Sunday, July 7, 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.
Sunday, July 7, 2024's Spelling Bee featured 4 pangram(s) ( 0 perfect pangram(s)) and a total of 70 answers. The highest possible score, required to achieve the coveted Queen Bee status, was 422 points. Sunday, July 7, 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.
D × 12: |
E × 2: |
F × 49: |
I × 5: |
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 | 9 | Sum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | - | - | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| E | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| F | 12 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 49 |
| I | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| L | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| Sum | 13 | 10 | 16 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 70 |
Definitions & Synonyms
Pangrams
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| de filing | ||
| fi elding | (noun)
(baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field | |
| fl edging | ||
| fl edgling | (adj)
(of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers | fledgeling |
(adj)
young and inexperienced | callow, unfledged | |
(noun)
any new participant in some activity | entrant, fledgeling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter | |
(noun)
young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | fledgeling |
Answers
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| de fend | (verb)
argue or speak in defense of | fend for, support |
(verb)
be on the defensive; act against an attack | ||
(verb)
protect against a challenge or attack | guard, hold | |
(verb)
fight against or resist strongly | fight, fight back, fight down, oppose | |
(verb)
protect or fight for as a champion | champion | |
(verb)
be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | represent | |
(verb)
state or assert | maintain | |
| de fended | ||
| de fending | (adj)
attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring | |
| de fied | ||
| de file | (verb)
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | cloud, corrupt, sully, taint |
(verb)
make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | maculate, stain, sully, tarnish | |
(verb)
spot, stain, or pollute | befoul, foul, maculate | |
(noun)
a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) | gorge | |
| de filed | (adj)
morally blemished; stained or impure | maculate |
| de fine | (verb)
determine the essential quality of | delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify |
(verb)
give a definition for the meaning of a word | ||
(verb)
determine the nature of | ||
(verb)
show the form or outline of | delineate | |
(verb)
decide upon or fix definitely | determine, fix, limit, set, specify | |
| de fined | (adj)
clearly characterized or delimited | |
(adj)
showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary | outlined | |
| de fining | (noun)
any process serving to define the shape of something | shaping |
| de ified | ||
| di gnified | (adj)
having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance | |
(adj)
having or showing self-esteem | self-respectful, self-respecting | |
| ed ified | (adj)
instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement | |
| el fin | (adj)
suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness | fey |
(adj)
small and delicate | elflike | |
(adj)
relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf | ||
(adj)
usually good-naturedly mischievous | elfish, elvish | |
| fe ed | (noun)
food for domestic livestock | provender |
(verb)
provide as food | ||
(verb)
give food to | give | |
(verb)
| ||
(verb)
introduce continuously | ||
(verb)
support or promote | ||
(verb)
take in food; used of animals only | eat | |
(verb)
serve as food for; be the food for | ||
(verb)
move along, of liquids | course, flow, run | |
(verb)
profit from in an exploitatory manner | prey | |
(verb)
gratify | feast | |
(verb)
provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | fertilise, fertilize | |
| fe eding | (noun)
the act of consuming food | eating |
(noun)
the act of supplying food and nourishment | alimentation | |
| fe el | (noun)
an intuitive awareness | |
(noun)
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone | |
(noun)
a property perceived by touch | tactile property | |
(noun)
manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure | ||
(verb)
undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | experience | |
(verb)
come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | find | |
(verb)
perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | sense | |
(verb)
be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state | ||
(verb)
| ||
(verb)
undergo passive experience of | ||
(verb)
be felt or perceived in a certain way | ||
(verb)
| ||
(verb)
examine by touch | finger | |
(verb)
examine (a body part) by palpation | palpate | |
(verb)
find by testing or cautious exploration | ||
(verb)
produce a certain impression | ||
(verb)
pass one's hands over the sexual organs of | ||
| fe eling | (noun)
the experiencing of affective and emotional states | |
(noun)
