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Your Spelling Bee Companion for Sunday, July 5, 2026

A field guide for the O D E F I L V 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

odefilv

Verified Answers

54

Disputed Words

7

Pangrams

1

Score for Queen Bee

232

Genius estimate: 162 points

Verified Answers

54

Find every accepted word in today's puzzle

Pangrams

1

Use all seven letters

Disputed Words

7

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 board with one pangram, heavy repeated-letter pressure, and a big -ED cleanup tail

O is the center letter in a 54-word board that looks friendlier once you stop treating doubled letters as mistakes. Start by scanning the DO-, FO-, and VO- families, then push into the long past-tense builds because this hive keeps paying off once you find a base stem and add another repeated letter.

Verified answers

54

Max score

232

Genius

162

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.

232 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 162 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

54 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.

  • DO

    11

    words

  • FO

    9

    words

  • LO

    5

    words

  • OL

    5

    words

  • VO

    5

    words

  • DE

    3

    words

  • FL

    3

    words

  • VI

    3

    words

  • DI

    2

    words

  • EV

    2

    words

  • FI

    1

    word

  • ID

    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

    14

    score-building row

  • 6 letters

    13

    score-building row

  • 7 letters

    6

    score-building row

  • 8 letters

    2

    1 pangram

Progressive Hint

First-Letter Counts

  • D

    16

    answers

  • F

    13

    answers

  • O

    8

    answers

  • V

    8

    answers

  • L

    5

    answers

  • E

    2

    answers

  • I

    2

    answers

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

  • DO- family

    The densest opening on the board is DO-. It branches into short keepers, doubled-letter variants, and longer extensions, so it is the best first sweep.

  • FO- into FOL/FOO

    FO- gives you both scoring routes: the FOL- branch leads to structural words, while FOO- carries the repeated-vowel cleanup set.

  • Repeated letters are mandatory, not optional

    This hive hides value inside doubled consonants and doubled vowels. If you skip repeats, you lose both the pangram and several medium scorers.

  • -ED finishing pass

    Once you find a live stem, test the -ED form immediately. The board has a long verified -ED tail, and those extensions carry a big share of the total score.

  • VO-/VI- long-word branch

    The V words are not just cleanup. They produce one of the stronger long-answer lanes on the board and help confirm how flexible O is as an interior vowel here.

Common Prefixes

  • DO-

    The biggest family on the board starts with DO-, and it is worth exhausting before you move on.

  • FO-

    FO- is the second major lane and splits into both word-building and repeated-vowel answers.

  • OL-

    OL- is a compact but useful cleanup family once the bigger stems are gone.

  • VO-

    VO- unlocks both plain endings and longer scoring forms.

Common Suffixes

  • -ED

    Past-tense style endings dominate this board and should be checked any time you land on a valid base.

  • -OID

    The OID ending repeats in a few useful spots and is easy to overlook if you focus only on everyday words.

  • -OLE

    This ending helps convert short stems into verified answers during cleanup.

  • -OOD

    The repeated-OO sound is productive here and leads to both short and extended answers.

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

No-spoiler nudge

There is one pangram, and it is an eight-letter build that repeats a consonant instead of relying on seven distinct positions.

Shape hint

The pangram starts with FI- and finishes with a very common four-letter chunk that also appears elsewhere in the grid.

Reveal the pangram

Use this only if you want the full answer.

Reveal words: fivefold

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • fivefold

    The lone pangram is also the best scoring word on the board, so finding it early changes the whole pace of the solve.

  • devolved

    This eight-letter answer shows how rewarding the -ED extensions are once you land on a stable stem.

  • dollied

    A high-value seven-letter answer that hides behind repeated letters and an uncommon inflection.

  • doodled

    This word proves the board is comfortable with stacked repeats and rewards players who test them aggressively.

  • evolved

    A strong long-word confirmation that the EVOL- pattern is live, not just the shorter evolve base.

  • flooded

    One of the cleaner medium-to-long scorers, and a good reminder to test -ED immediately after you find FLOOD.

  • videoed

    The extra -ED makes this easy to skip, but it is a valuable long answer once VIDEO is in hand.

  • devolve

    This stem is worth chasing because it opens directly into a longer verified extension.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • dollied

    Easy to miss because the doubled L sits inside an uncommon past-tense build, but it is a real seven-point answer.

  • iodide

    This is a chemistry-style word with a less familiar letter rhythm than the rest of the board.

  • oleo

    Short, old-fashioned, and exactly the kind of four-letter keeper that disappears if you only hunt modern vocabulary.

  • ollie

    A proper-feeling skating term that is still accepted here and useful once you notice the OL- lane.

  • voodoo

    The doubled O pattern looks excessive at first glance, which is why it is a common miss.

  • doffed

    This one matters because it confirms both the DO- family and the productive -ED extension.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

  • dido

    A clean four-letter fit with the right center letter, so it is easy to test even though it is not verified today.

  • doddle

    The doubled-letter shape matches the hive well, which makes it a believable but unverified longer candidate.

  • felloe

    It uses only legal letters and has the right repeated-vowel texture, but it is outside the verified source list.

  • feoffee

    This is exactly the sort of obscure repeated-vowel candidate a broad solver can generate without source confirmation.

  • lido

    Short and common-looking enough to try, but the verified answer set does not accept it for this date.

  • lilo

    Another neat four-letter fit that feels plausible from the letters alone, yet it is still unverified for today.

  • ovolo

    Architectural vocabulary can sneak into broad solver output, but this one was not confirmed by the source set.

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.