Amal Augustine
Founder, Spelling Better
Amal Augustine is the founder of Spelling Better, an innovative learning app designed to help students improve their spelling, vocabulary, and language skills through interactive and engaging methods.
He graduated from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi and is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, focusing on research and technology-driven learning.
A quiz enthusiast, Amal has won 50+ national-level quiz competitions. He enjoys reading science journals, programming, and exploring Computer Science innovations. Through Spelling Better, he aims to make vocabulary learning simple, enjoyable, and meaningful.
Spelling Bee Log — July 24, 2026
Seven letters. No repeats. A perfect pangram.
Some pangrams stretch to ten or eleven letters, doubling up along the way. The rare ones use exactly seven letters, each just once — what Spelling Bee fans call a "perfect pangram." Today delivered one.
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How I solved it
a log of the journey from first word to perfect pangram — tap any word marked ✦ for a definition
I always anchor to the center letter before anything else. With K locked in, I started scanning for short, familiar words that used it cleanly.
three easy wins that got me comfortable with how the letters were sitting together.
From there, I pushed into slightly less obvious territory. and both landed, and I picked up , the old-fashioned plural of "cow" that shows up more often in Spelling Bee puzzles than in everyday conversation. I also tested , the variant spelling of "icon," which confirmed the puzzle was willing to accept a few less common entries.
Once the four-letter words dried up, I moved to five letters and found almost immediately — and that word felt significant. "Evoke" sits right next to its longer cousin "evoking," and Spelling Bee puzzles frequently plant a pangram just one suffix away from a shorter root word. I made a mental note and kept building.
Before jumping to the ending, I picked up two more finds: , a linguistics term for a common dialect that emerges when different language groups mix, and , which clicked into place once I started testing V and I together. I also uncovered — a less common word describing a wailing lament — which used six of the seven letters but was missing both O and V, so it wasn't quite the pangram I was chasing.
That gap told me exactly what to look for next. I went back to EVOKE and added the "-ING": EVOKING. Seven letters, every single one of today's hive represented, no repeats, no doubling. It's the cleanest kind of pangram there is — a perfect one.
Today's Pangram
To evoke is to bring a feeling, memory, or image to mind. EVOKING is as clean as pangrams get — every letter in the hive, used exactly once.
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Complete word list
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Today's Pangram
To evoke is to bring a feeling, memory, or image to mind. EVOKING is as clean as pangrams get — every letter in the hive, used exactly once.
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Puzzle reflections
What made today's puzzle so satisfying wasn't difficulty in the traditional sense — it was elegance. A perfect pangram like EVOKING doesn't hide behind repeated letters or awkward doubling; it simply asks you to use every letter exactly once, which somehow makes it both harder to predict and more rewarding to find.
Puzzles love hiding their biggest reward just one step past a word you've already solved.
It's also a reminder of a strategy worth keeping close: when a short, common word like EVOKE shows up, don't move past it too quickly. Check the obvious suffixes first — "-ing," "-ed," "-er."
If you found EVOKING today without a hint, that's a clean, well-earned win — perfect pangrams don't come around every day. And if it slipped past you, remember this one for next time: whenever a solid five-letter word appears on your board, it's always worth asking what it might become with just a few more letters attached.