Past Blossom Answers: Yesterday & Full List

About This List of Past Blossom Answers

This page keeps every past Blossom answer we've recorded, newest first: the day's flower — a centre letter and six petals — with every pangram it allowed, the number of valid words and the longest one. Yesterday's flower waits on the ticket at the top; every earlier day is grouped by month.

Each record is taken from Merriam-Webster's own game data on the day the puzzle runs, and only kept when the board is complete: seven distinct letters, a centre letter, a word list in which every word uses the centre, and at least one pangram that really contains all seven letters. Merriam-Webster doesn't keep an archive of old flowers, so the list begins when we started recording in July 2026 and grows by one flower a day.

For today's flower — with the best word for each bonus petal and the full word list behind a spoiler-safe reveal — go to Blossom answers today.

How Blossom Works

Blossom is Merriam-Webster's daily word game. The board is a flower: one centre letter surrounded by six petals. Every word you play must be at least four letters long and must use the centre letter, and letters can repeat as often as you like.

The twist is the budget. You get exactly twelve words, and every round one petal turns yellow as the bonus petal — each use of its letter in that round's word adds five points. Longer words score more (four letters score 2, five score 4, six score 6, seven score 12, and every letter beyond seven adds 3), and a pangram, a word that uses all seven letters, earns an extra seven. So Blossom answers aren't really “the answer”; they're the best dozen words you can find for the flower.

Why Pangrams Are the Answers People Look For

A pangram is the single most valuable word on the board: it scores at least twelve points for its length, seven more for being a pangram, and up to five for every bonus-petal letter it repeats. Most flowers hide several, and the longest ones — often a plural or an -ED form of a shorter pangram — are the highest-scoring plays of the day.

That's why this list of Blossom answers is built around pangrams. Look down any month and you'll see how often the longest pangram is just a shorter one plus a suffix: ISOLATE → ISOLATES, CLUSTER → CLUSTERS, UNTREAD → UNTREADED. Spotting that stretch is the quickest way to add twenty or thirty points to your score.

What Past Blossom Answers Tell You

• Vowels make generous centres. E and I are among the most common centre letters in our records, and vowel-centred flowers tend to allow many more words than consonant-centred ones.
• Word counts swing widely. The richest boards in the list allow several times as many words as the leanest, so a “hard” Blossom is usually a lean board rather than an obscure one.
• Pangram counts vary wildly. Some flowers hide a single pangram; the most generous in our records hid more than forty. If you've found two quickly, there are probably plenty more.
• The longest word is rarely obscure. It's usually an everyday word stretched with -NESS, -ERS or -ED.

Use the search box to check whether a word has already been a Blossom pangram — it highlights every day it appeared.

The Richest and Leanest Flowers So Far

Word counts in this list of Blossom answers range more than eightfold. The richest flower we've recorded, on October 25, 2026, had S at the centre with A, E, H, R, T and W on the petals and allowed 731 valid words — its longest was the old nautical word ATHWARTHAWSE, alongside friendlier pangrams like SHEARWATER and SHEARWATERS. The leanest, on August 20, 2026, put I at the centre with C, G, H, N, P and U and allowed just 86 words, though it still hid HICCUPPING.

Pangrams vary even more. The July 31, 2026 flower (centre A; E, I, M, N, R, T) hid 43 of them, from ANTIMATTER to ATTERMINEMENT, while on nine days in our records there was only a single pangram to find — MOVEMENTS, UNDERWENT and EXPRESSLY among them. Those single-pangram days are the ones worth checking here first: if you didn't find it, you'll see exactly which word you were missing.

How Each Flower Is Recorded

Merriam-Webster serves each day's puzzle — letters, centre, full word list and pangrams — from its own game data. On the day a flower runs, we read that data, check that the board is internally consistent and keep a compact record: the seven letters, every pangram, the number of valid words and the longest one. The full word list stays on the day's Blossom answers today page while it's live; this archive keeps the parts people look up later.

Planning Your Twelve Words

Past flowers are good practice for the part of Blossom that most players get wrong: the order of play. Because the bonus petal changes every round, the same word scores differently depending on when you play it. Take a past flower from the list and try to plan twelve words before looking at its pangrams:

1. Find a pangram first and keep it for the round where its most repeated letter is the bonus petal.
2. Assign a word to each petal. For each petal letter, look for a long word that uses it two or three times.
3. Stretch everything. Every letter beyond seven is worth three points, so plurals and -ED forms pay for themselves.
4. Save the short words for last — they barely move the score, so they only belong in rounds where nothing better fits.

If you also play the NYT Spelling Bee, the vocabulary overlaps: our Spelling Bee answers page lists the day's full word list too.

Blossom Answers Yesterday

The ticket at the top always holds the flower from the day before today, with its pangrams hidden until you tap. If you played late and want to check one particular word, type it into the search box — it searches every recorded pangram, not just yesterday's. If yesterday's flower couldn't be recorded, the ticket says so and shows the most recent day we do have instead.

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