The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MERIT which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2014.
Excellence crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MERIT | 89 % | 5 |
| QUALITY | 9 % | 7 |
| CLASS | 3 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Excellence
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- quality
- superior
- preeminent
- world-class
- fine
- superiority
- excellent
- outstanding
- supremacy
- eminent
- magnificence
- best
Crossword Answer definitions
MERIT noun- A claim to commendation or a reward.
- A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
- Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
- The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
- Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
- The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.
- To deserve, to earn.
- To be deserving or worthy.
- To reward.
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 MERIT
- Excellence
- High value
- Kind of pay or system
- Worth
- Deserve
- Type of badge
- Be worthy of
- Parliament rival
- Scholarship consideration
- ___ badge
More clues leading to the result QUALITY
- __ time
- Excellence
- Many a marketer's promise
- Trait
- Attribute
- Excellence.
- Superiority in kind.
- "The ___ of mercy . . . ": Shak.
- Focused face-to-face contact