Blossom Hints & Answers Today, November 11, 2026

Merriam-Webster’s Blossom for Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026, centers on H, with E, N, O, R, S and T around it. Beebom and Connections Solver list these letters, and Word.Tips’ lists fit them. Hints come first, and the answers wait in a marked section at the bottom.

Today’s letters

• Center: H (every word must include it)
• Petals: E, N, O, R, S, T

Only E and O are vowels, so every word needs one of them next to the H. Scoring and rules are on our Blossom hub. Yesterday’s flower, centered on W, is on the Nov. 10 Blossom page.

Pangram hints, from light to heavy

There are many pangrams, so each hint fits several words.

1. Size: the shortest uses exactly seven letters, and the longest runs to 11.
2. Tally: Beebom and Word.Tips both list 22.
3. No repeats: four of the 22 use each of the seven letters exactly once.
4. Openers: six begin with S, six with H, four with N, two with T and two with O; one each begins with E and R.
5. Pairs: eight of the 22 open with SH or TH.

Other lists add a 23rd, but Beebom does not call it a pangram.

How the long pangrams reuse letters

The four 11-letter pangrams each carry four spare letters, because seven are needed and eleven are used. The spares pile up on a few letters.

• E repeats in all four. Three use it twice and one uses it three times.
• S is the heavy hitter. Three of the four repeat it, twice at three uses and once at four.
• N and R are rarer. Two of the four use N twice, and only one uses R, three times in all.
• H, O and T never double. Each appears exactly once in every 11-letter pangram.

Why H in the center favors SH and TH openers

H joins S or T in two of the most common English letter pairs, and today’s pangrams show it: 8 of the 22 begin with SH or TH, and 6 more begin with H on its own. Among the 20 long words all three sources list, 17 start with H, SH or TH. Starting a search with those pairs covers most of the ground.

Confirmed words by length

Length	Pangrams listed by 2 sources	Long words listed by 3 sources
12 letters	0	1
11 letters	4	3
10 letters	2	10
9 letters	9	6
8 letters	3	0
7 letters	4	0

Many of the long words are rare, and the game may not accept every one. Keep score on our printable weekly calendar or the November 2026 printable calendar. Today’s other puzzle: Spelling Bee hints.

Today’s Blossom pangrams and long words (spoilers)

Stop here if you still want to solve it yourself.

Pangrams

Beebom and Word.Tips both list these 22. Each uses H, E, N, O, R, S and T at least once.

• Northerners (11 letters)
• Northnesses (11 letters)
• Othernesses (11 letters)
• Shortnesses (11 letters)
• Hornstones (10 letters)
• Shorteners (10 letters)
• Enthrones (9 letters)
• Henroosts (9 letters)
• Hornstone (9 letters)
• Northerns (9 letters)
• Northness (9 letters)
• Otherness (9 letters)
• Rethrones (9 letters)
• Shortener (9 letters)
• Shortness (9 letters)
• Henroost (8 letters)
• Honester (8 letters)
• Shortens (8 letters)
• Hornets (7 letters)
• Shorten (7 letters)
• Threnos (7 letters)
• Thrones (7 letters)

Word.Tips counts one more pangram than Beebom does. Northers is the word in dispute, and Beebom lists it as an ordinary 8-letter word, so it is not printed above.

Long words by length

Beebom, Connections Solver and Word.Tips all list these 20 words. We print only what all three agree on.

Length	Words
12 letters	Honestnesses
11 letters	Horseshoers, Sheernesses, Therenesses
10 letters	Herenesses, Honestness, Honestones, Hoorooshes, Horseshoer, Horseshoes, Horsetrees, Northerner, Shorthorns, Thennesses
9 letters	Enhorrors, Ethernets, Heroesses, Heteroses, Honestest, Honestone