The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word REEK , but the solution may also be SEETHE which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Fume crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REEK | 38 % | 4 |
| SEERED | 16 % | 6 |
| STEW | 12 % | 4 |
| SEETHE | 12 % | 6 |
| RAGE | 6 % | 4 |
| STEAM | 3 % | 5 |
| BEMAD | 3 % | 5 |
| RANT | 2 % | 4 |
| BOIL | 2 % | 4 |
| VAPOR | 1 % | 5 |
| SMOKE | 1 % | 5 |
| GETALLINALATHER | 1 % | 15 |
| ODOR | 1 % | 4 |
Why may SEETHE be the right solution?
The word "SEETHE" is the right solution because it is a synonym for "fume." When someone is seething, they are extremely angry or upset, which is the same idea conveyed by the clue "fume."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fume
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- fumigate
- smoke
- reek
- smoking
- smoked
- vapour
- vapor
- chafe
- stew
- cinder
- suction
- ruination
Crossword Answer definitions
REEK noun- A strong unpleasant smell.
- Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
- To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
- To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
- To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
- To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
- A hill; a mountain.
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 REEK
- Stink
- Emit an odor
- Smell something fierce
- Need a bath badly
- Send out strong odors
- Foul smell
- Make a big stink?
- Smell awful
- Stink and then some
- Stink to high heaven
More clues leading to the result SEERED
- Ticked off
- Get really steamed
- Do a slow burn
- Become enraged
- Fume
- Lose one's cool
- Get mad
- Be irate
- Get really ticked off
- Become really angry
More clues leading to the result STEW
- Astrologer to Elizabeth I
- Bouillabaisse
- Burgoo, e.g.
- Crockpot concoction
- Hobo fare
- Slow-cooked meal
- Worry
- Agonize over
- Bouillabaisse, for one
- Cold weather meal
More clues leading to the result SEETHE
- "___ pyramids along the Nile ..."
- Simmer
- Do a slow burn
- Stew slowly
- Boil
- Boil over with anger
- Bubble with rage
- Brood angrily
- Rage
- Churn
More clues leading to the result RAGE
- Blow a gasket
- Explode
- Fury
- Fuss and fume
- Go crazy
- Have a fit of anger
- In thing
- Rant and rave
- Road ___
- Throw a tantrum
More clues leading to the result STEAM
- Kind of bath
- Kind of shovel
- Prepare clams
- Prepare rice
- Propellant for Casey Jones
- Vapor
- Word with iron or bath
- You might blow it off
- Calliope power
- Prepare veggies, in a way
More clues leading to the result BEMAD
- Feel angry
- See red
- Stew
- Fume
- Steam
- Yell, perhaps
- Hit the roof
- "Please don't __"
- "You would ___ to try it"
- "If you want to throw a fit, fine"
More clues leading to the result RANT
- Get hot under the collar
- Give a fire-and-brimstone sermon
- Rave
- Rave's partner
- Carry on
- Companion of rave
- Speak wildly
- Long lecture
- Babble on
- Deliver a diatribe
More clues leading to the result BOIL
- See red
- Seethe
- Lance target
- One way to cook
- Lancer's item
- Distill, in a way
- Start to steam
- Go ballistic
- Prepare, as pasta
- Go beyond simmering
More clues leading to the result VAPOR
- Trail behind an airplane
- E-cigarette byproduct
- Humidifier output
- Word with lock or trail
- Gaseous mist
- Smoke or mist
- Kind of trail or lock
- Mist
- Steam, for example
- Gas you can see
More clues leading to the result SMOKE
- Preserve meat
- Tennessee Williams' "Summer and ___"
- Combustion evidence
- What it went up in
- Parliament output
- Pre-telegraphic signal
- Fire sign?
- Fire giveaway
- Fireworks-show byproduct
- Cloud contents, perhaps