I have used some technical words myself (e.g., a species name most people would have never heard of) yet have seen more common words blocked for no good reason. It is particularly irksome when some other words that are clearly arcane, weird, obscure or highly technical are included. Despite the rule makers creating a negative experience this way, they have a spirit of indifference to their own forced diminishment of enjoyment. It is ridiculous to argue otherwise, since the enjoyment of the game is maximized by a maximum vocabulary. When those running the puzzle arbitrarily decide that parts of one person’s vocabulary are invalid, that is a negative experience. However, the second key part is to have a large vocabulary. The most important part of this exercise is recalling whatever you know that may help advance your score. The puzzle basically tests players to recall their lexical range. I find that those running the puzzle diminish the joy of playing. Does it really matter what dictionary it is, because if the Spelling Bee says it’s a word, then well, it’s a word, because you’ll gladly take those points every time. There is no time penalty or score penalty for entering a word that is not a valid Spelling Bee word. Some are the uncommon, lesser-known variations of common words.Īll this is to say, use your basic knowledge, and then just go from there. Some words appears to be how you might spell out a sound. Words you would never want to say to your mother are not going to be valid Spelling Bee words. So JOHN is okay, while JONATHAN probably would not be. Words that only exist as proper names do not count. Why is that? Well it officially, “ Spelling Bee has a separate curated word list that strives to incorporate commonly used words, with a couple challenging words from time to time.” Everyone else knows it’s a word, but why does it not show up and give you those six hard earned points? Well, it’s because it’s usually a different dictionary than we think it should be using.Īccording to the New York Times, we don’t really know what dictionary it uses. When you play the New York Times spelling bee, and then it says word not found, it is infuriating.
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