Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: m a d e i l v
- Total Answers: 60
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AI
- AI5 — to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal; to have in mind as a purpose or goal; to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal; bent; cast sounds like aged, famed, m*, named
AM
- AM4 — in or into the middle of; in the course of; among; mid; midst
DA
- DA4 — a dignified usually elderly woman of some rank or authority; a woman of high birth or social position; a dignified usually elderly woman of some rank or authority; dowager; grande dame sounds like aim, came, deem
- DA6 — as in blocked, clogged; to prevent passage through by filling with something; to close up so that no empty spaces remain; blocked; choked sounds like domed, doomed, jammed
DE
- DE4 — to have as an opinion; allow; believe; conceive; consider sounds like beam, dam, dame, damn, dim
- DE6 — to have as an opinion; to have as an opinion; allowed; believed; conceived sounds like dammed, damned, domed, doomed, themed
DI
- DI6 — a decorative band or wreath worn about the head as a symbol of victory or honor; chaplet; coronal; coronet; crown sounds like cadet, condemn
- DI7 — a situation in which one has to choose between two or more equally unsatisfactory choices; a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape; catch-22; double bind; quandary
- DI4 — a very small sum of money; costing little; as in department store, chain store; chicken feed; chump change sounds like chime, dam, dame, damn, deem
- DI6 — being without light or without much light; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; black; caliginous sounds like dammed, damned, demur, domed, doomed
ED
- ED7 — sounds like dam, damage, dammed, damn, damned
- ED5 — sounds like deem, demon, diva, idea, idiom
EM
- EM5 — as in mail, card; as in telegraph, airmail; airmail; card; electronic mail sounds like female, mail, male
- EM7 — as in telegraphed, airmailed; airmailed; telegraphed; communicated; intercommunicated sounds like mailed
IM
- IM4 — sounds like mom
LA
- LA4 — sounds like comma, mama
- LA4 — arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust; falling short of a standard; to cause severe or permanent injury to; cheap; contemptible sounds like aim, b**, came, claim, dame
- LA5 — as in lame, hobbled; to cause severe or permanent injury to; to cause severe or permanent injury to; halt; hobbled sounds like famed, maimed, named
- LA6 — to get free from a dangerous or confining situation; to get free from a dangerous or confining situation; absconded; broke out (of); cleared out sounds like dammed, damned, jammed
LE
- LE5 —
LI
- LI4 — sounds like alma, arena, aroma, asthma, beam
- LI4 — as in limey; as in limeys; limey; powerboater; sailboater sounds like chime, climb, c**, dime, lamb
- LI7 — sounds like jimmied, myriad, period
- LI5 — sounds like lymph, rimmed
LL
- LL5 — sounds like comma, lava, mama
MA
- MA5 — the female partner in a marriage; helpmate; helpmeet; lady; missus sounds like modem
- MA6 — as in madam; madam; bawd; call girl; cocotte sounds like dada, model, modem, modern, mom
- MA4 — to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials; to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); fabricated; fashioned sounds like aid, aide, bade, fade, jade
- MA4 — a female domestic servant; a young unmarried woman; as in lady-in-waiting, abigail; biddy; char sounds like aid, aide, bade, fade, jade
- MA4 — communications or parcels sent or carried through the postal system; to send through the postal system; a person who delivers mail; correspondence; matter sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
- MA6 — to send through the postal system; communications or parcels sent or carried through the postal system; to send through the postal system; posted; correspondence sounds like failed, jailed, meld, melee, mild
- MA4 — to cause severe or permanent injury to; cripple; disable; incapacitate; lame sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
- MA6 — as in disabled, crippled; to cause severe or permanent injury to; to cause severe or permanent injury to; challenged; crippled sounds like famed, named
- MA4 — of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with men; an adult male human being; man-size; manlike; manly sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
- MA4 — a public place for strolling; boardwalk; promenade; walk sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
- MA4 — a female human parent; as in boy, kid; as in boys, kids; ma; mammy sounds like comma, mom
- MA5 — a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mom
- MA6 — sounds like camel
ME
- ME4 — as in wine, sake; sake; wine; alcohol; aqua vitae sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
- ME4 — food eaten or prepared for eating at one time; chow; feed; menu; mess sounds like deal, eel, feel, heal, heel
- ME5 — a piece of metal given in honor of a special event, a person, or an achievement; medallion; order sounds like middle, model, muddle, pedal, peddle
- ME7 — sounds like modeled
- ME6 — to interest oneself in what is not one's concern; butt in; interfere; interlope; intermeddle sounds like middle, model, muddle, pedal, peddle
- ME7 — to interest oneself in what is not one's concern; to interest oneself in what is not one's concern; butted in; interfered; interloped sounds like modeled
- ME5 — a middle point between extremes; something used to achieve an end; the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded; golden means; means
- ME6 — occupying a position equally distant from the ends or extremes; central; halfway; intermediary; intermediate
- ME8 — having passed its time of use or usefulness; antiquated; archaic; dated; démodé sounds like bedevil, middle, midlevel
- ME4 — a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things; to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout; admixture; alloy; amalgam sounds like felled, held, mailed, mild, milled
- ME6 — to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout; to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout; amalgamated; blended; combined sounds like molded
- ME5 — a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people; affray; brawl; broil; donnybrook sounds like mail, mailed, male
- ME4 — sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
- ME5 — sounds like famed, made, maid, mailed, named
MI
- MI6 — a middle point between extremes; an area or point that is an equal distance from all points along an edge or outer surface; the middle region of the human torso; golden mean; mean sounds like fiddle, medal, meddle, model, muddle
- MI4 — sounds like beady, mealy, meaty, moody, muddy
- MI4 — marked by temperatures that are neither too high nor too low; not harsh or stern especially in nature or effect; balmy; clement; equable sounds like child, mailed, meld, mold, mould
- MI4 — a long distance; a long distance; with great speed; afar; country mile sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
- MI4 — a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods; to reduce to fine particles; as in kick around, knock (about); factory; manufactory sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
- MI6 — as in reduced, pulverized; to reduce to fine particles; to reduce to fine particles; close-grained; comminuted sounds like billed, build, chilled, filled, guild
- MI4 — an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements; a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; mimic; mummer sounds like chime, dime, lime, mom, mum
- MI5 — to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; aped; copied; copycatted sounds like maimed, rimmed