The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word REACHES which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2020.
Attains crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REACHES | 42 % | 7 |
| GETS | 33 % | 4 |
| ACHIEVES | 8 % | 8 |
| COMESAT | 8 % | 7 |
| EARNS | 8 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Attains
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- achieve
- gain
- accomplish
- arrive at
- make
- reach
- hit
- accomplishes
- achieves
- acquires
- becomes
- collects
Crossword Answer definitions
REACHES noun- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
- The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- The distance traversed between tacks.
- A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
- An extended portion or area of land or water.
- An article to obtain an advantage.
- The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- An effort to vomit; a retching.
- To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- To stretch out the hand.
- To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- To strike or touch with a missile.
- Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- To make contact with.
- To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- To arrive at a particular destination.
- To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
- To understand; to comprehend.
- To overreach; to deceive.
- To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
- To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
- The extreme limits
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 REACHES
- Gets to
- Is guilty of a dinner table no-no
- Attains
- Contacts
- Noted pains?
- Extends.
- Comes to.
- Arrives.
- Attains.
- Expanses
More clues leading to the result GETS
- Arrives at
- Understands
- Comes by
- Groks
- Comes into
- Comprehends
- Catches on to
- Hears clearly
- Obtains
- Understands, as a joke
More clues leading to the result ACHIEVES
- Attains.
- Accomplishes.
- Brings about.
- Gains
- Is successful
- Makes it to the top
- Pulls off
- Gets
- Reaches, as great heights
- Reaches a goal