Spelling Bee hints and answers for Wednesday, September 30, 2026
A deep Wednesday Bee: 62 words, 305 points in total and Genius at 213, built around the center letter P with two pangrams, both past-tense verbs ending in -ED, one from the breakfast table and one from the knee. The PAN- family and the DEEP / DEPEND run do much of the heavy work.
Hints, in order
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Every word must contain the center letter P. Words are at least 4 letters long, and letters can repeat.
There are two pangrams today, both past-tense verbs: an eight-letter one for what happened to a flapjack flipped flat in the pan, and a ten-letter one for a violent blow aimed at the knee joint.
Work the PAN- family first (panacea, pancake, panda, pane, panned), then DEEP and DEPEND with their -EN and -ED forms, the KNEE- trio (kneecap, kneepad and the long pangram), and the short PEEK / PECK / PEEN / PEEP cluster.
The pangrams
Two words use all seven letters: A, C, D, E, K, N, P.
All 62 words
The complete accepted word list for the day.