Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: b a c m n o t
- Total Answers: 38
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AB
- AB5 β as in bishop, archbishop; archbishop; archpriest; bishop; dean sounds like agate, but, butt, habit, rabbit
BA
- BA4 β sounds like bobby
- BA6 β sounds like buffoon
- BA5 β sounds like beacon, beckon, shaken, taken
- BA6 β sounds like amber, bimbo, shampoo, taboo
- BA6 β as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza
- BA4 β sounds like blank, bunk, dank, hank, rank
- BA6 β of a size that is less than average; as in peewee, dwarf; diminutive; dinky; dwarfish sounds like phantom
- BA6 β sounds like blob, blobby, bobby, bombast, buyback
- BA5 β a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; bastinado; bat; billy; billy club sounds like button
BO
- BO4 β a small buoyant structure for travel on water; a large craft for travel by water; to travel on water in a vessel; bottom; craft sounds like bait, bat, beat, beau, beet
- BO7 β sounds like baseman, beaten, bitten, button, coachman
- BO4 β
- BO6 β sounds like angst, backed, baked, banked, bark
- BO4 β something that has failed; a very large amount of money; to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once; bummer; bust sounds like balmy, bam, bar, beam
- BO6 β sounds like bargain, carbon, robin
- BO6 β sounds like banjo, barb, barbed, barber, barrio
- BO4 β an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; to make a mistake; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; blunder; bobble sounds like babe, bib, buoy
- BO6 β an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; blunder; bobble; boob; brick
- BO4 β a loud explosive sound; to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; bang; blast sounds like balm, bam, beam, bloom
- BO4 β likely to seek or enjoy the company of others; a thing that helps; an act of kind assistance; clubbable; clubby sounds like ban, bane, bean, been, bin
- BO4 β a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings; to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; to drive or force out; bang; charge sounds like bait, bat, beat, beet, bet
- BO6 β the side or part facing downward from something; the surface upon which a body of water lies; the lowest part, place, or point; underbelly; underbody
CA
- CA6 β as in camp, tent; cabin; camp; hooch; hovel sounds like banana, command, kimono
- CA8 β an underground burial chamber; crypt; vault
CO
- CO4 β to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something; as in weed (out); as in roach, ducktail; dig (through); dredge sounds like calm, came, chrome
- CO6 β to oppose (someone) in physical conflict; to strive to reduce or eliminate; active fighting during the course of a war; battle; clash (with) sounds like bombast
- CO9 β a person, group, or country that fights in a war or battle; belligerent; dogface; fighter; legionary sounds like non*
- CO5 β as in group, ensemble; ensemble; group; brasses; strings sounds like bimbo, calm, calmer, calming, calmly
MA
- MA5 β as in rattlesnake, cobra; adder; anaconda; asp; black racer
- MA5 β as in tango, jive; boogie; bop; fox-trot; gavotte sounds like mumbo
NA
- NA5 β one of high position or importance within a group; big; big boy; big cheese; big gun sounds like abbot, babble, cabin, dabble, habit
- NA7 β sounds like cannot, robot
NO
- NO12 β as in civilian; civilian sounds like combatant
- NO4 β sounds like knew, knob, lube, nab, new
TA
- TA5 β as in no-no; as in anathema, abomination; that may not be permitted; no-no; ban
TO
- TO7 β sounds like tableau
- TO4 β a final resting place for a dead person; to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea; burial; grave; sepulchre sounds like boom, doom, loom, room, tam