Answer to "Peril" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word DANGER which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2021.

Peril crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
DANGER	48 %	6
RISK	30 %	4
HAZARD	9 %	6
DISTRESS	4 %	8
RISKINESS	4 %	9
SWORDOFDAMOCLES	4 %	15

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Peril

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• danger
• imperil
• jeopardize
• endanger
• hazard
• riskiness
• risk
• threaten
• menace
• expose
• queer
• jeopardy

Crossword Answer definitions

DANGER noun

1. Exposure to likely harm; peril.
2. An instance or cause of likely harm.
3. Mischief.
4. (mainly outside US) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
5. Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
6. Liability.
7. Difficulty; sparingness.
8. Coyness; disdainful behavior.

DANGER verb

1. To claim liability.
2. To imperil; to endanger.
3. To run the risk.

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 DANGER

• Peril
• What a skull and crossbones signifies
• Jeopardy
• Fight-or-flight response generator
• "!" on a road sign
• Harm's way
• "Heads up" situation
• Risk
• Cause for alarms
• Thin ice, e.g.

More clues leading to the result RISK

• Kind of capital
• Popular world board game
• Calculated item
• Peril
• Classic war game
• Game played on a map
• Pastime for world-beaters?
• Hazard
• Put in peril
• Daredevil's turn-on

More clues leading to the result HAZARD

• Risk
• See 5-Down
• Danger
• Word before lights or pay
• Peril
• Unavoidable danger
• Avalanche, to a mountaineer
• Golfer's concern
• Sand or water, usually, to a golfer
• Black ice, for one

More clues leading to the result DISTRESS

• Suffering
• Trouble
• Uncomfortable feeling
• Damsel's dolor.
• Damsel's woe.
• Kind of signal.
• Misery
• State of danger
• State of adversity
• See 17-Across

More clues leading to the result RISKINESS

• Peril

More clues leading to the result SWORDOFDAMOCLES

• Disaster waiting to happen
• Constant and imminent peril
• Constant threat, metaphorically
• Impending disaster, so to speak
• A threat to kings.
• Ancient or modern peril.
• Any imminent danger.
• Fateful symbol from 400 B.C.
• Overhead liability
• Well-known pendant.