#Nyt spelling bee professional#

I will also try to pay better attention to whether words that I don't think counted before do now.I just finished FridayвЂ™s Wordle - which I am reminding you now is owned by The New York Times for reasons youвЂ™ll understand shortly - and when I did, I was surprised to see an addition to the results screen. I'm going to start keeping track of what we think should be in there, email the powers, see what happens, and report back. The site I linked above also lists valid dictionary words that do not appear in each day's puzzle, if that is of interest. They also seem to take an arbitrary approach to which foreign words (currency, foods) are allowed. Not the best example, but I can't think of others right now that we come across pretty often. Yet, 'aroar', which is a NYT crossword fave, is not apparently a word. For example, 'lamella(e)'? My husband identified those two (and promptly forgot to the next time they appeared), but only due to a weird discussion he happened to have with our dentist at one point. Maybe they are just outside my wheelhouse. And there are some in the puzzle that definitely seem pretty specific. It seems that some 'common' words are not so common, even to those who are word game fanatics and etc.

#Nyt spelling bee professional#

We also try to avoid terms that are very specific to any professional field, such as terms that might be familiar to, for example, a physician, ornithologist or geologist, but not to people outside of that field of expertise. We just removed words from Spelling Bee that we believe are not common enough, despite them being defined words, in order to maintain a level-field for all of our solvers. Occasionally we'll miss some common words and add them in, but our puzzle editors ultimately draw from our internal lexicon and make the call for what's best with that day's puzzle. According to their site ( ),Д®very Spelling Bee puzzle is hand-curated to focus on relatively common words (with a couple tough ones here and there to keep it challenging). I shake my head at some of what's in there and some of what's not. It's great that they are so responsive, although some of their rulings seem pretty arbitrary. Thanks for the additional detail, Boomvang. Of course the fun is in trying to solve it yourself! But we are also using this as a programming exercise. There are a bunch we kick ourselves over and then try to remember going forward (acacia, acai, lulu, whatever that c word was yesterday, words that can have two spelling variations included). But it certainly isn't the same as the crossword, for example. From the NYT website, they describe it as curated. As far as I know, the Spelling Bee dictionary is not available. Sometimes there are words that we think should be in there that aren't, and some of the words that are in there are pretty wacky. So I am trying to build an actual Spelling Bee dictionary to check against by copying the words out from that site and making a database. My R program currently just checks against the Hunspell dictionary, which tends to leave some more technical words out, and his spits out way too many possible words. We only look at that after all else has been exhausted. It also gives metrics for words seen most often, number of words of a particular length, etc. I also found a site that will give you the answers (you have to click a button to see them, so they aren't just readily visible on this site: ). They go about the process differently, so we usually find all of them eventually. I wrote mine in R, he wrote his in some language on his Linux system (Perl?). a little nerdy, but we each wrote computer programs to help find the remaining words.

Today was the first (and probably last) day that I got Queen Bee all by myself and in only an hour or so! Usually my husband and I work on it independently throughout the day, then compare lists, then. I do Spelling Bee every day on the app, along with the crosswords.