Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: l d i o r w y
- Total Answers: 48
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
DI
- DI6 — the smallest amount or part imaginable; the smallest amount or part imaginable; the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes sounds like deadly, dearly
- DI5 — sounds like below, billed, billow, build, builder
- DI4 — sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear
- DI5 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like chili, chilly, daily, dally, dearly
DO
- DO5 — sounds like coyly, daily, dally, duly, oily
- DO4 — a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; a physically attractive person; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; action figure; dolly sounds like dale, deal, dell, dill
- DO5 — a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; a lovely woman; a lovely woman; action figure; doll sounds like collie, daily, dally, duly, folly
- DO5 — deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved; affliction; anguish; dolefulness; grief sounds like color, dealer, duffer, dull, dumber
- DO7 — in a careless or unfashionable manner; lacking neatness in dress or person; marked by an obvious lack of style or good taste; sloppily; slovenly sounds like bodily, dawdle, deadly, loudly, readily
DR
- DR5 — an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity; something done over and over in order to develop skill; to make a hole or series of holes in; grind; groove sounds like dill, frill, grill, grille, rill
- DR5 — causing or intended to cause laughter; a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor; antic; chucklesome; comedic sounds like dole, role, roll
- DR6 — causing or intended to cause laughter; antic; chucklesome; comedic; comic
- DR5 — language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; the fluid that is secreted into the mouth by certain glands; to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth; applesauce; balderdash sounds like rule
- DR6 — sounds like cruelly, duly, truly
- DR5 — marked by little or no precipitation or humidity; causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; arid; droughty sounds like wryly
ID
- ID4 — as in inactively; not being in a state of use, activity, or employment; not easily aroused to action or work; inactively; lifelessly sounds like oddly, widely
- ID4 — a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion; god; hero; icon sounds like addle, dull, sidle, tidal
- ID4 — a time or instance of carefree fun; binge; fling; frisk; frolic sounds like addle, aisle, awhile, beguile, bile
- ID5 — a time or instance of carefree fun; binge; fling; frisk; frolic sounds like addle, dull, sidle, tidal
IL
- IL4 — sounds like alley, chili, ch**, early, eerie
LI
- 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
LO
- LO4 — to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall
- LO4 — a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe; a man of high birth or social position; baron; captain sounds like board, bored, chord, cord, ford
- LO6 — having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude; having or displaying feelings of scorn for what is regarded as beneath oneself; having, characterized by, or arising from a dignified and generous nature; arrogant; assumptive sounds like courtly, hardly, largely, laundry, laurel
- LO5 —
- LO5 — sounds like glory, gory, leery
- LO5 — belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank; not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness; in a manner showing no signs of pride or self-assertion; baseborn; common sounds like holy, lily, s*, wholly
OD
- OD5 — as in strangely, weirdly; funnily; peculiarly; queerly; strangely sounds like awfully, idly
OI
- 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
RI
- RI4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill
RO
- RO4 — to be in a state of violent rolling motion; to make angry; boil; churn; moil sounds like boil, b**, coil, foil, oil
- RO4 — to form into a round compact mass; to make a low heavy rolling sound; to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions; agglomerate; ball sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- RO7 — being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way; boisterous; hell-raising; knockabout; rambunctious sounds like readily
WI
- WI4 — living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans; existing without human habitation or cultivation; marked by turmoil or disturbance especially of natural elements; feral; savage sounds like child, mild, piled, tiled, walled
- WI6 — in a confused and reckless manner; to a great degree; amok; berserk; berserkly sounds like mildly, worldly
- WI8 — as in greenwood; greenwood; brake; brushwood; chaparral sounds like childhood, worldwide
- WI4 — to give by means of a will; to see fit; the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions; bequeath; leave sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
- WI6 — sounds like below, billow, pillow, wallow
- WI7 — able to bend easily without breaking; bendy; flexible; limber; lissome
- WI4 — clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means; artful; beguiling; cagey; crafty sounds like highly, shyly, while, whitely, woolly
WO
- WO4 — the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick; being such by habit and not likely to change; to cause to believe what is untrue; coat; fleece sounds like bull, full, pull, wail, wale
- WO6 — made of or resembling hair; covered with or as if with hair; being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way; furry; fuzzy sounds like bully, fully, pulley, willy, wily
- WO7 — as in diffusely, long-windedly; using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea; of or relating to words or language; diffusely; long-windedly sounds like bodily, girdle, hurdle, readily, warily
- WO5 — human beings in general; the celestial body on which we live; the whole body of things observed or assumed; folks; humanity sounds like walled, weld, wheeled, whirl, whorl
- WO7 — having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience; having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven; having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience; cosmopolitan; smart sounds like wildly
WR
- WR5 — sounds like dryly, highly, rally, really, rightly
YO
- YO4 — a loud vocal expression of strong emotion; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to make a long loud mournful sound; cry; holler sounds like foul, fowl, howl, jowl, owl