Spelling Bee Blog

Tips, tricks and guides to help you find more words, spot the pangram, and reach Queen Bee.

Spelling Bee Tips and Tricks: How to Reach Queen Bee

From hunting the pangram to milking suffixes, here are the tips that reliably push your score from Good to Queen Bee.

The pangram is the biggest score in the puzzle. Here’s a repeatable way to find the word that uses all seven letters.

Because the letters change daily, the “best” words are really the best patterns. Here are the word shapes that score big.

The yellow hexagon in the middle is the one rule that shapes every answer. Here’s how the centre letter works.

Both are daily word games, but they test completely different skills. Here’s how Spelling Bee and Wordle compare.

It depends on the seven letters of the day — but here’s the typical range and how many words you need to reach Queen Bee.

A gentle, screen-friendly way to build spelling and vocabulary — with tips for playing alongside younger kids.

Stuck on a word? Here’s how to see the full answer list and pangrams for any Daily Bee puzzle — today’s or past.

From Worker Bee to Queen Bee — here’s what each rank means and how the percentages work.

A roundup of genuinely free word games — including our daily Spelling Bee — across guessing, spelling and searching.

Four-letter words score just one point each — but they add up. Here’s how to use them without wasting time.