NYT Spelling Bee Hints
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Note: This page contains hints to help solve Wednesday, May 8, 2024's New York Times Spelling Bee. To reveal a hint, click on any blurred area below. To see all pangrams and answers for this puzzle at once, visit the Spelling Bee Answers page.
The New York Times Spelling Bee is a word puzzle that challenges players to form words from seven letters arranged in a honeycomb, with the center letter required in each word. Points are earned based on word length, and there's a bonus for using all seven letters in a word.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024's Spelling Bee featured 1 pangram(s) ( 0 perfect pangram(s)) and a total of 56 answers. The highest possible score, required to achieve the coveted Queen Bee status, was 212 points. Wednesday, May 8, 2024's Puzzle wasn't a Bingo.
First One/Two/Three Letters
Click on any two letter prefix to reveal all first three letters combinations of the words.
I × 4: |
M × 8: |
N × 4: |
P × 19: |
R × 7: |
T × 14: |
Letter Distribution
The number of answers that start with a specific letter and of a specific length.
Group by first
Letters
| Starting With | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | Sum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 |
| M | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 8 |
| N | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| P | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
| R | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 7 |
| T | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 14 |
| Sum | 25 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 56 |
Definitions & Synonyms
Pangrams
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| pr omotion | (noun)
a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | packaging, promo, publicity |
(noun)
act of raising in rank or position | ||
(noun)
encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | advancement, furtherance | |
(noun)
the advancement of some enterprise | forwarding, furtherance |
Answers
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| im port | (noun)
commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | |
(noun)
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(noun)
the message that is intended or expressed or signified | meaning, significance, signification | |
(noun)
a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | implication, significance | |
(noun)
| consequence, moment | |
(verb)
bring in from abroad | ||
(verb)
transfer (electronic data) into a database or document | ||
(verb)
indicate or signify | spell | |
| im print | (noun)
a distinctive influence | |
(noun)
a concavity in a surface produced by pressing | depression, impression | |
(noun)
an identification of a publisher; a publisher's name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page | ||
(noun)
an impression produced by pressure or printing | embossment | |
(noun)
a device produced by pressure on a surface | ||
(verb)
establish or impress firmly in the mind | form | |
(verb)
mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | impress | |
| in tro | (noun)
formally making a person known to another or to the public | presentation |
(noun)
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| ir on | (adj)
extremely robust | |
(noun)
a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood | Fe, atomic number 26 | |
(noun)
a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head | ||
(noun)
implement used to brand live stock | ||
(noun)
home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth | ||
(verb)
| press | |
| mi nor | (adj)
of lesser importance or stature or rank | |
(adj)
lesser in scope or effect | ||
(adj)
inferior in number or size or amount | ||
(adj)
(of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees | ||
(adj)
not of legal age | nonaged, underage | |
(adj)
of lesser seriousness or danger | ||
(adj)
of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization | ||
(adj)
of the younger of two boys with the same family name | ||
(adj)
warranting only temporal punishment | venial | |
(adj)
relatively moderate, limited, or small | modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale | |
(noun)
a young person of either sex | child, fry, kid, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster | |
(verb)
have as one's secondary field of study | ||
| mi rin | ||
| mi rror | (noun)
polished surface that forms images by reflecting light | |
(noun)
a faithful depiction or reflection | ||
(verb)
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(verb)
reflect or resemble | ||
| mo nitor | (noun)
someone who supervises (an examination) | proctor |
(noun)
someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | admonisher, reminder | |
(noun)
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(noun)
electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions | ||
(noun)
a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble | ||
(noun)
any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles | varan | |
(verb)
keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance | supervise | |
(verb)
check, track, or observe by means of a receiver | ||
| mo or | (verb)
secure in or as if in a berth or dock | berth, tie up |
(verb)
come into or dock at a wharf | berth, wharf | |
(verb)
secure with cables or ropes | ||
(noun)
open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss | ||
| mo rn | (noun)
the time period between dawn and noon | forenoon |
| mo ron | (noun)
a person of subnormal intelligence | changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, retard |
| mo tor | (adj)
conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | centrifugal |
