Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: i e l p t v x
- Total Answers: 30
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
EL
- 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**
EX
- EX5 — the forced removal from a homeland; a person forced to emigrate for political reasons; to force to leave a country; banishment; deportation
- EX4 — a place or means of going out; the act of leaving a place; the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities; egress; issue sounds like grit
- EX9 — a disrespectful or indecent word or expression; curse; cuss; cussword; dirty word
LI
- 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 — 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
PE
- PE5 — as in petty larcenies; as in petty larceny; as in Beau Brummell, blood; petty larcenies; embezzlements sounds like puppet
- PE6 — having a small and thin body—usually used to describe a woman or girl; baby; diminutive; dwarf; elfin sounds like putty
PI
- PI4 — a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; a considerable amount; a very large amount of money; cock; heap sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
- PI4 — a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally; a person whose behavior is offensive to others; cap; capsule; lozenge sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
- PI4 — a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; channel; conduit sounds like hype, pap, peep, pop, pope
- PI5 — sounds like puppet
- PI7 — sounds like pet, puppet, typed, wipeout
- PI5 — sounds like peanut, people, puppet
- PI5 —
- PI5 — tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness; an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers; arch; devilish; elvish
PL
- PL4 — sounds like alley, early, flea, flee, glee
TE
- TE7 — a woven or knitted material (as of cotton or nylon); cloth; fabric
TI
- TI4 — as in drain, hydrant; drain; drainpipe; funnel; hydrant sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
- TI4 — up to (a particular time); to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); until; up till 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
- TI6 — as in poncho, capelet; burnoose; capelet; capuchin; cowl
- TI6 — a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk; to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages; alcohol; aqua vitae; ardent spirits sounds like ripple, topple, triple
- 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
VE
- 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
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