Alembic
Distilling the essence of a word
Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee letters:
A, C, E, I, L, M, and center B (all words must include B)
Merriam-Webster says…
Silly little dictionary! Don’t you know that alembic can’t possibly be a word if The New York Times says it ain’t?
For a complete list of rejected words, check out the Spelling Bee Master.
What’s your favorite dord* from today’s puzzle?
My Two Cents
It’s a real shame that alembic was rejected from today’s list of valid answers. That’s because the word is a pangram: it contains each of the seven letters in the puzzle. In fact, it’s what Spelling Bee players call a perfect pangram because it uses each letter only once.
And it’s not like the Times has no clue what the word means. When I searched for the term in the paper’s web site, I got this:
