Get the answer to the NYT Spelling Bee clue “Unchanging (in math, e.g. despite rotation or translation)”, starting with the letters in.
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adjective
- Constant, unchanging
noun
- The use of the verb be in its uninflected form (as in “she be jogging”) or sometimes in the form bes or be's in African American English and to varying degrees in some other varieties of English to indicate that an action or state is habitual or frequent aspectual be, habitual be
"AAVE [African American Vernacular English] has rules like any other dialect or language, as linguists John Rickford and Russell Rickford argue in their 2001 article for Language Review, “The Ubiquity of Ebonics”: “Consider grammar. In the movie [The Original Kings of Comedy], the Kings mark tense and aspect when and how events occur with the tools of black talk. They place invariant be before verbs for frequent or habitual actions ('they songs be havin a cause'), and use done for completed actions ('you done missed it'), and be done for future perfect or hypothetical events ('lightning be done struck my house'). …”"
This clue was used on September 18, 2025.