The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TRICE , but the solution may also be SEC which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Instant crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TRICE | 46 % | 5 |
| SEC | 15 % | 3 |
| FLASH | 8 % | 5 |
| WINK | 5 % | 4 |
| SPLITSECOND | 5 % | 11 |
| MOMENT | 5 % | 6 |
| JIFFY | 4 % | 5 |
| JIFF | 3 % | 4 |
| IMMEDIATE | 2 % | 9 |
| TWINKLING | 2 % | 9 |
| HBEAT | 1 % | 5 |
| TWOSHAKES | 1 % | 9 |
| NANOSECOND | 1 % | 10 |
| INAN | 1 % | 4 |
| POINT | 1 % | 5 |
| SNAP | 1 % | 4 |
Why may TRICE be the right solution?
The word "instant" is a synonym for "trice," which means a very short period of time.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Instant
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- new york minute
- blink of an eye
- jiffy
- moment
- instantaneous
- present
- second
- fast
- imperative
- insistent
- exigent
- clamant
Crossword Answer definitions
TRICE verb- To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
- To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
- Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; an instant, a moment.
- A pulley, a windlass.
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 TRICE
- Split second
- Jiffy
- Instant
- Blink of an eye
- Sec
- Very short time
- Brief instant
- Brief period of time
- Brief moment of time
- Short amount of time
More clues leading to the result SEC
- "Hold on a ___!"
- "Just a __!"
- "Short" time
- Financial regulatory org.
- Investor-protecting gr.
- Jiff
- Jiffy
- Moment
- Not sweet, winewise
- NYSE reg.
More clues leading to the result FLASH
- Program interrupter
- Dwyane Wade's nickname
- Instant
- Lightning event
- Photographer's gadget
- Twinkling
- Camera light
- Burst of light
- ___ Gordon
- Breaking news
More clues leading to the result WINK
- One of forty, perhaps
- ;-)
- [I'm joking]
- Knowing gesture
- Game show host Martindale
- Signal, in a sly way
- Subtle signal
- Sly signal
- Fleeting moment
- Instant
More clues leading to the result SPLITSECOND
- Rutger Hauer sci-fi thriller, 1992
- Ji / ffy?
- Instant
- Blink of an eye
- Flash
- Brief moment
- Very short space of time.
- Twinkling.
- Trice
- "2 ND"
More clues leading to the result MOMENT
- Eyeblink
- Short time
- Second
- Instant in time
- Jiffy
- Importance
- Instant
- Instant of truth?
- Brief interval
- Senior __
More clues leading to the result JIFFY
- Quick sec
- Short span, slangily
- Blink of an eye
- Instant
- Twinkling
- In a __ (quickly)
- Instant: Colloq.
- Two shakes.
- Sec
- Flash
More clues leading to the result JIFF
- Quick moment
- Quick second
- Blink of an eye, for short
- Blink of an eye
- Sec
- Very short time
- Brief moment, briefly
- Flash
- Brief sec
- Short time
More clues leading to the result IMMEDIATE
- Instantaneous
- Instant
- Very close
- First-hand.
- Closest
- Without delay
- Having no delay
- Pressing
- Most direct
- Done at once
More clues leading to the result TWINKLING
More clues leading to the result HBEAT
More clues leading to the result TWOSHAKES
More clues leading to the result NANOSECOND
- Cycle length for a gigahertz processor
- Small time
- Instant
- Not much time
- Time in which light travels one foot, approximately
- Minute minute part
More clues leading to the result INAN
- __ instant (at once)
- __ uproar
- ___ instant (quickly)
- ___ instant
- ___ uproar
- __ instant (immediately)
- "__ 18th Century Drawing Room"
- ___ uproar (loud)
- __ uproar (howling)
- __ instant
More clues leading to the result POINT
- "1 see your ___"
- A pencil's end
- Heart of the matter
- Show the way
- Gist
- Give the finger?
- __ Judity, R.I.
- Free-throw reward
- Tapered end
- Pencil need