The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DECAY which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2024.
Rot crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DECAY | 36 % | 5 |
| GOBAD | 16 % | 5 |
| HOOEY | 5 % | 5 |
| TWADDLE | 5 % | 7 |
| DRIVEL | 3 % | 6 |
| DECOMPOSE | 3 % | 9 |
| BALONEY | 3 % | 7 |
| TRIPE | 3 % | 5 |
| GOTOWASTE | 3 % | 9 |
| BUNK | 3 % | 4 |
| TOSH | 2 % | 4 |
| SPOIL | 2 % | 5 |
| HOGWASH | 2 % | 7 |
| DISEASE | 2 % | 7 |
| BAH | 2 % | 3 |
| BOSH | 2 % | 4 |
| UTTERRUBBISH | 2 % | 12 |
| BALDERDASH | 2 % | 10 |
| PIFFLE | 2 % | 6 |
| FESTER | 2 % | 6 |
Why may GOBAD be the right solution?
The answer "GOBAD" is the right solution because it fits the clue "Rot." "GOBAD" is a commonly used phrase to describe food or other perishable items that have spoiled or become rotten.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Rot
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- putrefaction
- moulder
- waste
- horseshit
- dogshit
- shit
- bullshit
- decompose
- hogwash
- bunkum
- irish bull
- guff
Crossword Answer definitions
DECAY noun- The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
- A deterioration of condition; loss of status or fortune.
- To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- (of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
- (of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons.
- (of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- To cause to rot or deteriorate.
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 DECAY
- Fall into ruin
- Go bad
- Urban ___
- Dentist's concern
- Rot
- Dental problem
- Dental concern
- Break down
- Dental woe
- Crumble away
More clues leading to the result GOBAD
- Rot
- Turn to the dark side
- Spoil
- Turn, in a kitchen
- Putrefy
- Become inedible
- Turn to a life of crime, say
- Curdle, as milk
- Turn stale
- Curdle
More clues leading to the result HOOEY
More clues leading to the result TWADDLE
More clues leading to the result DRIVEL
More clues leading to the result DECOMPOSE
- Break down chemically
- Musicians never retire, they just __
- Fall apart.
- Resolve into constituent parts.
- End of quip
- Rot
More clues leading to the result BALONEY
More clues leading to the result TRIPE
- Of no value
- Nonsensical talk or writing
- Stuff and nonsense
- Rubbish
- Crapola
- Third-rate writing
- Balderdash
- Hogwash
- A load of rubbish
- Worthless talk
More clues leading to the result GOTOWASTE
More clues leading to the result BUNK
- Hogwash!
- Bed shelf
- "Baloney!"
- It can keep you up at night?
- Hogwash
- Shipboard bed
- Where a cowboy crashes
- Hooey
- Sailor's bed
- Sailor's sleeping spot
More clues leading to the result TOSH
- Peter of reggae
- Rugby rubbish
- "___.0"
- Reggae biggie Peter
- Peter of the Wailers
- Daniel of Comedy Central
- Reggae singer Peter
- Reggae star Peter
- Reggae great Peter
- Comedian Daniel
More clues leading to the result SPOIL
- "... and __ the child"
- Act the doting grandparent
- Go bad
- Turn
- Coddle
- Mollycoddle
- Go bad, as perishables
- Fail to discipline
- Ruin
- Pamper too much
More clues leading to the result HOGWASH
- "Fiddlesticks!"
- Baloney
- Nonsense
- As for hard work, he said "___!"
- Flummery
- Bunk
- Animal's laundry?
- Rubbish
- "Baloney!"
- Worthless speech: Colloq.
More clues leading to the result DISEASE
- WHO knows about it
- Part of CDC
- Malady
- It may prompt a quarantine
- Epidemiologist's focus
- Affliction
- Epidemiology concern
- CDC member?
- Enemy of men in white
- Evil state of affairs.
More clues leading to the result BAH
- Cry to Cratchit
- Dickensian epithet
- Pooh-__
- Scrooge's retort
- ___ Humbug
- Scrooge's favorite reply
- Ebenezer's epithet
- Grouch's word
- Scrooge's oath
- "Phooey!"
More clues leading to the result BOSH
- "Baloney!"
- "Nonsense!"
- Poppycock
- "Hogwash!"
- Rubbish
- Wade's teammate
- Meaningless talk
- "Poppycock!"
- Reply to an amazing announcement
- "Fiddlesticks!"
More clues leading to the result UTTERRUBBISH
More clues leading to the result BALDERDASH
- Meaningless talk
- Board game based on 23 across
- Race that's less hairy?
- Answer to the riddle
- Nonsense
- Rot
- "Hogwash!"
- "Horsefeathers!"
- Rubbish
- Hogwash
More clues leading to the result PIFFLE
- Nonsense
- Hogwash
- Trivial talk
- Rot
- Senseless talk
- Stuff and nonsense.
- Stuff and nonsense!: Slang.
- Trifling talk: Colloq.
- Nonsense!
- Trivial nonsense