The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word EDGE , but the solution may also be VERGE which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Periphery crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EDGE | 54 % | 4 |
| RIM | 18 % | 3 |
| EDGES | 13 % | 5 |
| FRINGE | 7 % | 6 |
| VERGE | 3 % | 5 |
| OUTSKIRTS | 1 % | 9 |
| WAYSIDE | 1 % | 7 |
| FRINGES | 1 % | 7 |
| SIDE | 1 % | 4 |
Why may VERGE be the right solution?
The word "verge" refers to the outer edge or boundary of something, making it a fitting answer for the clue "periphery."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Periphery
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- fringe
- outer boundary
- peripheral
- peripherality
- marginalization
- marginalized
- outermost
- outlying
- vicinity
- limit
- remoteness
- edge
Crossword Answer definitions
EDGE noun- The boundary line of a surface.
- A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- An advantage.
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
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 EDGE
- "The ___ of Night"
- "The ____ Of Night"
- "The ____ of Night" (TV soap)
- Advantage
- Boundary line
- Brink
- Creep
- Favorable advantage
- Keenness
- Word in a Maugham title
More clues leading to the result RIM
- Border
- Grand Canyon vantage.
- Plate edge
- Pacific __
- Margin
- Outer edge
- Brink
- Car part that might be tricked out
- Edge
- Car part plated with chrome, perhaps
More clues leading to the result EDGES
- Dagger's pair
- Margins of superiority
- Trims
- Competitive advantages
- Noses (out)
- Rims
- An octahedron has twelve
- Easy bits of a jigsaw puzzle
- Papercut cutters
- Some jigsaw pieces
More clues leading to the result FRINGE
- Trim on the surrey
- Border
- "___ Festival" (Canadian alternative theatre event)
- Periphery
- Green edge
- Feature of a flapper's frock, perhaps
- Decorative border
- Lunatic group?
- Outer edge
- Fox sci-fi series
More clues leading to the result VERGE
- Brink
- Extreme edge
- "Women on the ___ of a Nervous Breakdown"
- Margin
- Threshold
- Border
- Brink or border
- Shoulder, in Britain
- "Women on the ___ of a Nervous Breakdown" (1988 comedy)
- On the ___ of (approaching)
More clues leading to the result OUTSKIRTS
More clues leading to the result WAYSIDE
- Periphery
- Border of a road or patch.
- Along the road.
- Road border
- Kind of inn
- Land next to a road
- Edge of a road
- Land adjacent to a road
- Place to fall by
- Inn for Longfellow
More clues leading to the result FRINGES
- Outer edges
- Insurance, pension, etc.
- Peripheral areas
- Decorative borders
- Peripheral parts
- Surrey trimmings.
- Edges.
- Outlying areas.
- Adornments for some surreys
- Tallith feature