r/NYTSpellingBee
NY Times Spelling Bee Puzzle
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Discussion of the daily New York Times Spelling Bee puzzle
Don't post today's answers. Let's discuss yesterday's and previous puzzles, develop strategies for finding words, and share our outrage when a perfectly good word that we found isn't included in the word list.
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May 8, 2019
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Earliest Submission
May 8, 2019
Earliest Comment
May 10, 2019
Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 219 | 29,713 | 454.5 | 0.2 | 1834.25 | |
| #2 | 84 | 20,625 | 174.3 | 0.2 | 1013.55 | |
| #3 | 209 | 55,715 | 433.7 | 0.5 | 933.54 | |
| #4 | 2,488 | 981,609 | 5163.0 | 8.2 | 630.77 | |
| #5 | 142 | 57,586 | 294.7 | 0.5 | 613.66 | |
| #6 | 71 | 29,391 | 147.3 | 0.2 | 601.18 | |
| #7 | 201 | 87,205 | 417.1 | 0.7 | 573.61 | |
| #8 | 56 | 27,709 | 116.2 | 0.2 | 502.95 | |
| #9 | 1,496 | 831,131 | 3104.4 | 6.9 | 447.94 | |
| #10 | 1,715 | 1,020,166 | 3558.9 | 8.5 | 418.36 | |
| #11 | 87 | 57,720 | 180.5 | 0.5 | 375.10 | |
| #12 | 1,428 | 968,881 | 2963.3 | 8.1 | 366.79 | |
| #13 | 35 | 23,848 | 72.6 | 0.2 | 365.24 | |
| #14 | 72 | 49,169 | 149.4 | 0.4 | 364.42 | |
| #15 | 37 | 25,768 | 76.8 | 0.2 | 357.34 | |
| #16 | 148 | 104,136 | 307.1 | 0.9 | 353.69 | |
| #17 | 47 | 34,539 | 97.5 | 0.3 | 338.65 | |
| #18 | 45 | 33,573 | 93.4 | 0.3 | 333.57 | |
| #19 | 96 | 72,423 | 199.2 | 0.6 | 329.88 | |
| #20 | 214 | 165,025 | 444.1 | 1.4 | 322.72 | |
| #21 | 52 | 40,133 | 107.9 | 0.3 | 322.45 | |
| #22 | 66 | 57,740 | 137.0 | 0.5 | 284.46 | |
| #23 | 39 | 34,302 | 80.9 | 0.3 | 282.95 | |
| #24 | 604 | 648,467 | 1253.4 | 5.4 | 231.80 | |
| #25 | 91 | 99,131 | 188.8 | 0.8 | 228.45 | |
| #26 | 305 | 348,915 | 632.9 | 2.9 | 217.54 | |
| #27 | 1,478 | 1,790,406 | 3067.1 | 14.9 | 205.44 | |
| #28 | 936 | 1,173,168 | 1942.3 | 9.8 | 198.55 | |
| #29 | 1,100 | 1,402,542 | 2282.7 | 11.7 | 195.18 | |
| #30 | 506 | 679,850 | 1050.0 | 5.7 | 185.22 | |
| #31 | 458 | 631,962 | 950.4 | 5.3 | 180.36 | |
| #32 | 131 | 192,123 | 271.8 | 1.6 | 169.69 | |
| #33 | 78 | 116,851 | 161.9 | 1.0 | 166.12 | |
| #34 | 57 | 87,322 | 118.3 | 0.7 | 162.45 | |
| #35 | 30 | 53,709 | 62.3 | 0.4 | 139.01 | |
| #36 | 81 | 176,781 | 168.1 | 1.5 | 114.03 | |
| #37 | 301 | 663,193 | 624.6 | 5.5 | 112.95 | |
| #38 | 36 | 79,508 | 74.7 | 0.7 | 112.68 | |
| #39 | 48 | 117,882 | 99.6 | 1.0 | 101.33 | |
| #40 | 76 | 193,358 | 157.7 | 1.6 | 97.82 | |
| #41 | 107 | 310,118 | 222.0 | 2.6 | 85.87 | |
| #42 | 760 | 2,253,122 | 1577.1 | 18.8 | 83.94 | |
| #43 | 1,314 | 4,165,127 | 2726.8 | 34.7 | 78.51 | |
| #44 | 48 | 152,544 | 99.6 | 1.3 | 78.31 | |
| #45 | 408 | 1,312,611 | 846.7 | 10.9 | 77.35 | |
| #46 | 71 | 237,540 | 147.3 | 2.0 | 74.38 | |
| #47 | 36 | 126,671 | 74.7 | 1.1 | 70.73 | |
| #48 | 4,576 | 16,361,837 | 9495.9 | 136.4 | 69.60 | |
| #49 | 4,143 | 15,106,550 | 8597.4 | 126.0 | 68.25 | |
| #50 | 35 | 129,591 | 72.6 | 1.1 | 67.21 |