The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word STEAL , but the solution may also be NICK which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in Wall Street Journal).
Pilfer crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STEAL | 31 % | 5 |
| SWIPE | 16 % | 5 |
| FILCH | 14 % | 5 |
| THIEVE | 9 % | 6 |
| POACH | 3 % | 5 |
| TAKE | 3 % | 4 |
| LIFT | 3 % | 4 |
| ROB | 3 % | 3 |
| PALM | 2 % | 4 |
| LOOT | 2 % | 4 |
| NIP | 2 % | 3 |
| COP | 2 % | 3 |
| SNITCH | 2 % | 6 |
| MOOCH | 2 % | 5 |
| PURLOIN | 2 % | 7 |
| GLOM | 2 % | 4 |
| NICK | 2 % | 4 |
| PINCH | 2 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Pilfer
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- filch
- purloin
- nobble
- sneak
- swipe
- lift
- pinch
- abstract
- snarf
- hook
- cabbage
- steal
Crossword Answer definitions
STEAL noun- The act of stealing.
- A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
- A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- A stolen base.
- Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
- To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
- (of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- To acquire at a low price.
- To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- To move silently or secretly.
- To convey (something) clandestinely.
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
- To dispossess
- To borrow for a short moment.
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 STEAL
- Real bargain
- Shoplift
- Unbelievable bargain
- Purloin
- Take a base?
- Go quietly
- Tiptoe
- Take the wrong way?
- Grab an album using BitTorrent, e.g.
- Pinch
More clues leading to the result SWIPE
- Apply a five-finger discount to
- Lift
- Steal, like the fox in "Dora the Explorer"
- Pick pockets
- Filch
- Credit-card action
- Make off with
- Rip off
- Liberate, so to speak
- Take without permission
More clues leading to the result FILCH
More clues leading to the result THIEVE
More clues leading to the result POACH
- Prepare eggs Benedict eggs
- Cook in hot liquid
- Simmer
- Prepare eggs Benedict style
- Pilfer
- Steal
- Fish illegally
- Cook with water
- Way to cook 13 down
- Hunt in the wrong spot?
More clues leading to the result TAKE
- On the ____ (accepting bribes)
- Gate receipts
- Give's partner
- Ingest, as medicine
- "____this Job and Shove It"
- "___my wife. Please."
- Accept
- Accept uncomplainingly
- Pickings
- On the __ (accepting bribes)
More clues leading to the result LIFT
- Elevator
- Hoist
- Hitchhiker's need
- Gank
- Boost
- Harrods conveyance
- Ride
- Pump iron
- Hitchhiker's hope
- Heightening shoe device
More clues leading to the result ROB
- Carl's son
- Half a Walter Scott novel
- Hold up
- Knock over
- Reiner or Roy
- A Reiner
- Plunder
- Rifle
- Burgle
- Steal from
More clues leading to the result PALM
- Date tree
- It may be greased or read
- Kind of reader
- Kind of tree
- Chiromancer's focus
- Type of tree
- Conceal, as a card
- Card carrier
- Card carrier?
- Coconut's spot
More clues leading to the result LOOT
More clues leading to the result NIP
- Chill
- Tuck's partner
- Winter-air quality
- Winter chill
- Small bite
- Win by a nose
- Quick drink
- Pinch
- Drop to drink?
- Quick sip, as of brandy
More clues leading to the result COP
- Flatfoot
- __ a plea
- Friday, e.g.
- One wielding tear gas or driving a tank, perhaps, alas (and, after burrowing, a 37-Down/43-Across from Barry Manilow)
- Beat walker
- Bobby from Britain
- Filch
- One in a cruiser
- Pig
- Whistle blower?
More clues leading to the result SNITCH
- Tell all
- Whistle-blower, less flatteringly
- Tattletale
- Squeal
- Tell (on)
- Rat
- Informant
- Tell
- State secrets?
- Tattle
More clues leading to the result MOOCH
- Sponge
- Parasite
- Panhandle
- "Borrow" permanently
- Be a sponge
- Freeload
- Look for a handout
- Sponge (off of)
- Behave like Cab Calloway's "red hot hoochie coocher"?
- Schnorrer
More clues leading to the result PURLOIN
More clues leading to the result GLOM
- Latch onto
- Seize, slangily
- Swipe
- Latch on to
- Latch (onto)
- Snatch
- Seize (onto)
- Grab, in slang
- Grab hold of
- Rip off
More clues leading to the result NICK
- Shaving cut
- Shaving mishap
- Cannon of "America's Got Talent"
- One of the Jonas Brothers
- Slightly slice
- Barbershop mishap
- Just barely hit
- Nolte of "Lorenzo's Oil"
- Shaving accident
- Sign of a close shave?