Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: y a c d e i n
- Total Answers: 27
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AC
- AC5 — sounds like aside, asunder, bloody, buddy, custody
CA
- CA5 — a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things; bin; box; case; casket sounds like daddy, kiddie, paddy
- CA9 — as in trial, probation; probation; trial; education; grounding
- CA5 — to make more desirable; as in dessert, sweet; something attractive but lacking in substance; dress up; enhance sounds like bandy, dandy, handy, sandy
- CA5 — having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment; enjoying physical comfort; astute; clear-eyed; clear-sighted sounds like cranny, fanny
- CA7 — sounds like again, amen, clan, clean, cleanse
CY
- CY4 — sounds like ion, lion, science, sign, sine
- CY7 — sounds like iodide, ionize, lionize, science, scion
- CY5 — a person who distrusts other people and believes that everything is done for selfish reasons; misanthrope; naysayer; pessimist sounds like civic, scenic, sinning, sonic
DA
- DA5 — a male human parent; something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed; one that helps another with gifts or money; dad; father sounds like dowdy, paddy
- DA5 — of the very best kind; a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance; something very good of its kind; A-OK; A1 sounds like bandy, candy, handy, sandy
DE
- DE7 —
- DE5 — a gradual sinking and wasting away of mind or body; the process by which dead organic matter separates into simpler substances; to go through decomposition; debilitation; decaying sounds like duck, duct
- DE7 — having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit; having undergone organic breakdown; to go through decomposition; decadent; degenerate
- DE7 — socially acceptable behavior; conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong; decorum; form; propriety sounds like in***, licensee
- DE4 — to declare not to be true; to be unwilling to grant; to refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as one's responsibility; contradict; disaffirm sounds like din, dinner
DI
- DI5 — as in unreliable, untrustworthy; undependable; unreliable; untrustworthy; aimless sounds like decease, deceive, missy
DY
- DY4 — two things of the same or similar kind that match or are considered together; brace; couple; couplet; duo sounds like dial, diet, dud
- DY4 — as in stained, marked; to give color or a different color to; to give color or a different color to; discolored; marked sounds like bide, chide, dad, dead, deed
- DY4 — sounds like dawn, dean, den, dice, die
ED
- ED4 — a circular movement of air or water; as in swirl, purl; swirl; gyration; pirouette sounds like airy, any, heady, ready, t**
EY
- EY4 — to keep one's eyes on; to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes; to give serious and careful thought to; followed; observed sounds like add, aid, aide, awe, awed
IN
- IN9 — the quality or state of being obscene; the quality or state of not being socially proper; bawdiness; blueness; coarseness sounds like decency
NA
- NA5 — a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children; babysitter; dry nurse; nurse; nursemaid sounds like canny, fanny
NE
- NE5 — lacking money or material possessions; beggared; beggarly; broke; destitute sounds like beady, knead, reedy, seedy
NI
- NI5 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a stupid person; berk; booby; charlie sounds like guinea, nanny, tinny
YE
- YE6 — to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; ache (for); covet; crave; desiderate sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend