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Spelling Bee Pangram Solution – 18 July 2025

Anya Tsukru
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Some Spelling Bee grids hand you the pangram. Others hide it in plain sight. Today’s puzzle did a bit of both. With I locked in the center and the ring letters A, P, X, N, D, E, I knew we were working with a strong mix: a couple of vowels (A, E), a power consonant pair (P, D), the always-handy N, and the wildcard X—often a clue that the pangram will pop once you think of a familiar word containing …ix or …ex.

Let me walk you through how I solved today’s hive, then I’ll share all the valid words I found (4+ letters, must include I, and use only the hive letters).

 Step 1 – Warm-Up Words (Lock in the “I”)

I always begin by forcing quick 4-letter anchors built around the center letter. For today’s hive that meant firing off: pain, pine, dine, paid, pein, pian, nipa, naid, nide. Getting these on the board builds momentum and shows which letter combos flow naturally.

 Step 2 – Expand with Endings & Prefixes

Next I tested endings: -ed, -ing (no G today), -ine, -ian, -ia, -ix, -ide, -iad. Because we had A + E + I, I checked all vowel sandwiches: -aia-, -eia-, -aine- etc. That quickly surfaced longer beauties like paideia and naiad.

I also leaned on the P + I start pattern (pi-), common in scientific and botanical terms: pinae / pinnae, pinene, pinane. Even if Spelling Bee doesn’t take every technical form, brainstorming them can trigger something accepted.

 Step 3 – Spot the Pangram

Whenever you see P, P, E, N, D, I, X showing up across your scratch list, stop. Ask: Can I build APPENDIX? Duplicates are allowed in Spelling Bee. We had every needed letter in the hive!

I typed it in—APPENDIX—and it was accepted. So satisfying. One of those classic “of course!” pangrams you recognize only after grinding through the shorter words.

pangram solution

 Today’s Pangram

APPENDIX – A section of supplementary material at the end of a book; also anatomical (the vermiform appendix). Uses all seven hive letters and repeats P as allowed. Center letter I included. Perfect.

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Word List (4+ letters, includes “I”):

  • aided

  • aide

  • anide

  • apian

  • aping

  • appendix  (pangram)

  • diene

  • dine

  • dined

  • indane

  • indene

  • index

  • indexed

  • indie

  • inane

  • inedia

  • inned

  • naiad

  • naid

  • nipa

  • nide

  • paid

  • paideia

  • pain

  • pained

  • pein

  • peined

  • pian

  • panini

  • pine

  • pined

  • pinane

  • pinene

  • pinna

  • pinnae

  • pippin

  • pixie

nyt answers

Strategy Tips from Today’s Solve

1. Hunt for Double Consonants. When a grid includes both P and D (and good vowels), try classic bookish words: appendix, appendix-like forms, append, appended (no second e or d here, but the thought path helped).
2. Use the Wildcard Letter. X almost always appears in a small set of common English roots: index, annex, apex, pixie, xenia. Test each with the center letter constraint.
3. Vowel Cycling. Plug each vowel after common consonant starts: pi-, di-, ni-. That’s how piani, pined, naid, dine landed fast.
4. Don’t Skip Obscure Naturals. The Bee frequently accepts botanical/biological terms like apian (bee-related!) and naiad (aquatic larva / water nymph).

Buzz-Off Wrap

Today’s hive rewarded pattern scanning and cross-domain vocab—music (piani), biology (apian, naiad), chemistry (indene), books & anatomy (appendix). Once I locked onto that extra X, the pangram felt inevitable. Keep paper handy, cycle vowels, and watch for those showy consonants that signal a marquee word.

See you in tomorrow’s hive!

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