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Spelling Bee hints and answers for Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Center letter A (required in every word) · Outer letters: B, D, F, L, O, R

A Wednesday Bee with a wide-open center vowel: 53 words, 202 points in total and Genius at 141, built around the letter A with a single long pangram for part of a floor. The BOARD and ROAD family and the doubled-letter words, ALFALFA, BAOBAB and ODDBALL among them, do much of the work.

B
D
F
A
L
O
R
53Accepted words
202Max score
141Genius at
1Pangram

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Hint 0 of 3

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Hint 1 of 3

Every word must contain the center letter A. Words are at least 4 letters long, and letters can repeat.

Hint 2 of 3 - Pangram

There is one pangram today: a ten-letter word for one of the boards that make up a wooden floor.

Hint 3 of 3 - Stuck?

Look for word families: the BOARD run (aboard, abroad, board, broad), the BA- words (baba, bald, ball, ballad, baobab, barb, bard, barf), and the flower words FLORA and FLORAL beside the floor words.

The pangram

It uses all seven letters: A, B, D, F, L, O, R.

FLOORBOARD

All 53 words

The complete accepted word list for the day.

aboard
abroad
adobo
afar
afford
afro
alfalfa
aloof
arbor
ardor
baba
bald
ball
ballad
baobab
barb
bard
barf
blab
boar
board
boba
bola
bollard
brad
broad
dollar
doodad
dorado
drab
fall
falloff
farad
farro
flab
floorboard
flora
floral
foal
fora
labor
lard
load
loaf
loofa
oddball
offal
offload
oral
radar
road
roar
rollbar
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