The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word STY , but the solution may also be DUMP which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Hovel crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STY | 41 % | 3 |
| RATTRAP | 14 % | 7 |
| SHANTY | 14 % | 6 |
| SHACK | 14 % | 5 |
| HUT | 5 % | 3 |
| SHED | 5 % | 4 |
| DUMP | 5 % | 4 |
| LEANTO | 5 % | 6 |
Why may DUMP be the right solution?
"DUMP" is a synonym of "hovel", meaning a small, squalid, and unpleasant dwelling.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Hovel
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- hutch
- hut
- shack
- shanty
- dump
- hole
- hellhole
- slum
- mess
- pigsty
- flophouse
- squalid
Crossword Answer definitions
STY noun- A pen or enclosure for swine.
- A messy, dirty or debauched place.
- To place in, or as if in, a sty
- To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place
- A ladder.
- To ascend, rise up, climb.
- An inflammation of the eyelid.
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 STY
More clues leading to the result RATTRAP
- It might be covered with cheese
- Filthy flat
- Dilapidated dwelling
- Fleabag
- Dilapidated digs
- Ramshackle structure
- Run-down digs
- Hopeless situation
- Dump
- Seedy lodgings
More clues leading to the result SHANTY
- Hardly a mansion
- Roughly built cabin
- Tumble-down home
- Crude digs
- Hovel
- Hut
- Crude cabin
- Crude dwelling
- Crudely built home
- Lean-to relative
More clues leading to the result SHACK
- Rude shelter
- Dilapidated dwelling
- Crude cabin
- Simple shelter
- Crude home
- Unsturdy structure
- Crude dwelling
- Seedy-looking structure
- Hooverville home
- Creaky quarters^SHAC
More clues leading to the result HUT
- Crude quarters
- Pizza __
- Quarterback's syllable
- Small cabin
- Crude shelter
- Humble abode
- Shanty
- "Combination Pizza ___ & Taco Bell" (Das Racist single)
- "Give me the ball"
- "Lost" home
More clues leading to the result SHED
- Get hair all over the rug
- Lose hair
- Molt
- Place for the lawn mower
- Repel·
- Shelter
- Cast off
- Get rid of
- Hut
- Repel
More clues leading to the result DUMP
- Jettison
- With 77-Across's third word, what this recipe makes
- Get rid of
- Leave in the lurch
- Deep-six
- Hit with a Dear John letter
- Oust without ceremony
- Dilapidated place
- Junkyard
- Landfill