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Today's NYT Spelling Bee Hints
Saturday, April 27, 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.
Today's Spelling Bee features 1 pangram(s) ( 1 perfect pangram(s)) and a total of 47 answers. The highest possible score, required to achieve the coveted Queen Bee status, is 196 points. Today's Puzzle isn'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 × 3: |
B × 25: |
C × 8: |
L × 3: |
O × 1: |
P × 7: |
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 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| B | 15 | 6 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 25 |
| C | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 8 |
| L | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| O | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| P | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 7 |
| Sum | 20 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 47 |
Definitions & Synonyms
Pangrams
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| pl acebo | (noun)
an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug | |
(noun)
(Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead |
Answers
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| ab le | (adj)
(usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something | |
(adj)
have the skills and qualifications to do things well | ||
(adj)
having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity | ||
(adj)
having a strong healthy body | ||
| al locable | (adj)
capable of being distributed | allocatable, apportionable |
| ap pealable | (adj)
capable of being appealed especially to a higher tribunal | |
| ba ba | (noun)
a small cake leavened with yeast | |
| ba bble | (noun)
gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | babbling, lallation |
(verb)
utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way | ||
(verb)
to talk foolishly | blather, blether, blither, smatter | |
(verb)
flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple | |
(verb)
divulge confidential information or secrets | blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle | |
| ba be | (noun)
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | baby, infant |
| ba bel | (noun)
a confusion of voices and other sounds | |
| ba le | (noun)
a large bundle bound for storage or transport | |
(verb)
| ||
| ba ll | (noun)
round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games | |
(noun)
a solid projectile that is shot by a musket | ||
(noun)
an object with a spherical shape | globe, orb | |
(noun)
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis | |
(noun)
a spherical object used as a plaything | ||
(noun)
a compact mass | chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump | |
(noun)
a lavish dance requiring formal attire | formal | |
(noun)
a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass | ||
(noun)
| ||
(noun)
a pitch that is not in the strike zone | ||
(verb)
| ||
(verb)
to live very well | ||
| ba obab | (noun)
African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread | Adansonia digitata, monkey-bread tree |
| be bop | (noun)
an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) | bop |
(verb)
| bop | |
| be ep | (verb)
make a strident noise | blare, claxon, honk, toot |
(verb)
| ||
(noun)
a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | bleep | |
| be ll | (noun)
a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck | |
(noun)
a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | buzzer | |
(noun)
| toll | |
(noun)
| ||
(noun)
| campana | |
(noun)
| chime, gong | |
(noun)
the flared opening of a tubular device | ||
(verb)
| ||
| be lle | (noun)
a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | |
| bl ab | (verb)
divulge confidential information or secrets | babble, babble out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
(verb)
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle | |
| bl eep | (verb)
emit a single short high-pitched signal | |
(noun)
a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | beep | |
| bl ob | (noun)
an indistinct shapeless form | |
(verb)
make a spot or mark onto | blot, fleck, spot | |
| bl oc | (noun)
a group of countries in special alliance | axis |
| bl oop | ||
| bo ba | ||
| bo bble | (noun)
the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball | |
(verb)
make a mess of, destroy or ruin | ball up, blow, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil | |
| bo cce | (noun)
Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court | bocci, boccie |
| bo la | (noun)
a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie | bolo, bolo tie |
(noun)
a rope with weights attached to the ends; is thrown to entangle the legs of an animal; of South American origin | ||
| bo ll | (noun)
the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant | |
| bo lo | (noun)
a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie | bola, bola tie |
(noun)
long heavy knife with a single edge; of Philippine origin | ||
| bo ob | (noun)
an ignorant or foolish person | dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead |
(noun)
either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | bosom, breast, knocker, tit, titty | |
(verb)
commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | blunder, drop the ball, goof, sin | |
| bo oboo | ||
| bo op | ||
| 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 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)
| ||
(noun)
| ||
(verb)
| telegraph, wire | |
(verb)
| ||
| ca llable | (adj)
subject to a demand for payment before due date | |
| ca pable | (adj)
(usually followed by `of') having capacity or ability | |
(adj)
possibly accepting or permitting | open, subject | |
(adj)
(followed by `of') having the temperament or inclination for | ||
(adj)
having the requisite qualities for | adequate to, equal to, up to | |
(adj)
have the skills and qualifications to do things well | able | |
| ce leb | ||
| co bble | (noun)
rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | sett |
(verb)
| ||
(verb)
repair or mend | ||
| co llab | ||
| la bel | (verb)
| |
(verb)
| mark, tag | |
(verb)
pronounce judgment on | judge, pronounce | |
(verb)
| ||
(verb)
distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions | ||
(noun)
a brief description given for purposes of identification | ||
(noun)
trade name of a company that produces musical recordings | ||
(noun)
a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction | ||
(noun)
an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object | ||
| lo be | (noun)
(anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part | |
(noun)
(botany) a part into which a leaf is divided | ||
(noun)
the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern | ||
(noun)
a rounded projection that is part of a larger structure | ||
| lo bo | ||
| ob oe | (noun)
a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | hautbois, hautboy |
| pa lpable | (adj)
capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt | tangible |
(adj)
(medicine) can be felt by palpation | ||
(adj)
clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain, unmistakable | |
(adj)
so intense as to be almost touched or felt | ||
| pe aceable | (adj)
inclined or disposed to peace | peace-loving |
(adj)
not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war | peaceful | |
(adj)
disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature | pacific | |
| pe bble | (noun)
a small smooth rounded rock | |
| pe elable | ||
| pl eb | (noun)
one of the common people | |
| pl ebe | (noun)
a military trainee (as at a military academy) | cadet |
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Definitions are sourced from the Open English WordNet released under the CC-BY 4.0 license.