# NYT Spelling Bee drives me crazy **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [December 17, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739 "2023-12-17T15:50:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 155
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3081 "2026-07-12T19:09:37Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Okay, admit it, you tried WANKING or WANK. Maybe, but what does my sexual life have to do with Spelling Bee? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3082 "2026-07-16T07:35:10Z")
No CARYATID? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3083 "2026-07-16T14:36:28Z")
I can usually get to Genius without too much difficulty but sometimes need hints on the last couple of words. I’m kicking myself if one of those words was something I knew but the other day, the last word, for which I needed a hint, was maillot. That was not a word I knew. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3084 "2026-07-16T15:03:03Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > No CARYATID? Today’s Spelling Bee is a repeat, because I remember finding “caryatid” a couple of years ago, and being annoyed that it wasn’t in the word list – especially because it’s a pangram! It was the first time I submitted a word via email and got their standard response back about how they don’t use jargon or obscure words. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3085 "2026-07-16T15:20:41Z")
It’s probably not a true repeat. It’s the same letters with a different center letter which has happened many times. I think there are some that have gone through four or five rounds like this. @Maserschmidt ? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3086 "2026-07-16T15:35:28Z")
[Spelling Bee Solver](https://www.sbsolver.com/) tells me that the same combination of letters (with different center letters) was used twice. And in neither puzzle was the word caryatid allowed. > Center letter C: July 17, 2023 > Center letter T: June 16, 2021 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3087 "2026-07-16T16:06:28Z")
Yeah, I didn’t think about the center letter being different. 🤦‍♂️ That does make a difference! ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3088 "2026-07-16T21:02:57Z")
I tried CARYATID 3 times, just to make sure I had the spelling right. And in an example of synchronicity, I found the article below in my mailbox this morning: > **[The missing Caryatid maiden and the British imperial mindset](https://fastforward2016.substack.com/p/the-missing-caryatid-maiden-and-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=6507059&post_id=207037091&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=34vcqj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)** > > No longer colonizers of nations, Great Britain instead is hoarding their antiquities. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3089 "2026-07-17T13:21:34Z")
I thought that I had a beautiful pangram first with UNMALLEABLE ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3090 "2026-07-17T13:27:58Z")
Also UNNAMEABLE, and UNAMENABLE ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3091 "2026-07-17T15:52:36Z")
I tried those too and a few more. This is aggravating. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3092 "2026-07-18T07:30:24Z")
Today’s pangram that’s aggravatingly not accepted: CATALEPTIC ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3093 "2026-07-18T17:33:43Z")
No place today? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3094 "2026-07-18T20:02:10Z")
Try again. Unless autocorrect fixed PLAICE for you. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3095 "2026-07-18T21:36:20Z")
Does autocorrect work with Spelling Bee? I never use autocorrect and don’t even know how to turn it on in my browser. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3096 "2026-07-18T21:48:14Z")
I meant autocorrect here. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3097 "2026-07-19T06:40:47Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Unless autocorrect fixed PLAICE for you. Yep! I hate it when I don’t catch it. I’m pretty sure I’ve carped about that word here before. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3098 "2026-07-19T11:01:25Z")
No INVAGINATING? It’d be another pangram and I didn’t think it was that obscure. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3099 "2026-07-19T12:48:42Z")
Nm… ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/3100 "2026-07-19T13:11:08Z")
lol now now, John. Meanwhile, maybe too Briish? INVIGILATING [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=154) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=156)