The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ROOT which also is the latest solution we found used in Chronicle of Higher Education in 2015.
Origin crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ROOT | 30 % | 4 |
| SEED | 20 % | 4 |
| GERM | 11 % | 4 |
| SOURCE | 9 % | 6 |
| GENESIS | 5 % | 7 |
| ROOTCAUSE | 4 % | 9 |
| RISE | 3 % | 4 |
| BIRTH | 3 % | 5 |
| ROOTS | 3 % | 5 |
| FONT | 3 % | 4 |
| START | 2 % | 5 |
| INCEPTION | 1 % | 9 |
| OUTSET | 1 % | 6 |
| PARENTAGE | 1 % | 9 |
| BIRTHPLACE | 1 % | 10 |
| CRADLE | 1 % | 6 |
| PROVENANCE | 1 % | 10 |
| ROOTAGE | 1 % | 7 |
| AUTHORSHIP | 1 % | 10 |
| PARENT | 1 % | 6 |
| DERIVAL | 1 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Origin
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- inception
- genesis
- beginning
- origination
- extraction
- source
- stock
- descent
- parentage
- pedigree
- ancestry
- bloodline
Crossword Answer definitions
ROOT noun- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- A root vegetable.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- The primary source; origin.
- Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
- A zero (of an equation).
- The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings
- To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- To get root or priviledged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A sexual partner.
- To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- To root out; to abolish.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- (with "for" or "on") To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
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 ROOT
- Cheer for
- Cheer on the home team
- Kind of canal
- Pull for
- Radish, e.g.
- Dentist's canal?
- Take hold
- Cheer
- Origin
- Source
More clues leading to the result SEED
- Kind of pearl
- Pet-shop vittles
- Plant
- Sow
- Tourney rank
- Growing need
- It's for the birds
- It's scattered in spring
- Parakeets' eats
- Peach pit
More clues leading to the result GERM
- Kind of warfare
- Minute organism
- Idea's beginning
- Microbe
- Cold start?
- Sanitizer's target
- Start of an idea
- Start of something big
- Starting point
- What's going around
More clues leading to the result SOURCE
- Footnote material
- Origin
- Root
- Beginning
- Bibliography item
- Correspondent's correspondent
- Bibliography entry
- Fountainhead
- Reporter's aid
- Lake Itasca, to the Mississippi
More clues leading to the result GENESIS
- Book that begins "In the beginning"
- 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
- Beginning
- Source
- First book of the Torah
- "Misunderstanding" group
- It comes before Exodus
- Bible opener
- Origin
- Phil Collins's band until 1996
More clues leading to the result ROOTCAUSE
- Origin
- Underlying explanation
- Ultimate reason
- Origin of a defect
- Fundamental reason for a problem
- Trigger of a chain of events
More clues leading to the result RISE
- "___ and shine!"
- Anticipate the anthem
- Greet the judge
- Levitate
- Lose a lap
- Prepare to shine?
- Shaving-cream name
- Ascend
- Emulate the sun
- First name in sopranos
More clues leading to the result BIRTH
- "The __ of the Blues"
- Announcement made with a greeting card featuring a stork
- Personal delivery?
- Big family news
- Nativity
- Cigar-worthy event?
- Parent-making event
- "The ___ of a Nation"
- Maternity ward event
- It's celebrated annually
More clues leading to the result ROOTS
- Alex Haley novel
- Haley title
- Plant anchors
- Haley novel
- Landmark miniseries
- Alex Haley bestseller
- Alex Haley opus
- Haley opus
- Alex Haley book in which he is a character in the last section
- Ancestry
More clues leading to the result FONT
- Desktop-publisher's choice
- Baptismal basin
- Letter design
- Typographic variable
- Text choice
- Lettering choice
- Courier, for one
- Typeface
- Desktop publisher's selection
- Holy water receptacle
More clues leading to the result START
- Kick off
- Square one
- Begin
- Open
- Set in motion
- Appropriate word here?
- Hit the trail
- Select neighbor, on old controllers
- Instructions, part 3
- Set moving
More clues leading to the result INCEPTION
More clues leading to the result OUTSET
More clues leading to the result PARENTAGE
More clues leading to the result BIRTHPLACE
More clues leading to the result CRADLE
- It rocks when the wind blows
- Small low bed for an infant
- When the bough breaks, it falls
- Kid rocker
- Treetop furniture?
- Punk rocker?
- Nest for the wee
- Base for a PDA
- Nursery rocker
- Hold protectively
More clues leading to the result PROVENANCE
More clues leading to the result ROOTAGE
More clues leading to the result AUTHORSHIP
More clues leading to the result PARENT
- Bring into the world
- Forebear
- Progenitor
- Report card signer
- Report-card signer
- Pop, e.g.
- Spock reader
- Mom or pop
- Bring up
- Pop, maybe