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Today's NYT Spelling Bee Hints
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Note: This page contains hints to help solve Today'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.
Today's Spelling Bee features 2 pangram(s) ( 0 perfect pangram(s)) and a total of 39 answers. The highest possible score, required to achieve the coveted Queen Bee status, is 186 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 × 2: |
B × 25: |
C × 7: |
H × 2: |
K × 2: |
L × 1: |
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 | 8 | 9 | Sum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 |
| B | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 25 |
| C | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| H | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 |
| K | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| L | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Sum | 13 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 39 |
Definitions & Synonyms
Pangrams
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
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|---|---|---|
| ch eckable | ||
| ha ckable |
Answers
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
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|---|---|---|
| ab ack | (adv)
having the wind against the forward side of the sails | |
(adv)
by surprise | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 bka | (noun)
a coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds | |
| ba ck | (adj)
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(adj)
| hind, hinder | |
(adj)
of an earlier date | ||
(noun)
the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine | dorsum | |
(noun)
the side that goes last or is not normally seen | rear | |
(noun)
the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer | rear | |
(noun)
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(noun)
the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord | rachis, spinal column, spine, vertebral column | |
(noun)
| binding, book binding, cover | |
(noun)
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(noun)
a support that you can lean against while sitting | ||
(noun)
(American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage | ||
(verb)
be behind; approve of | endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support | |
(verb)
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(verb)
give support or one's approval to | endorse, indorse, second | |
(verb)
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(verb)
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(verb)
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(verb)
place a bet on | bet on, gage, game, punt, stake | |
(verb)
shift to a counterclockwise direction | ||
(verb)
establish as valid or genuine | ||
(verb)
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(adv)
in or to or toward a former location | ||
(adv)
| rearward, rearwards | |
(adv)
in or to or toward an original condition | ||
(adv)
in or to or toward a past time | ||
(adv)
in reply | ||
(adv)
in repayment or retaliation | ||
| ba ckache | (noun)
an ache localized in the back | |
| ba ke | (verb)
cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven | |
(verb)
prepare with dry heat in an oven | ||
(verb)
heat by a natural force | broil | |
(verb)
be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | broil | |
| ba le | (noun)
a large bundle bound for storage or transport | |
(verb)
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| ba lk | (noun)
| baulk |
(noun)
something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment | |
(noun)
one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof | baulk, rafter | |
(noun)
an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base | ||
(verb)
refuse to comply | baulk, jib, resist | |
| 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)
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(noun)
a pitch that is not in the strike zone | ||
(verb)
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(verb)
to live very well | ||
| be ach | (noun)
an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake | |
(verb)
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| be ak | (verb)
hit lightly with a picking motion | peck, pick |
(noun)
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(noun)
horny projecting mouth of a bird | bill, neb, nib, pecker | |
(noun)
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(noun)
informal terms for the nose | honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout | |
| be ck | (noun)
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| be ech | (noun)
any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions | |
(noun)
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| be lch | (noun)
a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | burp, burping, eructation |
(verb)
expel gas from the stomach | bubble, burp, eruct | |
(verb)
become active and spew forth lava and rocks | erupt, extravasate | |
| 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)
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(noun)
| campana | |
(noun)
| chime, gong | |
(noun)
the flared opening of a tubular device | ||
(verb)
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| 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 ack | (adj)
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light | |
(adj)
of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin | ||
(adj)
marked by anger or resentment or hostility | ||
(adj)
offering little or no hope | bleak, dim | |
(adj)
stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | dark, sinister | |
(adj)
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful | |
(adj)
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(adj)
extremely dark | pitch-dark | |
(adj)
harshly ironic or sinister | grim, mordant | |
(adj)
(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading | ||
(adj)
distributed or sold illicitly | bootleg, contraband, smuggled | |
(adj)
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful | |
(adj)
(of coffee) without cream or sugar | ||
(adj)
soiled with dirt or soot | smutty | |
(noun)
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | inkiness | |
(noun)
total absence of light | lightlessness, total darkness | |
(noun)
(board games) the darker pieces | ||
(noun)
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(verb)
| melanise, melanize | |
| bl ackball | (noun)
the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | barring |
(verb)
expel from a community or group | ban, banish, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun | |
(verb)
vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | negative, veto | |
| bl ah | (noun)
pompous or pretentious talk or writing | bombast, claptrap, fustian, rant |
| bl each | (noun)
the whiteness that results from removing the color from something | |
(noun)
an agent that makes things white or colorless | blanching agent, whitener | |
(noun)
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(verb)
cause to become white or lighter in color | decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise | |
(verb)
make whiter or lighter | ||
| bl eak | (adj)
offering little or no hope | black, dim |
(adj)
providing no shelter or sustenance | bare, barren, desolate, stark | |
(adj)
unpleasantly cold and damp | cutting, raw | |
| bl ech | ||
| 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)
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(noun)
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(verb)
| telegraph, wire | |
(verb)
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| ca llable | (adj)
subject to a demand for payment before due date | |
| ca llback | (noun)
a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) | recall |
| ce leb | ||
| he alable | ||
| ka bbalah | (noun)
an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, qabala, qabalah |
| ke bab | (noun)
cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | kabob |
| la bel | (verb)
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(verb)
| mark, tag | |
(verb)
pronounce judgment on | judge, pronounce | |
(verb)
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(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 |
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Definitions are sourced from the Open English WordNet released under the CC-BY 4.0 license.