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FIBRE is spelt FIBER in American English. AGORA is a rarely-used word and is probably not in the dictionary referenced by The NY Times for their word puzzles.

FIBRE is spelt FIBER in American English. AGORA is a rarely-used word and is probably not in the dictionary referenced by The NY Times for their word puzzles. PUPAL may be mis-perceived as a misspelling of PUPIL and frustrate players. I don’t know… I’m guessing!

banana_giraffe 5y ago
Probably reasonable guesses. Though, I'd expect these to be moved to allowed guesses, there's some very obscure stuff in the allowed guess list. Probably just a first pass by whoever's in charge of standards. Now I'm trying to guess if this was a simple pass with an "approved words" list, or if there was a mind-numbing meeting where they spent a day or two looking at words.
- anakaine 5y ago
  As someone from British English nation, there's no way I'm ever likely to guess FIBER unless I've exhausted FIBRE first. It breaks the brain. The ER phenomenon goes against every fibre of my being.
  - SturgeonsLaw 5y ago
    Also from a Commonwealth nation and I prefer the -er spelling. It looks more balanced, take the word center as an example, it plain looks nicer, and having a vowel flow onto a consonant for a hard ending means the spelling matches the actual pronunciation. I think centre at first glance would suggest a more French pronunciation - "cen-tray". That said, I'll never forgive American English for what it did to Aluminium. The word Aluminium just sparkles and glitters like the metal itself, whereas Aluminum has a distinctly cold sound, like an echo in an empty hall early on a winter's morning.
    - tempestn 5y ago
      As a Canadian I have a weird mishmash that looks right to me. I'd actually use both center and centre in different contexts. Like, the center of a circle is clearly center, but a rec centre looks better that way! (Notwithstanding the red underline my browser with its own preference is giving me...)
paulcole 5y ago
Wrong. Agora was accepted as of March 26, 2021 — and I’m quite certain it’s been seen since. https://nytspellingbeeanswers.org/nyt-spelling-bee-answers-03-26-21/ https://nytspellingbeeanswers.org/nyt-spelling-bee-answers-0...
pbhjpbhj 5y ago
Well they had "humor" and that's an actual misspelling :D
- stevewodil 5y ago
  Not in American English. That's spelled correctly.

banana_giraffe 5y ago

Probably reasonable guesses. Though, I'd expect these to be moved to allowed guesses, there's some very obscure stuff in the allowed guess list. Probably just a first pass by whoever's in charge of standards. Now I'm trying to guess if this was a simple pass with an "approved words" list, or if there was a mind-numbing meeting where they spent a day or two looking at words.

anakaine 5y ago
As someone from British English nation, there's no way I'm ever likely to guess FIBER unless I've exhausted FIBRE first. It breaks the brain. The ER phenomenon goes against every fibre of my being.
- SturgeonsLaw 5y ago
  Also from a Commonwealth nation and I prefer the -er spelling. It looks more balanced, take the word center as an example, it plain looks nicer, and having a vowel flow onto a consonant for a hard ending means the spelling matches the actual pronunciation. I think centre at first glance would suggest a more French pronunciation - "cen-tray". That said, I'll never forgive American English for what it did to Aluminium. The word Aluminium just sparkles and glitters like the metal itself, whereas Aluminum has a distinctly cold sound, like an echo in an empty hall early on a winter's morning.
  - tempestn 5y ago
    As a Canadian I have a weird mishmash that looks right to me. I'd actually use both center and centre in different contexts. Like, the center of a circle is clearly center, but a rec centre looks better that way! (Notwithstanding the red underline my browser with its own preference is giving me...)

paulcole 5y ago

Wrong. Agora was accepted as of March 26, 2021 — and I’m quite certain it’s been seen since. https://nytspellingbeeanswers.org/nyt-spelling-bee-answers-03-26-21/ https://nytspellingbeeanswers.org/nyt-spelling-bee-answers-0...

pbhjpbhj 5y ago

Well they had "humor" and that's an actual misspelling :D

stevewodil 5y ago
Not in American English. That's spelled correctly.