Spelling Bee Pangram Finder — the Hive & spelling bee solver.

The Rules

How the Hive works — the proper rules

1. Seven letters, one centre. Six letters ring a gold centre letter. The outer letters shuffle whenever you ask — the centre never moves.
2. Words are four letters or more. Shorter words don’t count, however good they look.
3. Every word must include the centre letter. No centre letter, no points — that is the rule the whole game hangs on.
4. Only the seven hive letters may be used — but each one can be used as many times as you like within a word. A letter on the hive is never “used up”.
5. Words must be real words in the game’s word list. Proper names and hyphenated words are not in the list.
6. Scoring: a 4-letter word scores 1 point; a longer word scores 1 point per letter. A pangram — a word that uses all seven letters at least once — scores its length plus a 7-point bonus.
7. Ranks rise with your score as a share of everything the hive holds: Beginner, Good Start (2%), Moving Up (5%), Good (8%), Solid (15%), Nice (25%), Great (40%), Amazing (50%) and Genius (70%).
8. Queen Bee is the top rank, and it is not a percentage — you earn it only by finding every word in the hive, pangrams included.
9. Daily vs Practice. Daily is one hive per day, the same for everyone, changing at midnight your time. Practice deals a fresh random hive whenever you like — and the pangram finder can deal you any seven letters of your own.

Guide

Pangrams, scoring and the road to Queen Bee

Every hive hides at least one pangram — a word that uses all seven letters at least once. Pangrams are the engine of a high score, because of how Bee scoring works:

• 4-letter word: 1 point. 5 letters or more: 1 point per letter. Pangram: its length plus a 7-point bonus — a 7-letter pangram is worth 14 points, more than a dozen 4-letter words.
• Ranks are shares of the hive’s total points: Good Start 2%, Moving Up 5%, Good 8%, Solid 15%, Nice 25%, Great 40%, Amazing 50%, and Genius at 70%.
• Queen Bee is different: it is not a percentage at all. You earn it only by finding every word in the hive — which is why the last few short words matter as much as the pangram.
• Finding the pangram: shuffle the outer letters to see new shapes, try common endings on seven-letter skeletons (-ING, -ED, -ER, -EST), and build out from the centre letter — every pangram must contain it, often more than once.
• Finding the last words: work letter by letter. Pick one outer letter, pair it with the centre, and sweep the endings. The finder above shows what remains by listing every word — use it after you have played, as a checker, and Queen Bee stops being luck.

Worked Example

From seven letters to a pangram — a worked example

Take a hive with centre letter A and outer letters C, E, L, R, S, T. Every word must contain A, so the finder only keeps words built from those seven letters that include it: CLEAR (5 points), CASTLE (6 points), ACRE and CARE (1 point each as 4-letter words) all qualify, while a word like ELECT is refused — it can be spelled from the hive letters, but it never uses the centre A, and the centre letter is a must.

The pangram is the word that uses all seven letters at least once: CARTELS — C-A-R-T-E-L-S — uses every letter in this hive exactly once, so it scores 7 points for its length plus the 7-point bonus: 14 points from a single word, more than a dozen 4-letter finds.

Run those exact letters in the finder above — centre A, outers CELRST — and the pangrams are pulled out first in gold, exactly as they are here, with every other makeable word and its points below.