Blossom Hints & Answers Today, November 13, 2026

Blossom from Merriam-Webster for Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, puts R in the center, ringed by A, C, E, F, L and N. Beebom and Connections Solver print the same letters. Hints come first, and the pangrams are saved for a marked section at the bottom.

Today’s flower: R in the middle

• Center: R (it has to appear in every word)
• Petals: A, C, E, F, L, N

Only A and E are vowels, which leaves five consonants fighting for room. With R required in the middle, every word must carry it; the rules are on our Blossom hub. The flower before this one is on the Nov. 12 Blossom page.

Pangram hints, light to heavy

Two pangrams are listed, and they are closely related.

1. Count: Beebom and Word.tips list two, and two more sites agree.
2. Size: one has 9 letters and the other has 10.
3. Link: the shorter one sits inside the longer one with nothing in between, so solving one gives you the other.
4. Meaning: the shorter one is an adjective for someone paid per job instead of held on a payroll; the longer one names the person.
5. Starts: both begin with the same four letters.

How one find leads to the other

Seven letters are required, so the 9-letter pangram has two spares and the 10-letter one has three. Count them and a pattern shows.

• E repeats twice. Each pangram holds three E’s, so the spares are mostly E.
• R is the only difference. The 10-letter pangram has two R’s, the 9-letter one has one.
• A, C, F, L and N appear once. None of them doubles in either word.

So the longer pangram is the shorter one with the center letter added at the end. For the bonus, that means a player who spots the 9-letter word should try one more letter before moving on, because the second pangram is a single keystroke away. The same holds in reverse: if you find the long word first, remove the last letter and test what is left.

What the two pangrams look like by the numbers

	Shorter pangram	Longer pangram
Letters	9	10
Spare letters	2	3
E’s	3	3
R’s	1	2

After reading the table, you can follow your own tally on the printable weekly calendar or the November 2026 printable calendar. Another puzzle for today: Spelling Bee hints.

Today’s Blossom pangrams (spoilers)

Stop here if you still want to solve it yourself.

Pangrams

Beebom and Word.tips both list these two. Each uses A, C, E, F, L, N and R at least once.

• Freelancer (10 letters)
• Freelance (9 letters)