Maybe, but what does my sexual life have to do with Spelling Bee?
No CARYATID?
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.
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. ![]()
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 ?
Spelling Bee Solver 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
Yeah, I didn’t think about the center letter being different.
That does make a difference!
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:
I thought that I had a beautiful pangram first with UNMALLEABLE
Also UNNAMEABLE, and UNAMENABLE
I tried those too and a few more. This is aggravating.
Today’s pangram that’s aggravatingly not accepted: CATALEPTIC
No place today?
Try again. Unless autocorrect fixed PLAICE for you.
Does autocorrect work with Spelling Bee? I never use autocorrect and don’t even know how to turn it on in my browser.
I meant autocorrect here.
Yep! I hate it when I don’t catch it. I’m pretty sure I’ve carped about that word here before.
No INVAGINATING? It’d be another pangram and I didn’t think it was that obscure.
Nm…
lol now now, John.
Meanwhile, maybe too Briish? INVIGILATING