Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: i g h n p u w
- Total Answers: 34
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
GI
- GI7 β as in driving, riding; busing; cabbing; coaching; cruising sounds like rigging
- GI7 β sounds like inning, sinning, winning
GU
- GU7 β 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
HI
- HI4 β extending to a great distance upward; being at a higher level than average; located at a greater height than average or usual; altitudinous; lofty sounds like awry, buy, die, dye, eye
- HI7 β to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); depending; hanging; riding sounds like ginning, hearing, inning, sinning, winning
HU
- HU7 β to express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune; to put one's arms around and press tightly; to express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune; complimenting; congratulating sounds like bugging, mugging
IN
- IN6 β sounds like earring, g**, s**, w**
NI
- NI4 β not being distant in time, space, or significance; at, within, or to a short distance or time; very close to but not completely; close; close-up sounds like awry, buy, die, dye, eye
- NI7 β having a low or subnormal temperature; uncomfortably cool; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; algid; arctic sounds like whipping
PI
- PI7 β to eat greedily or to excess; to eat greedily or to excess; gorging; gormandizing; overeating sounds like rigging
- PI4 β as in ring, chime; as in ding, clang; chime; ding-dong; knell sounds like king, owing, pang, paying, peer
- PI7 β as in dinging, clanging; chinking; clanging; clanking; clashing sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, spinning, winning
- PI6 β as in longing, hankering; a strong wish for something; as in longing, yearning; ambitious; appetent sounds like dining, fining, shining
- PI7 β as in mounting, hooking; as in choosing, determining; as in charging, fathering (on); hooking; mounting sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, s***, winning
- PI5 β as in cover girl, bathing beauty; as in cover girls, bathing beauties; bathing beauty; cover girl; belle
- PI6 β as in pipeline, pipage; having a high musical pitch or range; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; pipage; pipeline
- PI6 β something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like begin, bidden, herein, kingpin, poplin
PU
- PU7 β sounds like cunning, opening, running
UN
- UN9 β to cause to go insane or as if insane; to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy; to cause to go insane or as if insane; cracking; crazing
- UN5 β as in uncool, untrendy; out; uncool; untrendy; geeky sounds like adhere, annoying, gunship, hip, nip
- UN5 β sounds like annoying, appear, nine, onion, pin
- UN9 β sounds like spinning
UP
- UP6 β to make greater in size, amount, or number; to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to move or extend upward; accelerating; adding (to) sounds like appear, ping
WH
- WH8 β to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; beefing; bellyaching; bitching sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, willing, witching
- WH7 β as in complaining, protesting; as in whiny, squealing; as in crying, weeping; complaining; fussing sounds like dining, fining, shining, winding, winning
- WH4 β a long thin or flexible tool for striking; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; to defeat by a large margin; flogger; lash sounds like chip, dip, hip, lip, nip
- WH8 β failure to win a contest; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; to defeat by a large margin; beating; defeat sounds like willing, winning, witching
- WH8 β to defeat by a large margin; to strike repeatedly; to defeat by a large margin; annihilating; blowing away
WI
- WI7 β to yield to mental or emotional stress; break down; break up; crack; flip (out) sounds like rigging, whipping
- WI4 β 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 β 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 β 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 β 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
- WI6 β as in washing, brushing; as in reducing, wearing out; to destroy all traces of; brushing; combing sounds like piping, whipping, whopping