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Spelling Swarm archive for January 12, 2026

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Queen A 467 accepted words 1 pangrams

Puzzle overview

The Queen Letter for this hive was A. The full letter bank was A S U C L I M, and a valid word needed at least 4 letters while using the Queen Letter every time.

Word bank

467 accepted words

This puzzle supported a fixed accepted-word set owned by the daily hive, not a changing runtime dictionary scan.

Pangrams

1 pangrams to find

Each pangram used all seven letters at least once and carried the Spelling Swarm pangram bonus.

Score profile

2179 total points

Short four-letter answers scored 1 point, longer words scored by length, and pangrams added the extra bonus.

Pangrams for this puzzle

These were the highest-value finds in this hive because they used every letter in the bank at least once.

Vocabulary support

Definition highlights from this hive

Archive pages are more useful when they do more than list answers. These highlighted words give the puzzle some teaching value as well as recap value.

That makes each archive detail page a human-readable recap: you can see what the letter bank allowed, what the best words were, and what some of those words mean without leaving the page.

Highlighted words

  • MAIL: Letters and packages sent and delivered to people.
  • SAIL: A piece of fabric that uses wind to move a boat.
  • SMALL: Having little size, amount, or degree.
  • MUSICAL: A stage or film production that includes songs and dancing.

4-letter accepted words with definition support

Every word below belonged to this puzzle's stable accepted-word set, used the Queen Letter A, and carries definition-backed recap value for archive browsing.

1 points

MAIL

Letters and packages sent and delivered to people.

1 points

SAIL

A piece of fabric that uses wind to move a boat.

5-letter accepted words with definition support

Every word below belonged to this puzzle's stable accepted-word set, used the Queen Letter A, and carries definition-backed recap value for archive browsing.

5 points

SMALL

Having little size, amount, or degree.

7-letter accepted words with definition support

Every word below belonged to this puzzle's stable accepted-word set, used the Queen Letter A, and carries definition-backed recap value for archive browsing.

Pangram

MUSICAL

A stage or film production that includes songs and dancing.

Why this archive page does not dump every raw accepted spelling

This puzzle supported 467 accepted words in total. 4 of them carry stable definition support in the WordHive data layer, so those are the ones surfaced here for readable archive value.

The archive still reflects the puzzle's full accepted-word count and stable puzzle contract, but it keeps the public recap focused on useful, definition-backed vocabulary instead of exposing a noisy raw dictionary dump.

463 additional accepted spellings remain part of the puzzle contract even though they are not listed individually on this public recap page.

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