Word Salad Insects Level 21 Answers
Letter pool YLEMFDANSYTG — 6 answers to find, right on the game average of 6.
Level 21 Letters
All 6 Answers for Level 21
Every word belongs to the Insects theme and uses only the letters above.
| # | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Flea | 4 | |
| #2 | Gadfly | 6 | |
| #3 | Gnat | 4 | |
| #4 | Ladybug | 7 | |
| #5 | Mantis | 6 | |
| #6 | Mayfly | 6 |
How Level 21 Breaks Down
This board is level 21 of the Insects category in Word Salad. You are given the 12-tile pool YLEMFDANSYTG and must find 6 answers, every one of them a insect-themed word. That is right on the game-wide average of 6 words per board, so this is a quicker board than most.
The longest answer is Ladybug at 7 letters, and the shortest runs to just 4. Finding the long entry first is almost always the fastest route through a Word Salad board: it consumes the rare consonants, and what remains in the pool tends to spell the short answers out for you. If you are working the category in order, level 20 comes before this one and level 22 comes next.
The Insects category runs to 50 levels in total — the full index is on the Insects page. For a different theme, the category list covers all 23, and there is a separate daily puzzle archive with 918 dated boards.
Level 21 — Questions
What are the answers to Word Salad Insects level 21?
What are the letters for this level?
How many words are in level 21?
Where do I go next?
3 Tips for Insects Level 21
Play Ladybug first
It is the longest answer on this board at 7 letters, and it eats the awkward tiles. Clearing it leaves 5 shorter answers to find from a much friendlier pool — on Word Salad boards the long entry is almost always the fastest way in.
Read the pool: 2 vowels, 10 consonants
The 12 tiles are YLEMFDANSYTG — and the rare letter Y narrows the field fast, because very few Insects answers use it. Every answer is drawn from this pool only, so count what you have before you swipe: the shortest answer here runs to just 4 letters.
You are 42% through Insects
This is level 21 of 50 in Insects, and difficulty climbs gradually across a category, so neighbouring boards share letter patterns. If this one is fighting you, level 20 is a useful warm-up. The daily puzzle uses the same mechanic on a fresh theme each day.
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Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify this level
Every word on this page comes from the Insects level data itself, not from a guess or a copy of another site. The 6 answers are checked against the 12-tile pool YLEMFDANSYTG so that no listed word can use a letter the board does not give you, and the list is re-checked whenever Bloop Games updates the game.
Reviewed by Priya Raghunathan, Word Games Editor at Puzzle Solved. Our full checking routine is written up in the methodology, and the standards we hold every page to are in the editorial policy.
Last checked — September 4, 2026Word Salad by the numbers
How to Solve a Word Salad Board
Three moves that clear a Word Salad board, in the order worth making them.
Read every category name first
The category names are the whole clue. Reading all of them before you move a single word tells you which groups are narrow and which are broad, and the narrow one is always the cheapest place to start.
Place the words only one group can take
Some words fit two categories on sight and some fit exactly one. Placing the unambiguous ones first shrinks the pool for everything else, which is what turns a stuck board into a solved one.
A full category is a finished category
Once a group has all its slots filled, nothing else belongs in it — and every word you have left belongs somewhere else. Working by elimination beats re-reading the same word against the same category.