The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

Whoa. As soon as I typed that, the last word popped into my head.  First QB in a couple of months grin


Veld. I feel like I made a Gabor sister joke about that one one time. 

Oh well…


jimmurphy said:

Veld. I feel like I made a Gabor sister joke about that one one time. 

Oh well…

I don't know if veld was a word I had in my brain from seeing if before or if it was just a guess. But I figured that was the one you didn't have. 

My last was voodoo and I would have been kicking myself if I had missed it. 


jimmurphy said:

Four misses yesterday.

Titivate, titivated, veld, and veldt.

Who came up with that word list- one of the Gabor sisters?! 
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9/5/22


jimmurphy said:

Veld. I feel like I made a Gabor sister joke about that one one time. 

Oh well…

I always knew it as ending with a "t" and was surprised to learn this spelling of it.


I came crashing back to earth on Saturday.  


yahooyahoo said:

I came crashing back to earth on Saturday.  

hope it was a soft landing... cheese


a Valentine's Day QB for me today... question


alha said:

a Valentine's Day QB for me today...
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Well done!


alha said:

a Valentine's Day QB for me today...
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congrats. I am currently -1 and feeling cautiously optimistic that the last one will come to me.


ml1 said:

alha said:

a Valentine's Day QB for me today...
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congrats. I am currently -1 and feeling cautiously optimistic that the last one will come to me.

Just got QB after being stymied for a little while.


I've been striking out lately. I think I might be preoccupied... ::Sigh::


yahooyahoo said:

Just got QB after being stymied for a little while.

I am not going to get it today. And tomorrow when I see the word I missed I'm going to be kicking myself  question


I got the QB by using the hints. I had no idea there was an alternate spelling for a word I already had. 

vampire


Just got there! First QB in a while. 


ml1 said:

I got the QB by using the hints. I had no idea there was an alternate spelling for a word I already had. 

vampire

Yeah, that alt spelling got me too. I don’t look for them. Hard to do so when you don't know they exist.


jimmurphy said:

Yeah, that alt spelling got me too. I don’t look for them. Hard to do so when you don't know they exist.

yup. Hiccupped and hiccuped  

The single p violates everything we're taught about spelling grin


ml1 said:

jimmurphy said:

Yeah, that alt spelling got me too. I don’t look for them. Hard to do so when you don't know they exist.

yup. Hiccupped and hiccuped  

The single p violates everything we're taught about spelling
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The alternate spelling words are annoying. If I had any say, I'd recommend choosing just one.


yahooyahoo said:

The alternate spelling words are annoying. If I had any say, I'd recommend choosing just one.

Wouldn’t be hard to write the algorithm to credit either one but not accept both.


I just got to QB today...second time for me this week. I can go weeks, if not months, without a QB so this is quite an accomplishment for me question


alha said:

I just got to QB today...second time for me this week. I can go weeks, if not months, without a QB so this is quite an accomplishment for me
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Congratulations! I got QB today, too. First time in forever...


Just got QB today, too - it's been quite a while since the last. For some reason, today's letters just fell into place very easily. Some days it's a very different story!


Got the QB today too grin


QB -1 word today.  Hopefully I get the last word soon.


Also got Queen Bee! Two in a row after a long dry spell….


Me too. Nice to be in good company. 


Just got QB! One kinda-odd word, but very doable,

Missed by one yesterday. Homonymy? Never wood have gotten that extra “y.”



jimmurphy said:

Just got QB! One kinda-odd word, but very doable,

Missed by one yesterday. Homonymy? Never wood have gotten that extra “y.”

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I too missed "homonymy" yesterday, but it wasn't my only miss


alha said:

jimmurphy said:

Just got QB! One kinda-odd word, but very doable,

Missed by one yesterday. Homonymy? Never wood have gotten that extra “y.”

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I too missed "homonymy" yesterday, but it wasn't my only miss

I got to Genius, but missed about 6-7 words. Homonymy was one. But I also didn't know "anyhoo" is a real word. Nor did I suspect hogan and yang are words aside from proper names.  Well, now I know.


alha said:

just got QB
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I too missed "homonymy" yesterday, but it wasn't my only miss

Well done!

I take issue with homonymy. It’s like adding -ish to a word.


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