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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 12 July, 2023

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

Letters: n  e  f  i  m  t  y

  • Total Answers: 42
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

EM

  1. EM7 β€” standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement; astral; bright; distinguished; illustrious sounds like immanent, imminent

EN

  1. EN5 β€” one that is hostile toward another; adversary; antagonist; foe; hostile sounds like annum, any, crummy, dummy, ebony
  2. EN6 β€” a deep-seated ill will; animosity; animus; antagonism; antipathy
  3. EN7 β€” as in entente cordiale; as in entente; as in ententes; entente cordiale; accord sounds like intent, intently
  4. EN6 β€” one that has a real and independent existence; being; commodity; existent; individual

FE

  1. 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
  2. FE8 β€” of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with women; female; womanish; womanlike; womanly sounds like eminence, eminent, melanin, seminal
  3. FE10 β€” the set of qualities traditionally considered appropriate for or characteristic of women; feminity; muliebrity; womanhood; womanishness sounds like affinity, commonality, eminent, eminently, fragility

FI

  1. FI7 β€”
  2. 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
  3. FI6 β€” having a limit; having distinct or certain limits; limited; bounded; circumscribed sounds like eyesight, faint, feint, fenced

IM

  1. IM8 β€” giving signs of immediate occurrence; being soon to appear or take place; impending; looming; pending sounds like eminent

IN

  1. IN8 β€” being or seeming to be without limits; bottomless; boundless; endless; fathomless
  2. IN8 β€” endless time; eternity; everlasting; foreverness; perpetuity sounds like affinity
  3. IN5 β€” sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy
  4. IN6 β€” something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action; fully committed to achieving a goal; aim; ambition

ME

  1. ME6 β€” sounds like many

MI

  1. MI4 β€” the outward form of someone or something especially as indicative of a quality; appearance; aspect; dress; figure sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
  2. MI4 β€” an abundant source; a usually concealed explosive device designed to go off when disturbed; to place hidden explosive devices in or under; argosy; cornucopia sounds like dine, fine, line, main, man
  3. MI4 β€” a very small automobile; as in small, little; as in department store, chain store; compact; coupe sounds like genie, many, mealy, mean, meaner
  4. MI5 β€” as in tiny, minuscule; as in smidgen, iota; bitty; inappreciable; infinitesimal
  5. MI4 β€” being in an original and unused or unspoiled state; a very large amount of money; as in coin, stamp; brand-new; fresh sounds like hint, lint, meant
  6. MI5 β€” a very large amount of money; big bucks; bomb; boodle; bundle
  7. MI6 β€” sounds like bitten, kitten, mutton, s**, written

NE

  1. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
  2. NE5 β€” a fabric made of strands loosely twisted, knotted, or woven together at regular intervals; a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise; something that catches and holds; mesh; netting sounds like jetty, knotty, natty, naughty, nutty

NI

  1. NI5 β€” of the very best kind; something said or done to cause laughter; something very good of its kind; A-OK; A1 sounds like shifty, fifty
  2. NI4 β€” as in last word, hot ticket; as in last words, hot tickets; as in wage earner, wage slave; buzz; chic sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin
  3. NI8 β€”
  4. NI6 β€”
  5. NI5 β€” a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a stupid person; berk; booby; charlie sounds like guinea, nanny, tinny
  6. NI4 β€” sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height

TE

  1. TE4 β€” someone who is between 13 and 19 years old; preteen; preteen-ager; subteen; teenager sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
  2. TE5 β€” very small in size; very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty sounds like genie, tinny, tiny, tony, tourney
  3. TE8 β€” a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place; as in apartment building, apartment house; as in apartment buildings, apartment houses; apartment; diggings sounds like element, ornament, regiment, sediment, sentiment
  4. TE5 β€” an idea that is very important to a group; precept; principle; rule; standard sounds like senate
  5. TE4 β€” as in sleep out; a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; sleep out; bivouac; camp (out) sounds like bent, cent, dent, lent, meant

TI

  1. TI4 β€” as in prong; prong; pinpoint; barb; jag sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine
  2. TI5 β€” as in thin, peeping; peeping; thin; high-pitched; piping sounds like guinea, tony, tourney
  3. TI4 β€” a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; to give color or a different color to; cast; color; hue sounds like hint, lint, mint, s**, taint
  4. TI4 β€” very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like shiny, tony, tourney

YE

  1. YE5 β€” sounds like ante, any, bent, bounty, cent

eminent, enemy, enmity, entente, entity, feint, feminine, femininity, fifteen, fine, finite, imminent, infinite, infinity, innie, intent, mentee, mien, mine, mini, minim, mint, minty, mitten, nene, netty, nifty, nine, nineteen, ninety, ninny, nite, teen, teeny, tenement, tenet, tent, tine, tinny, tint, tiny, yente