Answer to "Fundamental principle" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BASIS , but the solution may also be TENET which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in USA Today).

Fundamental principle crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BASIS	59 %	5
TENET	29 %	5
CANON	6 %	5
AXIOM	6 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fundamental principle

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• basic principle
• basics
• bedrock
• fundamentals
• first principle
• fundamental law
• principles
• fundamentally
• reality principle
• moral principle
• foundational
• fundamentalistic

Crossword Answer definitions

BASIS noun

1. A physical base or foundation.
2. A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
3. An underlying condition or circumstance.
4. A regular frequency.
5. In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
6. Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
7. A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.

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 BASIS

• Grounds
• Fundamental principle
• Groundwork
• Reasoning
• Discussion's starting point
• Second-rate untouched grounds (5)
• Underpinnings
• Foundation
• Chief ingredient
• Fundamental ingredient

More clues leading to the result TENET

• Belief
• Conviction
• Credo
• Doctrine
• Dogma
• Principle
• Religious principle
• Belief, any way you look at it
• Ideology
• Palindromic rudiment

More clues leading to the result CANON

• Collected works
• See 9-Across
• Ecclesiastical law
• Body of okayed works
• Body of standards
• Contrapuntal piece
• Church law
• Secular law
• Pachelbel's "___ in D"
• Maker of cameras and copiers

More clues leading to the result AXIOM

• "Caveat emptor," for one
• Golden rule, e.g.
• Saw
• Proposition assumed without proof
• Adage
• Logic truth
• Murphy's Law, for one
• Given in philosophy class?
• It's self-evident
• Assumption in math