Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: i a c h l o t
- Total Answers: 61
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AC
- AC6 — sounds like occasion
- AC4 — sounds like occur, sky
AI
- AI5 — sounds like holy, idly, lowly, wholly
AL
- AL9 — a person who makes a habit of getting drunk; as in bibulous, dipsomaniacal; alkie; boozehound; boozer sounds like workaholic
- AL4 — to come to rest after descending from the air; to come down from something (as a vehicle); to come to rest after descending from the air; landed; lit sounds like eyelet, glut, gullet
AT
- AT5 — inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt
- AT5 — a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building; as in refined, cultured; cockloft; garret; loft sounds like antic, stick, tick
CA
- CA5 —
- CA6 — as in speckled, streaked; blotted; brindled; specked; speckled sounds like cluck
- CA8 — not limited or specialized in application or purpose; all-around; all-purpose; general; general-purpose sounds like chaotic, chronic, click, college, comic
- CA7 — sounds like curtail
CH
- CH4 — sounds like awry, buy, die, dye
- CH7 — lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness; a state in which everything is out of order; cluttered; confused; disarranged sounds like aquatic, caustic, comic, critic, erotic
- 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
- CH5 — sounds like filly, hilly, lily, nilly, really
- CH5 — lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; uncomfortably cool; having a low or subnormal temperature; antiseptic; arctic sounds like bill, dill
- 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
- CH10 — sounds like alcoholic, workaholic
CI
- CI4 — sounds like cheap, cheat, cheek, cheese, chief
- CI5 — sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly
CO
- CO5 — sounds like catty, caught, clot
- CO8 — sounds like curtail, whitetail
- 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
- CO6 — sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis; coition; commerce; congress; copulating sounds like cattle, kettle
- CO5 — as in cramps, gripes; cramps; gripes; bellyache; collywobbles sounds like click
HA
- HA4 — to declare enthusiastic approval of; to demand or request the presence or service of; a heavy fall of objects; acclaim; accredit sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
HI
- HI4 — a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; an area of high ground; an upward slope; cock; heap sounds like bill, c**, dill, fill, hail
- HI4 — as in shaft; with all power or resources being used; to a full extent or degree; shaft; bail sounds like built, gilt, guilt, halt, jilt
- 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
IL
- IL5 — sounds like black, bleak, clique, elite, flak
- IL7 — contrary to or forbidden by law; criminal; felonious; illegal; illegitimate sounds like elicit
IO
- IO4 — the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes; continental; damn sounds like aroma, beta, boa, boat, boater
IT
- IT6 — sounds like idyllic, metallic, static, titanic
- IT4 — sexual appetite; a strong wish for something; intense sexual desire; concupiscence; desire sounds like b, d, each, ear, etch
LA
- LA6 — sounds like tactic
- 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
LI
- LI5 — permitted by law; lawful; legal; legit; legitimate sounds like il*
- LI5 — sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack
- LI4 — the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern; as in croon, warble; movement; sway; swing sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt
- LI6 — sounds like bitchy, itchy, leery
- LI5 — sounds like ditto
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
OI
- OI8 — sounds like cloth, loincloth, tablecloth
OL
- OL4 — an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup; assortment sounds like audio
TA
- TA5 — understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
- TA6 — something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
- TA8 — suitable for bringing about a desired result under the circumstances; advisable; desirable; expedient; judicious
- TA4 — a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person; the part of the body upon which someone sits; a behind part or surface; cortege; entourage sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
- TA8 — sounds like raincoat, sailboat
- TA4 — sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee
- TA6 —
TI
- TI4 — up to (a particular time); to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); until; up till sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
- TI4 — the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; as in gyroplane, convertiplane; angling; bend sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt
- TI5 — sounds like filth
TO
- TO4 — very hard or unpleasant work; something that catches and holds; to devote serious and sustained effort; donkeywork; drudge sounds like boil, coil, foil, oil, roil