The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SMELT which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2019.
Small silvery fish crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SMELT | 69 % | 5 |
| DACE | 13 % | 4 |
| SHINER | 13 % | 6 |
| MINNOW | 6 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Small silvery fish
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- smelt
- dace
- minnow
- shiner
- bleak
- kingfish
- bonefish
- silver perch
- white croaker
- chenfish
- genyonemus lineatus
- decapterus macarellus
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 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 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?