The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word DESPOT which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2020.
Absolute ruler crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DESPOT | 38 % | 6 |
| CZAR | 25 % | 4 |
| TYRANT | 10 % | 6 |
| TSAR | 10 % | 4 |
| EMPEROR | 8 % | 7 |
| AUTOCRAT | 5 % | 8 |
| MONARCH | 3 % | 7 |
| DICTATOR | 3 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Absolute ruler
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- supreme authority
- rulership
- domineering
- autocrat
- authoritative
- dictator
- dictatorially
- domineers
- autocratic
- dominance
- dominates
- domination
Crossword Answer definitions
DESPOT noun- A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
- A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DESPOT
- Tyrant
- Absolute ruler
- Robespierre, to foes
- Autocrat
- Oppressive ruler
- Dictatorial ruler
- Rigid ruler
- Ming the Merciless or Vlad the Impaler
- Ivan the Terrible, e.g.
- Ironfisted ruler
More clues leading to the result CZAR
- Alexis, for one
- Russian monarch
- All-powerful one
- Russian ruler
- Autocrat of old
- Obama appointee
- Unelected political bigwig
- Big shot of industry
- Despot
- Baron
More clues leading to the result TYRANT
- Ivan or Peter
- Autocrat
- Despot
- Iron-fisted ruler
- Bossy boss
- Dictator
- Boss you'd like to toss
- Amin, for one
- Ruthless ruler
- Mean monarch
More clues leading to the result TSAR
- Autocrat
- Catherine's husband
- Despot
- Fyodor, for one
- Godunov, for one
- Homeland despot
- Peter the Great, e.g.
- Ruler of yore
- Top Romanov
- Alexander, for one
More clues leading to the result EMPEROR
- Hadrian, for one
- "Return of the Jedi" villain, with "The"
- Streaker of stories
- Large penguin type
- Akihito, for one
- His new clothes were nonexistent
- Hirohito, e.g.
- Hans Christian Andersen's naked marcher
- Hirohito or Akihito
- Big moth
More clues leading to the result AUTOCRAT
- Dictator
- Absolute ruler
- Kaiser or czar
- Overlord
- Coup target
- Dictator.
- Ruler.
- "___ of the Breakfast Table"
- Detroit lobby leader?
- "The _____ of the Breakfast-Table"
More clues leading to the result MONARCH
- Migrating butterfly
- Black-and-orange butterfly
- Queen Elizabeth II, e.g.
- Crowned head
- Large butterfly
- Sacramento WNBAer
- Sovereign
- Lepidopterist's quarry
- Absolute ruler
- Brightly colored butterfly