Spelling Bees with -ED and -ING
Updated 2025-02-22
The presence of the E+D and I+N+G letter combinations in the Spelling Bee delights some solvers and annoys others. Some enjoy the unique challenges, others find it mindless and rote to add these suffixes to other words.
How often do the -ING and -ED suffixes appear in the Spelling Bee? Here are the data for 2024:
The E+D combination was present in 54 of 366 puzzles (14.76%) The I+N+G combination was present in 52 of 366 puzzles (14.21%)
Do E+D and I+N+G ever appear together? Yes, but very rarely. Only 12 Spelling Bees (most of them fairly recent) have included those five letters together:
2024-11-01 V A D E G I N2024-09-15 M D E G I L N2024-07-19 W D E G I L N2024-07-07 F D E G I L N2024-05-04 V C D E G I N2023-09-19 P D E G I N X2023-06-18 K A D E G I N2022-12-14 F D E G I N O2022-03-14 B D E G I N T2021-09-03 F A D E G I N2021-08-28 I D E F G N Y2021-04-10 A D E G I K N
Data are from sbsolver.com; additional data and analysis are from LexiConnexxions.
How often do the -ING and -ED suffixes appear in the Spelling Bee? Here are the data for 2024:
The E+D combination was present in 54 of 366 puzzles (14.76%) The I+N+G combination was present in 52 of 366 puzzles (14.21%)
Do E+D and I+N+G ever appear together? Yes, but very rarely. Only 12 Spelling Bees (most of them fairly recent) have included those five letters together:
2024-11-01 V A D E G I N2024-09-15 M D E G I L N2024-07-19 W D E G I L N2024-07-07 F D E G I L N2024-05-04 V C D E G I N2023-09-19 P D E G I N X2023-06-18 K A D E G I N2022-12-14 F D E G I N O2022-03-14 B D E G I N T2021-09-03 F A D E G I N2021-08-28 I D E F G N Y2021-04-10 A D E G I K N
Data are from sbsolver.com; additional data and analysis are from LexiConnexxions.
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