The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DRUB which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2017.
Rout crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DRUB | 18 % | 4 |
| SETTO | 9 % | 5 |
| CLEANSWEEP | 9 % | 10 |
| STOMP | 9 % | 5 |
| LICKING | 9 % | 7 |
| UTTERDEFEAT | 9 % | 11 |
| THRASH | 9 % | 6 |
| DEBACLE | 9 % | 7 |
| TROUNCE | 9 % | 7 |
| WALKOVER | 9 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Rout
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- mob
- expel
- spread-eagle
- rabble
- discomfiture
- discomfit
- groove
- rootle
- gouge
- root
- spreadeagle
- rout out
Crossword Answer definitions
DRUB noun- Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
- To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
- To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
- To forcefully teach something.
- To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
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 DRUB
- Thrash
- Defeat decisively
- Clobber with a stick
- Beat soundly
- Wipe the floor with
- Clobber
- Defeat handily
- Shellac
- Beat the tar out of
- Wallop but good
More clues leading to the result SETTO
More clues leading to the result CLEANSWEEP
- Total wipeout
- Complete ass-kicking
- Decisive victory
- Comprehensive victory
- Winning all the games in a series
- *4-0 World Series win, e.g.
- Overwhelming victory
- Overwhelming vote.
- Rout
- One-sided series
More clues leading to the result STOMP
- Dance at the Savoy, perhaps
- Trounce
- Jazz dance
- Savoy step?
- Percussion-based theatrical troupe
- Really beat
- Toddler's footprint, at times
- Bang your boot
- Foot pound?
- Crush grapes
More clues leading to the result LICKING
More clues leading to the result UTTERDEFEAT
More clues leading to the result THRASH
More clues leading to the result DEBACLE
- Total fiasco
- Sudden downfall
- Total flop
- Fiasco
- Complete disaster
- Complete failure
- Total disaster
- Stampede.
- General breakup.
- Sudden disaster.
More clues leading to the result TROUNCE
- Clobber
- Whip in competition
- Make mincemeat of
- Really beat
- Beat handily
- Beat soundly
- Don't just defeat
- Beat badly
- Beat in a laugher
- Defeat badly^TROUNC