The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ROOT which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2021.
Source crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ROOT | 33 % | 4 |
| ORIGIN | 16 % | 6 |
| FOUNT | 14 % | 5 |
| FONT | 8 % | 4 |
| PARENT | 6 % | 6 |
| SEED | 6 % | 4 |
| GERM | 3 % | 4 |
| ATM | 3 % | 3 |
| CHANGEDCOURSE | 1 % | 13 |
| HEAD | 1 % | 4 |
| PROVENANCE | 1 % | 10 |
| SEAT | 1 % | 4 |
| ROOTSTOCK | 1 % | 9 |
| LODE | 1 % | 4 |
| EMANATOR | 1 % | 8 |
| FOUNTAINHEAD | 1 % | 12 |
| GENESIS | 1 % | 7 |
| WELLSPRING | 1 % | 10 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Source
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- reference
- author
- origin
- generator
- informant
- channel
- seed
- root
- germ
- beginning
- data
- contributor
Crossword Answer definitions
ROOT noun- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- A root vegetable.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- The primary source; origin.
- Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
- A zero (of an equation).
- The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings
- To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- To get root or priviledged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A sexual partner.
- To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- To root out; to abolish.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- (with "for" or "on") To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
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 ROOT
- Cheer for
- Cheer on the home team
- Kind of canal
- Pull for
- Radish, e.g.
- Dentist's canal?
- Take hold
- Cheer
- Origin
- Source
More clues leading to the result ORIGIN
- Start
- Ancestry
- Spring
- Beginning
- Where the x- and y-axes meet in math
- __ of Species (Darwin)
- Darwin's "___ of Species"
- Where a Cartesian graph's axes meet
- Word in a Darwin title
- Starting point
More clues leading to the result FOUNT
- Wellspring
- Water source
- Source
- Source, as of knowledge
- Abundant source
- "God, the eternal ___ of all."—Michelangelo.
- Source of anything.
- Spring of water.
- A spring of water.
- Source.
More clues leading to the result FONT
- Desktop-publisher's choice
- Baptismal basin
- Letter design
- Typographic variable
- Text choice
- Lettering choice
- Courier, for one
- Typeface
- Desktop publisher's selection
- Holy water receptacle
More clues leading to the result PARENT
- Bring into the world
- Forebear
- Progenitor
- Report card signer
- Report-card signer
- Pop, e.g.
- Spock reader
- Mom or pop
- Bring up
- Pop, maybe
More clues leading to the result SEED
- Kind of pearl
- Pet-shop vittles
- Plant
- Sow
- Tourney rank
- Growing need
- It's for the birds
- It's scattered in spring
- Parakeets' eats
- Peach pit
More clues leading to the result GERM
- Kind of warfare
- Minute organism
- Idea's beginning
- Microbe
- Cold start?
- Sanitizer's target
- Start of an idea
- Start of something big
- Starting point
- What's going around
More clues leading to the result ATM
- Bank adjunct, for short
- Banking device, for short
- Cask kiosk
- It requires a PIN
- Sat. night savior, maybe
- Twenty dispenser
- Bank ext.
- Banking robot
- Cash dispenser
- Cash vendor?
More clues leading to the result CHANGEDCOURSE
More clues leading to the result HEAD
- Lead
- Cabbage unit
- Enterprise lavatory
- Facilities, aboard ship
- Highest in rank
- John, at sea?
- Peruke support
- Hollywood designer, Edith
- Kind of start
- With 2D, a Hollywood designer
More clues leading to the result PROVENANCE
More clues leading to the result SEAT
- Listen to
- Stock-exchange membership
- Word following hot or love
- Word with rumble or bucket
- Exchange buy
- Parking place?
- Anchor firmly
- Can take it or leave it
- Chair
- Do ushering
More clues leading to the result ROOTSTOCK
More clues leading to the result LODE
- Prospector's prize
- Metallic deposit
- Supply of 35D
- Metalliferous ore
- Prospector's quest
- Vein
- Metalliferous vein
- Source of riches
- Miner's paydirt
- Sourdough's strike
More clues leading to the result EMANATOR
More clues leading to the result FOUNTAINHEAD
More clues leading to the result GENESIS
- Book that begins "In the beginning"
- 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
- Beginning
- Source
- First book of the Torah
- "Misunderstanding" group
- It comes before Exodus
- Bible opener
- Origin
- Phil Collins's band until 1996