Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: u a b e l m t
- Total Answers: 54
- Pangrams: 3
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AB
- AB4 — to be adjacent to; adjoin; border (on); butt (on or against); flank sounds like but, butt
AL
- AL5 — a collection of writings; anthology; collectanea; compendium; compilation
- AL4 — sounds like annum, atom, glum, plum, plumb
AM
- AM8 — to go on foot; foot (it); hoof (it); leg (it); pad sounds like emulate, tabulate
- AM9 —
- AM6 — something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil; charm; fetish; mascot; mojo sounds like emulate, simulate
BA
- BA6 — as in skiff, pirogue; caïque; canoe; catamaran; coracle sounds like beta
- BA6 — a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest; bibelot; curio; curiosity; doodad sounds like bible, bubble
BE
- BE4 — a male romantic companion; a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance; a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance; boy; boyfriend sounds like bay, bio, blow, boa, boat
- BE5 — something very good of its kind; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow; corker sounds like ate, bait, bat, bay, bit
BL
- BL4 — depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society; feeling unhappiness; hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent; bawdy; coarse sounds like boo, brew, clue, flew, flu
- BL8 — sounds like allowable, alphabet, bearable, billable, bubble
BU
- BU5 —
- BU6 — to flow in a broken irregular stream; a state of noisy, confused activity; dribble; guggle; gurgle sounds like babble, bauble, bible, double, rubble
- BU4 — a stupid person; a glass bulb or tube that produces light when it is supplied with electricity; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead sounds like bely
- BU4 — an order publicly issued by an authority; a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level; boastful speech or writing; decree; diktat sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, bell
- BU6 — a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm; something that very quickly and easily solves a serious problem —usually singular; as in silver bullet; ball; pellet sounds like ballot, billet
- BU6 — to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound; to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually; burr; buzz sounds like fumble, humble, jumble, mumble, rumble
- BU9 — sounds like humbly
- BU4 — the part of the body upon which someone sits; a person or thing that is made fun of; a person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule; backside; behind sounds like abbot, bait, bat, beat, beet
- BU5 — a type of hill with a flat top and steep sides that is found in the southwestern U.S.; mesa; plateau; table; tableland sounds like abbot, bait, bat, beat, beet
EM
- EM7 — to be the same in meaning or effect; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; add up (to); amount (to); come (to) sounds like amulet, escalate, regulate
LU
- LU4 — as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
- LU4 — sounds like lab, lewd, lob, lobe, loom
- LU4 — a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- LU4 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
- LU4 — sounds like boot, chute, f**, hoot, jute
- LU6 — sounds like booty, boutique, duty, litle, little
MA
- MA8 — sounds like commute, molecule
- MA4 — to abuse physically; to strike repeatedly; as in hammer, sledgehammer; maltreat; manhandle sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
MU
- MU4 — as in coyote, gunrunner; as in hinny; as in cross, hybrid; coyote; gunrunner sounds like mew
- MU4 — to reduce to fine particles; as in duff; to give serious and careful thought to; atomize; beat sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- MU6 — sounds like gullet
- MU6 — speech that is not clear enough to be understood; to speak softly and unclearly; grunt; grunting; murmur sounds like bumble, fumble, humble, jumble, rumble
- MU7 — likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly; capricious; changeable; changeful; fickle sounds like im***
- MU6 — to pass from one form, state, or level to another; change; fluctuate; shift; snap sounds like butane
- MU4 — unable to speak; deliberately refraining from speech; a device on a musical instrument that deadens or softens its tone; inarticulate; speechless sounds like cute, mew, moot
- MU4 — a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like but, butt, cut, gut, hut
- MU6 — used or done by a number of people as a group; collaborative; collective; combined; common sounds like usual
- MU6 — as in sundress, housedress; chemise; coatdress; granny dress; housedress sounds like amok, among, animal, animate, gunman
TA
- TA7 — as in mise-en-scène; as in spectacle, montage; mise-en-scène; backdrop; scenery sounds like blow, bubbly, doubly, hello, tobacco
- TA8 — to arrange information in an organized way so that it can be studied, recorded, etc.; arrange; assort; catalog; categorize
- TA4 — stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat
TU
- TU4 —
- TU5 — sounds like ruble, table
- TU4 — a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; channel; conduit sounds like lube, tab, tomb, too, tool
- TU6 — sounds like lobule
- TU5 — as in lace, fishnet; bobbinet; Brussels lace; filigree; fishnet sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- TU6 — an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; the act of going down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily; a state in which everything is out of order; agglomerate; agglomeration sounds like bumble, fumble, humble, jumble, mumble
- TU6 — a state of noisy, confused activity; a violent disturbance (as of the political or social order); a violent shouting; ado; alarums and excursions sounds like adult, ailment, camel, comet, coolant
- TU5 — sounds like booty, duty, sooty
- TU4 — as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo
UL
- UL7 — to make a long loud mournful sound; bay; howl; keen; wail sounds like accumulate, alienate, calculate, circulate, emulate
UM
- UM6 — sounds like about, alert, alight, allot, allow