Blossom Word Game Answers and Hints for Friday, Nov. 6, 2026: Letters and Pangrams

Merriam-Webster’s Blossom for Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, centers on O, with E, F, N, R, S and U around it. Beebom, Connections Solver and Word.Tips all agree on those letters. This page gives graded hints and a count of the long words first, then keeps every answer for a marked spoiler section.

Today’s letters

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

The board holds three vowel letters in all, the center O plus E and U on the petals. F is the one petal that is hard to place, so a lot of good words simply skip it.

Long-word count before the spoilers

This board is built for length. The three lists agree on 23 words of 9 letters or more, and the longest has 15 letters. Here is how those 23 split by size:

Length	Confirmed words
15 letters	1
14 letters	2
13 letters	2
12 letters	2
11 letters	3
10 letters	5
9 letters	8

Eleven of the 23 end in the same quality-noun pattern, either a -ness or a -nesses ending, so one ending covers nearly half the long list. None of those 11 needs the petal F, which fits with only four pangrams being confirmed.

Pangram hints

• How many: four pangrams are confirmed by the answer lists we checked.
• Lengths: they run 11, 10, 10 and 8 letters.
• Starting letters: two begin with F, one with N and one with U.
• The 8-letter one: it is a verb form, and it describes going ahead of something else.
• The 11-letter one: it is a plural noun for those who come first and signal what follows.

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More of today’s puzzles: Spelling Bee hints and Wordle hints. Yesterday’s page: Blossom for Nov. 5.

Today’s Blossom pangrams and long words (spoilers)

Stop here if you still want to solve it yourself.

• Forerunners (11 letters)
• Nonferrous (10 letters)
• Unforeseen (10 letters)
• Foreruns (8 letters)

Each uses O, E, F, N, R, S and U at least once. Four pangrams are confirmed by the answer lists we checked, and the game may not accept every word that solver sites list.

Long words by word family

All three sources list these words of 9 letters or more, grouped by what they share. Forerunners, Nonferrous and Unforeseen appear in the table too, since they are long enough.

Family	Words
-nesses (plural of a -ness noun)	Erroneousnesses (15), Sensuousnesses (14), Sonorousnesses (14), Onerousnesses (13), Sorenesses (10), Sournesses (10), Onenesses (9)
-ness	Erroneousness (13), Sensuousness (12), Sonorousness (12), Onerousness (11)
Ending in -ous	Nonsensuous (11), Nonferrous (10), Erroneous (9), Furfurous (9), Susurrous (9)
Starting with fore-	Forerunners (11), Forerunner (10), Forenoons (9), Foreseers (9)
Everything else	Unforeseen (10), Froufrous (9), Nonsenses (9)

That is 7 and 4 words in the two -ness groups, 5 ending in -ous, 4 starting with fore-, and 3 others, which adds up to the 23 counted above. Foreruns, at 8 letters, is a pangram but falls below the 9-letter cutoff.