Tuesday, June 25, 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.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024's Spelling Bee featured 1 pangram(s) ( 0 perfect pangram(s)) and a total of 24 answers. The highest possible score, required to achieve the coveted Queen Bee status, was 109 points. Tuesday, June 25, 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 × 2: |
I × 3: |
K × 9: |
L × 5: |
R × 5: |
Letter Distribution
The number of answers that start with a specific letter and of a specific length.
Starting With | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Sum |
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A | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
I | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 3 |
K | 4 | 1 | - | 4 | - | 9 |
L | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 5 |
R | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Sum | 10 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 24 |
Definitions & Synonyms
Pangrams
Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
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ra nkling |
Answers
Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
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ak in | (adj)
similar in quality or character | kindred |
(adj)
related by blood | blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin | |
al kali | (noun)
any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water | base |
(noun)
a mixture of soluble salts found in arid soils and some bodies of water; detrimental to agriculture | ||
in king | ||
in kling | (noun)
a slight suggestion or vague understanding | glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
ir king | ||
ki ll | (noun)
the act of terminating a life | putting to death |
(noun)
the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile | ||
(noun)
| ||
(verb)
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly | ||
(verb)
thwart the passage of | defeat, shoot down, vote down, vote out | |
(verb)
end or extinguish by forceful means | stamp out | |
(verb)
be fatal | ||
(verb)
be the source of great pain for | ||
(verb)
overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration | ||
(verb)
hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games | ||
(verb)
hit with great force | ||
(verb)
deprive of life | ||
(verb)
cause the death of, without intention | ||
(verb)
drink down entirely | belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, pop, pour down, toss off | |
(verb)
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | obliterate, wipe out | |
(verb)
tire out completely | ||
(verb)
cause to cease operating | ||
(verb)
destroy a vitally essential quality of or in | ||
ki lling | (adj)
very funny | sidesplitting |
(noun)
an event that causes someone to die | violent death | |
(noun)
the act of terminating a life | kill, putting to death | |
(noun)
a very large profit | cleanup | |
ki ln | (noun)
a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks | |
ki lning | ||
ki ng | (noun)
| Rex, male monarch |
(noun)
a very wealthy or powerful businessman | baron, big businessman, business leader, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon | |
(noun)
preeminence in a particular category or group or field | ||
(noun)
a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward | ||
(noun)
| ||
(noun)
(chess) the weakest but the most important piece | ||
(noun)
a male competitor who holds a preeminent position | ||
(noun)
the husband or widower of a queen | ||
ki nging | ||
ki nk | (noun)
a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | crick, rick, wrick |
(noun)
a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | twirl, twist | |
(noun)
a person with unusual sexual tastes | ||
(noun)
an eccentric idea | ||
(noun)
a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation | ||
(verb)
curl tightly | crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle | |
(verb)
| curl, curve | |
ki nking | ||
kr ill | (noun)
shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales | |
la nk | (adj)
long and thin and often limp | |
(adj)
long and lean | spindly | |
la rk | (noun)
North American songbirds having a yellow breast | |
(noun)
a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | pipit | |
(noun)
any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing | ||
(noun)
any carefree episode | escapade | |
(verb)
play boisterously | cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, rollick, romp, run around, sport | |
li king | (noun)
a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment | |
li nk | (noun)
| nexus |
(noun)
a fastener that serves to join or connect | tie, tie-in | |
(noun)
the state of being connected | connectedness, connection | |
(noun)
a connecting shape | connection, connexion | |
(noun)
a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain | ||
(noun)
(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list | ||
(noun)
a channel for communication between groups | contact, inter-group communication, liaison | |
(noun)
a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network | ||
(noun)
an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data | ||
(verb)
make a logical or causal connection | associate, colligate, connect, relate, tie in | |
(verb)
connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | connect, tie | |
(verb)
| connect, join, unite | |
(verb)
| yoke | |
li nking | ||
ra king | ||
ra nk | (adj)
very fertile; producing profuse growth | |
(adj)
very offensive in smell or taste | ||
(adj)
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross | |
(adj)
complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer | |
(adj)
growing profusely | ||
(verb)
take or have a position relative to others | ||
(verb)
| grade, order, place, range, rate | |
(verb)
| ||
(noun)
a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another | ||
(noun)
relative status | ||
(noun)
the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army) | ||
(noun)
position in a social hierarchy | social station, social status | |
(noun)
the body of members of an organization or group | membership | |
ra nking | (adj)
having a higher rank | superior |
(noun)
position on a scale in relation to others in status or rank or achievement | ||
ri nk | (noun)
building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating |
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