plural The form of a noun used to indicate a quantity greater than one, e.g. perfect pangram A seven-letter pangram-i.e., a word which uses each letter in the hive exactly once. Every daily Spelling Bee is guaranteed to contain at least one pangram. pangram A word which uses each of the seven letters in the hive at least once. Nice The fifth highest rank in Spelling Bee, equivalent to 25% of Queen Bee (rounded to the nearest point). Moving Up The third lowest rank in Spelling Bee, equivalent to 5% of Queen Bee (rounded to the nearest point). mashing keys The act of trying letter combinations almost at random to see if they will be accepted as valid words. Longo, Frank Creator and editor of the original print version of Spelling Bee. Hivemind The community of Spelling Bee fans on Twitter who love to share hints daily and commiserate about egregious omissions in the puzzle. hive The set of seven letters forming each day’s puzzle. Great The fourth highest rank in Spelling Bee, equivalent to 40% of Queen Bee (rounded to the nearest point).
Good Start The second lowest rank in Spelling Bee, equivalent to 2% of Queen Bee (rounded to the nearest point). Good The fourth lowest rank in Spelling Bee, equivalent to 8% of Queen Bee (rounded to the nearest point). Genius The second highest rank in Spelling Bee, equivalent to 70% of Queen Bee (rounded to the nearest point).
Ezersky, Sam Editor of the daily online Spelling Bee puzzle. disallowed Any word known to have been excluded from past solution sets for the daily Spelling Bee. entry for more information.) debut Any word making its first-ever appearance in a given day’s solution set. (Our definition of what qualifies as a compound could fairly be called quirky. compound A valid word constructed by concatenating two or more shorter words, e.g., bluebird, pothole or timepiece. The entire set will always appear in the solutions list for that hive, no matter what the center letter. complementary pangrams A set of two or more pangrams comprising the same seven unique letters. The center letter must appear in every answer. (Coined by Times Wordplay commenter qatburger.) center letter The letter that appears in the center cell of the day’s hive. bingo A puzzle in which the solution set contains at least one word beginning with each of the seven letters in the hive. Beginner The lowest rank in Spelling Bee, equivalent to zero points.
When you reach Queen Bee, she pops up wearing a crown. When you reach Genius, she pops up to congratulate you wearing a mortarboard. Beeatrice The official Spelling Bee mascot. As a handy rule of thumb, you can estimate the Queen Bee score to within one point by doubling Amazing. Amazing The third highest rank in Spelling Bee, equivalent to 50% of Queen Bee (rounded to the nearest point). One or two are used primarily by commenters in the Comments section of the The following terms have specific meanings to players of the daily online
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