Answer to "Scales" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CLIMBS which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2021.

Scales crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
CLIMBS	43 %	6
BALANCES	29 %	8
STEELYARDS	7 %	10
ASCENDS	7 %	7
BALANCE	7 %	7
MOUNTS	7 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Scales

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

• weighing machine
• descale
• plate
• surmount
• scale leaf
• scurf
• musical scale
• shell
• graduated table
• ordered series
• scale of measurement
• level

Crossword Answer definitions

CLIMBS noun

1. An act of climbing.
2. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
3. An upwards struggle

CLIMBS verb

1. To ascend; rise; to go up.
2. To mount; to move upwards on.
3. To scale; to get to the top of something.
4. To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
5. To practise the sport of climbing
6. To jump high
7. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
8. Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

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 CLIMBS

• Heads up
• Scales
• Participates in the Reek Sunday pilgrimage, say
• Takes a peak?
• Gets up
• Ascends
• Tackles K2
• Scales up
• Goes to the top of
• Increases

More clues leading to the result BALANCES

• Stays on the tightrope
• Scales
• Unpaid portions
• Checks and ___.
• Scales.
• Checks' associates
• Checks' partners
• Auditors' concerns
• Bank figures
• Bank amounts

More clues leading to the result STEELYARDS

• Scales with off-center fulcrums
• Balances.
• Scales.
• Old Pittsburgh work areas

More clues leading to the result ASCENDS

• Rises
• Slopes upward
• Heads up
• Climbs
• Heads for the peak
• Goes up
• Moves upward
• Mounts
• Escalates
• Rises slowly

More clues leading to the result BALANCE

• ATM request
• Equilibrium
• Stay on the beam?
• Yogini's skill
• ___ of terror (nuclear arms distribution)
• Account amount
• Maintain one's equilibrium
• What's left
• Checkbook column
• It's outstanding

More clues leading to the result MOUNTS

• Gets on
• Logan and Whistler, e.g.
• Turns into a trophy
• Goes up
• Climber's challenges
• Rushmore and Everest
• Horses, to riders
• Roundup necessity, too.
• Horses.
• Places in firing position.