The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word GRIT , but the solution may also be NERVE which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Pluck crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| GRIT | 42 % | 4 |
| METTLE | 11 % | 6 |
| MOXIE | 10 % | 5 |
| NERVE | 9 % | 5 |
| COURAGE | 6 % | 7 |
| SPUNK | 5 % | 5 |
| TWEEZE | 5 % | 6 |
| GUTS | 3 % | 4 |
| SPIRIT | 2 % | 6 |
| GAMENESS | 2 % | 8 |
| TWANG | 2 % | 5 |
| GRITTINESS | 1 % | 10 |
| REAP | 1 % | 4 |
| VALOR | 1 % | 5 |
| RESOLVE | 1 % | 7 |
| HEART | 1 % | 5 |
Why may NERVE be the right solution?
"Pluck" can mean courage or determination, which can be synonymous with "nerve."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Pluck
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- tear
- pull
- pull off
- plunk
- tweak
- hustle
- pick off
- cull
- deplume
- deplumate
- displume
- roll
Crossword Answer definitions
GRIT noun- A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
- Inedible particles in food.
- A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
- A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
- Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
- To cover with grit.
- To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
- (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
- (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
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 GRIT
- Backbone
- Sandpaper feature
- Stick-to-itiveness
- Can't eat just one
- Indomitable spirit
- The Duke's "True __"
- Nerve
- True determination
- Pluck
- Sandpaper coating
More clues leading to the result METTLE
- Fortitude
- Heart
- Inner fiber
- Spunk
- Fiber
- Courage to carry on
- Strength of spirit
- Pluck
- Moxie
- It's tested in battles
More clues leading to the result MOXIE
- Once-popular soft drink
- First mass-marketed soft drink
- Pluckiness
- Soft drink made with gentian root
- The right stuff
- Boldness
- Audacity
- Nerve
- Plucky courage
- Pluck
More clues leading to the result NERVE
More clues leading to the result COURAGE
- Lionhearted-one's quality
- Desire of Lahr's lion
- Cowardly Lion's desire
- Darkest-hour need
- Grace under pressure, to Hemingway
- Bravery
- Mother __
- What a chicken lacks
- Grit, but not grits
- Valorous display
More clues leading to the result SPUNK
- Gumption
- Intrepid spirit
- Mettle
- Moxie
- Precious mettle?
- Feistiness
- Intestinal fortitude
- Grit
- True grit
- Courage and fortitude
More clues leading to the result TWEEZE
- Tend to the eyebrows
- Pluck
- Pinch, as a splinter
- Eschew electrolysis, maybe
- Pluck eyebrow hairs
- Pluck, as eyebrow hair
- Pull out, not always painlessly
- Remove, as a splinter
- Extract a splinter
- Remove a splinter, perhaps
More clues leading to the result GUTS
More clues leading to the result SPIRIT
- Seance attendee, perhaps
- Rapper who doesn't say anything
- Genie or poltergeist
- Pluck
- Team morale
- Team's attribute
- Apparition
- Ghost
- Soul
- Cheerleader's asset
More clues leading to the result GAMENESS
More clues leading to the result TWANG
- Nasal sound
- Guitar's sound
- Uke sound
- Nasal nuance
- Response to a pluck
- Plucked sound
- Vocal quality of country singers
- Guitar sound
- Jew's-harp sound
- Nasal tone
More clues leading to the result GRITTINESS
More clues leading to the result REAP
- Harvest
- Use a sickle
- Fall job
- Gain through effort
- Gardening spoonerism: Weed it and _____
- Bring in
- Gather
- "You're going to ___ just what you sow" (Lou Reed lyric)
- Bring in the sheaves
- Bring in by the bushel
More clues leading to the result VALOR
- Courage under fire
- Heroism
- Guts
- Courage
- Heroic courage
- Bravery
- Chivalric virtue
- One might get a medal for it
- Attribute around the Round Table
- Medalworthy behavior
More clues leading to the result RESOLVE
- Fixed purpose
- Determination
- Deal with conclusively
- Settle
- Decision
- Dispel, as doubts
- Clear up
- Work out
- New Year's decision.
- Fixed purpose.