Trailblaze answers for August 26, 2026

The Wednesday, August 26, 2026 board had 475 distinct words in it. Here's the best line through it, plus the finds worth knowing about.

Longest word: SMELLINESS
Best score found
46
Par
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Cells covered
26 / 49
Longest word
smelliness

Highest-scoring words on this board

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

  • smelliness 20
  • earliness 19
  • housewife 19
  • scrawnier 19
  • usernames 19

The best chain we found

5 words for 46 points. Each word starts adjacent to where the last one ended, so the order matters as much as the words.

  1. 1.housewife 19 pts

  2. 2.scrapes 17 pts

  3. 3.meh 3 pts

  4. 4.life 4 pts

  5. 5.sea 3 pts