Guan

Look! It’s a bird! It’s an instrument! It’s a dord!

F, G, I, N, U, W, and center A (all words must include A).

Silly little dictionary! Don’t you know that guan can’t possibly be a word if the New York Times says it ain’t?

Guan with an uppercase G is also the name of an ethnic group believed to be the first settlers in what is today Ghana.

All of the above would obviously be rejected by the Spelling Bee game because the rules of the game clearly state that proper nouns are not included. Which makes sense; if they were, the list of words each game would go on forever.

But there are two meanings of the word guan with a lowercase “g”, which was not included in today’s list of accepted words.

Penelope and Penelopina are two subfamilies in the family Cracidae, which includes chacalacas, guans, and curassows. The latter should not be confused with Curacao.

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