The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HEMIN which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2022.
Confine crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HEMIN | 17 % | 5 |
| LIMIT | 12 % | 5 |
| CAGE | 9 % | 4 |
| COOPUP | 7 % | 6 |
| BOXIN | 6 % | 5 |
| SHUT | 4 % | 4 |
| PENUP | 4 % | 5 |
| PEN | 4 % | 3 |
| INTERN | 4 % | 6 |
| TIEDOWN | 3 % | 7 |
| PENIN | 3 % | 5 |
| STRAITEN | 3 % | 8 |
| ENCAGE | 3 % | 6 |
| FENCEIN | 2 % | 7 |
| RESTRICT | 2 % | 8 |
| HOLD | 2 % | 4 |
| IMMURE | 2 % | 6 |
| STINT | 2 % | 5 |
| ENCLOSE | 1 % | 7 |
| SHUTUP | 1 % | 6 |
| TETHER | 1 % | 6 |
| KEEPIN | 1 % | 6 |
| MURE | 1 % | 4 |
| ISOLATE | 1 % | 7 |
| COOP | 1 % | 4 |
| DETAIN | 1 % | 6 |
| CRAMP | 1 % | 5 |
| JAIL | 1 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Confine
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- circumscribe
- limit
- restrict
- restrain
- hold
- enclose
- detain
- trammel
- hold in
- bound
- throttle
- contain
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 HEMIN
- Surround
- Confine
- Corner
- Cut off from escape
- Encircle
- Cramp
- Trap
- Cut off during pursuit
- Leave no escape route for
- Constrain
More clues leading to the result LIMIT
- "25 words or less," e.g.
- Border line
- Boundary
- Ceiling
- Demarcate
- Restrict
- Maximum bet
- 55 miles an hour, maybe
- Cutoff
- Hold in check
More clues leading to the result CAGE
- American composer of "Musicircus"
- Lovebirds' home
- Parakeet pad
- Pen up
- Kennel confinement
- Animal house?
- Farm enclosure
- Rockers ___ the Elephant
- Movable backstop
- Bar room?
More clues leading to the result COOPUP
More clues leading to the result BOXIN
- Confine
- Block, perhaps
- Completely surround
- Trap hopelessly
- Restrict
- Surround completely
- Corner
- Double-park next to
- Trap by double-parking next to
- Surround.
More clues leading to the result SHUT
- Boarded up
- Close
- Padlocked
- Like a front door that's not letting all the cold in, do you think I'm paying to heat the entire outdoors or something?
- Fastened
- Closed
- "___ your trap!"
- Closed tightly
- Occlude
- Sealed
More clues leading to the result PENUP
More clues leading to the result PEN
- Compose
- Escritoire item
- Parker product
- Shirt-pocket stainer
- Sty
- Hoosegow
- Place to warm up
- Waterman or Parker
- Author's need
- Corral
More clues leading to the result INTERN
- On-the-job learner
- Postdoc doc
- Future resident
- Hazed worker, sometimes
- Medical resident
- One passing up a paycheck for experience
- Apprentice doctor
- On-the-job trainee, maybe
- Trainee
- Doctor-to-be
More clues leading to the result TIEDOWN
- Secure with straps
- Restrain
- Restrict
- Severely limit
- Confine
- Hamper.
- Restrict.
- Confine.
- Restrict free movement.
- Secure, in a way
More clues leading to the result PENIN
- Corral
- Enclose
- Enclose, as farm animals
- Enclose, as pigs
- Enclose, as livestock
- Secure, on a farm
- Confine
- "He held his ___ trust to Art . . . ": Dobson
- Take ___ hand (write)
- Surround on all sides
More clues leading to the result STRAITEN
- Put into difficulties
- Create financial trouble for
- Contract.
- Confine.
- Make narrow.
- Restrict as to finances.
- Restrict in range
- Confine
- Hamper
- Hem in
More clues leading to the result ENCAGE
- Lock up in a bar room?
- Confine, as a canary
- Coop up
- Place behind bars
- Keep, as a pet bird
- Put behind bars
- Imprison
- Confine
- Coop up in a coop
- Keep in a coop
More clues leading to the result FENCEIN
More clues leading to the result RESTRICT
More clues leading to the result HOLD
- Countdown delay
- Stick fast
- Impose restraints on
- Phone button
- Confine
- Cargo compartment
- Telephone limbo
- Where cargo rides
- Ship's cargo area
- Nelson, for example
More clues leading to the result IMMURE
More clues leading to the result STINT
- Assignment
- Cut corners
- Tour of duty
- Stretch
- Hitch
- Be frugal
- Temp job duration
- Time on the job
- Unbroken work period
- Job shift
More clues leading to the result ENCLOSE
- Fence in
- Wall off
- Stuff into an envelope
- Hem in
- Include in the envelope
- Place in an envelope
- Fence off
- Put in the envelope
- Put inside
- Wrap
More clues leading to the result SHUTUP
- Put a cork in it!
- "Pipe down!"
- Button your lip!
- "Close yer face!"
- "Not another word out of you!"
- "Close your trap!"
- "Can it!"
- "Zip your lip!"
- "Zip it!"
- Restraining order?
More clues leading to the result TETHER
- Tie up
- Kind of ball
- Restraining rope
- Put on a leash
- Animal restraint
- Attach to a leash
- Leash
- Stylus-and-tablet connector
- Hold your horses
- Retriever restrainer
More clues leading to the result KEEPIN
More clues leading to the result MURE
More clues leading to the result ISOLATE
- Quarantine
- Sequester
- Set apart
- Close off
- Cut off
- Set aside
- Fence off, say
- Put into solitary
- Keep apart
- Leave alone
More clues leading to the result COOP
- Roosting place
- Where a rooster roosts
- College house with volunteer labor
- Structure with layers
- Hen pen
- Chicken's home
- It's full of chicken shit
- Pen
- Harvard Square store
- Harvard Square fixture
More clues leading to the result DETAIN
- Hold back
- Hold up
- Keep in custody
- Hold in custody
- Keep from leaving
- Hold for questioning, perhaps
- Hold
- Check.
- Make late.
- Hold back.
More clues leading to the result CRAMP
- Charley horse
- Writer's problem
- Contraction
- Restrain
- Restrict
- Swimming problem
- Muscle woe
- Constrict
- Muscle ailment
- Marathoner's woe