Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: i a b l t v y
- Total Answers: 36
- Pangrams: 3
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AB
- AB7 — the physical or mental power to do something; capability; capableness; capacity; competence sounds like agility, debility
AL
- AL5 — Evidence that someone was not at the location of a crime. sounds like blubber, caliber, club, clubbed, clubby
- AL4 — to come to rest after descending from the air; to come down from something (as a vehicle); to come to rest after descending from the air; landed; lit sounds like eyelet, glut, gullet
AT
- AT5 — inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt
AV
- AV5 — the capacity for being useful for some purpose; to provide with something useful or desirable; producing no results; account; mileage sounds like assail, unveil, veil
- AV12 — the state of being empty, available, or ready to be used, occupied, or taken; clearness; openness; accessibility; attainability sounds like capability, un**, viability, volatility
BA
- BA4 — Money that keeps you out of jail. sounds like ail, ale
- BA4 — As in
jail-****. sounds like abate, ate
BI
- BI5 — sounds like badly, barely, barley, beadle, beady
- BI8 — sounds like bubble, bumble, collegial, colonial, gullible
- BI4 — A common first name for men; or the mouth of a duck. sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, been
- BI5 — a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; bastinado; bat sounds like belie, belief, believe, belly, below
IL
- IL4 — sounds like alley, chili, ch**, early, eerie
IT
- IT4 — very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy
LA
- LA5 — sounds like abbey, lobbied, lobby, phobia, shabby
- LA6 — sounds like babble, dabble, libel, liberal, lineal
- LA8 — sounds like ability, debility, mobility, nobility
- LA5 — the people of a religion who are not priests, ministers, etc.; flock; parish; assembly; church sounds like dainty, deity, eighty, hasty
LI
- LI9 — a feature of someone or something that creates difficulty for achieving success; the state of being held as the cause of something that needs to be set right; the state of being left without shelter or protection against something harmful; debit; disadvantage sounds like durability, inability, stability, viability
- 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
- LI4 — having or showing a shameful lack of courage; free from guilt or blame; chicken; chicken-livered; chickenhearted sounds like chili, chilly, filly, hilly, leery
- LI10 — sounds like legibility
TA
- TA4 — a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person; the part of the body upon which someone sits; a behind part or surface; cortege; entourage sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
- TA4 — sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee
- TA6 —
TI
- TI5 — One of the bones that run along the shin. sounds like phobia, tabby, trivia, tuba
- TI6 — Adjective form of: one of the bones that run along the shin. sounds like cereal, filial, liberal, lineal, nibble
- TI4 — to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); up to (a particular time); cultivate; farm 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
VI
- VI9 — as in possibility, feasibility; as in existence; capable of being done or carried out; feasibility; feasibleness sounds like ability, debility, liability
- VI6 — capable of being done or carried out; achievable; attainable; doable; feasible sounds like audibly, bubbly, doubly, piously
- VI4 — sounds like dial, vowel
- VI5 — a large impressive residence; castle; château; estate; hacienda
- VI5 — having active strength of body or mind; having much high-spirited energy and movement; impossible to do without; dynamic; energetic sounds like litle, title
- VI8 — the quality or state of having abundant or intense activity; active strength of body or mind; animation; briskness; exuberance sounds like fatality, finality, totality
- VI7 — to a great degree; having active strength of body or mind; having much high-spirited energy and movement; achingly; almighty sounds like mightily