About The Word Bee

An independent word-puzzle publisher. Eight daily games, hand-validated word lists, free forever, no signup required.

What we publish

The Word Bee is a small, independent operation focused on daily word puzzles for adults who love them. We publish eight free daily games — Spelling Bee, Wordle, Connections, Mini Crossword, Word Search, Scramble, Wordfall — plus an Anagram Solver tool. New puzzles ship every day at midnight UTC.

We do not take venture funding. We are not owned by a media group. We run a small amount of display advertising and an optional Premium tier. That is the entire business model.

How we build puzzles

Spelling Bee

Each daily Spelling Bee puzzle is generated from a pool of 7-letter base words and validated against the Enable dictionary — the same dictionary used by most competitive word games. Every puzzle is programmatically filtered to ensure:

Total points between 150 and 300 (so puzzles are neither trivially easy nor impossibly hard)
At least one pangram per puzzle (67.5% have exactly one, 32.5% have two or more)
No puzzle includes the letter S (to match the genre convention and avoid plural-word inflation)
Minimum 25 valid words per puzzle (median: 52)

As of April 2026, we have 2,578 pre-generated puzzles covering every day from February 2025 through February 2032 — seven years of daily content, all validated before launch. Full methodology and statistics: The State of Daily Word Games 2026.

Wordle, Scramble, Connections, Word Search, Crossword, Wordfall

Each game uses a dedicated puzzle generator that applies the same quality gates: every puzzle is validated against a dictionary, checked for solvability, and pre-generated in bulk. No puzzle ships without passing automated tests.

Anagram Solver

The Anagram Solver runs entirely in your browser. Your queries never leave your device — there is no server round-trip, no query logging. It searches the same ~170,000-word Enable dictionary used by the games.

Editorial standards

Dictionary transparency Every game tells you exactly which dictionary it uses. Disputes over valid words can always be cross-checked against the source.

No dark patterns No fake urgency. No engagement-manipulation. No forced signups. The site is designed to be good, not to be sticky.

Freshness over SEO-bait Blog posts get a visible "last updated" date. If a guide is old, you'll see it. We update, we don't re-publish.

Corrections Errors in puzzles or articles are corrected with a dated note at the bottom of the affected page.

Privacy We use Google Analytics and Google AdSense. We don't ask for your email. We don't use behavioral profiling beyond standard ad personalization, which you can disable via Google's ad settings.

What makes us different from the NYT and competitors

Eight games, one site. Spelling Bee, Wordle, Connections, Crossword, Word Search, Scramble, Wordfall, and an Anagram Solver — all playable without juggling subscriptions.
Full archive, free. Go back to any day in the past and play that puzzle. No subscription wall on yesterday's game.
No account required. Your streaks and stats live in your browser's local storage. No login, no password, no data harvest.
Open about the craft. The methodology is documented. The dictionary is named. The process is legible.

Who this site is for

The Word Bee is built for adults who love word games and don't want to pay $7/month per game to play them. It works on any device, in any browser. The typography is readable. The touch targets are big. No animations that make you nauseous.

The business model

We run display ads (Google AdSense) on content pages, and we offer an optional Premium tier ($3.99/mo or $35.99/yr) that removes ads entirely and unlocks additional features. Premium is strictly additive — nothing that works today stops working if you don't pay. If ads ever start getting in the way of the games, that's a bug.

Press & data

For data about our 2,578-puzzle corpus — most-used pangrams, rarest center letters, difficulty distribution — see our State of Daily Word Games 2026 report. All statistics are freely citable with attribution to The Word Bee.