Answer to "Incentive" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SPUR which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2013.

Incentive crossword clue answers

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

Answer Likelyness Letters
SPUR30 %4
STIMULUS26 %8
CARROT11 %6
MOTIVE11 %6
IMPETUS7 %7
BAIT7 %4
GOAD4 %4
DRIVE4 %5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Incentive

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.
  • inducement
  • bonus
  • motivating
  • motivational
  • motivation
  • encourage
  • drive
  • stimulus
  • encouragement
  • inspiring
  • encouraging
  • promotive

Crossword Answer definitions

SPUR noun
  1. A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
  2. A jab given with the spurs.
  3. Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
  4. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
  5. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
  6. Roots, tree roots.
  7. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
  8. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
  9. A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
  10. The short wooden buttress of a post.
  11. A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
  12. Ergotized rye or other grain.
  13. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
  14. A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
  15. A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
  16. A branch of a vein.
  17. A very short branch line of a railway line.
  18. A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
SPUR verb
  1. To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
  2. To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
  3. To put spurs on.
  4. To press forward; to travel in great haste.
SPUR noun
  1. A tern.
SPUR noun
  1. A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
SPUR noun
  1. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
SPUR verb
  1. To ask, to inquire

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