The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SKEWS which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2022.
Distorts crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SKEWS | 63 % | 5 |
| WARPS | 28 % | 5 |
| SLANTS | 5 % | 6 |
| GNARLS | 3 % | 6 |
| TWISTS | 3 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Distorts
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- falsify
- deform
- contort
- disfigure
- warp
- twist
- garble
- wring
- strain
- color
- misrepresents
- alters
Crossword Answer definitions
SKEWS noun- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- To hurl or throw.
- To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- The coping of a gable.
- One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
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 SKEWS
- Distorts
- Moves obliquely
- Depicts unfairly
- Manipulates, as data
- Is oblique
- Changes orientation
- Turns obliquely
- Takes an indirect course
- Applies a fudge factor to
- Depicts with bias
More clues leading to the result WARPS
- Travels fast in a spaceship
- Continuum glitches
- Bends out of shape
- Gets bent out of shape
- Distorts
- Gets twisted
- Time irregularities, in sci-fi
- They may be found in board examinations
- Twists
- Board defects
More clues leading to the result SLANTS
- Biases
- Leans
- Inclines
- Perspectives
- Points of view
- Isn't level
- Reporters' angles
- Biased viewpoints
- Ski slopes, e.g.
- Veers away
More clues leading to the result GNARLS
- Twists out of shape
- Distorts
- Twists
- Tree knots
- Bulging knots
- Knots in wood.
- Twists, like an old oak.
- Twists.
- Knots
- Twists into a knot