The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LONG which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Like the odds of an unlikely event crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
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LONG | 100 % | 4 |
Why may LONG be the right solution?
The term "long odds" refers to the chances of something happening being unlikely or slim. So, the answer "LONG" fits the clue "Like the odds of an unlikely event".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Like the odds of an unlikely event
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- long
- slim
- outside
- line
- probability
- chance
- possibility
- shot
- probable
- die
- wager
- gamble
Crossword Answer definitions
LONG noun- A long vowel.
- A long syllable.
- A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- An entity with a long position in an asset.
- A long-term investment.
- The long summer vacation at the English universities.
- To take a long position in.
- Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).
- Having great duration.
- Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
- Not short; tall.
- Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.
- Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- (of a ball or a shot) Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out.
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Over a great distance in space.
- For a particular duration.
- For a long duration.
- To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
- To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
- On account of, because of.
- Longitude
- To belong.
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