The Spelling Bee Spelling Variation Trap: How British, American, Archaic, and Variant Spellings Create Valid-But-Unexpected Words

If you’ve ever typed a word into the NYT Spelling Bee only to have it rejected — then later discovered it was accepted with a slightly different spelling — you know the particular frustration of spelling variation traps. Or maybe the opposite has happened: you typed what felt like a creative guess, and the game …