The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word THORN which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Sun in 2007.
Prickle crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| THORN | 50 % | 5 |
| BUR | 14 % | 3 |
| SPINE | 7 % | 5 |
| SETA | 7 % | 4 |
| TINGLE | 7 % | 6 |
| BURR | 7 % | 4 |
| ECHIN | 7 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Prickle
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- prick
- tingle
- spine
- thorn
- acantha
- bur
- prickliness
- shiver
- prickly
- irritation
- pang
- pricker
Crossword Answer definitions
THORN noun- A sharp protective spine of a plant.
- Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
- That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
- A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
- To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn
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 THORN
- Androcles' extraction
- Androcles removed one
- Major irritant
- Pricker
- Sticker in the garden
- Androcles's extraction
- Rose protection
- Rose hazard
- Rose protector
- Rose pricker
More clues leading to the result BUR
- Rough husk
- Prickly husk
- Sticky seedcase
- Prickly clinger
- Prickly plant sticker
- Prickly seed case
- Rough protuberance
- Prickly seed casing
- Hikers may pick it out of socks
- Nut case
More clues leading to the result SPINE
- Backbone
- Book back
- Small piano
- What cowards lack
- Back line?
- Book part that displays a title
- Title holder
- Bookbinding piece
- Bookbinder's back
- Coward's lack
More clues leading to the result SETA
- __ good example
- ____ good example
- Bristlelike
- Stiff hair, bristle
- "___ good example"
- Bristle
- Stiff hair
- ___ good example
- Hairlike structure
- ___ date
More clues leading to the result TINGLE
- Prickling sensation
- Have goose bumps
- Feel pins and needles
- Prickly sensation
- Excitement manifestation
- Bit of excitement
- Excited sensation
- Feel excitement
- Sort of sensation
- Thrilling feeling
More clues leading to the result BURR
- Characteristic of Scottish speech
- Hamilton's killer
- Raymond of courtroom fame
- Hamilton's slayer
- Hamilton foe
- He was a Mason for many years
- 1973 Gore Vidal historical fiction
- First book of Vidal's Narratives of Empire series
- Jefferson's V.P.
- Jefferson's vice president