Hard-to-find words

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

• AMBERS: Searching directs to amber (mass noun) but it is not a mass noun under ambeer.
• ATLANTES: Plural of definition 3 of atlas.
• BUCU: Searching cannot find certain accented characters, it is listed under bussu.
• DADDED, DADDING: Listed under daud.
• FARSE, FARSER, FARSEST: Alternative spelling of definition 7 of the adjective fast.
• GINNELLED, GINNELLING: Listed under ginnle.
• HEMPED, HEMPING: Listed under empt.
• ISCHIA: Searching directs to 'Ischia', but is listed uncapitalised as the plural of ischium.
• LAGOBIS: Searching does not direct, but can be found in bold in Premium under leggo.
• 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 variant spellings of verbs ending in -IZE need not be specified.
• 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.
• QUARKED, QUARKING, QUORKED, QUORKING, QUOUKED, QUOUKING: Searching does not direct to the verb, to quark (the sound of a bird, as opposed to the subatomic particle); QUARK and QUORK can only be found in the Premium version.[1]
• 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.
• ZEMIROT, ZMIROT: Searching does not take you to zemirah, where the plural is specified (in bold, in Premium) in the definition. ZMIRAH can only be found in Premium, and the logical plural of that spelling is assumed ZMIROT (similarly, HEDERS and HEDARIM are assumed the plurals of HEDER because of CHEDER taking CHEDERS and CHEDARIM).