The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word EDGE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2025.
Rim crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EDGE | 86 % | 4 |
| LIP | 10 % | 3 |
| LEDGE | 2 % | 5 |
| BRIM | 1 % | 4 |
| VERGE | 1 % | 5 |
Why may EDGE be the right solution?
The word "rim" is often used to refer to the outer edge of something, like a wheel or a glass. "Edge" is a synonym for "rim," making it the correct answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Rim
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- flange
- brim
- lip
- surrounding
- edge
- annulus
- bordering
- border
- tab
- ring
- scroll
- ledge
Crossword Answer definitions
EDGE noun- The boundary line of a surface.
- A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- An advantage.
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
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 EDGE
- "The ___ of Night"
- "The ____ Of Night"
- "The ____ of Night" (TV soap)
- Advantage
- Boundary line
- Brink
- Creep
- Favorable advantage
- Keenness
- Word in a Maugham title
More clues leading to the result LIP
- Backtalk
- Sass
- Kind of reading or service
- Back talk
- Leo "the ___" of baseball fame
- Attitude
- Blistex spot
- Edge of a cup
- Impertinence
- It's connected to a handlebar
More clues leading to the result LEDGE
- Window projection
- Narrow shelf
- Place for a window box
- Jumping-off point?
- Rim
- Shelf
- Precipice
- Underwater shelf
- Jumping-off point
- Pigeon perch
More clues leading to the result BRIM
- Stetson section
- Derby part
- Panama part
- Porkpie feature
- Hat part
- Glass top
- Vessel's edge
- Projecting edge
- Derby feature
- Fedora feature