Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: g i k n o u w
- Total Answers: 35
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
GI
- GI7 — as in driving, riding; busing; cabbing; coaching; cruising sounds like rigging
- GI6 — sounds like bingo, dingo, jink, jinx, lingo
- GI7 — sounds like inning, sinning, winning
GO
- GO5 — accepted, used, or practiced by most people; being in effective operation; having attained a desired end or state of good fortune; conventional; current sounds like glowing, growing, knowing, owing, rowing
- GO4 — as in ding, clang; chink; clang; clank; clash sounds like gall, gang, gauze, long, pong
- GO7 — as in dinging, clanging; chinking; clanging; clanking; clashing
- GO4 — to take place; to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point; a stupid person; be; befall sounds like boon, dune, gain, gun
- GO7 — the exaction of a grossly excessive charge for goods or services; to charge (someone) too much for goods or services; to charge (someone) too much for goods or services; extortion; fleecing sounds like aging
- GO4 — a garment with a joined blouse and skirt usually worn by a woman or girl; a loose pullover garment worn in bed; to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes; dress; frock sounds like down, gain, gauss, gun, noun
- GO7 — to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes; a garment with a joined blouse and skirt usually worn by a woman or girl; a loose pullover garment worn in bed; appareling; arraying sounds like burning, caning, clowning, crowning, cunning
GU
- GU4 — foul matter that mars the purity or cleanliness of something; crud; dirt; filth; grime sounds like bunk, chunk, dunk, funk, hunk
- GU7 — to strike with a missile from a gun; to strike with a missile from a gun; as in killing, shooting; drilling; plugging sounds like cunning, running
IN
- IN6 — to write one's name on (as a document); to write one's name on (as a document); autographing; signing; subscribing sounds like s**, th**
- IN6 — sounds like earring, g**, s**, w**
KI
- KI4 — a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe; unusually large; baron; captain sounds like aching, cling, owing, ping
- KI7 — sounds like caning, cunning, ginning, inning, kenning
- KI7 — as in turning, twisting; entwining; swirling; turning; twining sounds like sinking, thinking
KN
- KN7 — having inside information; having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment; made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing; hip; wise sounds like gnawing, going, owing, rowing, sewing
NO
- NO6 — the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; bean; block; dome; head sounds like begin, jogging, knotted, nagging, nine
NU
- NU6 — to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of; to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of; annihilating; creaming; decimating sounds like aching, biking, booking, booming, chewing
OI
- OI7 — sounds like aching, biking, booking, choking, cooking
ON
- ON7 — being in progress or development; existing or in progress right now; having an existence or validity that does not change or diminish; afoot; proceeding sounds like going, knowing, outgoing
OW
- OW5 — not yet paid; as the result of; outstanding; overdue; owed sounds like going, king, kn*, ping, ring
- OW6 — to keep, control, or experience as one's own; to keep, control, or experience as one's own; to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid; commanding; enjoying sounds like inning, outing
UN
- UN9 — to cause to follow a line that is without bends or curls; to cause to follow a line that is without bends or curls; straightening; unbending; uncurling
- UN9 — lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; not informed about or aware of something; aw-shucks; dewy; dewy-eyed
WI
- WI7 — to yield to mental or emotional stress; break down; break up; crack; flip (out) sounds like rigging, whipping
- WI4 — a group of people acting together within a larger group; to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom; bloc; block sounds like king, o**, ping, ring, sing
- WI7 — to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; aviating; flying; gliding sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, whipping
- WI6 — to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; pledging; toasting; belting (down) sounds like dining, fining, shining
- WI7 — as in twinkling, glinting; to rapidly open and close one's eyes; to shine with light at regular intervals; agleam; aglitter sounds like sinking, thinking
- WI7 — having qualities that tend to make one loved; likely or intended to win one's affection; as in win, victory; adorable; darling sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, whipping
- WI9 — to remove less desirable choices from a group or list; to remove less desirable choices from a group or list; culling; discarding; jettisoning
WO
- WO6 — as in courting, seduction; to act so as to make (something) more likely; to act so as to make (something) more likely; charming; courting sounds like chewing, wing
- WO6 — sounds like wing