The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 11 letter word PENULTIMATE , but the solution may also be SEMIFINAL which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Next-to-last crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PENULTIMATE | 33 % | 11 |
| PENULT | 33 % | 6 |
| SEMIFINAL | 33 % | 9 |
Why may SEMIFINAL be the right solution?
The answer "SEMIFINAL" fits the clue "Next-to-last" because a semifinal is a stage in a competition that comes right before the final, making it the second-to-last round or match.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Next-to-last
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- penultimate
- last
- intermediate
- junior
- third-year
- second to last
- last but one
- second last
- antepenultimate
- preantepenultimate
- propenultimate
- subultimate
Crossword Answer definitions
PENULTIMATE noun- A penult, a next-to-last thing, particularly:
- (in United States usually formal) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
- Of or pertaining to a penult.
- Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result PENULTIMATE
More clues leading to the result PENULT
- Next-to-last syllable
- Word's next to last syllable
- Syllable before the last
- Next-to-last item
- Word's next-to-last syllable
- Next to last.
- The last but one.
- Next to the last syllable of a word.
- Next to the last syllable.
- Next-to-last syllable.