New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- MENTALLY and ELEMENTALLY. There are 69 valid words to find.

an 11-letter pangram that uses all seven letters of the grid and ranks among the longer pangrams the Spelling Bee has served. It reads like an adverb from a physics textbook, the kind of word that feels slightly archaic in everyday speech but is immediately understandable. MENTALLY is the more accessible pangram at 8 letters, and most solvers will find it first. Both words share the same root cluster: element, mental, elemental, and elementally form a clean semantic chain from the same seven letters. Solvers who reach Queen Bee today have earned it.

Among the other notable entries: MANATEE (the sea mammal, seven letters) is one of those Spelling Bee words ...