Pitaya
Enter the dragonfruit
Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee letters:
C, I, P, T, V, Y, and center A (all words must include A)
Merriam-Webster says…
Silly little dictionary! Don’t you know pitaya can’t possibly be a word if the New York Times says it ain’t?
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My Two Cents
When I began to write this column I subscribed to Merriam-Webster’s unabridged dictionary. The collegiate version is the one that everyone can access for free, but the unabridged is behind a paywall. It usually has more comprehensive information about the words. Sometimes entries in both dictionaries match, sometimes they have slight differences. The entry shown above is from the collegiate version. Here is a screenshot of the unabridged one:
