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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 9 September, 2023

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: o  a  c  i  m  n  p

  • Total Answers: 56
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AM

  1. AM5 β€” sounds like casino, keno, mean, meaner, means
  2. AM4 β€” sounds like arrow, mow
  3. AM7 β€” sounds like kimono, pneumonia
  4. AM5 β€” sounds like acne, cameo

AN

  1. AN5 β€” sounds like canyon, onion
  2. AN7 β€” sounds like admonish, chronic, demonic, ionic, ironic
  3. AN4 β€” at or within a short time; on some occasions; a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; before long; by and by sounds like upon

CA

  1. CA5 β€” sounds like cocaine, coco, cocoa, cocoon, cuckoo
  2. CA4 β€” as in camouflage; camouflage; greasepaint; cold cream; cream sounds like combo, comma, commie
  3. CA5 β€” a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; champaign; down(s); grassland; heath
  4. CA6 β€” as in barrage, cannonade; a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church; a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system; barrage; cannonade
  5. CA5 β€” a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church; a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system; a collection or system of rules of conduct; doctrine; dogma
  6. CA7 β€” sounds like chronic
  7. CA7 β€” sounds like economic, kinetic, phenolic
  8. CA4 β€” sounds like cop, copper, copy
  9. CA5 β€” sounds like common, cotton

CI

  1. CI4 β€” sounds like cheap, cheat, cheek, cheese, chief
  2. CI8 β€”
  3. CI8 β€” sounds like cheapen, choppy

CO

  1. CO4 β€”
  2. CO5 β€” sounds like catchy
  3. CO5 β€”
  4. CO6 β€” something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; something that serves as a protective barrier; to surround or cover closely; armor; capsule sounds like cuckoo
  5. CO4 β€” 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
  6. CO4 β€” as in sleep, rest; hibernation; hypnosis; repose; rest sounds like aroma, soma
  7. CO5 β€” a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor; a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story; the amusing quality or element in something; card; comedian sounds like calming
  8. CO5 β€” as in space, window; caesura; interspace; lag; pause sounds like calm, calmer, mama
  9. CO6 β€” often observed or encountered; being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events; belonging or relating to the whole; common or garden; commonplace sounds like caution
  10. CO4 β€” something given to someone without expectation of a return; as in provide, afford; bestowal; donation; donative sounds like calm, calmer, camp, carp, chomp
  11. CO9 β€” a person frequently seen in the company of another; one that accompanies another for protection, guidance, or as a courtesy; either of a pair matched in one or more qualities; associate; cohort
  12. CO5 β€” sounds like chronic, ionic, phonic, sonic, tonic
  13. CO4 β€” a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody; an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; bastille; big house sounds like cap, cape, cup, dupe, hoop

IC

  1. IC4 β€” 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
  2. IC6 β€” sounds like ionic, ironic

IO

  1. IO5 β€” sounds like ironic, phonic, sonic, tonic

MA

  1. MA6 β€” sounds like famine, salmon

MI

  1. MI6 β€” a person or thing that is preferred over others; darling; fave; favorite; pet

MO

  1. MO4 β€” a long low sound indicating pain or grief; a crying out in grief; an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; groan; wail sounds like bone, cone, hone, known, loan
  2. MO5 β€” a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mana
  3. MO4 β€”
  4. MO9 β€” as in obsession, phobia; obsession; phobia; delusion; hallucination sounds like condominium, ignominious, mammalian, mania, megalomania
  5. MO10 β€” as in obsessed, monomaniacal; fixated; monomaniacal; obsessed; distracted sounds like maniac, megalomaniac, nymphomaniac
  6. MO4 β€” a long or seemingly long period of time; a long or seemingly long period of time; not often; aeon; age sounds like boon, dune, goon, loon, main

NI

  1. NI10 β€” a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a stupid person; berk; booby; charlie sounds like encamp, encompass, income, incoming, incomplete

NO

  1. NO6 β€” sounds like calm, concave, condom, encore, gendarme
  2. NO4 β€” the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known

ON

  1. ON5 β€” sounds like undone

OP

  1. OP7 β€” an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; a position arrived at after consideration; an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements; belief; conviction sounds like dominion, minion, onion

PI

  1. PI5 β€” sounds like keno, paean, pan, pant, peony
  2. PI6 β€” to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; bind; chain; enchain; enfetter sounds like minion, o**

PO

  1. PO9 β€” sounds like banana
  2. PO4 β€” the impressive decorations, music, clothing etc., that are part of some formal events; dazzle; fanfare; foofaraw; pageantry sounds like chomp, palm, pimp, pump, romp
  3. PO7 β€”
  4. PO6 β€”
  5. PO4 β€” solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal; information not generally available to the public; dirt; doo-doo; dropping sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop
  6. PO5 β€” a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man

amino, ammo, ammonia, amnio, anion, anionic, anon, cacao, camo, campo, cannon, canon, canonic, canopic, capo, capon, ciao, cinnamon, cioppino, coca, cocci, cocoa, cocoon, coin, coma, comic, comma, common, comp, companion, conic, coop, icon, iconic, ionic, mammon, minion, moan, momma, mono, monomania, monomaniac, moon, nincompoop, noncom, noon, onion, opinion, piano, pinion, poinciana, pomp, pompano, pompom, poop, poppa