NYT Spelling Bee drives me crazy

Oops, my mistake there. It’s missing one of the letters, so would not be a pangram.

I’m sure this was mentioned before but million and millionth are fine, as is nonillion, but not nonillionth. Annoying.

Today is the first puzzle that I recall with only one vowel (this includes Y as a vowel).

It’s happened before. But always where the vowel is an I and there’s usually an N and G to make for a lot of -ING words. Today was the first I can remember where the vowel is an A.

No NOOKIE? Guess Sam doesn’t get much.

I tried that too. Maybe it’s too much of a slang word? But, then explain the other slang he allows. Mysterious.

Arrgh, ninja’ed.

ENOKI? Really? I only got it by finding the first two letters from SBB, and then trying random additional letters.

How many here already knew that word?

I knew it! Now, catarrh is something I’ll never remember.

That one I knew, although I was a little surprised it was accepted.

Boy, together we’d be unstoppable!

I knew the mushroom. I was hesitant about trying it but I remembered that Sam loves obscure food references.

I discovered that there’s a German version of the spelling bee called Wortify. Because gender grammar creates a lot of different endings for nouns and adjectives, the point totals are much higher if say there’s an E. But I made level six of nine today, guru! Still no pangram today though.

It’s often a little odd which words are accepted and which are not. Today, for instance, burrata (name of an Italian cheese) was one of the accepted words while batard (name of a French bread) was not.

So, no ADIABATIC? They need an editor with a few technical chops.