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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Thu. 11 May, 2023

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: f  c  e  g  i  n  t

  • Total Answers: 29
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

EF

  1. EF6 β€” a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause; the power to bring about a result on another; transportable items that one owns; aftereffect; aftermath sounds like affect, eject, elect, erect, infect
  2. EF9 β€” to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); begetting; breeding; bringing sounds like affect, affected, connecting, reflecting
  3. EF6 β€” having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit; lacking bodily strength; lacking strength of will or character; decadent; decayed sounds like feat
  4. EF9 β€” producing or capable of producing a desired result; effective; effectual; efficacious; fruitful sounds like deficient

FE

  1. FE4 β€” the lowest part, place, or point; the lowest part, place, or point; a defect in character; basements; bases sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, effete
  2. FE5 β€” to present a false appearance of; act; affect; assume; bluff sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, face
  3. FE8 β€” as in pretense, hoax; to present a false appearance of; to present a false appearance of; counterfeit; fake sounds like caning, facing, fading, fining, finish
  4. FE5 β€” a quick movement that you make to trick an opponent; as in bluff; not seen or understood clearly; bluff; end run sounds like fainter, fate, font, paint, saint
  5. FE8 β€” as in bluffing; bluffing; camouflaging; concealing; disguising sounds like fighting, fining
  6. FE5 β€” a physical object that blocks the way; to drive danger or attack away from; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; barricade; barrier sounds like dense, hence, offense, pence, sense
  7. FE7 β€” as in surrounding, enclosing; to drive danger or attack away from; to drive danger or attack away from; bounding; circumjacent sounds like ending, facing, fining, forensic, funding
  8. FE4 β€” a social gathering; a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something; to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration; affair; bash sounds like ate, bait, date, eight, face
  9. FE6 β€” to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration; to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration; honoring; recognizing; honor sounds like fighting, fitting, footing, petting

FI

  1. FI4 β€” a region of activity, knowledge, or influence; area; arena; bailiwick; barony sounds like beef, chief, feat, fee, feed
  2. FI4 β€” sounds like knife, life, rife, wife
  3. FI6 β€”
  4. FI7 β€”
  5. FI4 β€” consisting of very small particles; made or done with extreme care and accuracy; being of less than usual width; dusty; floury sounds like dine, fan, fawn, feign, fern
  6. FI6 β€” to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; to remove usually visible impurities from; to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; assessing; charging sounds like dining, shining
  7. FI6 β€” having a limit; having distinct or certain limits; limited; bounded; circumscribed sounds like eyesight, faint, feint, fenced
  8. FI7 β€” meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation; to be fitting or proper; to be in agreement on every point; applicable; appropriate sounds like footing, sitting

GI

  1. GI4 β€” something given to someone without expectation of a return; a special and usually inborn ability; to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; bestowal; comp sounds like guilt, lift, miffed, rift, shift
  2. GI7 β€” to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; blessing; endowing; enduing sounds like lifting, shifting, sifting

IN

  1. IN11 β€” not producing the desired result; counterproductive; feckless; hamstrung; ineffective sounds like deficient, efficient
  2. IN6 β€” to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else; contaminate; poison; communicate; conduct sounds like effect
  3. IN9 β€” to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else; to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else; contaminating; poisoning; communicating sounds like effective
  4. IN8 β€” being or seeming to be without limits; bottomless; boundless; endless; fathomless

TE

  1. TE4 β€” sounds like chef, deaf, tiff, tough, turf

TI

  1. TI4 β€” an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions; to express different opinions about something often angrily; altercation; argle-bargle; argument sounds like riff, s**, tough, turf, whiff

effect, effecting, effete, efficient, feet, feign, feigning, feint, feinting, fence, fencing, fete, feting, fief, fife, fifing, fifteen, fine, fining, finite, fitting, gift, gifting, inefficient, infect, infecting, infinite, teff, tiff