Blossom Answers for May 12, 2026
All 269 answers from Tuesday's flower, including 8 pangrams. Every word uses the centre letter E; the longest is UNSUCCESSFULNESSES.
May 12, 2026 — Centre E
Every answer must use the gold centre letter. Petals can be reused as often as you like, and words must be at least four letters. Compare with the rest of the archive.
8 Words Using All Seven Letters
The highest-scoring answers on the board. Finding one usually reveals several shorter words along the way.
All 269 Words for May 12, 2026
Grouped by length, because that is how Blossom scores — longer is worth more, and the pangrams are marked in red.
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How to Find More Words on This Board
Start from the centre, always
Every answer contains E. Say each petal against it — EC, F — rather than scanning the flower at random. Every board in the archive works the same way.
Petals repeat, so try doubles
Letters can be reused as often as you like, which players routinely forget. That is where words like UNSUCCESSFULNESSES come from on a board of only seven letters.
Hunt the pangram early
There are 8 here: EFFLUENCES, FECULENCES, FLUENCES, SUCCESSFULNESS, SUCCESSFULNESSES, UNSUCCESSFUL, UNSUCCESSFULNESS, UNSUCCESSFULNESSES. Finding it first tends to reveal several shorter words on the way.
How to Play Blossom
Centre letter, four letters minimum, reuse freely.
Use the centre letter in every word
It is the gold tile. A word without it does not count, however good it looks.
Four letters minimum
Three-letter words are rejected, so the short answers you would play in other word games are not available here.
Reuse letters freely
Petals are not consumed. That is what makes long words possible from seven letters — see the archive for boards that ran past 1,000 answers.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify every dated board we hold, with its centre letter, petals, full word list and pangrams
Each board is taken from the published solution for its date; the centre letter is derived from the answers themselves — it is the letter every word shares — so a change to how the source draws its flower cannot give us the wrong one. The routine is in our methodology and the standards in our editorial policy.
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Last checked — Aug 25, 2026