The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word NATANT , but the solution may also be ALOFT which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Floating crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NATANT | 48 % | 6 |
| AWASH | 21 % | 5 |
| ALOFT | 6 % | 5 |
| ASEA | 6 % | 4 |
| ASWIM | 4 % | 5 |
| ATSEA | 2 % | 5 |
| WAFTING | 2 % | 7 |
| WATERBORNE | 2 % | 10 |
| ISLAND | 2 % | 6 |
| AWAFT | 2 % | 5 |
| INAIR | 2 % | 5 |
| AWATER | 2 % | 6 |
Why may ALOFT be the right solution?
"Floating" can mean being suspended in the air or being aloft. In this case, "aloft" is a synonym for floating, making it the correct answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Floating
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- afloat
- drifting
- mobile
- moving
- vagabond
- vagrant
- unsettled
- uncommitted
- aimless
- unfixed
- free-floating
- buoyant
Crossword Answer definitions
NATANT adjective- Floating or swimming (in water)
- In a horizontal position, as if swimming
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 NATANT
- Floating
- Floating on water
- Afloat
- Swimming
- Swimming.
- Floating.
- Floating on water.
- Floating in water.
- Like lily pads.
- Floating in water
More clues leading to the result AWASH
- Flooded
- Overflowing
- Up to one's elbows
- Inundated
- Indundated
- Bathed in
- Helplessly inundated
- Swimming
- Up to one's ears (in)
- Sloshing
More clues leading to the result ALOFT
- High above
- Up in the sky
- Way up high
- Toward the upper rigging
- Higher up
- Floating
- Up in the air
- Airborne
- Flying
- Moving upward
More clues leading to the result ASEA
- On the water
- Clueless
- Cruising
- On a cruise
- On the briny
- On the main
- On the ocean
- Out of port
- Confused
- In search of whales
More clues leading to the result ASWIM
More clues leading to the result ATSEA
- Yachting
- Befuddled
- Clueless
- Confused
- Cruising
- In a quandary
- Lost
- Not portbound
- Off shore
- On a slow boat to China, perhaps
More clues leading to the result WAFTING
More clues leading to the result WATERBORNE
More clues leading to the result ISLAND
- Small land mass in the water
- Manhattan
- No man, to John Donne
- Cuba or Aruba
- Kitchen feature
- Key
- "Survivor" venue
- Martha's Vineyard, e.g.
- Sanibel or Sumatra
- Ellesmere ___
More clues leading to the result AWAFT
More clues leading to the result INAIR
- "..the bombs bursting __ ..."
- Aloft
- How some popcorn is popped
- "... the bombs bursting ___..."
- "... bombs bursting ___"
- "...bombs bursting __"
- Where bombs burst, anthemwise
- "...bombs bursting __..."
- "...the bombs bursting ___"
- "Bombs bursting ___..."