Cachalot
or, The Whale
Published in
8 min readNov 4, 2022
Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee letters:
A, C, I, L, O, T, and center H (all words must include H)
Merriam-Webster says…
Silly little dictionary! Don’t you know that cachalot 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
I got quite frustrated today while looking for the image that would grace the top of today’s column. I typed “cachalot” into Unsplash’s search feature and got zero results… as expected. I even tried cachalote with an E at the end, which in Spanish is the term used for sperm whale. But that didn’t work, either. So I switched to sperm whale. These were the first nine results:
