The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word WHIRL , but the solution may also be TWIRL which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Spin around crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
WHIRL | 37 % | 5 |
ROTATE | 21 % | 6 |
TWIRL | 16 % | 5 |
PIVOT | 11 % | 5 |
GYRATE | 5 % | 6 |
SWIRL | 5 % | 5 |
TURN | 5 % | 4 |
Why may TWIRL be the right solution?
The word "twirl" means to spin around quickly, making it the correct answer to the clue "Spin around."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Spin around
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- spin
- whirl
- reel
- gyrate
- whirl around
- spinning
- turn round
- turn around
- whirling
- rotating
- twist around
- spin out
Crossword Answer definitions
WHIRL noun- An act of whirling.
- Something that whirls.
- A confused tumult.
- A rapid series of events.
- Dizziness or giddiness.
- (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial.
- To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
- To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
- To make something or someone whirl.
- To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
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 WHIRL
- Move like a dervish
- Go around in circles
- Act the dervish
- Emulate a dervish
- Spin around
- Brief attempt
- Spin
- Try
- Go around and around
- Rotate rapidly
More clues leading to the result ROTATE
- Plant in sequence
- Take turns
- Reposition, as tires
- Turn around an axis
- Turn on an axis
- Sub in and out
- Switch around, as tires
- Change cyclically
- Twirl
- Change places, as in a volleyball game
More clues leading to the result TWIRL
- Show off a tutu, in a way
- Spin
- Show your baton off
- Manipulate a baton
- Use a baton, perhaps
- Pirouette
- Rotate like a baton
- Revolutionary movement?
- Take for a spin?
- Emulate a majorette
More clues leading to the result PIVOT
- Move about an axis
- Basketball footwork
- Turning point
- Swivel
- Center position, in basketball
- Swing around
- Spin around
- Turn on an axis
- Turn on a shaft
- Turn on one foot
More clues leading to the result GYRATE
- Spiral
- Circumambulate
- Go around
- Move in circles
- Exercise with a hula hoop
- Revolve
- Move one's pelvis like Elvis
- Take turns?
- Move in a circle
- Move like Elvis
More clues leading to the result SWIRL
- Chocolate and vanilla ice cream
- Soft-serve selection
- Vanilla and chocolate soft serve flavor
- Parfait feature
- Eddy
- Ice cream effect
- Get into a vortex
- Dairy Queen choice
- Ice cream pattern
- Word on some ice cream cartons