The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BILK which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2021.
Defraud crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BILK | 41 % | 4 |
| ROB | 11 % | 3 |
| COZEN | 11 % | 5 |
| SCAM | 10 % | 4 |
| CHEAT | 8 % | 5 |
| FLEECE | 4 % | 6 |
| SWINDLE | 3 % | 7 |
| MULCT | 2 % | 5 |
| REAM | 2 % | 4 |
| RIPOFF | 1 % | 6 |
| DIDDLE | 1 % | 6 |
| DUPE | 1 % | 4 |
| ROOK | 1 % | 4 |
| ACEOUT | 1 % | 6 |
| CHISEL | 1 % | 6 |
| SUCKIN | 1 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Defraud
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- bunco
- swindle
- gyp
- nobble
- mulct
- con
- diddle
- rook
- cheat
- scam
- foist
- trick
Crossword Answer definitions
BILK noun- The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
- A deception, a hoax.
- A cheat or swindler.
- To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
- To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
- To evade, elude.
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 BILK
More clues leading to the result ROB
- Carl's son
- Half a Walter Scott novel
- Hold up
- Knock over
- Reiner or Roy
- A Reiner
- Plunder
- Rifle
- Burgle
- Steal from
More clues leading to the result COZEN
- Cheat
- Defraud
- Fleece
- Swindle
- Deceive
- Lead down the garden path
- Trick
- Hoodwink
- Defraud.
- Defraud in a paltry way.
More clues leading to the result SCAM
- Sting
- Get-rich-quick offering, often
- Hoodwink
- Shell game, e.g.
- Con game
- Con man's trick
- Deceptive act
- Pyramid scheme?
- Three-card monte, for one
- Flimflam
More clues leading to the result CHEAT
- Deceive by trickery
- Shortchange, say
- Peek at the answer
- Peek during a test
- Break the rules
- Steal answers
- Get an A by stealth
- Refuse to play by the rules
- Swindle
- Use a crib sheet
More clues leading to the result FLEECE
- Ewe's coat
- Ovine coat
- Warm coat
- Defraud
- Swindle
- Take to the cleaners
- It grows on ewe
- Sheep product
- Jason's quest
- Bamboozle
More clues leading to the result SWINDLE
More clues leading to the result MULCT
- Swindle
- Punish with a fine
- Pine.
- Deprive of something by trickery.
- Fine.
- Fleece.
- Deprive by trickery.
- Deprive of something, as by fraud.
- Deprive of by trickery.
- Defraud.
More clues leading to the result REAM
- Enlarge, as a hole
- Paper measure
- Paper quantity
- Laser paper measure
- Scold, slangily, with "out"
- 480, 500, or 516
- Do a boring job
- Twenty quires
- Do a boring job?
- Staples paper, e.g.
More clues leading to the result RIPOFF
More clues leading to the result DIDDLE
- With "around," waste time
- Cheat with a con
- Defraud
- Toy (with)
- Waste time
- Dance jerkily: Colloq.
- Cheat.
- Cheat
More clues leading to the result DUPE
More clues leading to the result ROOK
- Castling requirement
- Cheat
- Versification
- Chess piece
- Kasparov's piece
- One of Deep Blue's men
- He guards the corner of the chessboard
- Corner piece
- Castling piece
- Rank-and-file chess piece
More clues leading to the result ACEOUT
- Get the better of, as competition
- Defraud, in slang
- Get the better of
- Deprive fraudulently, in slang
- Con
- Defraud
- Gain an advantage over, in slang
- Beat, as the competition
- Get the better of, in slang
- Beat in competition
More clues leading to the result CHISEL
- Swindle
- Woodworkers' tool
- Cheat
- Get by cheating
- Make a bust, maybe
- Stoneworker's tool
- Wedgelike tool
- Carve in stone
- Sculpting tool
- Flimflam