Answer to "Rancid" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SOUR , but the solution may also be ROTTEN which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).

Rancid crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SOUR	33 %	4
BAD	33 %	3
ROTTEN	33 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Rancid

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

• sour
• stale
• malodorous
• spoiled
• fetid
• rance
• smelly
• putrid
• stinking
• moldy
• rotting
• mouldy

Crossword Answer definitions

SOUR noun

1. The sensation of a sour taste.
2. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
3. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
4. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
5. The acidic solution used in souring fabric.

SOUR verb

1. To make sour.
2. To become sour.
3. To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
4. To become disenchanted.
5. To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
6. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
7. To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.

SOUR adjective

1. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
3. Tasting or smelling rancid.
4. (of a person's character) Peevish or bad-tempered.
5. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
6. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
7. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
8. Off-pitch, out of tune.

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 SOUR

• Embitter
• Ill-humored
• Lemon-like
• Pucker-inducing
• Cranky
• Off-key
• Acerbic
• Whisky concoction
• Off, as milk
• Excessively acid

More clues leading to the result BAD

• Adverse
• Below standard
• Michael Jackson smash
• Not good
• "___ Boys" (1983)
• "___ Moon Rising"
• Quite inadequate
• Rotten egg, e.g.
• Unfavorable
• Incorrect

More clues leading to the result ROTTEN

• Worm-eaten
• Decomposed
• Sex Pistol's singer
• Decayed
• Suspicious, as in Hamlet's Denmark
• Wretchedly bad
• Despicable
• Wretchedly bad
• Front man Johnny of the Sex Pistols
• Spoiled