Get the answer to the NYT Spelling Bee clue “The only ____ I’ve ever broken is my little toe.”, starting with the letters bo.
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noun
- One of the hard parts of the skeleton of a vertebrate
- Any of various hard animal substances or structures (such as baleen or ivory) akin to or resembling bone
- The hard largely calcareous connective tissue of which the adult skeleton of most vertebrates is chiefly composed
- Essence, core
"cut costs to the bone"
- The most deeply ingrained part heart
- The basic design or framework (as of a play or novel)
- Matter, subject
"a bone of contention"
- Thin bars of bone, ivory, or wood held in pairs between the fingers and used to produce musical rhythms
- A strip of material (such as whalebone or steel) used to stiffen a garment (such as a corset)
- Dice
- Something that is designed to placate sop
- A light beige
- Inclination
"hadn't a political bone in his body"
- Dollar
verb
- To remove the bones from
"bone a fish"
- To provide (a garment) with stays
- To rub (something, such as a boot or a baseball bat) with something hard (such as a piece of bone) in order to smooth the surface
- To have sexual intercourse with (someone)
- To study hard grind
"bone through medical school"
adverb
- Extremely, very
"bone tired"
biographical name
- Sir Muirhead 1876–1953 Scottish etcher and painter
geographical name
- Commune and port on a gulf of the Mediterranean Sea northeast of Constantine in northeastern Algeria population 305,526
noun
- The white porous residue chiefly of tribasic calcium phosphate from bones calcined in air used especially in making pottery and glass and in cleaning jewelry
noun
- The black residue chiefly of tribasic calcium phosphate and carbon from bones calcined in closed vessels used especially as a pigment or as a decolorizing adsorbent in sugar manufacturing
adjective
- Intensely cold
"bone-chilling weather"
noun
- Translucent white china made with bone ash or calcium phosphate and characterized by whiteness
adjective
- Very dry
- Dry
This clue was used on September 9, 2025.