Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: b a c d i l o
- Total Answers: 36
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AB
- AB5 — sounds like hibachi
- AB5 — marked by much life, movement, or activity; abubble; abuzz; alive; animated sounds like boil
AD
- AD5 —
AL
- AL5 — an explanation that frees one from fault or blame; as in explain, rationalize; apology; defense; excuse sounds like blubber, caliber, club, clubbed, clubby
BA
- BA4 — sounds like bobby
- BA7 — sounds like facile, ghastly, lastly, massively, passel
- BA4 — as in bond, recognizance; as in loop, bow; as in hod; bond; recognizance sounds like ail, ale
- BA4 — lacking a usual or natural covering; free from all additions or embellishment; not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; bare; denuded sounds like billed, board, boiled, bold, bored
- BA4 — a more or less round body or mass; a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm; a social gathering for dancing; globe; orb sounds like all, bell, bile, bill, boar
- BA6 — a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment; ditty; jingle; lay; lyric sounds like blood, pallid, salad, valid
- BA6 — sounds like blob, blobby, bobby, bombast, buyback
BI
- BI8 — relating to, taken from, or found in the Bible; scriptural; blessed; consecrate; consecrated
- BI8 — sounds like bubble, bumble, collegial, colonial, gullible
- BI4 — a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due; a piece of printed paper used as money in the United States; a sheet bearing an announcement for posting in a public place; account; check sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, been
BL
- BL4 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation; to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature; as in chatter, babble; babble; cackle sounds like lab, slab
- BL4 — a small uneven mass; the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass; chunk; clod; clot sounds like lob, slob
- BL4 — a group of people acting together within a larger group; an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection; block; body; coalition sounds like brok, clock, flock
- BL5 — a group of persons who come from the same ancestor; the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended; the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions; clan; family sounds like ballad, bud, flood
BO
- BO4 —
- BO5 — sounds like bitchy
- BO4 — a small, inflamed swelling of the skin; to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger; to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam; fester; hickey sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, bell
- BO4 — sounds like cola
- BO4 — inclined or willing to take risks; displaying or marked by rude boldness; likely to attract attention; adventuresome; adventurous sounds like bald, billed, build
- BO4 — sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, beau
- BO4 — as in machete, dagger; bayonet; bodkin; bowie knife; cutlass sounds like bellow, below, billow, blow, follow
- BO4 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; to make a mistake; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; blunder; bobble sounds like babe, bib, buoy
- BO6 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; blunder; bobble; boob; brick
CA
- CA5 — a group involved in secret or criminal activities; as in team (up), collaborate; conspiracy; crew; gang sounds like banal, bubble, cobble, collage, couple
- CA6 — sounds like cobble, cobbler
DI
- DI8 — of, relating to, or worthy of an evil spirit; cacodemonic; demoniac; demonian; demonic
- DI10 — of, relating to, or worthy of an evil spirit; cacodemonic; demoniac; demonian; demonic sounds like biological, debacle
LA
- LA5 — sounds like abbey, lobbied, lobby, phobia, shabby
- LA6 — sounds like babble, dabble, libel, liberal, lineal
LI
- LI6 — a person's desire to have sex; ardor; heat; rut; concupiscence sounds like lobbied
LO
- LO4 —
OD
- OD7 — a person of odd or whimsical habits; as in bizarre, eccentric; character; codger; crack sounds like audible, ball, bawl, drawl, eyeball