The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HINGE which also is the latest solution we found used in Boston Globe in 2009.
Pivotal factor crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HINGE | 100 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Pivotal factor
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- hinge
- central
- crucial
- key
- axial
- axis
- cardinal
- crux
- focal
- fulcrum
- keynote
- knuckle
Crossword Answer definitions
HINGE noun- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
- A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
- The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
- To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- (with on or upon) To depend on something.
- The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
- To bend.
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