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | belief, impression, notion, opinion | |
(noun)
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | feel, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone | |
(noun)
a physical sensation that you experience | ||
(noun)
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin | tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation | |
(noun)
an intuitive understanding of something | ||
| fe ign | (verb)
make believe with the intent to deceive | affect, dissemble, pretend, sham |
(verb)
make a pretence of | assume, sham, simulate | |
| fe igned | (adj)
not genuine | |
| fe igning | (noun)
pretending with intention to deceive | dissembling, pretence, pretense |
(noun)
the act of giving a false appearance | pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation | |
| fe lid | (noun)
any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws | feline |
| fe line | (noun)
any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws | felid |
(adj)
of or relating to cats | ||
| fe ll | (adj)
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious |
(noun)
the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal) | hide | |
(noun)
seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges | ||
(noun)
| ||
(verb)
cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | cut down, drop, strike down | |
(verb)
pass away rapidly | fly, vanish | |
(verb)
sew a seam by folding the edges | ||
| fe lled | ||
| fe lling | ||
| fe nd | (verb)
try to manage without help | |
(verb)
withstand the force of something | resist, stand | |
| fe nded | ||
| fe nding | ||
| fe nnel | (noun)
any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems | |
(noun)
aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads | finocchio | |
(noun)
leaves used for seasoning | ||
(noun)
| ||
| fi ddle | (noun)
bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | violin |
(verb)
avoid (one's assigned duties) | goldbrick, shirk, shrink from | |
(verb)
commit fraud and steal from one's employer | ||
(verb)
| ||
(verb)
play on a violin | ||
(verb)
manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | diddle, play, toy | |
(verb)
play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | monkey, tamper | |
(verb)
try to fix or mend | tinker | |
| fi ddled | ||
| fi ddling | (adj)
(informal) small and of little importance | footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| fi ef | (noun)
a piece of land held under the feudal system | feoff |
| fi eld | (noun)
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed | |
(noun)
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | battleground | |
(noun)
somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected | ||
(noun)
a branch of knowledge | bailiwick, discipline, study, subject, subject area | |
(noun)
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it | ||
(noun)
a particular kind of commercial enterprise | line of business | |
(noun)
a particular environment or walk of life | area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere | |
(noun)
a piece of land prepared for playing a game | playing area | |
(noun)
extensive tract of level open land | champaign, plain | |
(noun)
(mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1 | ||
(noun)
a region in which active military operations are in progress | theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations | |
(noun)
all of the horses in a particular horse race | ||
(noun)
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event | ||
(noun)
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found | ||
(noun)
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information | ||
(noun)
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) | ||
(noun)
a place where planes take off and land | ||
(verb)
catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket | ||
(verb)
| ||
(verb)
answer adequately or successfully | ||
(verb)
select (a team or individual player) for a game | ||
| fi elded | ||
| fi end | (noun)
a cruel wicked and inhuman person | demon, devil, monster, ogre |
(noun)
an evil supernatural being | daemon, daimon, demon, devil | |
(noun)
a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause) | fanatic | |
| fi fe | (noun)
a small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band | |
| fi fed | ||
| fi fing | ||
| fi le | (noun)
a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together | |
(noun)
a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other | ||
(noun)
office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order | filing cabinet | |
(noun)
a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal | ||
(verb)
record in a public office or in a court of law | register | |
(verb)
| ||
(verb)
proceed in line | ||
(verb)
| charge, lodge | |
(verb)
place in a container for keeping records | ||
| fi led | ||
| fi ling | (noun)
the entering of a legal document into the public record | |
(noun)
a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file | ||
(noun)
the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object) | ||
(noun)
preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc. | ||
| fi ll | (verb)
make full, also in a metaphorical sense | make full |
