I got stuck on TELEHEALTH today, even though I was looking for something with the first four letters. I didn’t realize that was just a normal word.
Yeah, I hate when I spend time churning through odd combinations, assuming the missing word is some weird haute cuisine term or odd bird that Sam likes, and then it turns out to be an ordinary word I was just blind to, for some reason. It was OUTDO the other day.
HABITATE is also cromulent.
Not according to Sam!
Sam, bah. A pisher.
Didn’t coolie used to be allowed?
It’s pejorative. Similarly, hebe is an attractive flowering plant, but also a slur, so not allowed.
I know, but I think it was valid recently, or maybe coolee.
Someone who looks at the word list should show up soon to answer that 
That’s my hope! But, maybe it was coulee that was allowed, now that I think about it.
Y’all called?
COOLIE has never been allowed, and COULEE has been accepted all nine times possible.
Grrrr, now I have to remember BIRRIA, which ‘became’ a word last year after having been rejected 22 times, thanks to the resident foodie posing as a puzzlemaker.
Is anyone else slightly disappointed when the Bee isn’t a bingo? I know it’s silly, and I spend too long trying to come up with a word when it just isn’t there.
Thanks! That makes sense.
And yet, it rejected OLEIN.
Today I tried geegaw without success but in the end gewgaw was accepted. That is sort of annoying.
Still find it weird that it accepts CALLALOO but not ACKEE (or AKEE). You’d think anyone knowing the first would know the second (not counting those who only learned it here).
Disappointed that it wouldn’t accept COCKADOODLEDOO. That’s a 22 point pangram!
I wonder about this every time it arises, especially when both can be spelled in the same day.
It also didn’t accept alee today and that’s a regular crossword puzzle word.
Most archaic words are rejected so alack should join them, imo. I also got tripped up by clade and cockade, but I guess I can’t really complain about them.