Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: b a c e i l m
- Total Answers: 65
- Pangrams: 3
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AB
- AB5 — sounds like hibachi
- AB4 — having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance; enjoying health and vigor; as in lubber, able seaman; capable; competent sounds like c, f, g, h, herbal
AL
- AL5 — an explanation that frees one from fault or blame; as in explain, rationalize; apology; defense; excuse sounds like blubber, caliber, club, clubbed, clubby
AM
- AM5 — a relaxed journey on foot for exercise or pleasure; to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure; constitutional; perambulation; ramble sounds like g*, r*
- AM5 —
- AM6 — sounds like asset, ebb, mare, mesh, mess
- AM6 — sounds like arabic, medic
- AM7 — having an easygoing and pleasing manner especially in social situations; affable; agreeable; genial; good-natured sounds like able, achievable, admirable, affable, agreeable
- AM8 — having or marked by agreement in feeling or action; having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest; agreeable; compatible; congenial
BA
- BA4 — sounds like bobby
- BA6 — unintelligible or meaningless talk; to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly; to engage in casual or rambling conversation; abracadabra; blabber sounds like bible, bubble, dabble, rabble
- BA4 — a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; a recently born person; a lovely woman; abecedarian; apprentice
- BA5 — a place of uproar or confusion; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound; bedlam; circus; madhouse sounds like bible, bubble, dabble, rabble
- BA7 — sounds like facile, ghastly, lastly, massively, passel
- BA4 — as in bond, recognizance; as in loop, bow; as in hod; bond; recognizance sounds like ail, ale
- BA6 — sounds like belly, bully, burley, burly, daily
- BA4 — a large amount of a material (such as hay or wool) that is pressed together tightly and often tied or wrapped; bundle; pack; package; packet sounds like ail, ale
- BA4 — a more or less round body or mass; a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm; a social gathering for dancing; globe; orb sounds like all, bell, bile, bill, boar
- BA4 — a sweet or pleasant smell; aroma; attar; bouquet; fragrance sounds like beam, bog, bomber, boom, bop
BE
- BE4 — a narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object; to emit rays of light; to express an emotion (as amusement) by curving the lips upward; ray; shaft sounds like balm, bam
- BE6 — to eventually have as a state or quality; to eventually have as a state or quality; came; got; grew
- BE5 — to give a misleading impression of; to prove to be false; to keep secret or shut off from view; misrepresent; confound sounds like bilk, bill, billed, billow, build
- BE4 — as in howl, wail; as in jeans, corduroys; a person in overall command of a ship; caterwaul; howl sounds like bail, bale, ball, bare, bawl
- BE5 — as in peach, charmer; a period of high artistic or cultural development; a period of high artistic or cultural development; charmer; peach sounds like bail, bale, ball, bare, bawl
BI
- BI5 — a book made up of the writings accepted by Christians as coming from God; as in guide, guidebook; Book; Good Book; Holy Writ sounds like babble, bauble, bubble, libel
- BI8 — relating to, taken from, or found in the Bible; scriptural; blessed; consecrate; consecrated
- BI8 — sounds like bubble, bumble, collegial, colonial, gullible
- BI4 — biting sharpness of feeling or expression; acidity; acidness; acridity; acridness sounds like aisle, bail, bale, ball, bawl
- BI4 — a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due; a piece of printed paper used as money in the United States; a sheet bearing an announcement for posting in a public place; account; check sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, been
- BI8 — sounds like syllable
BL
- BL4 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation; to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature; as in chatter, babble; babble; cackle sounds like lab, slab
- BL4 — sounds like bam, clam, lamb, slam
- BL8 — deserving reproach or blame; blameworthy; censurable; culpable; reprehensible sounds like flammable
- BL5 — to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of; responsibility for wrongdoing or failure; the state of being held as the cause of something that needs to be set right; censure; condemn sounds like claim, flame, lame
- BL9 — sounds like flammable
CA
- CA5 — a group involved in secret or criminal activities; as in team (up), collaborate; conspiracy; crew; gang sounds like banal, bubble, cobble, collage, couple
- CA6 — sounds like cobble, cobbler
- CA6 — sounds like abbey, crabby, shabby, tabby
- CA5 — a length of braided, flexible material that is used for tying or connecting things; cord; lace; lacing; line sounds like able, cobble, fable, gable, hable
- CA8 — sounds like fallible
CE
- CE5 — a person who is widely known and usually much talked about; cause célèbre; celebrity; figure; icon sounds like carob, cherub, club, felon, jealous
CL
- CL9 — to state as a fact usually forcefully; to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority; to deprive of life; affirm; allege sounds like capable, flammable
- CL5 — to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling; to move or extend upward; to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number; clamber; scrabble sounds like crime, lime, slime
- CL9 — to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling; to move or extend upward; to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number; clamber; scrabble sounds like criminal, flammable, livable
EM
- EM6 — sounds like airbag, bam
- EM6 — a device, design, or figure used as an identifying mark; ensign; hallmark; impresa; logo sounds like aimless, airless, album, alum, amalgam
IA
- IA4 — sounds like bam, dam, damn, ham, jam
- IA5 — sounds like abbey, amber, bamboo, mammary, shabby
- IA6 — sounds like gambit
IM
- IM8 — a stupid person; as in stupid, dumb; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead
- IM9 — as in stupid, dumb; a stupid person; asinine; brainless; dumb sounds like embellish, symbolic
- IM6 — to swallow in liquid form; to take in (something liquid) through small openings; belt (down); drink; gulp sounds like embed, emboss
LA
- LA5 — a slip (as of paper or cloth) that is attached to something to identify or describe it; to attach an identifying slip to; to give a name to; marker; tag sounds like able, cable, fable, gable, hable
- LA5 — sounds like abbey, lobbied, lobby, phobia, shabby
- LA6 — sounds like babble, dabble, libel, liberal, lineal
- LA6 — as in unstable, fluctuating; changing; fluctuating; inconstant; unstable sounds like cobble, gobble, hobble, libel, wobble
- LA4 — an innocent or gentle person; as in fox, rabbit; angel; dove; innocent sounds like bam, clam, dam, damn, ham
LI
- LI6 — being in a situation where one is likely to meet with harm; being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so; endangered; exposed; open sounds like p**, viable
- LI5 — the making of false statements that damage another's reputation; to make untrue and harmful statements about; aspersing; blackening; calumniation sounds like bible, label
- LI7 —
- LI4 — a major outgrowth from the main stem of a woody plant; bough; branch sounds like dim, gym, him, hymn, lamb
- LI6 — sounds like gimmick, lyric, mimic
MA
- MA8 — as in transferable, transportable; to send through the postal system; shippable; transferable; transmittable sounds like salable
- MA9 — capable of being easily molded or modeled; capable of being readily changed; moldable; plastic; shapable sounds like fallible, moldable, palpable, valuable
- MA5 — as in rattlesnake, cobra; adder; anaconda; asp; black racer