The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word HOWL which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2015.
Plaintive cry crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HOWL | 29 % | 4 |
| BLEAT | 14 % | 5 |
| MAA | 14 % | 3 |
| MEW | 14 % | 3 |
| WAH | 7 % | 3 |
| MEOW | 7 % | 4 |
| AHME | 7 % | 4 |
| WAIL | 7 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Plaintive cry
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lament
- whimper
- moan
- howl
- whine
- bemoan
- clamper
- complain
- complaining
- complaint
- crib
- crying game
Crossword Answer definitions
HOWL noun- The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
- A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
- To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
- To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
- To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
- To utter with outcry.
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 HOWL
- Laugh uproariously
- Ululate
- Call of the wild
- "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked" poem
- Ginsberg masterwork
- Ginsburg poem
- Lycanthrope's call
- Hearty laugh
- Canine cry
- Bay at the moon
More clues leading to the result BLEAT
- Baa's brother
- Say "baa"
- Baa's relative
- Sound pathetic
- Farm call
- Cry like a kid
- Sound from a lamb
- Pastoral communique
- Talk sheepishly?
- Ovine utterance
More clues leading to the result MAA
- Bleating comment
- Lamb's lament
- Kid's cry
- Lea sound
- Barnyard bleat
- Calf call
- 61-Down's cry
- Meadow bleat
- Calf's call
- Goat's call
More clues leading to the result MEW
- Puss murmur
- Cry over spilled milk, perhaps?
- Cry over spilled milk?
- Gull
- Cat sound
- Feline saying
- Sea gull
- Kitten's comment
- Copy cats?
- "Where's the yarn ball?"
More clues leading to the result WAH
- Infant's cry
- Crybaby's sound
- "Cry me a river"
- "Grow up, ya big baby!"
- Baby's bawl
- Guitar pedal sound
- Cartoonish bawl
- Crybaby's cry
- "Do ___ Diddy Diddy"
- When doubled, a kind of pedal for a guitarist
More clues leading to the result MEOW
- Catty call
- Catty talk?
- Purrfect pitch?
- Catty comment?
- Persian plaint
- Tom's word
- Calico's cry
- Copy cats?
- Feline line
- Noise a 20-Across might make, seemingly, if you've had a few too many
More clues leading to the result AHME
- "Alas!"
- Sigher's words
- Alas!
- Woebegone words
- "Alas"
- Words said with a sigh
- "Alas, I declare"
- "Dear, dear"
- Sigher's comment
- Sighed aside