Word not accepted

[mclag]

What a huge disappointment! Ever since I started playing Wordtwist, I have been hoping to be able to use the word "quanked". I finally had a puzzle with the word in it today, but apparently Wordtwist doesn't accept that one.

[bocci]

"Tasso" ought be, but isn't valid.

[bwt1213]

Karat isn't accepted, and it's actually a pretty common word. "Carats" are used to measure the size of gemstones, and "karats" are used to measure the purity of gold. One karat is 1/24 part of gold to the whole. 24 karat gold is 100% gold. There are a lot of other honest-to-goodness words that aren't accepted, but this one still bothers me most.

[HyacinthBucket6]

I was surprised to find that "spork" wasn't accepted. Sporks have been around for a long time and you can still find them in any camping store!

[bocci]

I tried "spork", and then came here only to discover it already made the list just 14 hours ago. Lol

[mclag]

I was surprised by the rejection of "spork" as well. I wonder if it is because it is a trademark.

[dannyb]

It has been trademarked several times but the trademark has expired and Spork it is still usually seen capitalized. Maybe it is rejected because of both of these issues?

[bwt1213]

Yeah, but what about "karat"?

[HyacinthBucket6]

Just out of curiosity, I looked up spork in the Merriam-Webster dictionary and it is in there spelled with a lower case. However, even writing this, Google's automatic spellcheck is underlining spork like it's a misspelled word! So I guess it just depends on where you look.

[dannyb]

Yeah, but what about "karat"?

I just played karat last board and it was accepted.

[bwt1213]

It has been added, then. Good. I'd attempted it just a few days before my post, and had tried it off and on for years, and it was never accepted for me. I know I didn't misspell it all those times, so it's nice to know that I can use it now.

[bocci]

I could not get ASPENS accepted. I play on a mobile so may have dragged my finger wrong multiple times, but I was careful the last two tries.

Also CREMA was a no-go today.

[bocci]

BROAST not accepted.

[Panache2]

Although I didn't write it down or remember it, so I can't write it here, I did see a word in an answer that was not in my brand-new, library-sized dictionary nor anywhere on line. So I don't know why it was allowed as an answer. And reading the posts here, it appears there are legitimate words that aren't allowed. I also have yet to see a response by the makers of this game (wordtwist) as to the discrepancies being discussed.

[Cantabridgian]

"genomically" is not accepted!