# NYT Spelling Bee drives me crazy

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2165 "2025-09-29T19:06:00Z")

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Today’s puzzle actually contains a pair of what I call (for lack of a better term) reversible compound words … i.e., the two parts of the compound word can appear in either order. I googled to see if I could find a compilation of words like this and (predictably I guess) the top hit was the SDMB: [Reversible Compound Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversible-compound-words/279180/9)

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