The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SMELT , but the solution may also be FRY which is one of the most recent solution (2013 in Chronicle of Higher Education).
Small fish crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SMELT | 24 % | 5 |
| IDE | 18 % | 3 |
| DACE | 12 % | 4 |
| SPRAT | 10 % | 5 |
| FRY | 8 % | 3 |
| SARDINE | 8 % | 7 |
| SMELTS | 4 % | 6 |
| FINGERLINGS | 2 % | 11 |
| REDFIN | 2 % | 6 |
| ORF | 2 % | 3 |
| TAMBOR | 2 % | 6 |
| GOBY | 2 % | 4 |
| SHINER | 2 % | 6 |
| ALEWIVES | 2 % | 8 |
| CHUB | 2 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Small fish
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- minnow
- plankton
- anchovy
- box
- butt
- prodigal son
- cod
- jack
- mullet
- blob
- bork
- grunt
Crossword Answer definitions
SMELT noun- Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
- A fool; a simpleton.
- To sense a smell or smells.
- Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
- (without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
- To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
- To exercise sagacity.
- To detect or perceive; often with out.
- To give heed to.
- Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
- Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
- To fuse or melt two things into one, especially in order to extract metal from ore; to meld
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 SMELT
- Cold-water catch
- Fuse, as ore
- Silvery fish
- Grunion relative
- Small, slender fish
- Make bronze
- Refine, as ore
- Process, as ore
- Refine ore
- Make aluminum
More clues leading to the result IDE
- Chemical suffix
- A, b, h, or r ender
- Ox tail?
- O(ne of si)x (for a h)e(xago)n (or five for a pyrami)d
- Chemical ending
- Fluor- or brom- suffix
- Suffix with ox
- Suffix with chlor- or fluor-
- Suffix with cyan
- Carplike food fish
More clues leading to the result DACE
- Carp kin
- Freshwater fish
- Small freshwater fish
- North American minnow
- Carp and minnows
- Minnow variety
- Silvery freshwater fish
- Fresh-water fish
- Small fish
- Minnow
More clues leading to the result SPRAT
- Jack who avoided fat
- Jack with a low-fat diet
- When canned, it's a sardine
- Lean eater
- Jack in a kiddie's rhyme
- Sardine relative
- Type of herring
- Mother Goose dieter
- Young 'un
- Small silvery herring
More clues leading to the result FRY
- Cook with shortening
- They're small
- Word with small or French
- Cook in fat
- Sizzle in the kitchen?
- Young fish.
- "Futurama" protagonist
- Get a sunburn
- Sauté
- Sunbathe
More clues leading to the result SARDINE
- Small fish
- Canned pilchard
- Small food fish
- Fish sometimes used to make dashi
- Canned fish
- Fish in a tin
- Fish in a can
- Tightly-tinned fish
- Cramped fish
- Fish in oil
More clues leading to the result SMELTS
- Refines metal
- Refines, as ore
- Prepares ores
- Salmon relatives
- Refines
- Small silvery fishes
- Processes ore
- Does foundry work
- Produces steel
- Processes, as ore
More clues leading to the result FINGERLINGS
More clues leading to the result REDFIN
- Certain minnow
- Colorful perch
- Freshwater minnow
- Brightly colored perch
- European perch
- Small fish.
- Minnow
- Distinctively colored freshwater fish
- Freshwater fish with a colorful name
More clues leading to the result ORF
- Yellow fish, variety of ide.
- Yellow fish.
- Yellow fish, the ide.
- Small fish.
- A fish, the yellow ide.
- Yellow fish
- Fresh-water fish
- Sore mouth: Brit
- Golden ide
More clues leading to the result TAMBOR
More clues leading to the result GOBY
- Pass
- Elapse
- Pass, as years
- Popular aquarium fish
- Pass, as time
- Pass.
- Run-around.
- Small fish.
- Spiny-finned fish
- Rely upon
More clues leading to the result SHINER
- Pugilist's blemish
- Mouse
- Slugfest souvenir
- Souvenir from a slugger
- Result of a punch in the face, perhaps
- Result of walking into a door, perhaps
- Haymaker's result
- Black eye
- Boxer's bruise
- Eye shadow?
More clues leading to the result ALEWIVES
- Some Taproom owners
- Lake Michigan herring
- Pub proprietresses
- Old English pub proprietors
- Herringlike fish.
- Atlantic Coast herrings.
- Fish of the herring family.
- Herring-like fish.
- Fish.
- Small fish