(adj)
causing or able to cause motion | motive | |
(noun)
machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion | ||
(noun)
a nonspecific agent that imparts motion | ||
(verb)
travel or be transported in a vehicle | drive | |
| ni tro | ||
| no ir | ||
| no ri | ||
| no rm | (noun)
a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical | |
(noun)
a statistic describing the location of a distribution | average | |
| po or | (adj)
deserving or inciting pity | hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched |
(adj)
having little money or few possessions | ||
(adj)
characterized by or indicating poverty | ||
(adj)
lacking in quality or substances | ||
(adj)
of insufficient quantity to meet a need | inadequate, jejune, short | |
(noun)
people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group) | ||
| po rn | (noun)
creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | erotica, smut |
| po rno | (noun)
creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | erotica, porn, smut |
| po rt | (adj)
located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | larboard |
(noun)
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(noun)
sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal | ||
(noun)
an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | embrasure | |
(noun)
the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | larboard | |
(noun)
(computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) | interface | |
(verb)
put or turn on the left side, of a ship | ||
(verb)
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(verb)
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(verb)
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(verb)
carry, bear, convey, or bring | ||
(verb)
carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons | ||
(verb)
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(verb)
modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform | ||
| po rtion | (noun)
something determined in relation to something that includes it | component, component part, constituent, part |
(noun)
something less than the whole of a human artifact | part | |
(noun)
the allotment of some amount by dividing something | parcel, share | |
(noun)
assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | part, percentage, share | |
(noun)
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck | |
(noun)
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | dower, dowery, dowry | |
(noun)
an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | helping, serving | |
(verb)
give out | allot, assign | |
| pr im | (adj)
affectedly dainty or refined | mincing, niminy-piminy, twee |
(adj)
exaggeratedly proper | priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian | |
(verb)
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(verb)
contract one's lips | ||
(verb)
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| pr imo | (adj)
the best of its kind | |
(noun)
the principal part of a duet (especially a piano duet) | ||
| pr imp | (verb)
dress or groom with elaborate care | dress, plume, preen |
| pr int | (noun)
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(noun)
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(noun)
a visible indication made on a surface | mark | |
(noun)
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(noun)
a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it) | ||
(noun)
a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers) | ||
(noun)
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(verb)
| publish | |
(verb)
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(verb)
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(verb)
| impress | |
| pr ion | (noun)
(microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system | |
| pr ior | (adj)
earlier in time | anterior |
(noun)
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| pr om | (noun)
a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year | |
| pr omo | (noun)
a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | packaging, publicity |
| pr ompt | (adj)
according to schedule or without delay; on time | |
(adj)
ready and willing or quick to act | ||
(adj)
performed with little or no delay | immediate, quick, straightaway | |
(noun)
a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken) | ||
(noun)
(computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command | ||
(verb)
give an incentive for action | actuate, incite, motivate, move, propel | |
(verb)
serve as the inciting cause of | inspire, instigate | |
(verb)
assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | cue, remind | |
| pr onto | (adv)
in a punctual manner | promptly, readily |
| pr op | (noun)
a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling | |
(noun)
any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie | ||
(noun)
| airscrew | |
(verb)
support by placing against something solid or rigid | shore, shore up | |
| pr oportion | (noun)
the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole | |
(noun)
magnitude or extent | dimension | |
(noun)
balance among the parts of something | symmetry | |
(noun)
the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree | ratio | |
(noun)
harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | balance | |
(verb)
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(verb)
adjust in size relative to other things | ||
| pr oton | (noun)
a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron | |
| ri ot | (noun)
a public act of violence by an unruly mob | public violence |
(noun)
a state of disorder involving group violence | ||
(noun)
a joke that seems extremely funny | belly laugh, howler, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow | |
