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Your Spelling Bee Companion for Sunday, July 19, 2026

A field guide for the V A 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

vagilnt

Verified Answers

29

Disputed Words

3

Pangrams

3

Score for Queen Bee

206

Genius estimate: 144 points

Verified Answers

29

Find every accepted word in today's puzzle

Pangrams

3

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

Compact board with three pangram payoffs

The center letter is V, and this hive is more about precision than volume: only 29 verified answers, but three pangrams and a heavy run of -ING extensions can move your score quickly. Start by testing long V-led builds and the few stems that branch into multiple answers, then circle back for the short cleanup words once the big families are exhausted.

Verified answers

29

Max score

206

Genius

144

3 pangrams

Pangram Hunt

Start by forcing every letter into longer shapes before clearing short entries. Pangrams are the fastest way to move the score.

206 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 144 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

29 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.

  • VA

    7

    words

  • VI

    7

    words

  • AV

    4

    words

  • GA

    2

    words

  • LA

    2

    words

  • NA

    2

    words

  • AN

    1

    word

  • GI

    1

    word

  • IN

    1

    word

  • LI

    1

    word

  • TI

    1

    word

Score Planning

Word-Length Grid

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

  • 4 letters

    3

    one-point cleanup

  • 5 letters

    8

    score-building row

  • 6 letters

    4

    score-building row

  • 7 letters

    4

    score-building row

  • 8 letters

    5

    1 pangram

  • 9 letters

    2

    1 pangram

  • 10 letters

    2

    score-building row

  • 12 letters

    1

    1 pangram

Progressive Hint

First-Letter Counts

  • V

    14

    answers

  • A

    5

    answers

  • G

    3

    answers

  • L

    3

    answers

  • N

    2

    answers

  • I

    1

    answer

  • T

    1

    answer

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

  • -ING ladder first

    Ten verified answers end in -ING, so this is the fastest way to stack points before you spend time on the short words.

  • VA- and VI- carry the board

    Most of the clean mid-length answers start with VA- or VI-, and those branches cover both obvious and easy-to-miss score builders.

  • One stem becomes two pangrams

    If you find the roaming base word, keep extending it before moving on because the longer version pays even better.

  • Double letters are not optional

    Several valuable answers rely on repeated letters, so a strict one-tile mindset will leave points behind on this board.

  • NAV and VIT make the late push

    After the obvious V-openers, the NAV- and VIT- branches are where the board hides some of its best non-pangram points.

Common Prefixes

  • VA-

    This is the busiest opening on the board, ranging from short fillers to the reproductive-anatomy branch and the vanilla family.

  • VI-

    VI- handles both clue-friendly basics and some of the strongest scoring extensions.

  • AV-

    A small AV- pocket turns one practical base into multiple longer point-builders.

Common Suffixes

  • -ing

    The board strongly rewards turning base forms into longer -ING builds.

  • -ant

    This ending shows up in both a pangram family and one of the cleanest adjective targets.

  • -illa / -illin

    Once you spot the vanilla branch, it is worth checking every reasonable extension before leaving it.

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

No-spoiler pangram scan

Two pangrams grow from the same wandering stem, while the other comes from a watchful adjective family. If you see a long V word that can keep adding letters without leaving the hive, stay with it.

Family reveal

One pangram family begins with GI- and stretches into a 9-letter and a 12-letter answer. The other pangram starts with VI- and ends like a sharp descriptor.

Reveal words: gallivant, vigilant

Full pangram reveal

These are the three pangrams verified for today.

Reveal words: gallivant, gallivanting, vigilant

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • gallivanting

    GALLIVANTING is the 12-letter monster on the board and the single best payoff once you identify its stem.

  • gallivant

    GALLIVANT is the shorter pangram that unlocks the longer version, so it is the most productive stem to chase early.

  • vigilant

    VIGILANT is the clean non-verb pangram and a good check that you have not overcommitted to only -ING answers.

  • navigating

    NAVIGATING is one of the best non-pangram scores and helps prove the NAV branch is worth a full sweep.

  • vitiating

    VITIATING is a technical-looking long answer that rewards solvers who keep stretching the VIT stem.

  • vanillin

    VANILLIN is a high-value extension from the vanilla cluster and one of the board's easiest seven-plus-letter misses.

  • titivating

    TITIVATING shows how much value is hiding in the -ING ladder once the obvious bases are gone.

  • vanilla

    VANILLA is not the biggest score, but it opens the repeated-letter mindset that the whole board keeps rewarding.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • vanillin

    VANILLIN is easy to miss because it looks like an overextended vanilla guess, but it is a real high-value answer here.

  • titivating

    TITIVATING is the least obvious long -ING build on the board and a good reminder to test decorative-sounding extensions.

  • vigilant

    VIGILANT hides as an adjective rather than a verb form, which makes it the pangram most solvers overlook first.

  • vaginal

    VAGINAL matters because it confirms that the VAG- family does not stop at the noun.

  • availing

    AVAILING is a useful stem extender that helps you notice the board wants practical verb families, not just exotic finds.

  • vitiating

    VITIATING is a long score that feels technical enough to skip unless you deliberately test the VIT- branch.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

  • gingiva

    GINGIVA fits the letters cleanly and is a real word, but it is not in today's verified source list.

  • vail

    VAIL looks reasonable as a short V-start, but today's source set does not accept it.

  • viva

    VIVA is another natural-looking four-letter candidate that BuzzyWords can generate but the source list does not verify for this puzzle.

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.