NYT π CluesβWed. 8 February, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: o d i m r t y
- Total Answers: 46
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
DI
- DI5 β having qualities in common; in like manner; to say after another; akin; alike sounds like deter
DO
- DO4 β a person with old-fashioned ideas; a stupid person; antediluvian; Colonel Blimp; fogy sounds like bode, coco, cocoa, code, dad
- DO4 β a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard; a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand; the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities; finding; holding sounds like boom, dam, dame, damn, deem
- DO5 β being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come; baleful; dire; direful; foreboding sounds like duly, dummy, duty, roomy
- DO4 β a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened; the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure; the means or right of entering or participating in; gate; hatch sounds like adore, boar, bore, chore, core
- DO4 β as in room(s), dormitory; boardinghouse; dormitory; flophouse; lodging house sounds like form, norm, warm
- DO9 β as in dorm, room(s); boardinghouse; dorm; flophouse; lodging house sounds like oratory
- DO4 β as in skiff, rowboat; being to one's liking; bateau; caΓ―que; canoe sounds like dairy, gory
- DO5 β showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; filled with an intense or excessive love for; absurd; asinine; balmy sounds like dirty, ditty, duty, knotty, potty
DR
- DR5 β
ID
- ID5 β a sequence of words having a specific meaning; expression; phrase sounds like indium
- ID5 β a stupid person; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; airhead; birdbrain
MI
- MI6 β a smooth or polished surface that forms images by reflection; to reproduce or show (an exact likeness) as a mirror would; something or someone that strongly resembles another; glass; looking glass sounds like hearer, mere, nearer
MO
- MO5 β a female human parent; ma; mama; mammy; mater sounds like balmy, commie, mama, mummy
- MO4 β a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion; a special quality or impression associated with something; an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something; cheer; feather sounds like food, lewd, mad, made, maid
- MO5 β frequently influenced by moods and especially bad moods; temperamental sounds like muddy
- MO4 β a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; spongy land saturated or partially covered with water; to put securely in place or in a desired position; campo; champaign sounds like boor, lure, mar, mare, mere
- MO4 β open to question or dispute; to present or bring forward for discussion; to talk about (an issue) usually from various points of view and for the purpose of arriving at a decision or opinion; arguable; controvertible sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot
- MO5 β a device that changes energy into mechanical motion; a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels; to proceed or move quickly; engine; machine sounds like boater, mater, matter, meter, miter
- MO5 β a short sentence or phrase that expresses a rule guiding the behavior of a particular person or group; axiom; precept; truism; truth sounds like macho, mater
OD
- OD6 β an odd or peculiar habit; something strange or unusual that is an object of interest; something that is different from what is ordinary or expected; crotchet; curiosity
- OD4 β a special quality or impression associated with something; the quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose; overall quality as seen or judged by people in general; air; ambience sounds like loader, ochre, older, over, owner
OM
- OM4 β to miss the opportunity or obligation; fail; forget; neglect sounds like emit, mitt
RI
- RI4 β someone or something that is very funny; an often public or formal expression of disapproval; an often public or formal expression of disapproval; hoot; knee-slapper sounds like diet, rut, write
RO
- RO4 β sounds like could, good, hood, raid, read
- RO4 β an extent or area available for or used up by some activity or thing; an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall; a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place; elbow room; place sounds like boom, b, doom, g, loom
- RO5 β more than adequate or average in capacity; ample; capacious; commodious; spacious sounds like ruby, rummy, rumor, rupee
- RO4 β a point or place at which something is invented or provided; the source from which something grows or develops; an immaterial thing upon which something else rests; cradle; font sounds like boot, brute, chute, fruit, hoot
- RO4 β sounds like goatee, ratty, wrote
- RO5 β as in gyroplane, convertiplane; as in biplane, triplane; autogiro; convertiplane; gyroplane sounds like boater, motor, voter, writer
TO
- TO5 β sounds like body, shoddy, tardy, teddy, tidy
- TO8 β language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; applesauce; balderdash; baloney; beans sounds like comet, omelet, target, tart, temperate
- TO6 β sounds like admit, armpit, atomic, bombing, calming
- TO4 β a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking; bender; binge; bust; carousal sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot
- TO4 β sounds like gory, story, talky, tarry, tawdry
- TO5 β sounds like boring, corny, forage, foresee, gory
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- TO6 β having a notably high temperature; having or expressing great depth of feeling; ardent; boiling; broiling sounds like horrid
- TO9 β as in heat, torridness; having a notably high temperature; having or expressing great depth of feeling; heat; hotness sounds like morbidity, timidity
- TO4 β sounds like court, fort, port, short, sort
TR
- TR4 β a group of three; threesome; triad; trifecta; trinity
- TR4 β as in traveled; to go on foot; to go on foot; traveled; bustling sounds like prod, rod
- TR4 β a mean or ugly old woman; abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools; to go at a pace faster than a walk; beldam; carline sounds like rot
- TR4 β sounds like toy
TY
- TY4 β a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; abecedarian; apprentice; babe; beginner sounds like gyro