NYT Spelling Bee drives me crazy

Cranially would be a pangram today and seems to be a dictionary word. The SB allows two related words, so it can’t be that obscure.

I agree. There have been quite a few excluded licit, reasonable words (including pangrams) in the last couple of weeks.

I tried that one too after finding the 2 related words and was disappointed that it wasn’t accepted.

PAVLOVIAN would have been a great pangram. I get why it wasn’t.

Yeah, me too. In fact, I couldn’t find a pangram today. I wonder why anil isn’t accepted.

Pavlov is a proper noun and therefore excluded.

Obviously

Ha. Me no read comprehensive England.

In an exciting twist, PAVLOVA was named for a person but became generic.

Annoyed that BAIRN and TRINITARIAN aren’t accepted today.

Today, I tried bivariant unsuccessfully though both variant and invariant were included. I also tried bairn, though you mentioned that.

That was my first guess for a pangram. Fortunately, rejected words don’t count against the First Pangram thing. So I persisted and got another FP anyway.

I tried BIVARIANT too as my first pangram guess.
And for those of us noticing fantasy world words, NARNIA was a possible today and a few days ago as well. And yesterday VORPAL (for Jabberwocky fans) was almost possible, just the L was missing but I kept seeing it, and remembering the line about it going “snicker-snack”

No MANIOC. Maybe someday, knowing his penchant for food.

Can someone please explain to me why ANKLEBONE is ok but not KNEEBONE?

I mean, if you at least tried BONKABLE, we are fam.

Meanwhile, I tried bankbook without success.

Well, duh

and BANKLOAN

Tried that as well, though I think it’s usually two words.

Heh, tried both of those also!

Neither worked for me…

I put in OBABAKOAK just for fun, as I type proper nouns and names in case I stumble upon another PANAMA, say.