Hard-to-find words

This page lists words which might appear to be invalid but actually are valid. It is, of course, not exhaustive.

• ATLANTES: Plural of definition 3 of atlas.
• BUCU: Searching cannot find certain accented characters, it is listed under bussu.
• DADDED, DADDING: Listed under daud.
• GINNELLED, GINNELLING: Listed under ginnle.
• HEMPED, HEMPING: Listed under empt.
• MAUGER, MAUGERED, MAUGERING: Searching does not direct to maugre where its variant spellings (as a verb) can be found in second entry.
• MEDALISE, MEDALLISE: Searching does not direct to medallize unless MEDALIZE or MEDALLIZE are searched instead, MEDALISE and MEDALLISE have to be allowed on Countdown as per rule that says -ISE/-IZE variants of nouns and verbs need not be specified, as -IZE is an Oxford spelling as well as a US spelling.
• MENDON: Searching cannot find certain accented characters, it is listed under mendang.
• MUJTAHIDUN: Searching cannot find certain accented characters, it is listed under mujtahidūn.
• MUNSTER: Searching takes you to Munster (capitalised) but it is listed under muenster. MUENSTER and its variants are entries from the US English dictionary (which is not used for adjudication) in Lexico, but can also be found in the British English section in the Premium version of Oxford Dictionaries Online.
• NIBBING: Listed under neeb.
• NIMBY: Searching takes you to Nimby (capitalised) but it is listed under nembie.
• OBO: Searching takes you to obo (abbreviation) but it is listed under obbo.
• PATAGON: Searching takes you to Patagon (capitalised) but it is listed under patacon.
• PETTIES: Searching takes you to petty (not a noun) but it is listed as a noun under petti.
• PHOTURIS: Capitalised, but also listed in bold without an initial capital letter in the definition.
• ROMANITE: Searching takes you to Romanite (capitalised) but it is listed under rumanite.
• SPRANGS: Searching takes you to spring but it is listed as a noun under sprong.