The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LIMIT which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Put a cap on crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
LIMIT | 96 % | 5 |
LIMITED | 4 % | 7 |
Why may LIMIT be the right solution?
The word "limit" means to establish a maximum or put a cap on something. It fits perfectly with the clue "Put a cap on" as it implies setting a restriction or boundary.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Put a cap on
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- limit
- restrict
- confine
- constrain
- curbed
- restrictive
- round window
- contain
- confining
- constrained
- constraint
- close
Crossword Answer definitions
LIMIT noun- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- The space or thing defined by limits.
- That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
- A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- Being a fixed limit game.
- To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
- To have a limit in a particular set.
- To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
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 LIMIT
- "25 words or less," e.g.
- Border line
- Boundary
- Ceiling
- Demarcate
- Restrict
- Maximum bet
- 55 miles an hour, maybe
- Cutoff
- Hold in check