NYT Spelling Bee Hints
Jun 10, 2024 →Sunday, June 9, 2024
Note: This page contains hints to help solve Sunday, June 9, 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.
Sunday, June 9, 2024's Spelling Bee featured 3 pangram(s) ( 0 perfect pangram(s)) and a total of 48 answers. The highest possible score, required to achieve the coveted Queen Bee status, was 251 points. Sunday, June 9, 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 × 12: |
E × 2: |
G × 12: |
I × 1: |
N × 4: |
W × 17: |
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 | 10 | Sum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 12 |
| E | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| G | 6 | - | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | 12 |
| I | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| N | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 4 |
| W | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| Sum | 15 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 48 |
Definitions & Synonyms
Pangrams
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| aw akening | (noun)
the act of waking | wakening, waking up |
| wa kening | (noun)
the act of waking | waking up |
| we akening | (adj)
causing debilitation | debilitative, enervating, enfeebling |
(adj)
moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker | ||
(noun)
becoming weaker | ||
(noun)
the act of reducing the strength of something |
Answers
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| ag ain | (adv)
anew | once more |
| ag eing | (adj)
growing old | aging, senescent |
(noun)
acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | aging, ripening | |
(noun)
the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | aging, senescence | |
| ag ing | (adj)
growing old | ageing, senescent |
(noun)
acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | ageing, ripening | |
(noun)
the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | ageing, senescence | |
| ak in | (adj)
similar in quality or character | kindred |
(adj)
related by blood | blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin | |
| an ew | (adv)
again but in a new or different way | afresh |
| an gina | (noun)
any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain | |
(noun)
a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart | ||
| aw ake | (adj)
not in a state of sleep; completely conscious | |
(adj)
mentally perceptive and responsive | alert, alive | |
(verb)
stop sleeping | arouse, come alive, wake, wake up, waken | |
| aw aken | (verb)
cause to become awake or conscious | arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
(verb)
stop sleeping | arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken | |
(verb)
make aware | ||
| aw aking | ||
| aw ing | (adj)
inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
| aw ning | (noun)
a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | sunblind, sunshade |
| en gage | (verb)
carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | prosecute, pursue |
(verb)
consume all of one's attention or time | absorb, engross, occupy | |
(verb)
| employ, hire | |
(verb)
ask to represent; of legal counsel | ||
(verb)
give to in marriage | affiance, betroth, plight | |
(verb)
get caught | ||
(verb)
carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | wage | |
(verb)
hire for work or assistance | enlist | |
(verb)
| charter, hire, lease, rent, take | |
(verb)
| lock, mesh, operate | |
| en gaging | (adj)
attracting or delighting | piquant |
| ga ga | (adj)
mentally or physically infirm with age | doddering, doddery, senile |
(adj)
intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | crazy, dotty, wild | |
| ga ge | (noun)
street names for marijuana | Mary Jane, dope, grass, green goddess, locoweed, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
(noun)
a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. | gauge | |
(verb)
place a bet on | back, bet on, game, punt, stake | |
| ga gging | ||
| ga in | (noun)
a quantity that is added | addition, increase |
(noun)
the advantageous quality of being beneficial | profit | |
(noun)
the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input | amplification | |
(noun)
the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating | ||
(verb)
obtain | derive | |
(verb)
win something through one's efforts | acquire, win | |
(verb)
derive a benefit from | benefit, profit | |
(verb)
reach a destination, either real or abstract | arrive at, attain, hit, make, reach | |
(verb)
obtain advantages, such as points, etc. | advance, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win | |
(verb)
rise in rate or price | advance | |
(verb)
increase or develop | gather | |
(verb)
earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | bring in, clear, earn, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in | |
(verb)
increase (one's body weight) | put on | |
| ga ining | ||
| ga ng | (noun)
an association of criminals | mob, pack, ring |
(noun)
an informal body of friends | bunch, crew, crowd | |
(noun)
an organized group of workmen | crew, work party | |
(noun)
tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together | ||
(verb)
act as an organized group | ||
| ga nging | ||
| ga wk | (noun)
an awkward stupid person | clod, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
(verb)
look with amazement; look stupidly | gape, gawp, goggle | |
| ga wking | ||
| ge wgaw | (noun)
cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, novelty, trinket |
| gn aw | (verb)
bite or chew on with the teeth | |
(verb)
become ground down or deteriorate | eat at, erode, wear away | |
| gn awing | ||
| in ane | (adj)
extremely silly or stupid | asinine, fatuous |
| na an | (noun)
leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop | nan |
| na gging | (adj)
continually complaining or faultfinding | shrewish |
| na na | ||
| na nkeen | (noun)
a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color | |
| wa ge | (verb)
carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | engage |
(noun)
something that remunerates | earnings, pay, remuneration, salary | |
| wa gging | ||
| wa ging | ||
| wa ke | (noun)
the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | aftermath, backwash |
(noun)
the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward | backwash | |
(noun)
a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial | viewing | |
(verb)
| ||
(verb)
stop sleeping | arouse, come alive | |
(verb)
arouse or excite feelings and passions | fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up | |
(verb)
to alert someone to something | ||
(verb)
| arouse, rouse | |
| wa ken | (verb)
cause to become awake or conscious | arouse, rouse, wake, wake up |
(verb)
stop sleeping | arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up | |
| wa king | (adj)
marked by full consciousness or alertness | wakeful |
(noun)
the state of remaining awake | ||
| wa ne | (verb)
grow smaller | decline, go down |
(verb)
become smaller | ||
(verb)
decrease in phase | ||
(noun)
a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | ebb, ebbing | |
| wa ning | (adj)
(of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases | |
(noun)
a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent | ||
| wa nna | ||
| we ak | (adj)
wanting in physical strength | |
(adj)
overly diluted; thin and insipid | washy, watery | |
(adj)
(used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | light, unaccented | |
(adj)
wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | fallible, frail, imperfect | |
(adj)
tending downward in price | ||
(adj)
deficient or lacking in some skill | ||
(adj)
lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless | |
(adj)
(used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection | ||
(adj)
not having authority, political strength, or governing power | ||
(adj)
deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | faint | |
(adj)
likely to fail under stress or pressure | ||
(adj)
deficient in intelligence or mental power | ||
| we aken | (verb)
lessen the strength of | |
(verb)
become weaker | ||
(verb)
destroy property or hinder normal operations | counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine | |
(verb)
reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of | de-escalate, step down | |
(verb)
lessen in force or effect | break, damp, dampen, soften | |
| we an | (verb)
gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | ablactate |
(verb)
detach the affections of | ||
| we aning | (noun)
the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | ablactation |
| wi gwag | (verb)
send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code | |
(verb)
signal by or as if by a flag or light waved according to a code | ||
| wi gwagging |
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