Blossom Word Game Answers and Hints for Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026: Letters and Pangrams

Merriam-Webster’s Blossom for Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, puts D in the center, with the petals B, E, I, S, T and U. Beebom and Connections Solver print the same seven letters, and Beebom and Word.Tips list the same 13 pangrams. Below are the letters, words to try, a count of the pangrams by length and graded hints, with the answers held back for a marked spoiler section.

Today’s letters

• Center: D (every word must include it)
• Petals: B, E, I, S, T, U

Three of the six petals are vowel letters (E, I and U), and the other three are consonants, so D has plenty of vowels to lean on.

Words to try

Solver sites list these words, and each one contains D and uses only today’s letters. Four-letter starters: Debt and Dues. Five letters: Dudes, Debit and Duets. Longer: Duties (6 letters), then Bedside, Subdued and Studied (7 letters each). Subdued and Dudes both repeat D, which is worth remembering if D is the lit petal.

How the points work with today’s letters

A pangram earns 7 extra points, and each use of the highlighted bonus petal earns 5 more. With S lit, Studied would add 5 for its one S, while a pangram that repeats S would collect the bonus twice. The 12-word limit and the other rules are on the Merriam-Webster Blossom page.

The 13 pangrams by length

Counted from the two matching pangram lists, the 13 pangrams break down like this:

Length	Pangrams
13 letters	1
11 letters	1
10 letters	2
9 letters	4
8 letters	4
7 letters	1

Across all 13 words, E appears 21 times and S 20 times, the two most frequent letters, while B appears 14 times, the fewest. Six of the 13 words use E at least twice, and six use S at least twice. If you are hunting for a long word, repeating E or S is the best bet.

Pangram hint

• Shortest pangram (7 letters): it uses each of the seven letters exactly once.
• Longest pangram (13 letters): it begins with the center letter.
• Middle length (9 letters): four pangrams share this length, and two of them begin with S.

Keep a streak log on our printable weekly calendar or the November 2026 printable calendar.

More of today’s puzzles: Spelling Bee hints and Wordle hints. Yesterday’s page: Blossom for Nov. 4.

Today’s Blossom pangrams (spoilers)

Stop here if you still want to solve it yourself.

• Disubstituted (13 letters)
• Substituted (11 letters)
• Debiteuses (10 letters)
• Subdeities (10 letters)
• Debiteuse (9 letters)
• Dubieties (9 letters)
• Subedited (9 letters)
• Subsisted (9 letters)
• Besuited (8 letters)
• Buddiest (8 letters)
• Dubbiest (8 letters)
• Subedits (8 letters)
• Subedit (7 letters)

Each uses D, B, E, I, S, T and U at least once, so each earns the 7-point pangram bonus. The game may not accept every word that solver sites list.