Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: t c i l n o u
- Total Answers: 51
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
CL
- CL4 — a number of things considered as a unit; a small uneven mass; a stupid person; array; assemblage sounds like allot, blot, caught, cot, lat
- CL5 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; the power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; bang; bash sounds like flout, kraut
CO
- CO7 — sounds like cabinet
- CO4 — a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; abecedarian; apprentice; babe; beginner sounds like bolt, cult, jolt, kilt, molt
- CO7 — to create or think of by clever use of the imagination; construct; contrive; cook (up); devise sounds like unlocked
- CO10 — something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination; to create or think of by clever use of the imagination; brainchild; coinage; contrivance
- CO4 — as in geezer; geezer; bohemian; maverick; nonconformist sounds like boot, cat, caught, chute
- CO9 — a social gathering for dancing; ball; dance; formal; hop sounds like battalion, billion, civilian, jillion, million
- CO6 — to have a clear idea of; something attractive but lacking in substance; as in enjoy, revel (in); appreciate; apprehend sounds like carton, caution, curtain, gotten, kitten
- CO5 — a total number obtained or recorded by noting each thing as it was being added; a formal claim of criminal wrongdoing against a person; to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added; census; tale sounds like ac*, can't, mount
CU
- CU4 — a group of people showing intense devotion to a cause, person, or work (as a film); a body of beliefs and practices regarding the supernatural and the worship of one or more deities; audience; followership; following sounds like color, colt, kilt
- CU6 — a group of people showing intense devotion to a cause, person, or work (as a film); a body of beliefs and practices regarding the supernatural and the worship of one or more deities; audience; followership; following sounds like caloric, caustic, chaotic, click, coloring
- CU6 — to stop functioning; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to leave a place often for another; break; break down sounds like shutout
IL
- IL7 — contrary to or forbidden by law; criminal; felonious; illegal; illegitimate sounds like elicit
IN
- IN4 — in addition to what has been said; to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; additionally; again sounds like ensue, onto, unto
- IN6 — to have a clear idea of; appreciate; apprehend; assimilate; behold
- IN9 — an innate sense of what is true or what will happen; feel; insight; instinct; foreknowledge
LI
- LI5 — permitted by law; lawful; legal; legit; legitimate sounds like il*
- 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
- LI7 — sounds like advocate, animate, bucket, cleanest, clinical
- LI4 — a soft airy substance or covering; down; floss; fluff; fur sounds like f, g, hint, leant, learnt
LO
- LO8 — a distinctive way of putting ideas into words; fashion; manner; mode; phraseology
- LO4 — valuables stolen or taken by force; 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; to search through with the intent of committing robbery; booty; pillage sounds like boot, chute, flute, hoot, jute
- LO6 — as in cream, balm; balm; cream; embrocation; liniment sounds like motion, notion, ocean, potion
- LO5 — sounds like lat, motto
- LO4 — a big clumsy often slow-witted person; a person whose behavior is offensive to others; clod; clodhopper; gawk sounds like bout, c, doubt, f, gout
NO
- NO6 — small useful items; a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action; an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; etceteras; novelties sounds like lotion, motion, nation, ocean, potion
OC
- OC6 — being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain; having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning; having seemingly supernatural qualities or powers; arcane; cryptic sounds like cult
- OC9 — sounds like battalion, billion, civilian, jillion, million
ON
- ON4 — as in hit (upon), pitch (upon); as in hit (upon), pitched (upon); as in hitting (upon), pitching (upon); chance (upon); encounter sounds like into, unto
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 — as in colored, hued; colored; colorized; dyed; hued sounds like linked
- TI4 — a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; to give color or a different color to; cast; color; hue sounds like hint, lint, mint, s**, taint
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
- TO4 — as in expense; as in tariff, income tax; to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates; expense; cost sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- TO5 — as in soda, pop; having a renewing effect on the state of the body or mind; beneficial to the health of body or mind; pop; soda sounds like ionic, phonic, sonic, tunic
- TO4 — an article intended for use in work; one that is or can be used to further the purposes of another; one who is easily deceived or cheated; device; implement sounds like cool, fool, pool, rule, s**
- TO4 — a lower limb of an animal; a portion of a trip; pin; lap; stage sounds like attune, boon, dune, goon, loon
- TO4 — a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking; bender; binge; bust; carousal sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot
- TO4 — to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to provide publicity for; ballyhoo; blow up sounds like bout, doubt, gout, out, pout
TU
- TU7 — the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another; education; instruction; schooling; teaching sounds like fruition, munition, musician
- TU5 — sounds like tonic
- TU5 — sounds like nutty, putty, touchy
- TU4 — as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo
UN
- UN7 — sounds like f***, j***
- UN5 — as in undiminished, unabridged; unabridged; undiminished; compleat; complete sounds like annuity, bucket, circuit, cut, docket
- UN4 — as in item, single; as in list price, face value; as in list prices, face values; entity; item
- UN5 — being without light or without much light; black; caliginous; dark; darkened
- UN5 — up to (a particular time); till; up till; up to; afore sounds like annoying, antic, entail, instill, still
- UN4 — sounds like anew, into, onto