Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: e a i k l t v
- Total Answers: 55
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AL
- AL5 — in like manner; having qualities in common; something or someone that strongly resembles another; also; correspondingly sounds like like, unlike
- AL5 — having or showing life; marked by much life, movement, or activity; being in effective operation; animate; breathing sounds like live
- AL6 — sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, lull
- AL9 — to make more bearable or less severe; allay; assuage; ease; help sounds like deviate
AV
- AV6 — to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; fly; glide; plane; soar
EA
- EA4 — sounds like eel, eke, h, l, thieve
EL
- EL5 — to fill with great joy; elevate; enrapture; exhilarate; intoxicate sounds like innate, late, plate, r*, slate
- EL7 — to fill with great joy; to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to move higher in rank or position; elate; enrapture
- EL5 — as in exclusive; individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class; the highest class in a society; exclusive; better sounds like cleat, delete, fleet, pleat, sleet
EV
- EV4 — that which is morally unacceptable; causing or capable of causing harm; not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable; bad; evildoing sounds like eagle, easel, oval, we**
KA
- KA4 — 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 ail, ale, bail, bale, cage
KE
- KE4 — a large craft for travel by water; as in drop, collapse; to lose consciousness; boat; ship sounds like call, coal, coil, cool, cul
- KE6 — a steep-sided hollow without surface drainage especially in a deposit of glacial drift; a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape; basin; floodplain; pothole sounds like cattle, metal, mettle, nettle, petal
KI
- KI4 — a person who habitually preys upon others; as in dance, sport; to move forward along a course; bloodsucker; buzzard sounds like bite, byte, cat, caught, cite
KV
- KV5 — to feel or express joy or triumph; crow; delight; exuberate; exult sounds like quell
LA
- LA4 — a large area of water that is surrounded by land; lagoon; loch; lough; pond sounds like ache, bake, cake, fake, f**
- LA4 — not arriving, occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper time; having been such at some previous time; no longer living; behind; behindhand sounds like ate, bait, date, eight, e**
- LA5 —
- LA5 — sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, flat
- LA4 — to flow along or against; bathe; lap; lip; splash sounds like cave, gave
LE
- LE4 — as in blunder; as in seep, trickle; as in warn, expose; blunder; blat sounds like beak, b**, cheek, chic, clique
- LE5 — to cause to remain behind; to give by means of a will; to give up (a job or office); abandon; desert sounds like eave, eve, heave
- LE4 — sounds like beak, bleak, cheek, chic, clique
- LE5 — a bank of earth constructed to control water; a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers; dam; dike; embankment sounds like bevy, heavy
- LE5 — the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement; to make equal in amount, degree, or status; to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; degree; echelon sounds like bevel, devil, revel
- LE8 — sounds like devastate, hesitate, meditate
LI
- LI4 — to wish to have; to show partiality toward; to take pleasure in; care (for); want sounds like a**, bike, dike, dyke, hike
- LI4 — as in light; light; natural; plain; simple sounds like alight, bite, blight, byte, cite
- LI6 — having relatively little height; lacking importance; not broad or open in views or opinions; low; low-lying sounds like whittle
- LI4 — to have a home; to have life; being in effective operation; abide; dwell sounds like a**, arrive, chive, dive, five
TA
- TA4 — to reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms; to agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly; to become affected with (a disease or disorder); clasp; grasp sounds like ache, bake, cake, fake, lake
- TA4 — a rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature; a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally; a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive; canard; story sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
- TA9 — fond of talking or conversation; blabby; chatty; conversational; gabby sounds like active, additive, causative, cutting, decorative
- TA6 — as in silent; silent; animated cartoon; cartoon; docudrama sounds like gawky, turkey
- TA6 — information or opinion that is widely disseminated without any authority or confirmation of accuracy; to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature; as in run on, blabber; buzz; dish sounds like battle, cattle, rattle, title, total
- TA10 — a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; betrayer; canary; deep throat; fink sounds like telltale
TE
- TE4 — sounds like beak, cheek, chic, eke, geek
- TE9 — as in kettle; kettle; bottle; canteen; cup sounds like kettle, resettle
- TE4 — sounds like deal, eel, feel, heal, heel
- TE4 — sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
- TE4 — to give an oral or written account of in some detail; to express (a thought or emotion) in words; to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added; chart; chronicle sounds like bell, cell, dell, fell, gel
- TE8 — indicating something; a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others; a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; denotative; denoting sounds like entail
TI
- TI4 — as in drain, hydrant; drain; drainpipe; funnel; hydrant sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
- TI9 — to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings; charge; electrify; excite; exhilarate sounds like distillate, mitigate
- TI8 — sounds like litigate
- TI5 — a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known; a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize; the position occupied by the one who comes in first in a competition; appellation; appellative sounds like litle, total, turtle, vital
- TI6 — a very small piece; the smallest amount or part imaginable; as in run on, blabber; atom; bit sounds like little, total, turtle, whittle
VA
- VA4 — an area of lowland between hills or mountains; dale; dene; hollow; valley sounds like ail, ale, avail, bail, bale
- VA5 — as in butler, footman; butler; footman; groom; houseboy sounds like ballet
- VA5 — a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid; cock; faucet; gate; spigot
VE
- VE4 — sounds like deal, eel, feel, heal, heel
- VE4 — something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; to keep secret or shut off from view; to surround or cover closely; blanket; cloak sounds like ail, ale, avail, bail, bale
- VE6 —
VI
- VI4 — not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable; not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency; unpleasant to look at; bad; dark sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
- VI7 — to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; to lower in character, dignity, or quality; blemish; darken sounds like initiate, officiate