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 2025.
Square __ crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ROOT | 50 % | 4 |
| FEET | 13 % | 4 |
| ONE | 13 % | 3 |
| MILE | 13 % | 4 |
| KNOT | 13 % | 4 |
Why may ROOT be the right solution?
The term "Square" refers to a number multiplied by itself. The "root" of a number is the value that, when multiplied by itself, gives the original number. Therefore, "Square __" would be completed with "ROOT" to indicate finding the original number.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Square __
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- quadrate
- right-angled
- squarely
- foursquare
- squarish
- conventional
- paid
- honorable
- honest
- straight
- straightforward
- direct
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 FEET
- Having winged __ (fast)
- Sock bottoms
- Sock inserts
- Sock inserts?
- Pool measurement
- Dogs
- Kung fu weapons
- Low pair?
- They have prominent arches
- Pedal pushers?
More clues leading to the result ONE
- 20% of a fin
- "A Chorus Line" number
- "My __ and Only"
- "__-Trick Pony" (Paul Simon film)
- "___ for the money"
- 10% of a sawbuck
- 1969 Three Dog Night hit
- Change-machine input
- Hole in ____
- Italian noble family
More clues leading to the result MILE
- 1609 meters
- Roger Bannister's distance
- How high Denverites claim they are
- Horse-race distance
- Denver height
- Four times around the track
- Denver's altitude
- Denver, the ___ High City
- Four times around a track, often
- Nine minutes on the treadmill, maybe