keeps rewarding you for extending base forms into -ING, which is where a lot of the efficient mid-board points live.

  • Repeated-letter permission

    Doubled consonants matter here. If you stop yourself from trying MM, TT, LL, or NN, you leave several accepted answers behind.

  • -ENT and -MENT payoffs

    Several of the board's better scores come from long endings built around -ENT or -MENT rather than from exotic prefixes.

  • LIM- / LIN- stem split

    Once you find LIM- and LIN-, test both branches instead of assuming the board only wants the cleaner everyday form.

Common Prefixes

  • mi

    MI is the board's busiest opening and drives everything from short cleanup words to longer score builders.

  • me

    ME gives you both basic starters and several productive extensions into longer verified answers.

  • lim

    LIM unlocks both the obvious everyday branch and one of the trickier hidden forms on the board.

  • tim

    TIM is a smaller family, but it turns into a useful late-board sweep once you spot TIME.

Common Suffixes

  • ing

    The -ING finish is the main expansion engine on this hive and shows up across multiple unrelated stems.

  • ent

    Long -ENT endings carry several of the board's cleaner high-value answers.

  • ime

    The short -IME finish is worth a deliberate scan because it repeats across separate stems.

  • let

    A small but useful -LET family hides one uncommon answer and one more familiar score helper.

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

No-spoiler nudge

There is one pangram, and it is a straightforward everyday verb rather than an obscure specialist noun.

Shape hint

The pangram is 7 letters long, starts with ME-, and finishes with a very common -ING ending.

Reveal

Use all seven letters by building a common heat-related verb into its progressive form.

Reveal words: melting

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • melting

    MELTING is the lone pangram, so it uses all seven letters and should be the first major checkpoint if you want fast score lift.

  • entitlement

    ENTITLEMENT is the board's longest answer and a reminder that this hive pays off when you keep stretching workable stems.

  • gentlemen

    GENTLEMEN is a high-value plural that rewards a full sweep of the available consonants rather than a narrow M-only search.

  • liniment

    LINIMENT is one of the best examples of the board's hidden long-word value: ordinary letters, awkward order, strong score.

  • limning

    LIMNING shows why this board is dangerous if you ignore uncommon verb forms hiding behind a strange short base.

  • meming

    MEMING became today's only source backfill, which makes it a useful reminder that modern-looking accepted forms can still matter.

  • mettle

    METTLE is a compact score helper built on repeated letters, exactly the kind of word that separates a full clear from a near miss.

  • timeline

    TIMELINE is not the flashiest entry, but it is a reliable long score once you unlock the TIME stem.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • meming

    MEMING is easy to miss because it looks newer than the rest of the board, but it is in the verified source set and needed a solver backfill today.

  • limning

    LIMNING is the kind of accepted word players skip because LIMN is already unusual before you even extend it.

  • liniment

    LINIMENT is a strong point word, but its letter order is awkward enough that it often stays hidden until late.

  • gimlet

    GIMLET is a clean short scorer with an uncommon opening, so it is worth checking once GI- appears.

  • mettle

    METTLE only appears if you allow the doubled T and the less obvious final E pairing.

  • lemming

    LEMMING looks familiar, but the doubled M and the extra G make it easier to miss than its everyday meaning suggests.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

  • emetine

    EMETINE looks source-plausible because the hive supports long scientific shapes, but it was not in today's verified answer list.

  • emmet

    EMMET fits the letters and reads like it should work, but it did not appear in the validated source set for this date.

  • ilmenite

    ILMENITE is another mineral-style candidate that the live solver can build, yet the source list does not accept it today.

  • imine

    IMINE is a real-looking chemistry form and a believable guess from this letter mix, but it was not verified for this puzzle.

  • ming

    MING is short and plausible enough to tempt a cleanup guess, but it remains a non-source solver candidate here.

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.