The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word DEVICE , but the solution may also be APPARATUS which is one of the most recent solution (2013 in LA Times).
Contraption crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | 25 % | 6 |
| GISMO | 25 % | 5 |
| GIZMO | 17 % | 5 |
| GADGET | 17 % | 6 |
| APPARATUS | 8 % | 9 |
| MACHINE | 8 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Contraption
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- contrivance
- appliance
- convenience
- widget
- gizmo
- gadget
- apparatus
- machinery
- device
- machine
- equipment
- gear
Crossword Answer definitions
DEVICE noun- Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
- A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
- An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
- A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
- A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
- Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
- An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
- An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
- A spectacle or show.
- Opinion; decision.
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 DEVICE
- Creative-writing technique
- Word after flotation or mnemonic
- Contrivance
- Scheme
- Gizmo
- Plot mechanism
- Figure of speech
- Instrument.
- Contrivance.
- Gadget.
More clues leading to the result GISMO
- It's a British thing
- Doodad: Var.
- Gremlins pet
- Widget
- Doohickey
- Doodad
- Thingamajig
- Contraption
- Gadget
- Thingamabob
More clues leading to the result GIZMO
- Thingamajig
- Gadget
- Doohickey
- Contraption
- Doodad
- Rube Goldberg device, e.g.
- Thingy
- Widget
- Thingumbob
- Whatchamacallit
More clues leading to the result GADGET
- Mechanical doohickey
- Inspector ___ (cartoon sleuth)
- Gismo
- Doohickey
- iPhone or BlackBerry
- iPod or iPhone
- Thingamabob
- Thingamajig
- Gizmo
- Can opener, e.g.
More clues leading to the result APPARATUS
- Gear
- Paraphernalia
- Contraption
- Device
- Gymnasium equipment, for instance.
- Complex device or machine.
- Gear.
- Equipment
- Machine
- Complex machine