Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: d a b g i l n
- Total Answers: 52
- Pangrams: 3
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AB
- AB7 — having an existence or validity that does not change or diminish; to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; to have a home; ageless; continuing sounds like bedding, biking, binding, biting, budding
AD
- AD6 — to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; to combine (numbers) into a single sum; to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; adjoining; annexing sounds like budding
- AD7 — to throw into a state of mental uncertainty; to throw into a state of mental uncertainty; baffling; bamboozling; beating sounds like baffling, coddling, dazzling, duckling, maddening
AI
- AI6 — as in helping; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; helping; computerized sounds like dang, dear, deer, dick, did
BA
- BA7 —
- 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
- BA7 — sounds like building
- BA6 — a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment; ditty; jingle; lay; lyric sounds like blood, pallid, salad, valid
- BA4 — a circular strip; something that physically prevents free movement; a line or long narrow section differing in color from the background; circle; eye sounds like and, bend, bind, bland, bond
- BA9 — to cover with a bandage; to cover with a bandage; binding; dressing; swathing
- BA7 — a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief
- BA8 — a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief
- BA7 — to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; to make stripes on; begirding; belting sounds like binding, landing
BI
- BI7 — as in direction, instruction; to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority; to request the presence or participation of; charging; decreeing sounds like bedding, budding, building
- BI6 — as in continuing, enduring; to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state; to put up with (something painful or difficult); abiding; continuing sounds like a**, bedding, budding, buying, guiding
- BI4 — to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; to cover with a bandage; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; chain; enchain sounds like band, bend, blind, bond, bound
- BI5 — sounds like bandy
- BI7 — as in good, valid; as in tape, belt; to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; good; valid sounds like blinding, winding
BL
- BL7 —
- BL5 — not harsh or stern especially in nature or effect; balmy; benign; delicate; gentle sounds like band, brand, gland, land
- BL5 — lacking the power of sight; being under the influence of alcohol; to overpower with light; eyeless; sightless sounds like aligned, bind, lined
- BL8 — as in shimmering, glittering; to overpower with light; to overpower with light; agleam; aglitter sounds like binding
DA
- DA7 — as in smearing, slathering; as in tapping, tipping; anointing; bedaubing; besmearing
- DA8 — as in silly, goofy; to take part in an activity in a superficial way; to take part in an activity in a superficial way; frivolous; goofy
- DA4 — deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure; to a great degree; as in dash, darn; accursed; blasted sounds like bang, dung, fang, gang, hang
- DA8 — extending freely from a support from above; to place on an elevated point without support from below; to place on an elevated point without support from below; dependent; hanging
DI
- DI4 — to make a telephone call to; as in face, gauge; as in button, switch; call; phone sounds like dowel, dual, duel, dull, vial
- DI7 — to make a telephone call to; to make a telephone call to; calling; phoning; ringing (up) sounds like darling, dazzling, drilling, drubbing, duckling
- DI8 — to move or act slowly; to rob by the use of trickery or threats; to move or act slowly; crawling; creeping sounds like middling, piddling
- DI7 — to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth; to take pleasure in; to have a clear idea of; excavating; shoveling sounds like rigging
- DI4 — sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear
- DI4 — as in clang, clink; as in dent, dint; a person who lacks good sense or judgment; chink; clang sounds like dang, dear, deer
- DI7 — as in clanging, clinking; as in denting, dinting; chinking; clanging; clanking sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, winning
- DI6 — to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal; to take a meal; eating; faring sounds like dyeing, dying, fining, shining
GA
- GA7 — to move about from place to place aimlessly; bat; cruise; drift; float sounds like guiding, padding
- GA8 — sounds like languid, mangled, tangled
GI
- GI4 — as in whitewash, varnish; as in paint, appliqué; a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest; gloss (over); varnish sounds like billed, build, chilled, filled, gold
- GI7 — as in whitewashing, varnishing; as in painting, appliquéing; glossing (over); varnishing; whitewashing sounds like building
GL
- GL4 — experiencing pleasure, satisfaction, or delight; having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action); serving to lift one's spirits; blissful; chuffed sounds like clad, grad, lad, plaid
- GL5 — sounds like bland, grand, land, planned
- GL7 — as in hanging, hovering; as in skydiving, ballooning; to move or proceed smoothly and readily; awash; drifting sounds like guiding, sliding
ID
- ID6 — as in lounging, loafing; to spend time doing nothing; to spend time doing nothing; loafing; lounging sounds like ailing, billing, ceiling, chilling, cling
IN
- IN6 — as in installed, inset; cut in; inset; installed; edged in
- IN6 — sounds like bland, gland, land, lowland, ma**
LA
- LA6 — a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported; to lift out with something that holds liquid; to place a weight or burden on; burden; cargo sounds like budding, leading, loving
- LA7 — to lift out with something that holds liquid; to lift out with something that holds liquid; bucketing; dipping; lading sounds like fiddling, leading, padding, seedling
- LA4 — to arrange something in a certain spot or position; to cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid); to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; deposed; deposited sounds like aid, aide, bade, blade, fade
- LA4 — a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government; a broad geographical area; the solid part of our planet's surface as distinguished from the sea and air; commonwealth; country sounds like and, band, b, canned, g
- LA7 — a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers; to stop at or near a place along the shore; to get to a destination; dock; float sounds like lending
LI
- LI9 — sounds like befuddle, duodenal, original, rebuttal, vaginal
NA
- NA4 — sounds like nod
- NA5 — a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; a young wingless often wormlike form (as a grub or caterpillar) that hatches from the egg of many insects; dryad; hamadryad; nymph sounds like acid, added, arid, avid, blood