Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: h a c i r t u
- Total Answers: 38
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AR
- AR4 — coming before all others in importance; displaying or marked by rude boldness; tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness; big; capital sounds like m, p
- AR7 — having passed its time of use or usefulness; antiquated; dated; démodé; demoded
- AR5 — sounds like brat, hat, rat
- AR9 — as in rheumatic; rheumatic; compact; dense; substantial sounds like critic
AT
- AT6 — to cause (something) to hold to another; to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty; to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authority; affix; bend
CA
- CA7 — sounds like couture, guitar, star
- CA5 — to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly; to become affected with (a disease or disorder); to bring (something) to a standstill; bag; capture sounds like batch
- CA9 — bringing about a relief from strong emotions usually by expressing them; a substance used to induce or speed up the process of defecation; cleansing; purificatory; purifying sounds like lethargic
CH
- CH4 — sounds like awry, buy, die, dye
- CH5 — a person in charge of a meeting; the place of leadership or command; chairman; chairperson; moderator sounds like air, bare, bear, care
- CH4 — a female domestic servant; to burn on the surface; as in charge, errand; biddy; charwoman sounds like are, bar, car
- CH5 — an illustration of certain features of a geographical area; to give an oral or written account of in some detail; to work out the details of (something) in advance; map; chronicle sounds like art, cart, dart
- CH4 — friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; talking or a talk between two or more people; to engage in casual or rambling conversation; backchat; cackle sounds like bat, cat, fat
- CH4 — sounds like keel, keen, keep, key, keyed
- CH4 — being in the latest or current fashion; a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time; à la mode; au courant; cool sounds like beak, eke, geek, leak, meek
- CH5 —
- CH6 — as in extravagant, ostentatious; as in finery, froufrou; extravagant; exuberant; fancified
- CH9 — sounds like cahoot, macabre, pajama, regatta, sonata
- CH4 — as in sister, lass; bird; filly; lass; lassie sounds like bit, fit
- CH8 — friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; backchat; cackle; causerie; chat sounds like begat, detach, detached, detect, detest
- CH6 — a building for public worship and especially Christian worship; a body of persons gathered for religious worship; the group ordained to perform clerical functions in the Christian church; kirk; tabernacle sounds like birch, lurch, perch, search
CR
- CR6 — as in prop, stay; bolsterer; handmaiden; prop; stay sounds like clutch
HA
- HA4 — a very small distance or degree; a thin, flexible structure that resembles a hair; the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick; ace; hairbreadth sounds like air, bare, bear, care, c**
- HA7 — a style or arrangement of hair; coiffure; cut; do; hairdo sounds like beret, carat, chariot, ferret, heckle
- HA4 — sounds like art, cart, c**, dart, hearth
- HA5 — a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened; to cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop; as in release, escape; door; gate sounds like batch, catch
- HA4 — sounds like bath
- HA5 — sounds like bath, gala, gamma
HI
- HI5 — a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized; a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position; to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion; booby trap; catch sounds like bitch, ditch, hatch, hear, here
HU
- HU6 — as in hail, huzzah; how delightful; bravo; hail; hallelujah sounds like boor, bra, hair, hairy, hard
- HU4 — to feel or cause physical pain; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; to cause bodily damage to; ache; pain sounds like curt, dirt, hat, hate, heard
- HU5 — a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling; a storage case typically having doors and shelves; an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals; cabin; camp sounds like hatch, hitch, hooch
IT
- IT4 — sexual appetite; a strong wish for something; intense sexual desire; concupiscence; desire sounds like b, d, each, ear, etch
RI
- RI4 — having goods, property, or money in abundance; containing much seasoning, fat, or sugar; having an abundance of some characteristic quality (as flavor); affluent; deep-pocketed sounds like bitch, ditch, hitch, itch, niche
TA
- TA4 — sounds like at**, batch, catch, hatch, latch
TH
- TH4 — as in other, far; to a great degree; to the degree that; far; farther sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, hat
- TH6 — sounds like batch, catch, hatch, latch, match
TR
- TR5 — agreement with fact or reality; a statement that is only partly true and that is intended to deceive people; to tell the truth; facticity; factuality sounds like tooth