NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• delete remove or make invisible
• deleted remove or make invisible
• deli a shop selling ready-to-eat food products
• delight give pleasure to or be pleasing to
• delighted filled with wonder and delight
• dell a small wooded hollow
• delt
• diddle deprive of by deceit
• diddled deprive of by deceit
• dill aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning
• elide leave or strike out
• elided leave or strike out
• elite selected as the best
• geld cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
• gelded (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
• gelee
• gelid extremely cold
• gelled apply a styling gel to
• gelt informal terms for money
• giggle laugh nervously
• giggled laugh nervously
• gild decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
• gilded having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
• gill a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces
• gilled provided with gills
• gilt having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
• glee great merriment
• glide move smoothly and effortlessly
• glided move smoothly and effortlessly
• heel follow at the heels of a person
• heeled follow at the heels of a person
• held occupied or in the control of; often used in combination
• hell a cause of difficulty and suffering
• highlight apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent
• highlighted apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent
• hill form into a hill
• hilled form into a hill
• hilt the handle of a sword or dagger
• idle not in active use
• idled not in active use
• lede the introductory section of a story
• ledge a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water
• legged having legs of a specified kind or number
• legit
• lidded having or covered with a lid or lids; often used in combination
• lied a German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano
• liege owing or owed feudal allegiance and service
• light characterized by or emitting light
• lighted provided with artificial light
• lilt articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way
• lilted articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way
• lite having relatively few calories
• lithe gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease
• little small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
• tell give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
• tilde a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization
• tile cover with tiles
• tiled covered or furnished with tiles
• till work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
• tilled turned or stirred by plowing or harrowing or hoeing
• tilt heel over
• tilted departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal
• tilth arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
• title designate by an identifying term
• titled belonging to the peerage
• tittle a tiny or scarcely detectable amount