Get the answer to the NYT Spelling Bee clue “Your face is on the ____ of your body.”, starting with the letters fr.
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noun
- External and often feigned appearance especially in the face of danger or adversity
"His surprise was just a front."
- A side of a building
- The forward part or surface
- Dickey
- The boundary between two dissimilar air masses
- Beginning
- A position of leadership or superiority
- A person, group, or thing used to mask the identity or true character or activity of the actual controlling agent
"The business is a front for organized crime."
- A person who serves as the nominal head or spokesperson of an enterprise or group to lend it prestige
verb
- To have the front or principal side adjacent to something
- To act or serve as a cover or front see front for something or someone
"… a new initiative targeting brothels and massage parlors fronting for sex trafficking rings."
- To assume a fake or false personality to conceal one's true identity and character
"Don't front, don't put something out there that you feel isn't realistic and doesn't portray who you are."
- Confront
"I went to the woods because I wished … to front only the essential facts of life …"
- To appear before
"… daily fronted him in some fresh splendor …"
- To be in front of
"a lawn fronting the house"
- To be the leader of (a musical group)
"appeared as a soloist and fronted bands"
- To face toward or have frontage on
"the house fronts the street"
- To supply a front to
"fronted the building with bricks"
- To articulate (a sound) with the tongue farther forward
- To move (a word or phrase) to the beginning of a sentence
- To play in front of (an opposing player) rather than between the player and the basket
- To give (someone) the money, material, etc. needed to do something advance
"She fronted them a loan to get the start-up going."
adjective
- Of, relating to, or situated at the front
- Acting as a front
"a front company"
- Articulated at or toward the front of the oral passage
"front vowels"
- Constituting the first nine holes of an 18-hole golf course
abbreviation
- Frontispiece
adverb
- In or to the forefront of activity or consideration
noun
- Either of the two benches nearest the chair in a British legislature (such as the House of Commons) occupied by government and opposition leaders
noun
- The condition of being in active consideration or development a position of priority
- the condition of being in active consideration or development : a position of priority —usually used in the phrase on the front burner
noun
- A dive from a position facing the water
adjective
- Relating to, occurring in, or required at the beginning of an undertaking or business transaction
"no front-end charge at the time of investment"
- Visible to the user of a device or service
"a front-end application/interface"
- relating to, occurring in, or required at the beginning of an undertaking or business transaction
- visible to the user of a device or service
noun
- The front part or section of something
"the front end of the car"
- A unit in a computer system devoted to controlling the data communications link between terminals and the main computer and often to the preliminary processing of data
- A software interface (such as a graphical user interface) designed to enable user-friendly interaction with a computer
"… you'll want to use this well-designed, easy-to-use front end for Windows' obscure command-line tools."
- The initial part or period of a business arrangement or financial undertaking
"Once a record company has sunk a lot of money on the front end of a project, with big-name producers and an expensive video, she says, “They're afraid of spending money on anything else.”"
- the front part or section of something
- a unit in a computer system devoted to controlling the data communications link between terminals and the main computer and often to the preliminary processing of data
- a software interface (such as a graphical user interface) designed to enable user-friendly interaction with a computer
This clue was used on February 12, 2026.