The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ORIGIN , but the solution may also be SOURCE which is one of the most recent solution (1968 in New York Times).
Derivation crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ORIGIN | 50 % | 6 |
| SOURCE | 50 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Derivation
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- filiation
- ancestry
- lineage
- deriving
- etymologizing
- drift
- adrift
- bypass
- derivatization
- branch
- injection
- by-pass
Crossword Answer definitions
ORIGIN noun- The beginning of something.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- (in the plural) Ancestry.
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 ORIGIN
- Start
- Ancestry
- Spring
- Beginning
- Where the x- and y-axes meet in math
- __ of Species (Darwin)
- Darwin's "___ of Species"
- Where a Cartesian graph's axes meet
- Word in a Darwin title
- Starting point