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BuzzyWords

Your Spelling Bee Companion for Friday, July 10, 2026

A field guide for the E B F L O T 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

ebflotu

Verified Answers

54

Disputed Words

7

Pangrams

1

Score for Queen Bee

215

Genius estimate: 151 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

Word-rich with repeated-letter traps and one long all-letter payoff

E sits in the middle of a very repeat-heavy hive, so this one rewards solvers who test doubled consonants and doubled vowels early. Start by looking for compact four-letter building blocks that can stretch into longer families, especially around B-, BL-, and TU- shapes. The board is generous on total words, but many of the best scores come from spotting how one short core can grow into several longer entries.

Verified answers

54

Max score

215

Genius

151

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.

215 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 151 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.

  • BE

    9

    words

  • FE

    7

    words

  • TU

    6

    words

  • BO

    5

    words

  • FL

    5

    words

  • BU

    4

    words

  • BL

    3

    words

  • TO

    3

    words

  • LU

    2

    words

  • TE

    2

    words

  • EF

    1

    word

  • ET

    1

    word

Score Planning

Word-Length Grid

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

  • 4 letters

    24

    one-point cleanup

  • 5 letters

    8

    score-building row

  • 6 letters

    17

    score-building row

  • 7 letters

    1

    score-building row

  • 8 letters

    2

    score-building row

  • 9 letters

    1

    1 pangram

  • 10 letters

    1

    score-building row

Progressive Hint

First-Letter Counts

  • B

    21

    answers

  • F

    13

    answers

  • T

    11

    answers

  • L

    4

    answers

  • O

    3

    answers

  • E

    2

    answers

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

  • double-b builds

    Repeated b letters unlock several medium and long words, so do not stop after the shortest form.

  • bottle family

    One central stem expands from a mid-length base into the day's only pangram and one of the biggest point swings.

  • blue cluster

    The BLU opening is worth chasing because it branches into a short base and two longer follow-ups.

  • tu- growth path

    A small TU start widens into multiple accepted answers, including one useful backfilled long word.

  • double-e endings

    Several accepted words finish with soft double-e sounds, which helps once you notice the hive favors repeated E.

  • fett- spine

    A short F-start can be extended twice, so it is a good rescue path when you are stuck in the middle game.

Common Prefixes

  • be-

    This is the busiest opening on the board and drives both short fillers and longer score builders.

  • blu-

    A compact consonant cluster that immediately opens a short answer plus two strong follow-ups.

  • tu-

    This opening produces both quick points and longer extensions once you reuse U and E.

Common Suffixes

  • -ee

    The hive is unusually friendly to -ee endings, which are easy to miss if you only test one doubled vowel.

  • -le

    Several accepted words land on -le, often after a repeated consonant in the middle.

  • -ful

    A short ending turns two ordinary bases into better scoring words.

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

Letter-balance nudge

There is only one pangram, and it leans on a common everyday object rather than an obscure technical term.

Shape nudge

The pangram is 10 letters long and builds from a familiar six-letter container word before adding a short ending.

Reveal-ready hint

If you already see the bottle stem, add a three-letter ending that means full of or containing something.

Reveal words: bottleful

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • bottleful

    The only pangram and the cleanest high-point payoff once you notice the bottle stem.

  • bluebottle

    A 10-letter score builder that rewards anyone who keeps extending the blue cluster.

  • etouffee

    One of the day's best examples of repeated-vowel pressure and a strong late-board score pickup.

  • tubeful

    A long extension from a simple TU base that turns a modest start into real points.

  • tuffet

    An unusual accepted noun that proves this hive is willing to reward less obvious doubled-letter shapes.

  • toffee

    A familiar word that helps confirm the board's fondness for doubled vowels and doubled consonants together.

  • effete

    A compact six-letter word that captures the board's repeated-E personality in one entry.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • etouffee

    French-derived spelling and repeated vowels make it easy to overlook even though it scores well.

  • tuffet

    Commonly remembered from nursery-rhyme context, but not a word many solvers test on their first pass.

  • tubeful

    Looks plausible but was missing from the initial solver output, so it is exactly the kind of edge case players can doubt.

  • effete

    The repeated E and doubled F pattern is legal but visually slippery in this hive.

  • oleo

    Short, vowel-heavy, and old-fashioned enough that many solvers skip it while chasing longer chains.

  • betel

    A valid five-letter find that feels close to several rejected-looking permutations on this board.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

  • befool

    A real-looking be- verb that fits the letter set cleanly, but it is not in today's verified answer list.

  • bleb

    Short medical vocabulary often sneaks into solver lists, so this one feels more legitimate than it is for today.

  • elute

    Scientific verb form using a legal letter pattern, which makes it a classic overgenerate candidate.

  • felloe

    Rare wheel term with repeated letters that matches the hive well but is not source-verified today.

  • feoffee

    Archaic legal word that passes the pattern test yet still misses the curated daily set.

  • footle

    Playful verb with repeated O that looks very plausible once you find tootle and toffee.

  • leet

    Compact repeated-E form that many solver dictionaries accept even when the daily source set does not.

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.