Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: i a c l n o y
- Total Answers: 64
- Pangrams: 5
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AC
- AC6 — sounds like occasion
- AC4 — sounds like occur, sky
- AC7 — sounds like adjective, angelic, citric, civic, click
AI
- AI5 — sounds like holy, idly, lowly, wholly
AN
- AN5 — sounds like canyon, onion
- AN7 — sounds like admonish, chronic, demonic, ionic, ironic
CA
- CA6 — as in speckled, streaked; blotted; brindled; specked; speckled sounds like cluck
- CA7 — as in falsely, artfully; having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment; enjoying physical comfort; artfully; deceitfully
- CA7 — sounds like keenly, kindly, manly
- CA7 — sounds like chronic
- CA9 — as in priestly, apostolic; as in authoritative, ex officio; apostolic; clerical; episcopal sounds like chronicle
- CA11 — sounds like chronically, chronicler, economically, ironically
CI
- CI4 — sounds like cheap, cheat, cheek, cheese, chief
- CI5 — sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly
CL
- CL6 — a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured; an intensive educational or training program; hospital; infirmary; medical center sounds like chronic
- CL8 — having or showing a lack of emotion or interest; dispassionate; objective; impersonal; professional sounds like pinnacle
- CL10 — sounds like chronically, critically, cynically
- CL9 — a medical professional who works directly with patients rather than in a laboratory or as a researcher; attending; hospitalist; croaker; doc sounds like coalition, commission, condition, corinthian, emission
CO
- CO5 — sounds like catchy
- CO4 — a state of noisy, confused activity; to follow a circular or spiral course; ado; alarums and excursions; ballyhoo sounds like boil, call, cul, cull, curl
- CO4 — something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; as in produce, design; as in stamp, mint; bread; bucks sounds like can, cane, join, keen, kin
- CO5 — as in cramps, gripes; cramps; gripes; bellyache; collywobbles sounds like click
- CO8 — tending to group with others of the same kind; a person who settles in a new region; gregarious; sociable; social
- CO10 — tending to group with others of the same kind; gregarious; sociable; social
- CO7 — sounds like chronic, clinic
- CO5 — sounds like chronic, ionic, phonic, sonic, tonic
- CO7 — sounds like chronicle
- CO9 — sounds like chronically, chronicler, ethnically, ironically, logically
CY
- CY6 — happening again and again in the same order; alternate; intermittent; periodic; recurrent sounds like psychic
- CY8 — happening again and again in the same order; alternate; intermittent; periodic; recurrent sounds like psychical
- CY10 — happening again and again in the same order; alternate; intermittent; periodic; recurrent sounds like slickly
- 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
- CY7 — having or showing a deep distrust of human beings and their motives; misanthropic; pessimistic
- CY9 — as in disparagingly, negatively; having or showing a deep distrust of human beings and their motives; captiously; critically; deprecatingly
IC
- IC5 — having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; algid; arctic; bitter sounds like acidly, easily, eerily, finally, gulley
- IC4 — a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion; a written or printed mark that is meant to convey information to the reader; a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality); god; hero sounds like con
- IC6 — sounds like ionic, ironic
- IC10 — sounds like ironically
IL
- IL5 — sounds like black, bleak, clique, elite, flak
- IL4 — sounds like alley, chili, ch**, early, eerie
IN
- IN5 — as in install, inset; cut in; inset; install; edge in
IO
- IO5 — sounds like ironic, phonic, sonic, tonic
LA
- LA7 — marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning; tending not to speak frequently (as by habit or inclination); aphoristic; apothegmatic; brief sounds like ionic, locking, logic, mechanic, phonic
- LA11 — in a few words; marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning; tending not to speak frequently (as by habit or inclination); briefly; compactly sounds like logically, mechanically
- LA4 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like lick
- LA6 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like cul, cull, local, loyal, lull
- LA4 — to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction; to occupy a place or location; to remain out of sight; borne; extended sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
- LA5 — a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot
- LA7 — sounds like linchpin, lovin, mannequin, paneling
LI
- LI5 — sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack
- LI4 — having or showing a shameful lack of courage; free from guilt or blame; chicken; chicken-livered; chickenhearted sounds like chili, chilly, filly, hilly, leery
- LI4 — a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; the largest part or quantity of something; a large tawny cat of the wild; baron; captain sounds like ion, scion
LO
- LO4 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; the area or space occupied by or intended for something; a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axes; bases sounds like fussy, gussy, lacey, lacy, lucky
- LO4 — sounds like coin, join, lain, lane, lawn
NA
- NA4 — to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to make final, definite, or beyond dispute; to reveal the true nature of; bang; bash sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
NI
- NI6 — sounds like basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive
- NI5 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a stupid person; berk; booby; charlie sounds like guinea, nanny, tinny
NO
- NO11 — as in nonpractical; nonpractical; abstract; conceptual; intellectual sounds like preclinical
- NO9 — sounds like billion, civilian, jillion, million, pavilion
OI
- OI6 — sounds like falcon, olden, sullen, sultan, sunken
- OI4 — overly or insincerely flattering; adulatory; fulsome; gushing; gushy sounds like alley, coyly, early, flea, flee
OL
- OL4 — an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup; assortment sounds like audio
ON
- ON5 — sounds like undone
- ON6 — sounds like anchovy, baloney, bony, crony, enrollee