The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SMUT , but the solution may also be GRIME which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Filth crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SMUT | 38 % | 4 |
| GRIME | 25 % | 5 |
| SQUALOR | 13 % | 7 |
| GRUNGE | 4 % | 6 |
| CRUD | 4 % | 4 |
| MUCK | 4 % | 4 |
| FOULNESS | 4 % | 8 |
| DIRT | 4 % | 4 |
| SLIME | 4 % | 5 |
Why may GRIME be the right solution?
"Filth" is a synonym of "dirt" or "soil". "Grime" is a type of dirt that is hard to remove, often caused by a combination of dust and moisture. Therefore, "grime" is an appropriate answer to the crossword clue "filth".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Filth
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- grime
- filthiness
- nastiness
- stain
- grease
- dirt
- soil
- foulness
- filthy
- crud
- contaminant
- scum
Crossword Answer definitions
SMUT noun- Soot.
- A flake of ash or soot.
- Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
- Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
- Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
- Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
- To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.
- To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
- To become tainted by the smut fungus.
- To clear of the smut fungus.
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 SMUT
- Plant disease
- Skinny stuff?
- Stuff in a cleared browser history
- Moral crusader's target
- Porn
- Stuff enjoyed in incognito windows
- whitehouse.com content, in the Clinton era
- Blue books
- Blue material?
- NC-17 stuff
More clues leading to the result GRIME
- Coveralls grunge
- Behind-the-toilet buildup
- Dizzee Rascal's genre
- Filth
- Dirt
- Cleaning lady's target
- Cleaner target
- Stubborn dirt
- Embedded dirt
- Mr. Clean's target
More clues leading to the result SQUALOR
- Miserable state
- Filthy condition
- Filth
- Wretchedness
- Slumlike condition
- Wretched condition
- Filth and misery
More clues leading to the result GRUNGE
- Teen's dressing style
- Style of rock music from 1990's
- Seattle-born rock genre
- Hole's style
- Rock and fashion style originating in Seattle
- Trash
- Nirvana's genre
- '90s Seattle-born music style
- Rock music genre
- 90's fashion look
More clues leading to the result CRUD
- Foul matter
- Loathsome stuff
- Odure
- "Dammit!"
- Gunk
- Caked deposit
- Vile substance
- Icky stuff
- Filthy deposit
- Yucky buildup
More clues leading to the result MUCK
- Icky stuff
- Slime
- Yucky gunk
- Dirt
- Gunk
- Bungle, with "up"
- Pond mud
- Muddy stuff
- Waste time, with "around"
- Gooey stuff
More clues leading to the result FOULNESS
More clues leading to the result DIRT
- Garden soil
- Something to dish
- Earth
- Gossip
- Gossip's gab
- Foe of Ajax
- Gossip-column fodder
- Kind of farmer
- Malicious gossip
- Tabloid talk