(noun)
a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, saturnalia | |
(verb)
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(verb)
engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | carouse, roister | |
| ro mp | (noun)
an easy victory | blowout, laugher, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
(noun)
a girl who behaves in a boyish manner | hoyden, tomboy | |
(noun)
gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | caper, frolic, gambol, play | |
(verb)
play boisterously | cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, run around, skylark, sport | |
(verb)
run easily and fairly fast | ||
(verb)
win easily | ||
| ro om | (noun)
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling | |
(noun)
space for movement | way | |
(noun)
opportunity for | ||
(noun)
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(verb)
live and take one's meals at or in | board | |
| ro ot | (verb)
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(verb)
come into existence, originate | ||
(verb)
cheer for | ||
(verb)
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(verb)
dig with the snout | rout | |
(verb)
become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | settle, settle down, steady down | |
(verb)
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(noun)
(botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | ||
(noun)
the place where something begins, where it springs into being | beginning, origin, source | |
(noun)
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | base, radical, stem, theme | |
(noun)
a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number | ||
(noun)
the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation | solution | |
(noun)
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent | |
(noun)
a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes | etymon | |
(noun)
the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair | ||
| ro ti | ||
| ro tini | ||
| ro tor | (noun)
the rotating armature of a motor or generator | |
(noun)
the revolving bar of a distributor | ||
(noun)
rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils | ||
| to ri | ||
| to rii | ||
| to rn | (adj)
having edges that are jagged from injury | lacerate, lacerated, mangled |
(adj)
disrupted by the pull of contrary forces | ||
| to ro | ||
| to rpor | (noun)
a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility | torpidity |
(noun)
inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy | listlessness, torpidity, torpidness | |
| to rt | (noun)
(law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought | civil wrong |
| to rtoni | ||
| tr im | (adj)
thin and fit | spare |
(adj)
characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder | shipshape, well-kept | |
(adj)
neat and smart in appearance | clean-cut, trig | |
(adj)
severely simple in line or design | tailored | |
(noun)
a state of arrangement or appearance | ||
(noun)
a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | passementerie | |
(noun)
attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation | ||
(noun)
cutting down to the desired size or shape | clipping | |
(verb)
remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size | pare | |
(verb)
decorate, as with ornaments | ||
(verb)
cut down on; make a reduction in | bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce | |
(verb)
balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces | ||
(verb)
be in equilibrium during a flight | ||
(verb)
decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | dress, garnish | |
(verb)
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip | |
(verb)
cut closely | shave | |
(verb)
adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used | ||
| tr io | (noun)
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | 3, III, deuce-ace, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, triplet, troika |
(noun)
a musical composition for three performers | ||
(noun)
three performers or singers who perform together | ||
(noun)
a set of three similar things considered as a unit | triad, triple, triplet | |
(noun)
three people considered as a unit | threesome, triad, trinity | |
| tr ip | (noun)
a journey for some purpose (usually including the return) | |
(noun)
a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs | ||
(noun)
an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall | slip | |
(noun)
an exciting or stimulating experience | ||
(noun)
a catch mechanism that acts as a switch | ||
(noun)
a light or nimble tread | ||
(noun)
an unintentional but embarrassing blunder | misstep, stumble | |
(verb)
miss a step and fall or nearly fall | stumble | |
(verb)
cause to stumble | ||
(verb)
| jaunt, travel | |
(verb)
put in motion or move to act | activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off | |
(verb)
get high, stoned, or drugged | get off, turn on | |
| tr iton | (noun)
tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells | |
(noun)
small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia | newt | |
| tr omp | ||
| tr oop | (verb)
march in a procession in a public place | parade, promenade |
(verb)
move or march as if in a crowd | ||
(noun)
a group of soldiers | ||
(noun)
a cavalry unit corresponding to an infantry company | ||
(noun)
a unit of Girl or Boy Scouts | scout group | |
(noun)
an orderly crowd | flock | |
| tr ot | (noun)
a slow pace of running | jog, lope |
(noun)
a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | crib, pony | |
(noun)
a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together | ||
(verb)
run at a moderately swift pace | clip, jog | |
(verb)
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(verb)
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