The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word THEORY which also is the latest solution we found used in Chronicle of Higher Education in 2005.
Speculation crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| THEORY | 71 % | 6 |
| GUESS | 14 % | 5 |
| INVESTMENT | 14 % | 10 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Speculation
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- surmise
- conjecture
- supposition
- guess
- hypothesis
- venture
- outlook
- speculator
- speculative
- guesswork
- assumption
- forecast
Crossword Answer definitions
THEORY noun- A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.
- Mental conception; reflection, consideration.
- A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc.
- The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.
- A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
- A hypothesis or conjecture.
- A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).
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 THEORY
- Speculation
- The butterfly effect or the big bang, e.g.
- Postulate
- Conjecture
- Possible explanation
- Relativity, for one
- Music school subject
- Something to test
- Formulated idea
- Proposed explanation
More clues leading to the result GUESS
- "__ Who's Coming to Dinner"
- It might be wild
- Random shot
- Word with wild or educated
- Speculate
- Take a stab
- Surmise
- Baffled person's response, perhaps
- Conjecture
- Shot in the dark