The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word AVOW , but the solution may also be ADMIT which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Confess crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AVOW | 40 % | 4 |
| ADMIT | 21 % | 5 |
| OWNUP | 21 % | 5 |
| SPILLTHEBEANS | 3 % | 13 |
| OWN | 3 % | 3 |
| ADMITTO | 2 % | 7 |
| TELL | 2 % | 4 |
| TALK | 2 % | 4 |
| OWNTO | 2 % | 5 |
| ADMITIT | 1 % | 7 |
| TELLALL | 1 % | 7 |
| OPENUP | 1 % | 6 |
| LETON | 1 % | 5 |
| OWNUPTO | 1 % | 7 |
| RECANT | 1 % | 6 |
Why may ADMIT be the right solution?
The word "admit" is the right solution for the clue "confess" because it means to acknowledge or confess to something, especially something that is considered wrong or embarrassing.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Confess
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- shrive
- concede
- profess
- squeal
- confession
- self-confessed
- commit
- acknowledged
- acknowledge
- avow
- avowed
- admit
Crossword Answer definitions
AVOW noun- Avowal
- To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
- To bind or devote by a vow.
- To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
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 AVOW
- Assert
- Come to terms with
- Declare
- Maintain
- Admit bluntly
- Bluntly declare
- Solemnly swear
- State solemnly
- Admit frankly
- Swear
More clues leading to the result ADMIT
More clues leading to the result OWNUP
- Confess
- Admit (to)
- Admit
- Accept responsibility
- Take the blame
- Come clean
- Tell the truth
- Sing, perhaps
- Admit it
- Cop (to)
More clues leading to the result SPILLTHEBEANS
- Blab
- Confess
- Let the cat out of the bag
- Give the show away.
- Tattle
- Blab ... or a literal hint to completing five answers in this puzzle
- Confess or blab
- Blab, non-clumsily?
- "Tell us!"
- Tell a secret
More clues leading to the result OWN
- "A League of Their ____"
- "My __ Private Idaho"
- Have in hand
- Fess up
- Have title to
- __ up (confess)
- Hold the deed to
- "A League of Their __"
- Has the deed to
- Dominate, as it were
More clues leading to the result ADMITTO
More clues leading to the result TELL
- Spill the beans
- Kiss and ___
- Legendary Swiss
- Let slip
- Make known
- Relate
- Blab
- Schiller hero
- Tip off
- "___ It to the Judge" (1949 movie)
More clues leading to the result TALK
- Act the rat
- Type of TV show
- ____ Radio
- Babble
- Spill the beans
- "Confess!"
- Converse
- Conference presentation
- Hype, with "up"
- Lecture
More clues leading to the result OWNTO
More clues leading to the result ADMITIT
- "We know you're not telling us everything!"
- "You caught me!"
- Interrogator's demand
- "Fess up!"
- Grilling demand
- "Be honest!"
- "Confess!"
- Confessional order
- "Come clean!"
More clues leading to the result TELLALL
- Like a tabloid
- Scandalous bio
- Blabby
- Gossipy
- Often scandalous book genre
- Revealing, as a celeb interview
- Like revealing memoirs
- Like some celebrity memoirs
- Kind of autobiography
- Like many celeb bios
More clues leading to the result OPENUP
- Speak freely
- "This is the police"
- "I know you're in there!"
- Disclose
- Let it all out
- Speak candidly
- Share one's emotions
- "Let me in!"
- Confess
- Not hold it in
More clues leading to the result LETON
- Pretend
- Share a secret
- Admit as much
- Pretend or divulge
- Reveal
- Divulge
- Divulge, as a secret
- Divulged
- Reveal true feelings
- Spoil the surprise