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Your Spelling Bee Companion for Tuesday, July 28, 2026

A field guide for the M D E G I N P 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

mdeginp

Verified Answers

44

Disputed Words

8

Pangrams

3

Score for Queen Bee

244

Genius estimate: 171 points

Verified Answers

44

Find every accepted word in today's puzzle

Pangrams

3

Use all seven letters

Disputed Words

8

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-rich with three IM- pangrams and heavy repeated-letter pressure

Today's center letter is M, and this hive pays off once you stop treating it like a short-word board. Start with the IM- verb cluster first: it hides all three pangrams and most of the biggest scoring jumps. After that, sweep the MI- family for its dense run of base words that grow naturally into -ED and -ING forms.

Verified answers

44

Max score

244

Genius

171

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.

244 possible points

Point Density

The current candidate pool estimates a Genius target around 171 points. Longer words matter more than raw word count.

44 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

    14

    words

  • IM

    9

    words

  • ME

    6

    words

  • DE

    4

    words

  • DI

    3

    words

  • EM

    3

    words

  • PI

    3

    words

  • GI

    1

    word

  • PE

    1

    word

Score Planning

Word-Length Grid

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

  • 4 letters

    11

    one-point cleanup

  • 5 letters

    8

    score-building row

  • 6 letters

    11

    score-building row

  • 7 letters

    8

    score-building row

  • 8 letters

    4

    2 pangrams

  • 9 letters

    2

    1 pangram

Progressive Hint

First-Letter Counts

  • M

    20

    answers

  • I

    9

    answers

  • D

    7

    answers

  • P

    4

    answers

  • E

    3

    answers

  • G

    1

    answer

Pattern Prompts

Work The Board Without Reveals

  • IM- verb ladder

    This is the main scoring engine: three pangrams sit inside one nine-word IM- branch, so solving that lane early can cover a huge share of the board.

  • -ING cascade

    The board is unusually friendly to progressive forms, and they are worth more than the short cleanup words once you find the stem.

  • MI- cleanup bank

    After the pangram chase, the MI- side gives you a compact run of real points plus several easy endgame pickups.

  • Repeated-M doubles

    Repeated letters matter today. If you avoid doubled M or mirrored consonant shapes, you will leave a lot of verified words behind.

  • -ED follow-through

    Several strong stems extend cleanly into past-tense forms, which makes this a good board for chaining one answer into the next.

Common Prefixes

  • IM-

    The richest family on the board; it contains every pangram plus several high-value follow-ups.

  • MI-

    This prefix carries the broadest cleanup lane once the long IM- words are done.

  • ME-

    A smaller but useful branch that splits between the meme and mend families.

  • DE-

    The DE- openings are short in count but strong in point density because they keep extending.

Common Suffixes

  • -ING

    This is the most productive ending on the board and the cleanest route from base word to scoring run.

  • -DED

    Several past-tense answers land here, especially once you have the IM- and M- stems in hand.

  • -MED

    Double-M past-tense shapes repeat enough to deserve a dedicated pass.

  • -END

    This ending helps link shorter base words to the longer branches around them.

Progressive Help

Pangram Hints

Start with IM-

All three pangrams begin with IM-, not with the busier MI- cleanup branch.

Think verb families

The pangrams come from action-word stems that also produce shorter accepted relatives like base, -ED, and -ING forms.

Length reveal

You are hunting one 8-letter pangram and two 9-letter pangrams.

Full pangram reveal

If you want the direct reveal, here are the three all-letter answers.

Reveal words: impeding, impending, impinged

Spoiler Control

Notable Words

Why these matter

  • impeding

    IMPEDING is a 9-letter pangram and one of the fastest ways to turn this board from stingy to generous.

  • impending

    IMPENDING is the other 9-letter pangram, and finding it usually means you have cracked the main IM- family.

  • impinged

    IMPINGED is the shortest pangram, which makes it a useful bridge between the long verb stems and the rest of the board.

  • impinge

    IMPINGE is not a pangram, but it unlocks the accepted -D and -ING continuations that matter for score.

  • emending

    EMENDING is a high-value non-pangram that rewards solvers who revisit EMEND after the obvious short words are done.

  • penmen

    PENMEN is a memorable late-board pickup because the repeated N/M pattern is easy to blur past.

  • minim

    MINIM shows why repeated-letter tolerance matters on this hive: the odd-looking short words are still worth real progress.

Hard Finds

Tricky Accepted Words

  • gimme

    Colloquial-looking entries are easy to second-guess, but GIMME is fully accepted here and worth remembering.

  • memed

    This one is easy to miss if you stop at MEME or assume the dated form will not count.

  • penmen

    PENMEN is a classic repeated-letter trap: straightforward once seen, but rarely a first-pass find.

  • minim

    MINIM is short, unusual, and built from repeated M/I sounds that blend into the board.

  • emend

    EMEND is strategically useful because it unlocks both a past-tense and an -ING continuation.

  • mien

    MIEN is a real four-letter saver that many solvers delay because it feels less everyday than MINE or MIND.

Disputed Candidates

Plausible Rejections

  • deme

    DEME looks perfectly legal from the letter bank, but it is not in today's verified source set.

  • gimp

    GIMP fits the repeated-letter texture of the board and even has related forms, but it was not verified for this date.

  • gimping

    GIMPING extends a plausible stem cleanly into the productive -ING ending, which makes it an easy overreach today.

  • idem

    IDEM is a familiar Latinism in print, so it is a reasonable guess that still misses the verified list.

  • imine

    IMINE looks especially tempting beside the accepted IM- chemistry-adjacent shapes, but it was not source-verified.

  • meed

    MEED is a classic archaic-looking Bee guess that fits the letters better than it fits the official list.

  • midden

    MIDDEN has the right heft for this board, yet it stays outside the accepted source set.

  • ming

    MING is short, clean, and plausible once MI- starts opening up, but it remains disputed today.

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.