The Hive: Play the Bee and Find the Pangram
Game guide · Nov 2026
Seven letters. One gold centre. Find the pangram, climb to Queen Bee.
The Hive is Wordle Find's own spelling bee game. Six letters ring a gold centre letter, and every word you make must be four letters or more — and must include that centre letter. Letters can be used as many times as you like, so a letter on the hive is never "used up". Daily mode deals one hive a day, the same for everyone; Practice deals a fresh random hive whenever you like.
Scoring: why the pangram matters
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, so a 7-letter pangram is worth 14 points, more than a dozen 4-letter finds.
Ranks rise with your score as a share of everything the hive holds: Good Start at 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.
A worked hive: centre A, outers C E L R S T
Take a hive with centre letter A and outer letters C, E, L, R, S, T. CLEAR is worth 5 points, CASTLE 6, and ACRE and CARE 1 point each as 4-letter words. 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 CARTELS — C-A-R-T-E-L-S — using every letter exactly once, so it scores 7 for its length plus the 7-point bonus: 14 points from a single word. Run those exact letters in the finder (centre A, outers CELRST) and the pangrams are pulled out first in gold, with every other makeable word and its points below.
How to find 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. For the last words, work letter by letter: pick one outer letter, pair it with the centre, and sweep the endings. The finder shows what remains by listing every word — use it after you have played, as a checker, and Queen Bee stops being luck.
The pangram finder works on any hive
Playing a bee somewhere else, or checking this one? The Spelling Bee pangram finder on the same page takes any hive's seven letters — centre in its own box, the other six separately — and returns every word the list can make, pangrams first, each with its points.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Hive free? Yes. It runs free in your browser with no account and no sign-up — Daily and Practice hives included.
Does the finder give away official answers? No. It only lists the words Wordle Find's own word list can make from the letters you entered. No daily official answers are published here.
What if a word I know is refused? It is either shorter than four letters, missing the centre letter, or not in the game's word list. Proper names and hyphenated words are not in the list.
Is this the NYT Spelling Bee? No. The Hive is Wordle Find's own spelling bee — an independent, unaffiliated game with its own daily hive.
Keep reading
Wordle Find is independent and unaffiliated. Spelling Bee is another owner's game, and no daily official answers are published here.