Today’s Spelling Bee puzzle came with a fun and slightly tricky letter set: C in the center, surrounded by A, D, E, H, K, L. At first glance, it looked like a puzzle filled with strong consonants and a single dependable vowel. But as always, the key was to look for combinations that naturally pair with C, since every valid word must include it.

Here’s a walkthrough of how I cracked the pangram and uncovered all the good words hidden in the hive.

Starting With the Basics: Checking Common C-Patterns

Whenever C is the mandatory letter, certain patterns are reliable starting points:

• CA-

• CH-

• CL-

• AC-

• EC-

So I began by listing obvious short words like ace, ache, ache, clad, lack, and deck. This helped me warm up and get a feel for the puzzle.

From this point onward, I started expanding words using the longest and strongest letter combinations—especially C + H, C + L, and C + K, which tend to create longer, pangram-like possibilities.

The Moment of Discovery: Spotting the Pangram

The turning point came when I noticed one promising cluster:
C + H + A + L + K

That quickly led me to the word “chalk”.

But pangrams usually appear in extended forms too—so I continued exploring:

• chalked

• chacked (not valid)

• chakal (not valid)

But chalked is valid, and it uses all seven letters, making it the perfect pangram for today.

Today’s Pangram: CHALKED

Expanding the Word List: Building Systematically

To find the full set of valid words, I used a structured approach:

A) Build from prefixes

CA- → cake, cache, caked, calla, calk, cale
CH- → chalk, chalked, check (invalid—no ‘H’), chad, chace (variant)
CL- → clad, clack, cleach (dialect), cleck (Scots)
AC- → ache, achee, aced, acela (proper noun, so invalid)
EC- → eclat

B) Build from endings

Since -ed, -al, -ack, and -ache are common endings, I tried combinations like:

• cacked (informal but valid)

• clacked

• chacked (dialectal)

  Bee word solutions FULL WORD LIST FOR TODAY

Here is the clean, puzzle-friendly list of valid words you can include in your blog:

Pangram

• chalked (pangram)

6+-Letter Words

• clacked

• cacked

• accede
• acceded
• cached
• cackle
• cackled
• called
• celled
• challah
• checked
• clacked
• decade
• decked
• deckle
• hacked
• hackle
• headache
• heckled
• heckle
• lacked
• leached
• leeched

5-Letter Words

• chalk

• clack

• cache

• caked

• decal

• clade

• cleck

• ached
• alack
• calla
• ceded
• check
• cheek
• dacha
• laced
• leach
• leech

4-Letter Words

• cake

• ache

• aced

• clad

• deck

• lace

• cede

• cell

• chad
• each
• hack
• heck
• lack
• lech

 Strategy Notes: How This Puzzle Was Cracked

This puzzle rewards players who:

 Focus on consonant clusters like CH-, CL-, CK-
 Try extensions like -ed, -al, -ack
 Explore longer forms of shorter root words
 Look for transformations (clack → clacked, cake → caked, chalk → chalked)

Because C pairs well with nearly every outer letter, the puzzle becomes a satisfying chain reaction once you uncover the first medium-length word.

Vocabulary Wins of the Day

Today’s Spelling Bee puzzle was one of those grids where the pangram seems hidden at first, but once chalk appears, everything comes together. The puzzle is rich with strong consonant blends and offers a good mix of easy, medium, and longer words.

If you enjoy solving Spelling Bee puzzles like this, try practicing with letter-cluster strategies and systematic prefix-suffix expansion—skills we teach and automate beautifully in Spelling Better, making puzzles like today’s more fun and more predictable.

Have fun spelling—and keep buzzing!