The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word YEAST , but the solution may also be ADO which is one of the most recent solution (2011 in Washington Post).
Ferment crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| YEAST | 35 % | 5 |
| ZYME | 18 % | 4 |
| UNREST | 12 % | 6 |
| STIR | 6 % | 4 |
| SIMMER | 6 % | 6 |
| ADO | 6 % | 3 |
| CHAOS | 6 % | 5 |
| LEAVEN | 6 % | 6 |
| SOUR | 6 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Ferment
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- zymosis
- fermentation
- zymolysis
- sour
- turn
- unrest
- agitation
- brew
- seedbed
- lactose
- dextrose
- turbulence
Crossword Answer definitions
YEAST noun- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- A frothy foam.
- To ferment.
- (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
- To exaggerate
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 YEAST
- Baker's need
- Dough raiser
- Dough riser
- Brewer's buy
- Brewer's ingredient
- One way to raise dough
- Riser
- Brewer's need
- Bakery buy
- This can double your dough
More clues leading to the result ZYME
More clues leading to the result UNREST
- Disquiet
- Turmoil
- Precursor to revolution
- Precursor of revolution
- Protest cause
- Agitated state
- Agitation
- Prelude to revolution
- Troubled state
- Disquietude
More clues leading to the result STIR
- Begin to move
- Brouhaha
- Combine
- Cooking direction
- Mix up
- Ruckus
- Tend to the batter
- Tend to the sauce
- Use a swizzle stick
- __-crazy
More clues leading to the result SIMMER
- Low setting
- Cook without boiling
- Not quite boil
- Seethe
- Experience inner turmoil
- Keep just below a boil
- "___ down!": cool it!
- Almost bubble
- Do a slow burn
- Soup recipe directive
More clues leading to the result ADO
More clues leading to the result CHAOS
- Jumble
- Bedlam
- Shambles
- Utter confusion
- Pandemonium
- Entropy
- ___ theory
- Whence sprang order
- Ferment
- Madhouse milieu
More clues leading to the result LEAVEN
- Add yeast (6)
- Get the batter up?
- Raise dough?
- Add yeast
- Cause to rise
- Do what yeast does
- Give rise to?
- It gets the batter up
- Add yeast to
- It'll help your dough grow