Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: i a c f l n u
- Total Answers: 30
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AC
- AC6 — sounds like occasion
- AC4 — sounds like occur, sky
AN
- AN6 — sounds like newly
CA
- CA7 — the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value; the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value; arithmetics; calculations; computations
CI
- CI5 — sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly
CL
- CL5 — a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice; something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome; as in resident, resider; barranca; bluff
- CL6 — a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured; an intensive educational or training program; hospital; infirmary; medical center sounds like chronic
- CL8 — having or showing a lack of emotion or interest; dispassionate; objective; impersonal; professional sounds like pinnacle
- CL9 — a medical professional who works directly with patients rather than in a laboratory or as a researcher; attending; hospitalist; croaker; doc sounds like coalition, commission, condition, corinthian, emission
FA
- FA6 — sounds like racial
- FA4 — to stop functioning; to be unsuccessful; to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of; break; break down sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
- FA8 — conceived or made without regard for reason or reality; not real and existing only in the imagination; absurd; bizarre; crazy sounds like cancel, forceful, fungible, merciful
- FA6 — sounds like antic, frantic, manic, panic, phonic
FI
- FI6 — sounds like bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful
- FI4 — to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained; to close up so that no empty spaces remain; to do what is required by the terms of; brim; charge sounds like bill, chill, dill, fail, fall
- FI5 — following all others of the same kind in order or time; having been established and usually not subject to change; as in semifinal, play-off; bottommost; closing sounds like fennel, funnel, vinyl
- FI9 — of or relating to money, banking, or investments; dollars-and-cents; fiscal; monetary; pecuniary
- FI6 — sounds like lineal
FL
- FL5 — to move or cause to move with a striking motion; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; as in bludgeon, cudgel; beat; flap sounds like fail, frail
FU
- FU7 — to do what is required by the terms of; to carry through (as a process) to completion; answer; complete; comply (with) sounds like footfall, foothill
IL
- IL5 — sounds like black, bleak, clique, elite, flak
IN
- IN6 — sounds like fill, refill
LA
- LA4 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like lick
- LA6 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like cul, cull, local, loyal, lull
- LA4 — to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction; to occupy a place or location; to remain out of sight; borne; extended sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
- LA5 — a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot
LI
- LI5 — sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack
NA
- NA4 — lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; as in ingenue, greenhorn; aw-shucks; dewy; dewy-eyed sounds like chafe, knife, safe, waif
- NA4 — to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to make final, definite, or beyond dispute; to reveal the true nature of; bang; bash sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
NI
- NI6 — sounds like basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive