Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: p a b e l n o
- Total Answers: 64
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AP
- AP5 β sounds like acne, mania
- AP6 β to cause an unpleasant surprise for; floor; jolt; shake up; shock
- AP6 β an earnest request; the power of irresistible attraction; as in cite, book; adjuration; conjuration sounds like peal, peel, spiel
- AP10 β to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner; beg; beseech; besiege; conjure sounds like achievable, available, peaceable
- AP8 β as in defendant, plaintiff; accuser; appellant; petitioner; pleader sounds like belly, especially, jelly, lapel
- AP5 β to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior; a person who flatters another in order to get ahead; to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior; bootlick; fawn sounds like addle, agile, ample, annul, chapel
BE
- BE8 β sounds like banal, banjo, boll, bowl, bundle
- BE5 β sounds like bop
- BE4 β as in buzz; buzz; call; dial; phone
BL
- BL5 β as in remove, cut; blip; clip; cut; excise sounds like beep, leap, sleep
- BL5 β sounds like loop, sloop
EL
- EL5 β as in escape, abscond; abscond; clear out; decamp; escape sounds like alone, lope, slope
EP
- EP4 β sounds like easy, pea
LA
- LA5 β sounds like appall, appeal, compel, couple, gazelle
LE
- LE4 β an act of leaping into the air; to propel oneself upward or forward into the air; a sudden large change or improvement; bound; hop sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
LO
- LO6 β to move with a light springing step; bounce; bound; hop; lope sounds like dollop, wallop
- LO4 β a circular strip; as in circle, spiral; to cause an unpleasant surprise for; band; circle sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, lap
- LO4 β to move with a light springing step; as in bounce, skip; bounce; bound; hop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lap, leap
NA
- NA4 β sounds like ape, cape, nip, rape, shape
- NA8 β a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; baron; captain; czar; king sounds like nobleman
NE
- NE4 β sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
NO
- NO4 β sounds like cope, dope, gnome, hope, knoll
OP
- OP4 β sounds like apple, ogle, oval
- OP4 β to change from a closed to an open position; to make passage through (something) possible by removing obstructions; to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area; unclose; clear sounds like ocean, omen, pun, spun
- OP8 β to change from a closed to an open position; to make passage through (something) possible by removing obstructions; to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area; unclose; clear sounds like puttable
PA
- PA5 β a formal expression of praise; accolade; citation; commendation; dithyramb sounds like eon, peony, pun
- PA6 β
- PA6 β sounds like plaza, plop
- PA4 β as in bar, paling; lacking intensity of color; lacking a healthy skin color; bar; paling sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
- PA5 β sounds like polio
- PA4 β a boxlike container for holding a dead body; an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom; something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; bier; box sounds like doll, loll, peal, pearl, peel
- PA4 β as in palpate; palpate; feel; touch; brush sounds like pulp
- PA8 β able to be perceived by a sense or by the mind; capable of being perceived by the sense of touch; not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; appreciable; apprehensible sounds like culpable, fallible, malleable, pliable, valuable
- PA4 β sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
- PA5 β a meeting featuring a group discussion; a select group of persons assigned to consider or take action on some matter; a meeting featuring a group discussion; colloquy; conference sounds like annul, channel, penal
- PA4 β a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man sounds like pop, poppy
- PA5 β as in priestly, apostolic; apostolic; canonical; clerical; episcopal sounds like maple, people, purple
PE
- PE4 β as in ring, chime; to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates; chime; ding-dong; knell sounds like ap**, deal, eel, feel, heal
- PE6 β sounds like rebel
- PE4 β to remove the natural covering of; to rid oneself of (a garment); to leave a place often for another; bark; flay sounds like appeal, deal, eel, feel, heal
- PE8 β to remove the natural covering of; to rid oneself of (a garment); bark; flay; hull
- PE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
- PE4 β an instance of looking especially briefly; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cast; eye; gander sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
- PE5 β inflicting, involving, or serving as punishment; castigating; chastening; chastising; correcting sounds like panel, renal, venal
- PE5 β sounds like den, hen, pain, pair, pan
- PE4 β a person who does very hard or dull work; dogsbody; drone; drudge; drudger sounds like neon, paean
- PE6 β human beings in general; the body of the community as contrasted with the elite; a group of persons who come from the same ancestor; folks; humanity sounds like papal, purple
PL
- PL4 β a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective; something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; to work out the details of (something) in advance; arrangement; blueprint sounds like clan, pan
- PL5 β a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift; having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities; to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; aeroplane; airplane sounds like lain, lane, pain, pane
- PL4 β an earnest request; an explanation that frees one from fault or blame; to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for; adjuration; appeal sounds like alley, early, flea, flee, glee
- PL4 β as in commoner, plebeian; commoner; plebeian; prole; proletarian
- PL5 β as in commoner, plebeian; commoner; plebeian; prole; proletarian
- PL5 β
- PL4 β as in sinking, plummeting; to throw or set down clumsily or casually; plummeting; sinking; descent sounds like flop, glop, lop, pop, prop
PO
- PO7 β sounds like blond, blonde, loblolly, palazzo, parlance
- PO4 β as in center, capital; as in punt; capital; center; cynosure sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- PO4 β the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; to go around and approach (people) with a request for opinions or information; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; bean; block sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- PO6 β sounds like fallen
- PO4 β sounds like pillow, solo
- PO4 β sounds like bony, penny, phoney, phony, tony
- PO4 β as in join, connect; a small often deep body of water; a body of persons at work or available for work; combine; connect sounds like cool, fool, pail, pal, pale
- PO4 β solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal; information not generally available to the public; dirt; doo-doo; dropping sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop
- PO4 β as in bishop, archbishop; abbot; archbishop; archpriest; bishop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pap
- PO5 β a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man