(verb)
become full | ||
(verb)
occupy the whole of | occupy | |
(verb)
assume, as of positions or roles | occupy, take | |
(verb)
| conform to, fit, fulfil, meet, satisfy | |
(verb)
appoint someone to (a position or a job) | ||
(verb)
eat until one is sated | ||
(verb)
| replete, sate, satiate | |
(verb)
plug with a substance | ||
(noun)
a quantity sufficient to satisfy | ||
(noun)
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| fi lled | (adj)
(usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with | |
(adj)
| ||
(adj)
(of time) taken up | ||
| fi lling | (noun)
any material that fills a space or container | fill |
(noun)
flow into something (as a container) | ||
(noun)
a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc. | ||
(noun)
the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | pick, weft, woof | |
(noun)
(dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth | ||
(noun)
| ||
| fi nd | (noun)
a productive insight | breakthrough, discovery |
(noun)
the act of discovering something | discovery, uncovering | |
(verb)
come upon, as if by accident; meet with | bump, chance, encounter, happen | |
(verb)
discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | detect, discover, notice, observe | |
(verb)
| regain | |
(verb)
establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | ascertain, determine | |
(verb)
come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | feel | |
(verb)
perceive or be contemporaneous with | see, witness | |
(verb)
get something or somebody for a specific purpose | come up, get hold, line up | |
(verb)
| discover | |
(verb)
obtain through effort or management | ||
(verb)
decide on and make a declaration about | rule | |
(verb)
receive a specified treatment (abstract) | get, incur, obtain, receive | |
(verb)
perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place | ||
(verb)
| recover, regain, retrieve | |
(verb)
succeed in reaching; arrive at | ||
(verb)
accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation | ||
| fi nding | (noun)
the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation | determination |
(noun)
the decision of a court on issues of fact or law | ||
(noun)
something that is found | ||
| fi ne | (adj)
being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition | all right, cool, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay |
(adj)
minutely precise especially in differences in meaning | ||
(adj)
thin in thickness or diameter | ||
(adj)
| ||
(adj)
of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles | ||
(adj)
free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity | ||
(verb)
| ticket | |
(verb)
| mulct | |
(adv)
an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence | OK, all right, alright, very well | |
(adv)
in a delicate manner | delicately, exquisitely | |
(noun)
money extracted as a penalty | amercement, mulct | |
| fi ned | ||
| fi ning | ||
| fi nned | ||
| fl ed | ||
| fl edge | (verb)
feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight | |
(verb)
decorate with feathers | flight | |
(verb)
grow feathers | feather | |
| fl edged | (adj)
(of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination | mature |
(adj)
(of an arrow) equipped with feathers | vaned | |
| fl ee | (verb)
run away quickly | fly, take flight |
| fl eeing | ||
| fl ied | ||
| fl ing | (noun)
a usually brief attempt | crack, go, offer, pass, whirl |
(noun)
a brief indulgence of your impulses | spree | |
(noun)
| ||
(verb)
throw with force or recklessness | ||
(verb)
move in an abrupt or headlong manner | ||
(verb)
indulge oneself | splurge | |
(verb)
throw or cast away | cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out | |
| fl inging | ||
| in fidel | (noun)
a person who does not acknowledge your god | gentile, heathen, pagan |
| in field | (noun)
the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | baseball diamond, diamond |
| in fill | ||
| in filled | ||
| in filling | ||
| li fe | (noun)
a characteristic state or mode of living | |
(noun)
the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities | living | |
(noun)
the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living | ||
(noun)
the condition of living or the state of being alive | aliveness, animation, living | |
(noun)
the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | ||
(noun)
the period between birth and the present time | ||
(noun)
the period from the present until death | ||
(noun)
a living person | ||
(noun)
animation and energy in action or expression | liveliness, spirit, sprightliness | |
(noun)
living things collectively | ||
(noun)
the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones | ||
(noun)
| biography | |
(noun)
a motive for living | ||
(noun)
a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives | ||
| li feline | (noun)
a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live | life line, line of life |
(noun)
support that enables people to survive or to continue doing something (often by providing an essential connection) | ||
(noun)
line that raises or lowers a deep-sea diver | ||
(noun)
line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning |
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