Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: h a b l m o t
- Total Answers: 31
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AL
- AL5 — sounds like ultra
BA
- BA4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; bang; bash; beat
- BA4 — a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste; as in powder room; alluvion; cataclysm
- BA7 — sounds like athlete
BL
- BL4 — language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; the state of being bored; as in soggy, barren; applesauce; balderdash
BO
- BO4 — a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs; bohemian; counterculturist; deviant; enfant terrible sounds like backhoe, barrow, beau, bellow, below
- BO6 — sounds like blew, blue
- BO5 — as in cabin, bay; accommodation; bay; berth; cabin sounds like bath, berth, birth, buoy
- BO4 — to be on fire especially brightly; to set (something) on fire; to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger; blaze; combust sounds like balm, bar, bath, berth, birth
HA
- HA6 — sounds like hubbub, taboo
- HA5 —
- HA4 — the entrance room of a building; a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building; a large room or building for enclosed public gatherings; entranceway; entry sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
- HA4 — a special quality or impression associated with something; an artistic rendering of radiant light around the head or body of a sacred personage; as in enhalo; air; ambience sounds like hello, hollow
- HA4 — to bring (something) to a standstill; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to come to an end; arrest; bring up sounds like fault, hilt, malt, salt, vault
- HA4 — sounds like bath
- HA5 — sounds like bath, gala, gamma
HO
- HO4 — a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living; as in tramp, vagabond; bindle stiff; bum; bummer sounds like lobo
- HO4 — sounds like bolt, colt, halt, hilt, jolt
- HO4 — a loud vocal expression of strong emotion; a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; the smallest amount or part imaginable; cry; holler sounds like boot, chute, hat, hate, heat
LA
- LA4 — sounds like bath
LO
- LO5 — slow to begin or proceed with a course of action because of doubts or uncertainty; cagey; disinclined; dubious; hesitant
MA
- MA7 — as in guru, swami; guru; pandit; swami; yogi
- MA7 — unusually large; something that is unusually large and powerful; astronomical; Brobdingnagian; bumper
- MA4 — the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value; arithmetic; calculation; calculus; ciphering sounds like bath
MO
- MO6 — 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; bread; bucks; cabbage; cash sounds like mullah
- MO4 — having passed its time of use or usefulness; showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; used or heard so often as to be dull; antiquated; archaic sounds like mall, math, maul, mauve, maw
- MO8 — to stop using (something) while keeping it to be possibly used in the future; dismantle; phase out; put aside; deactivate
OA
- OA4 — a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something; pledge; promise; troth; vow sounds like earth, l**, ode, ole, owe
TH
- TH4 — to a great degree; as in other, far; to the degree that; achingly; almighty sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, hat
TO
- TO9 — a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody; bastille; big house; bridewell; brig sounds like booth, rollback, sleuth, taboo, truth
- TO5 — as in desire, taste; with all power or resources being used; being of advanced years and especially past middle age; appetite; fancy sounds like booth, truth, tube, tune, two