Trailblaze answers for July 5, 2026

The Sunday, July 5, 2026 board had 345 distinct words in it. Here's the best line through it, plus the finds worth knowing about.

Longest word: ASTRINGENTS
Best score found
48
Par
Cells covered
38 / 49
Longest word
astringents

Highest-scoring words on this board

Findable somewhere on the grid — not necessarily all in the same chain, since each word consumes its cells.

  • astringents 21
  • astringent 20
  • battening 19
  • mentoring 19
  • stringent 19

The best chain we found

9 words for 48 points. Each word starts adjacent to where the last one ended, so the order matters as much as the words.

  1. 1.astringent 20 pts

  2. 2.helm 4 pts

  3. 3.bung 4 pts

  4. 4.hes 3 pts

  5. 5.ion 3 pts

  6. 6.bate 4 pts

  7. 7.ion 3 pts

  8. 8.noes 4 pts

  9. 9.luv 3 pts