Wednesday, June 12, 2024
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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, June 12, 2024's Spelling Bee featured 1 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 237 points. Wednesday, June 12, 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: |
C × 31: |
D × 7: |
E × 3: |
L × 2: |
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 | 10 | Sum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 5 |
| C | 10 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 31 |
| D | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 7 |
| E | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 |
| L | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Sum | 12 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 48 |
Definitions & Synonyms
Pangrams
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| ed ucable |
Answers
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
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|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| ad duce | (verb)
advance evidence for | abduce, cite |
| ad duced | ||
| ca bal | (verb)
engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | complot, conjure, conspire, machinate |
(noun)
a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | camarilla, faction, junto | |
(noun)
a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) | conspiracy | |
| ca bala | (noun)
an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
| ca bbed | ||
| ca ble | (noun)
a telegram sent abroad | overseas telegram |
(noun)
a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power | line, transmission line | |
(noun)
a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire | ||
(noun)
a nautical unit of depth | ||
(noun)
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(noun)
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(verb)
| telegraph, wire | |
(verb)
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| ca bled | ||
| ca lculable | (adj)
able to be calculated or estimated | |
| ca ll | (noun)
a method of contacting a person by phone | |
(noun)
a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | cry, outcry, shout, vociferation, yell | |
(noun)
a demand | claim | |
(noun)
the characteristic sound produced by a bird | birdsong, song | |
(noun)
a brief social visit | ||
(noun)
a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement | ||
(noun)
a demand for a show of hands in a card game | ||
(noun)
a request | ||
(noun)
an instruction that interrupts the program being executed | ||
(noun)
a visit in an official or professional capacity | ||
(noun)
(sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee | ||
(noun)
the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date | ||
(verb)
assign a specified (usually proper) name to | be known as, know as, name | |
(verb)
ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality | ||
(verb)
get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | phone, ring, telephone | |
(verb)
utter a sudden loud cry | cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell | |
(verb)
order, request, or command to come | send for | |
(verb)
pay a brief visit | visit | |
(verb)
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(verb)
read aloud to check for omissions or absentees | ||
(verb)
send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message | ||
(verb)
utter a characteristic note or cry | ||
(verb)
stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather | ||
(verb)
greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name | address | |
(verb)
make a stop in a harbour | ||
(verb)
demand payment of (a loan) | ||
(verb)
make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | bid | |
(verb)
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(verb)
indicate a decision in regard to | ||
(verb)
make a prediction about; tell in advance | anticipate, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise | |
(verb)
present for redemption before maturation | ||
(verb)
challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense | ||
(verb)
declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee | ||
(verb)
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(verb)
order or request or give a command for | ||
(verb)
order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role | ||
(verb)
utter in a loud voice or announce | ||
(verb)
challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of | ||
(verb)
consider or regard as being | ||
(verb)
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| ca lla | (noun)
South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix | Zantedeschia aethiopica, arum lily |
| ca llable | (adj)
subject to a demand for payment before due date | |
| ca lled | ||
| ca udal | (adj)
constituting or relating to a tail | |
(adj)
resembling a tail | taillike | |
(adj)
situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises | ||
(adv)
toward the posterior end of the body | ||
| ca ul | (noun)
part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines | gastrocolic omentum, greater omentum |
(noun)
the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) | embryonic membrane, veil | |
| ce de | (verb)
give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | grant, yield |
(verb)
relinquish possession or control over | deliver, give up, surrender | |
| ce ded | ||
| ce leb | ||
| ce ll | (noun)
any small compartment | |
(noun)
(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals | ||
(noun)
a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction | ||
(noun)
a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement | cadre | |
(noun)
a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | mobile phone | |
(noun)
small room in which a monk or nun lives | cubicle | |
(noun)
a room where a prisoner is kept | ||
| ce lled | ||
| ce llule | ||
| cl ad | (adj)
wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination | clothed |
(adj)
having an outer covering especially of thin metal | ||
| cl ade | (noun)
a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor | |
| cl ub | (noun)
a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together | nine |
(noun)
a formal association of people with similar interests | gild, guild, lodge, order, society | |
(noun)
stout stick that is larger at one end | ||
(noun)
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(noun)
golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | ||
(noun)
a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it | ||
(noun)
a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | cabaret, nightspot | |
(verb)
unite with a common purpose | ||
(verb)
gather and spend time together | ||
(verb)
| bludgeon | |
(verb)
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| cl ubbed | ||
| cl ue | (verb)
roll into a ball | clew |
(noun)
a slight indication | hint | |
(noun)
evidence that helps to solve a problem | clew, cue | |
| cl ued | ||
| cu be | (noun)
a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces | regular hexahedron |
(noun)
a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | block | |
(noun)
the product of three equal terms | third power | |
(noun)
any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone | ||
(noun)
| square block | |
(verb)
raise to the third power | ||
(verb)
| dice | |
| cu bed | ||
| cu ddle | (noun)
a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | nestle, snuggle |
(verb)
move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle | |
(verb)
hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | ||
| cu ddled | ||
| cu ed | ||
| cu ll | (verb)
remove something that has been rejected | |
(verb)
look for and gather | pick, pluck | |
(noun)
the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality | reject | |
| cu lled | ||
| de bacle | (noun)
a sudden and violent collapse | fiasco |
(noun)
flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer | ||
(noun)
a sound defeat | drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping | |
| 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 cal | (noun)
either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | |
| de duce | (verb)
reason by deduction; establish by deduction | deduct, derive, infer |
(verb)
conclude by reasoning; in logic | infer | |
| de duced | ||
| de uce | (noun)
a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game | |
(noun)
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number | 2, II, two | |
(noun)
a word used in exclamations of confusion | devil, dickens | |
(noun)
one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots | two | |
| du cal | (adj)
of or belonging to or suitable for a duke | |
| ed uce | (verb)
| draw out, elicit, evoke, extract |
(verb)
develop or evolve from a latent or potential state | derive | |
| ed uced | ||
| la ce | (noun)
a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) | lacing |
(noun)
a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns | ||
(verb)
spin, wind, or twist together | entwine, intertwine, twine | |
(verb)
make by braiding or interlacing | braid, plait | |
(verb)
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(verb)
draw through eyes or holes | ||
(verb)
add alcohol to (beverages) | fortify, spike | |
| la ced | (adj)
closed with a lace | tied |
(adj)
edged or streaked with color |
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