The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word RIFLES which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2021.
Rummages (through) crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| RIFLES | 50 % | 6 |
| DIGS | 33 % | 4 |
| ROOTS | 17 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Rummages (through)
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- roots
- digs
- forage
- poke
- rifle
- root
- rifled
- fossick
- rout
- ferret
- foraging
- rummage
Crossword Answer definitions
RIFLES noun- A shouldered firearm with a long, rifled barrel to improve range and accuracy.
- (usually plural) A rifleman.
- An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
- A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
- To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also rifflehttp//verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html)
- To commit robbery or theft.
- To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
- To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
- To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- To dispose of in a raffle.
- To engage in a raffle.
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 RIFLES
- Ransacks
- Soldiers' weapons
- Carbines and Enfields
- Plunders
- Long guns
- Goes through quickly
- Winchesters
- Winchesters, e.g.
- Searches through vigorously
- Throws hard
More clues leading to the result DIGS
- Archaeological spots
- Pad
- Lodgings
- Expands a pit
- Barbed remarks
- Likes, hippie-style
- Really likes, hippie-style
- Slangy dwellings
- Quarters
- Slangy home