The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word HUMS which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2019.
Drones crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HUMS | 58 % | 4 |
| SNAILS | 13 % | 6 |
| BEES | 13 % | 4 |
| INTONES | 4 % | 7 |
| PEONS | 4 % | 5 |
| IDLERS | 4 % | 6 |
| MENIALS | 4 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Drones
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- dawdler
- drone on
- laggard
- monotone
- bourdon
- drone pipe
- pilotless aircraft
- radio-controlled aircraft
- aircraft
- bumblebees
- jets
- planes
Crossword Answer definitions
HUMS noun- A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
- An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
- Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
- Unpleasant odour.
- An imposition or hoax; humbug.
- A kind of strong drink.
- A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.
- To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
- To express by humming.
- To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
- To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
- To produce low sounds which blend continuously
- To reek, smell bad.
- To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.
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 HUMS
- Is busy
- Bustles
- Runs smoothly
- Chugs on all cylinders
- Really cooks
- Forgets the words, maybe
- Indistinct sounds of mingled voices
- Purrs
- Drones
- Plays a kazoo, basically
More clues leading to the result SNAILS
- Escargots
- Escargot
- Paradigms of sluggishness
- Paradigms of slowness
- Whelk and periwinkle
- Paragons of slowness
- Symbols of slowness
- Slowpokes
- Slow movers
- Slow movers, proverbially
More clues leading to the result BEES
- Apian group
- Some are queens, others workers
- "The __ knees" (great)
- Hive hummers
- Honey bunch?
- Buzzers
- Critters experiencing colony collapse disorder
- Colony figures
- Events featuring ten-dollar words
- Insects that can spell?
More clues leading to the result INTONES
- Chants
- Recites, as if singing
- Vocalizes
- Chants.
- Recites in singsong manner.
- Recites in a way
- Speaks sonorously
- Performs a canticle
- Does the voice-over, perhaps
- Drones
More clues leading to the result PEONS
- Drudges
- Laborers
- Unskilled workers
- Menial sorts
- The little people
- Underlings
- Menial laborers
- Lowly laborers
- Unskilled farm workers
- Little people
More clues leading to the result IDLERS
- Sluggards
- Do-nothings
- Lazy bums
- Slackers and drones
- Lazy folks
- Loafers
- Time wasters
- No-accounts
- Lazy types
- Shiftless types