The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word BOG , but the solution may also be MIRE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Marshy spot crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BOG | 20 % | 3 |
| MIRE | 20 % | 4 |
| SWALE | 20 % | 5 |
| QUAG | 20 % | 4 |
| SLEW | 20 % | 4 |
Why may MIRE be the right solution?
"MIRE" is a marshy spot because it refers to a stretch of swampy or boggy ground that is difficult to walk through. It fits the clue well.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Marshy spot
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- quag
- bog
- everglades
- fen
- mire
- morass
- soil
- soiled
- soiling
- swale
- brook
- bayou
Crossword Answer definitions
BOG noun- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- (originally vulgar Britain) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- (originally vulgar Britain) To cover or spray with excrement.
- To make a mess of something.
- An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
- Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
- Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
- Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- (chiefly computing and engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.
- A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it
- An enthusiasm for something; an obsession
- A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
- A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it
- A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.
- ("the bug") HIV.
- A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- A trilobite.
- A young apprentice jockey.
- A microfossil, particularly a foraminiferan.
- Puffery, boastfulness.
- To provoke, to bug.
- Bold; boastful; proud.
- (usually with "off") To go away.
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 BOG
- Cranberry source
- Cranberry field
- Fen
- Quagmire
- Peat place
- Where cranberries grow
- Cranbery territory
- Spongy ground
- Sphagnum source
- Venus'-flytrap habitat
More clues leading to the result MIRE
- Bog
- Stick in the mud
- Bog down
- Entangle
- Muck
- "No time to wallow in the ___" Doors lyric
- Swampy ground
- Gooey dirt
- Muddy earth
- Morass
More clues leading to the result SWALE
- Wet land tract
- 1984 Kentucky Derby winner
- Ditch for runoff
- 1984 Derby winner
- Derby winner of 1984
- Low wet stretch
- Wet lowland
- Marshy hollow
- Low bit of land
- Valleylike area
More clues leading to the result QUAG
- Marshy area, for short
- You could get bogged down in it
- Marsh
- Marsh, for short
- Marshy area
- Bog, briefly
- Mire, briefly
- Bog, for short
- Swamp, briefly
- Boggy ground.