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  • Nylimb
    Member
    • Mar 2015
    • 40

    #1

    Surprising words not accepted

    Since the old forum thread with this title (or something similar) didn't survive the move to the new server, I'll start a new one.

    STALLER, meaning either a standard bearer or one who stalls, isn't accepted.
  • erakis17
    Member
    • Feb 2019
    • 5

    #2
    GUILTED

    I tried it three times because I was so surprised. But nope, it's not in SOWPODS. It is in the 2015 update to Collins Scrabble Words, but only some of those have made it into this site's dictionary!

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    • bloodroot
      Member
      • Mar 2016
      • 2

      #3
      Another one that is very surprising to me as an entomologist is that gyne isn't accepted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyne

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      • DrPlacebo
        Member
        • Feb 2019
        • 251

        #4
        A little annoying to me as a former neuroscientist: AFFERENCE isn't accepted. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/afference

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        • magyar
          Member
          • Feb 2019
          • 2

          #5
          I am surprised that BAREN, a tool used in printmaking, is not accepted.

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          • Razorflame
            Member
            • Dec 2016
            • 54

            #6
            I'm pretty sure either ALM or ELM isn't accepted (though the plurals of both are).

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            • dannyb
              Member
              • Feb 2019
              • 257

              #7
              I have had elm accepted.

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              • Razorflame
                Member
                • Dec 2016
                • 54

                #8
                Originally posted by dannyb
                I have had elm accepted.
                Yep, it was ALM that was not accepted, and a recent check of the dictionary sites indicate that it is indeed not a word...which is my bad.

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                • dementedman
                  Member
                  • Feb 2019
                  • 5

                  #9
                  I just had CATOTELM rejected! :-(

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                  • dementedman
                    Member
                    • Feb 2019
                    • 5

                    #10
                    Now HUTTER was rejected.

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                    • suddeneyes
                      Member
                      • Feb 2019
                      • 2

                      #11
                      ABLENESS not accepted. Huh.

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                      • Razorflame
                        Member
                        • Dec 2016
                        • 54

                        #12
                        Originally posted by dementedman
                        I just had CATOTELM rejected! :-(
                        Looked it up in numerous dictionaries. Could not find it.

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                        • Spike1007
                          Member
                          • Feb 2019
                          • 267

                          #13
                          I did a search on google. It does show up there as a layer of peat, I think. Could be that it's seen as a foreign word.
                          Last edited by Spike1007; 04-17-2019, 06:44 PM.

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                          • carinna
                            Member
                            • Feb 2019
                            • 1

                            #14
                            It accepts DOWSE, DOWSER, and DOWSES, but not DOWSERS. Hmm, weird.

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                            • wvwoman
                              Member
                              • Feb 2019
                              • 6

                              #15
                              isn't accepted where? what is this "it" you speak of?

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