Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: l c e f n o u
- Total Answers: 42
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
CE
- CE4 — an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall; one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided; a local unit of an organization; apartment; chamber sounds like bell, dell, fell, gel, hell
- CE5 — sounds like bellow, fellow, mellow, self, sell
- CE7 — sounds like deluge
CL
- CL4 —
- CL5 — something that is made to look exactly like something else; something or someone that strongly resembles another; to make an exact likeness of; carbon; carbon copy sounds like alone, blown, cologne, cone
- CL4 — a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation); as in tell, inform; to give information to; cue; hint sounds like blew, blue, coup, crew, cue
CO
- CO7 — as in senorita, mademoiselle; mademoiselle; senhorita; senorita; bird sounds like clean, saline
- CO5 —
- CO7 — a person with old-fashioned ideas; antediluvian; dodo; fogy; fossil sounds like journal, kennel, vernal
- CO10 — the coming together of two or more things to the same point; conjunction; convergence; convergency; meeting sounds like influence
- CO4 — having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; free from emotional or mental agitation; having a low or subnormal temperature; aloof; antisocial sounds like call, cul
- CO6 — as in gully, wadi; arroyo; barranca; draw; gully sounds like cruelly
CU
- CU4 — something separated from a group or lot for not being as good as the others; to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities; discard; reject; rejection sounds like call, coal, coil, color, come
EF
- EF9 — as in emission, emanation; discharge; emanation; emission; exodus sounds like affluence
FE
- FE4 — to have a vague awareness of; to come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin; to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it; perceive; scent sounds like deal, eel, fail, fall, field
- FE4 — to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall; to bring down by cutting; to deprive of life; bowl (down or over); down sounds like bell, cell, dell, fail, fair
- FE5 — a person who has committed a serious crime; criminal; crook; culprit; lawbreaker sounds like fallen, melon
- FE6 — sounds like final, funnel, kennel
FL
- FL4 — to cease to be visible; to get free from a dangerous or confining situation; to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening; dematerialize; disappear sounds like alley, awfully, early, fee, filly
- FL6 — the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick; to rob by the use of trickery or threats; coat; fur; hair sounds like lease
- FL4 — sounds like blow, fallow, fellow
- FL7 — a strip of fabric gathered or pleated on one edge and used as trimming; as in mince, traipse; as in lace, frill; frill; furbelow sounds like allowance, announce, blouse, bounce, clown
- FL4 — as in chimney, smokestack; chimney; chimney stack; smokestack; channel sounds like blew, blue, clue, few
- FL5 — a soft airy substance or covering; an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; to make a mistake; down; floss sounds like bluff, slough
FO
- FO4 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a person formerly kept in a royal or noble household to amuse with jests and pranks; a person with a strong and habitual liking for something; berk; booby sounds like cool, fail, fall, feel, fell
- FO4 — marked by wet and windy conditions; not being in accordance with the rules or standards of what is fair in sport; causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment; bleak; dirty sounds like fail, fall, feel, fell, file
FU
- FU4 — something with a usable capacity for doing work; as in push, charge; energy; power; charge sounds like feudal
- FU4 — containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible; of the highest degree; having one's appetite completely satisfied; brimful; brimming sounds like bull, fail, fall, feel, fell
- FU6 — to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; as in tube; canalize; channel; channelize sounds like fennel, final, tunnel
LO
- LO4 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; to cause to go insane or as if insane; balmy; barmy; bats sounds like coco, cocoa
- LO4 — to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall
- LO4 — being the one or ones of a class with no other members; not being in the company of others; a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs; alone; one sounds like a, blown, bone, c, c**s
- LO4 — one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person; bug; crackbrain; crazy sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
LU
- LU4 — a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- LU4 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
- LU4 — sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
NO
- NO4 — the season celebrating Christmas; as in anthem, hymn; Christmastide; Christmastime; yuletide sounds like knoll, null
NU
- NU7 —
- NU4 — having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness; to put an end to by formal action; bad; inoperative sounds like annul, cul, cull, dull, gull
OL
- OL4 — sounds like polio
UN
- UN5 — to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); blink; bow sounds like ankle
- UN6 — as in unhip, untrendy; out; unhip; untrendy; geeky