NYT Spelling Bee Hints
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Note: This page contains hints to help solve Saturday, May 11, 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.
Saturday, May 11, 2024's Spelling Bee featured 1 pangram(s) ( 0 perfect pangram(s)) and a total of 43 answers. The highest possible score, required to achieve the coveted Queen Bee status, was 209 points. Saturday, May 11, 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.
A × 8: |
C × 11: |
D × 16: |
E × 1: |
J × 3: |
N × 4: |
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 | 8 | 9 | Sum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 8 |
| C | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 11 |
| D | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 16 |
| E | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| J | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| N | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| Sum | 12 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 43 |
Definitions & Synonyms
Pangrams
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| ad jacency | (noun)
the attribute of being so near as to be touching | contiguity, contiguousness |
Answers
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| ac cede | (verb)
yield to another's wish or opinion | bow, defer, give in, submit |
(verb)
take on duties or office | enter | |
(verb)
to agree or express agreement | acquiesce, assent | |
| ac ceded | ||
| ac ed | ||
| ac ne | (noun)
an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones | |
| ad ded | ||
| ad dend | (noun)
a number that is added to another number (the augend) | |
| ad denda | ||
| ca ddy | (noun)
a can for storing tea | |
(verb)
act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | caddie | |
| ca dence | (noun)
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | beat, measure, meter, metre |
(noun)
the close of a musical section | ||
(noun)
a recurrent rhythmical series | cadency | |
| ca ncan | (noun)
a high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line | |
| ca ndy | (noun)
a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts | confect |
(verb)
coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | glaze, sugarcoat | |
| ca ne | (noun)
a stick that people can lean on to help them walk | |
(noun)
| ||
(noun)
a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment | ||
(verb)
| flog, lambast, lambaste | |
| ca ned | ||
| ca nna | (noun)
any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers | |
| ca nned | (adj)
recorded for broadcast | transcribed |
(adj)
sealed in a can or jar | tinned | |
| ca nny | (adj)
showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | cagey, cagy, clever |
| ca yenne | (noun)
plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red | Capsicum annuum longum, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper |
(noun)
ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum | red pepper | |
(noun)
a long and often twisted hot red pepper | ||
| cy an | (adj)
of the blue-green color that is a primary subtractive color of light | |
(noun)
a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color | ||
| da ddy | (noun)
an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | dad, dada, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
| da nce | (noun)
an artistic form of nonverbal communication | |
(noun)
a party of people assembled for dancing | ||
(noun)
taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | dancing, saltation, terpsichore | |
(noun)
a party for social dancing | ||
(verb)
move in a graceful and rhythmical way | ||
(verb)
| trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe | |
(verb)
skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways | ||
| da nced | ||
| da ndy | (adj)
excellent | bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
(noun)
a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | beau, clotheshorse, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell | |
(noun)
a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | yawl | |
| de ad | (adj)
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life | |
(adj)
not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat | ||
(adj)
very tired | all in, beat, bushed | |
(adj)
unerringly accurate | ||
(adj)
physically inactive | ||
(adj)
(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | numb | |
(adj)
devoid of physical sensation; numb | ||
(adj)
lacking acoustic resonance | ||
(adj)
not yielding a return | idle | |
(adj)
not circulating or flowing | stagnant | |
(adj)
not surviving in active use | ||
(adj)
lacking resilience or bounce | ||
(adj)
out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown | ||
(adj)
no longer having force or relevance | ||
(adj)
the complete stoppage of an action | ||
(adj)
drained of electric charge; discharged | drained | |
(adj)
devoid of activity | ||
(noun)
people who are no longer living | ||
(noun)
a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | ||
(adv)
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | absolutely, perfectly, utterly | |
(adv)
quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | abruptly, all of a sudden, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short, suddenly | |
| de aden | (verb)
make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | damp, dampen |
(verb)
cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | girdle | |
(verb)
make vapid or deprive of spirit | ||
(verb)
lessen the momentum or velocity of | ||
(verb)
become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | ||
(verb)
make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | blunt | |
(verb)
convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | ||
| de adened | (adj)
devoid of physical sensation; numb | dead |
(adj)
made or become less intense | ||
| de adeye | (noun)
a dead shot | |
(noun)
(nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud | ||
| de an | (noun)
an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college | |
(noun)
a man who is the senior member of a group | doyen | |
(noun)
(Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals | ||
| de cade | (noun)
a period of 10 years | decennary, decennium |
(noun)
the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | 10, X, ten, tenner | |
| de cadence | (noun)
the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | decadency, degeneracy, degeneration |
| de cay | (noun)
the process of gradually becoming inferior | |
(noun)
a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current | decline | |
(noun)
the organic phenomenon of rotting | decomposition | |
(noun)
| ||
(noun)
the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation | disintegration | |
(verb)
lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | decompose, disintegrate | |
(verb)
| crumble, dilapidate | |
(verb)
| ||
| de cayed | (adj)
damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless | rotted, rotten |
| de ejay | ||
| de ejayed | ||
| dy ad | (noun)
two items of the same kind | brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| en nead | (noun)
the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | 9, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine, niner |
| ja de | (adj)
| |
(noun)
| ||
(noun)
a woman adulterer | adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop | |
(noun)
a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green | ||
(noun)
an old or over-worked horse | hack, nag, plug | |
(verb)
lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | fatigue, pall, tire, weary | |
(verb)
exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | fag, fag out, fatigue, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary | |
| ja ded | (adj)
exhausted | wearied |
(adj)
dulled by surfeit | ||
| je an | (noun)
a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | denim, dungaree |
| na an | (noun)
leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop | nan |
| na da | (noun)
a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| na na | ||
| na nny | (noun)
a woman who is the custodian of children | nurse, nursemaid |
(noun)
female goat | she-goat |
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