Answer to "Principal" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word MAIN , but the solution may also be ARCH which is one of the most recent solution (2022 in New York Times).

Principal crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
MAIN	45 %	4
ARCH	17 %	4
CHIEF	7 %	5
MAJOR	5 %	5
STAR	5 %	4
FIRST	4 %	5
LEAD	2 %	4
CENTRAL	2 %	7
PRIME	2 %	5
GRAND	2 %	5
LEADING	2 %	7
PRIMATE	1 %	7
HEAD	1 %	4
HIGH	1 %	4
TOP	1 %	3
STAPLE	1 %	6
MORAL	1 %	5
SALIENT	1 %	7
BASIC	1 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Principal

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• primary
• main
• important
• chief
• corpus
• head teacher
• dealer
• head
• star
• lead
• of import
• principal sum

Crossword Answer definitions

MAIN verb

1. Short for mainline.
2. To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game.
3. Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road.

MAIN adjective

1. Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
2. Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
3. (of force, strength, etc.) Full, sheer, undivided.
4. Big; angry.
5. Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
6. Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.

MAIN adverb

1. Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

MAIN noun

1. That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
2. A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
3. Short for main course.
4. The high seas.
5. The mainland.
6. Short for mainsail.
7. (except in might and main) Force, power, strength, violent effort.

MAIN noun

1. A hand or match in a game of dice.
2. The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.
3. A stake played for at dice.
4. A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
5. A banker's shovel for coins.

MAIN noun

1. A basket for gathering grapes.

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 MAIN

• Popular street name
• Primary
• Water way
• It may be bounding
• Chief
• Water line
• Critically important
• Essential
• It can be bounding
• Pipe down?

More clues leading to the result ARCH

• St. Louis sight
• Eyebrow shape
• Foot part
• St. Louis gateway
• St. Louis landmark
• Eero Saarinen's Gateway __
• Podiatrist's concern
• Gateway structure
• Cunning
• Curved entryway

More clues leading to the result CHIEF

• Head honcho
• Kansas City footballer
• Primary
• Main
• Leading
• Crazy Horse, e.g.
• Most important
• Crazy Horse, for one
• Maxwell Smart's boss
• Firehouse foreman

More clues leading to the result MAJOR

• Frank Burns, for example
• Important
• ____ League
• Not minor
• Label one might be called a sellout for signing with
• Main course?
• "___ Dad"
• Big-time
• Student's focus
• Collegian's specialty

More clues leading to the result STAR

• Film VIP
• Antares or Deneb
• Capital 8
• Capital 8?
• Dressing-room door ornament
• Featured lead
• Have top billing
• Headliner
• Leading player
• Play the lead

More clues leading to the result FIRST

• At the head of the line
• Gold-medal position
• Unprecedented
• Who's position
• Winning position
• Leading
• Initial
• "Who's on ___?"
• Gold medalist's place
• Before anything else

More clues leading to the result LEAD

• Pencil innard?
• Sinker material
• Spearhead
• Heavy metal
• Hold first place
• Pb, on the periodic table
• Precedes belly and foot
• Preceeds belly and foot
• Starring role
• Take charge of

More clues leading to the result CENTRAL

• With 54 Down, warmer
• Smack-dab in the middle
• Like 30-Across
• Like a keystone
• Oklahoma's time zone
• Chief
• Like this grid entry
• Dominant
• "___Park West"
• ___ America

More clues leading to the result PRIME

• Of fine quality
• 2 or 3, but not 4
• Beef designation
• Meat rating
• Number like 3 or 13
• Like 7 or 17
• High-quality
• Heyday
• ___ lending rate (Bank of Canada concern)
• Prepare the engine

More clues leading to the result GRAND

• Transplendent
• Splendid
• Long piano
• Thou
• Impressive in scale
• On a large scale
• Imposing
• Kind of piano
• Word before piano or opera
• Word before slam or theft

More clues leading to the result LEADING

• Principal.
• Ahead.
• On top.
• Like some lights
• Kind of question
• In the van
• Ahead

More clues leading to the result PRIMATE

• Ape or gibbon, e.g.
• Ape, for one
• Country's top bishop
• Gibbon or gorilla
• Ape or chimp
• Man or monkey
• Word from the Latin for "dignitary"
• Mandrill, for one
• Human or chimpanzee
• Church dignitary.

More clues leading to the result HEAD

• Lead
• Cabbage unit
• Enterprise lavatory
• Facilities, aboard ship
• Highest in rank
• John, at sea?
• Peruke support
• Hollywood designer, Edith
• Kind of start
• With 2D, a Hollywood designer

More clues leading to the result HIGH

• Tide type
• The Byrds' "Eight Miles ___"
• Up there
• Having a relatively great elevation
• Intoxicated
• In the ozone
• In rarefied air
• Way up
• Elevated
• Way off the ground

More clues leading to the result TOP

• "__ Hat" (Berlin musical)
• "__ o' the mornin'"
• Crowning point
• Dreidel e.g.
• Inning half
• Surpass
• Exceed
• Foremost
• Spinning toy
• Beyonce's "Love on ___"

More clues leading to the result STAPLE

• Flour, salt, sugar, e.g.
• Staff of life
• Paper fastener
• Bread or butter
• It can hold a composition together
• Office holder?
• Rice, e.g.
• Fixer of sheets
• Everyday element
• Basic element

More clues leading to the result MORAL

• Aesop ending
• Fable ending, often
• Upright
• Lesson from Aesop
• Fabulous finish, of a sort
• Like some codes
• Fable finale
• Children's book conclusion
• Children's story ender, often
• End of a story with animals

More clues leading to the result SALIENT

• Prominent
• Conspicuous
• Noticeable and important
• Outstanding
• Projecting part of a battle line
• Striking
• Hard to miss
• Standing out prominently
• Most notable
• Remarkable

More clues leading to the result BASIC

• Kind of training
• Fundamental
• Nitty-gritty
• Conformist, in slang
• Bare-bones
• Meat-and-potatoes
• Simple
• Computer language
• Like the ABCs
• Like ABCs