Spelling Bee solver
Enter the seven letters with the centre first, and this lists every word in the ENABLE dictionary that plays — grouped by length, with the pangrams marked.
Your puzzle letters
7 letters, centre letter first. Tap any letter below to make it the centre.
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How the puzzle works
Seven letters sit in a honeycomb with one in the centre. A word counts if it is at least 4 letters long, uses the centre letter, and uses nothing outside the 7. Letters repeat as often as you like — that is the rule that separates this from an ordinary anagram, and it is why committee comes out of seven tiles when a rack of seven could never make it. A word using all 7 is a pangram.
Scoring
A four-letter word scores one point regardless of what it is worth anywhere else. From five letters up it scores one point per letter. A pangram takes a further 7 on top, which is why a seven-letter pangram is worth 14 where an ordinary seven-letter word is worth 7 — finding the pangram early is usually worth more than a dozen short words.
Where the words come from
This searches ENABLE, the public-domain list the rest of this site runs on. The New York Times does not publish its Spelling Bee word list, and it is curated rather than exhaustive — obscure entries are removed on purpose, because an unguessable answer makes a bad puzzle, and proper nouns and hyphenated forms never appear.
So treat a word here as very likely to be accepted rather than guaranteed, and expect the totals to differ from the ones the puzzle reports. The count and the score below describe this dictionary, not theirs — they are useful for seeing how much is left, not for comparing against a rank the puzzle has given you.
Working a round
The lists are grouped shortest first because that is the order a round tends to fall in, but the fastest way to a good score is usually the opposite: find the pangram, then sweep the long words, then fill in. If you are stuck on a length, the word lists are a different way in — and for letters you hold rather than letters you are given, the unscrambler is the tool that spends a rack instead of reusing it.