Wednesday, May 15, 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.
Yesterday's Spelling Bee featured 2 pangram(s) ( 0 perfect pangram(s)) and a total of 43 answers. The highest possible score, required to achieve the coveted Queen Bee status, was 203 points. Yesterday'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: |
F × 4: |
I × 1: |
P × 34: |
T × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 |
| F | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 4 |
| I | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| P | 12 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 34 |
| T | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| Sum | 15 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 43 |
Definitions & Synonyms
Pangrams
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| fl ippant | (adj)
showing inappropriate levity | light-minded |
| pl aintiff | (noun)
a person who brings an action in a court of law | complainant |
Answers
| Word | Definitions
| Synonyms
|
|---|---|---|
| ap ian | (adj)
relating to or having the characteristics of bees | |
| ap pall | (verb)
strike with disgust or revulsion | appal, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
(verb)
fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | alarm, appal, dismay, horrify | |
| fi llip | (noun)
anything that tends to arouse | bonus |
| fl ap | (noun)
any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely | |
(noun)
an excited state of agitation | dither, fuss, pother, tizzy | |
(noun)
| flutter, fluttering | |
(noun)
a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body | ||
(noun)
a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag | ||
(verb)
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | roll, undulate, wave | |
(verb)
to flutter noisily when moved by the wind | ||
(verb)
move with a thrashing motion | beat | |
(verb)
| beat | |
(verb)
make a fuss; be agitated | dither, pother | |
(verb)
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| fl ip | (adj)
marked by casual disrespect | impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed |
(noun)
an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset | |
(noun)
hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg | ||
(noun)
a sudden, quick movement | ||
(noun)
| toss | |
(noun)
a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water | ||
(noun)
(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | pass, toss | |
(verb)
lightly throw to see which side comes up | toss | |
(verb)
cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | switch, throw | |
(verb)
look through a book or other written material | flick, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb | |
(verb)
toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | twitch | |
(verb)
cause to move with a flick | flick | |
(verb)
throw or toss with a light motion | pitch, sky, toss | |
(verb)
move with a flick or light motion | ||
(verb)
turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse | turn over | |
(verb)
react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way | ||
(verb)
go mad, go crazy | ||
(verb)
reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | alternate, interchange, switch, tack | |
| in apt | (adj)
not elegant or graceful in expression | awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inept |
| pa il | (noun)
a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top | bucket |
(noun)
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| pa in | (noun)
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder | hurting |
(noun)
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid | ||
(noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort | ||
(noun)
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance | |
(verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | ail, trouble | |
(verb)
cause emotional anguish or make miserable | anguish, hurt | |
| pa int | (noun)
a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | pigment |
(noun)
| key | |
(noun)
makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | blush, blusher, rouge | |
(verb)
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(verb)
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(verb)
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(verb)
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| pa lapa | ||
| pa latal | (adj)
relating to or lying near the palate | palatine |
(adj)
produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') | ||
(noun)
a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast') | ||
| pa latial | (adj)
relating to or being a palace | |
(adj)
suitable for or like a palace | ||
| pa ll | (noun)
a sudden numbing dread | chill |
(noun)
burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | cerement, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet | |
(noun)
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | curtain, drape, drapery, mantle | |
(verb)
become less interesting or attractive | dull | |
(verb)
cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off | |
(verb)
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(verb)
cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | cloy | |
(verb)
cause to become flat | ||
(verb)
lose sparkle or bouquet | become flat, die | |
(verb)
lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to) | ||
(verb)
lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | fatigue, jade, tire, weary | |
| pa lp | ||
| pa nini | ||
| pa nt | (noun)
the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine) | |
(noun)
(usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately | pair of trousers, trousers | |
(noun)
a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open | gasp | |
(verb)
breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | gasp, heave, puff | |
(verb)
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| pa pa | (noun)
an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | dad, dada, daddy, pa, pappa, pop |
| pa pal | (adj)
proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | apostolic, apostolical, pontifical |
| pa pilla | (noun)
(botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf | |
(noun)
a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell | ||
(noun)
a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather | ||
| pa tina | (noun)
a fine coating of oxide (produced by oxidation over a long period of time) on the surface of a metal (particularly copper) | |
(noun)
an acquired change in the appearance of something (other than metal or wood) | ||
(noun)
a gloss or sheen on wooden furniture produced by age, polishing, or handling | ||
| pf ft | ||
| pi laf | (noun)
rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes | pilau, pilaw |
| pi ll | (noun)
something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size | |
(noun)
a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | lozenge, tab, tablet | |
(noun)
a unpleasant or tiresome person | ||
(noun)
something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured | ||
(noun)
| anovulant, anovulatory drug, oral contraceptive | |
| pi nata | (noun)
plaything consisting of a container filled with toys and candy; suspended from a height for blindfolded children to break with sticks | |
| pi nt | (noun)
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters | |
(noun)
a United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches | ||
(noun)
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| pi ntail | (noun)
long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers | Anas acuta, pin-tailed duck |
| pi pit | (noun)
a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | lark, titlark |
| pi ppin | ||
| pi ta | (noun)
usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling | pocket bread |
| pi tapat | ||
| pi tfall | (noun)
an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty | booby trap |
(noun)
a trap in the form of a concealed hole | pit | |
| pl ain | (adj)
clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | apparent, evident, manifest, palpable, patent, unmistakable |
(adj)
not elaborate or elaborated; simple | ||
(adj)
lacking patterns especially in color | unpatterned | |
(adj)
not mixed with extraneous elements | sheer, unmingled, unmixed | |
(adj)
free from any effort to soften to disguise | unvarnished | |
(adj)
lacking embellishment or ornamentation | bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented | |
(adj)
lacking in physical beauty or proportion | homely | |
(noun)
extensive tract of level open land | champaign, field | |
(noun)
a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side | knit, knit stitch | |
(adv)
| apparently, evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently | |
(verb)
| kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off | |
| pl aint | (noun)
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(noun)
a cry of sorrow and grief | lament, lamentation, wail | |
| pl ait | (noun)
a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | braid, tress, twist |
(noun)
any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape | pleat | |
(verb)
make by braiding or interlacing | braid, lace | |
(verb)
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| pl an | (noun)
a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished | program, programme |
(noun)
an arrangement scheme | design | |
(noun)
scale drawing of a structure | ||
(verb)
have the will and intention to carry out some action | be after | |
(verb)
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(verb)
| contrive, design, project | |
| pl ant | (noun)
buildings for carrying on industrial labor | works |
(noun)
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | flora | |
(noun)
an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience | ||
(noun)
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(verb)
| set | |
(verb)
fix or set securely or deeply | embed, engraft, imbed | |
(verb)
set up or lay the groundwork for | constitute, establish, found, institute | |
(verb)
place into a river | ||
(verb)
place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive | ||
(verb)
put firmly in the mind | ||
| pl antain | (noun)
any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally | |
(noun)
a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics | Musa paradisiaca | |
(noun)
starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics | ||
| pl at | (noun)
a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.) | |
(verb)
make a plot of | plot | |
| pl iant | (adj)
capable of being influenced or formed | plastic |
(adj)
capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | ductile, malleable, pliable, tensile, tractile | |
(adj)
able to adjust readily to different conditions | elastic, flexible, pliable | |
(adj)
capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | bendable, pliable, waxy | |
| ta pa | (noun)
the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus | tappa, tappa bark |
(noun)
| tappa | |
| ti lapia |
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