Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: m a c e h k t
- Total Answers: 33
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AC
- AC4 β the highest part or point; the most perfect type or example; apex; apogee; capstone sounds like axe
AH
- AH4 β sounds like gem, hem, them
CA
- CA4 β to move closer to; to get to a destination; to eventually have as a state or quality; advanced; approached sounds like aim, claim, comb
CH
- CH9 β to prevent from achieving a goal; as in thwarting, foiling; baffle; balk; beat sounds like decorate
EM
- EM5 β a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity; announcer; host; MC sounds like airy, any, assay, chassis, edgy
HA
- HA6 β sounds like comet, heart, hot, humped, inmate
HE
- HE4 β the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something; border; borderline; bound; boundary sounds like beam, deem, ham
MA
- MA4 β as in blackjack, knobkerrie; blackjack; knobkerrie; bastinado; bat sounds like ace, base, case, chase, face
- MA7 β as in dagger, pocketknife; bayonet; bodkin; bolo; bowie knife sounds like mushy
- MA7 β as in guru, swami; guru; pandit; swami; yogi
- MA4 β to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials; to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); fabricate; fashion sounds like ache, bake, cake, fake, lake
- MA4 β a female human parent; as in boy, kid; as in boys, kids; ma; mammy sounds like comma, mom
- MA5 β a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mom
- MA5 β a competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize; a union representing a special kind of social and legal partnership between two people; either of a pair matched in one or more qualities; bout; competition sounds like batch, catch, hatch, latch
- MA6 β
- MA9 β
- MA4 β either of a pair matched in one or more qualities; a person frequently seen in the company of another; a person who helps a more skilled person; companion; fellow sounds like ate, bait, date, eight, fate
- MA4 β the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value; arithmetic; calculation; calculus; ciphering sounds like bath
- MA5 β lacking a surface luster or gloss; dim; dull; dulled; flat sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, hat
ME
- ME4 β animal and especially mammal tissue used as food; substances intended to be eaten; the central part or aspect of something under consideration; flesh; bread sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
- ME5 β a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axis; base; capital; center sounds like mica
- ME4 β not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness; demure; down-to-earth; humble; lowly sounds like beak, cheek, chic, eke, geek
- ME4 β to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face; to come together into one body or place; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; catch; chance (upon) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
- ME4 β sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
- ME4 β
- ME4 β to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; administer; allocate; apportion; deal (out) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
- ME4 β sounds like death, mare, math, mirth, moth
TA
- TA4 β changed from the wild state so as to become useful and obedient to humans; causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression); domestic; domesticated sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
TE
- TE4 β as in join, league; a group of people working together on a task; to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end; affiliate; ally sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem
- TE8 β a person who is on the same team as someone else; classmate; housemate; messmate; playfellow sounds like automate, cremate, female, inmate, mate
- TE4 β to be copiously supplied; abound; brim; bristle; bulge sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem
TH
- TH4 β to strike with fear; to drive or force out; to give information to; affright; alarm sounds like gem, hem
- TH5 β a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition); a short piece of writing done as a school exercise; a short piece of writing typically expressing a point of view; content; matter sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem