NYT Spelling Bee Hints
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Note: This page contains hints to help solve Saturday, May 18, 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 18, 2024's Spelling Bee featured 1 pangram(s) ( 0 perfect pangram(s)) and a total of 37 answers. The highest possible score, required to achieve the coveted Queen Bee status, was 161 points. Saturday, May 18, 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 × 5: |
B × 8: |
I × 1: |
R × 7: |
T × 15: |
Y × 1: |
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 | Sum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 5 |
| B | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| I | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| R | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | 7 |
| T | 5 | 8 | 1 | - | 1 | 15 |
| Y | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Sum | 13 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 37 |
Definitions & Synonyms
Pangrams
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| tr ibutary | (adj)
(of a stream) flowing into a larger stream | |
(adj)
paying tribute | ||
(adj)
tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory | |
(noun)
a branch that flows into the main stream | affluent, confluent, feeder |
Answers
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| ab ut | (verb)
lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
| ar bitrary | (adj)
based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice | |
| ar ty | (adj)
showily imitative of art or artists | |
| at ria | ||
| at tar | (noun)
essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | atar, athar, ottar |
| ba it | (noun)
anything that serves as an enticement | come-on, hook, lure, sweetener |
(noun)
something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed | decoy, lure | |
(verb)
harass with persistent criticism or carping | cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit | |
(verb)
| ||
(verb)
attack with dogs or set dogs upon | ||
| ba rbarity | (noun)
the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, heinousness |
(noun)
a brutal barbarous savage act | barbarism, brutality, savagery | |
| ba tty | (adj)
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| br at | (noun)
a very troublesome child | holy terror, little terror, terror |
(noun)
a small pork sausage | ||
| br atty | (adj)
(used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | brattish |
| br ut | (adj)
(of champagne) extremely dry | |
| bu rrata | ||
| bu tt | (noun)
thick end of the handle | |
(noun)
the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots | ||
(noun)
a victim of ridicule or pranks | goat, laughingstock, stooge | |
(noun)
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush | |
(noun)
sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | target | |
(noun)
finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, fag | |
(noun)
a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping | ||
(noun)
a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons) | ||
(noun)
the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | stub | |
(verb)
lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | abut, adjoin, border, edge, march | |
(verb)
to strike, thrust or shove against | bunt | |
(verb)
place end to end without overlapping | ||
| it ty | ||
| ra bbit | (noun)
any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food | coney, cony |
(noun)
| lapin | |
(noun)
| hare | |
(verb)
| ||
| ra ita | (noun)
an Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices | |
| ra rity | (noun)
noteworthy scarcity | infrequency, rareness |
(noun)
a rarified quality | low density, tenuity | |
(noun)
something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity | |
| ra tatat | ||
| ra tty | (adj)
of or characteristic of rats | |
(adj)
showing signs of wear and tear | moth-eaten, shabby, tatty | |
(adj)
dirty and infested with rats | ||
| ri bbit | ||
| ru tty | (adj)
full of ruts | rutted |
| ta bby | (adj)
having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | brinded, brindle, brindled |
(noun)
a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black | ||
(noun)
female cat | queen | |
| ta rry | (adj)
having the characteristics of pitch or tar | pitchy, resinous, resiny |
(verb)
be about a place without any apparent purpose | footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around | |
(verb)
leave slowly and hesitantly | linger | |
| ta rt | (adj)
tasting sour like a lemon | lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tangy |
(adj)
harsh | sharp, sharp-worded | |
(noun)
a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, whore, woman of the street, working girl | |
(noun)
a small open pie with a fruit filling | ||
(noun)
a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust | ||
| ta rtar | (noun)
a salt used especially in baking powder | potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate |
(noun)
a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | dragon | |
(noun)
an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums | calculus, tophus | |
| ta tty | (adj)
showing signs of wear and tear | moth-eaten, ratty, shabby |
(adj)
tastelessly showy | brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tawdry, trashy | |
| ta ut | (adj)
pulled or drawn tight | tight |
(adj)
subjected to great tension; stretched tight | ||
| ti ara | (noun)
a jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions | |
| ti bia | (noun)
the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | shin, shin bone, shinbone |
| tr ait | (noun)
a distinguishing feature of your personal nature | |
| tr ay | (noun)
an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food | |
| tu ba | (noun)
the lowest brass wind instrument | bass horn, sousaphone |
| tu bby | (adj)
short and plump | dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly |
| tu tti | ||
| tu tu | (noun)
very short skirt worn by ballerinas | ballet skirt |
| yu rt | (noun)
a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing |
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